ICISM aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners, and professinals from the industry, academia and government to discourse on research and development, professional practice in innovative and smart materials. ICISM 2018  will be held in Storey Hall of RMIT University, in Melbourne, Australia during December 17-19, 2018. It is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of innovative and smart materials. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving innovative and smart materials techniques.

ICISM is also the Annual Meeting of IJMSE editorial boarad. Submitted papers will be reviewed by both the conference scientific committees and IJMSE editorial board, and accepted papers will be either published into conference proceedings, which will be indexed by EI Compendex, and Scopus, or published into International Journal of Materials Science and Engineering as a special issue, which will be indexed by lrich's Periodicals Directory, Google Scholar, Crossref, etc.