This European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) is the tenth event of a series, started in Elsinore Denmark in 1992, of annual Symposia promoted by the Working Party "Computer Aided Process Engineering (CAPE)" belonging to the "European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE)". However, it must be acknowledged that the ESCAPE series emerged from a strong tradition of the Working Party dating back to 1968 when the first event on computer applications was organized in Tutzing, Germany.
Twenty three such symposia were then organized in almost a dozen European countries before a new departure of the Working Party with the ESCAPE series.
Therefore, ESCAPE-10 is the 33rd event of the CAPE Working Party, which will be held in Florence, Italy from May 7 to 10, 2000.
The most recent symposia were organized in Hungary, Budapest 1999 (ESCAPE-9), Bruges, Belgium 1998 (ESCAPE-8), Trondheim, Norway 1997 (ESCAPE-7) and in Rhodes, Greece 1996 (ESCAPE-6).
ESCAPE-10 is organized by AIDIC, the Italian Association of Chemical Engineering, a member society of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering.