POST-CONFERENCE REPORT

The 5th WSEAS International Conference on SIMULATION, MODELLING and OPTIMIZATION
(SMO ‘05),

the 5th WSEAS International Conference on SIGNAL, SPEECH and IMAGE PROCESSING (SSIP ‘05) and


the 5th WSEAS International Conference on MULTIMEDIA, INTERNET and VIDEO TECHNOLOGIES (MIV ‘05)  were held in Corfu Island, Greece from August 17 till August 19, 2005.
 

Over than 250 participants from all over the world attended these conferences. The Municipality of the town of Corfu, www.corfu.gr was the official Sponsor. The Mayor of the town of Corfu, Mr. Yannis Trepeklis who is also Architectural Engineer himself addressed a Welcome Speech.

Jointly with the  5th WSEAS International Conference on SIMULATION, MODELLING and OPTIMIZATION
(SMO ‘05), the participants had the opportunity to attend also 3 Symposia: 



*  the 1st WSEAS International Symposium on Grid Computing,
*  the 1st WSEAS International Symposium on Digital Libraries and
*  the 1st WSEAS International Symposium on Data Mining.

Important Plenary Presentations along with strong Technical Sessions with big international participation were the main features of this gathering. There existed Student Competition and the Prizes for the Best Students' papers were given during the conference.  

The Conferences opened with a Welcome Speech from Prof. Nicolaos Alexandris, University of Piraeus,  President of the Greek Mathematical Society

In the photo: Prof. Nicolaos Alexandris is addressing a Welcome Speech to the WSEAS participants.
(Chairman Prof. Zoran Bojkovic)

On the other hand, the authors of the best of the accepted papers received an invitation for sending an extended version to the WSEAS reputable International Journals.

The conferences were held in the 5-Star Sea Resort Hotel CORFU HOLIDAY PALACE (former member of HILTON chain of hotels) well-known for its international reputation. WSEAS participants had discount rates in the room prices (52 EUR). Corfu is undoubtedly the most beautiful of the Ionian islands if not all the islands in Greece. Corfu, the Island of Phaeakon as it is called in Odyssey by Homer,  is lush, green and covered with lemon and orange groves, the last stop of Ulysseus in his long trip to Ithaca. A "magic" island with old imperial palaces, historical treasures, castles, venetian fortresses, orthodox churches, picturesque alleys ("cantounia"), historical and natural museums, traditional tavernas, all with a wonderful local color; not to mention the natural beauty (ong beaches and blue waters) and night life.



The Conferences offered 2 Banquets. The first Banquet was the Official Banquet of the Conference (August 18, 2005) around the Swimming pool of the Hotel (Corfu Holiday Palace), with live Greek and International Music and a variety of greek folklore dances  with live greek and international orchester, singers, and a great ballet of 8 dancers. The second Banquet was the Banquet that the Mayor Mr. Yannis Trepeklis offered to the participants of the Conference in an excellent place inside the town of Corfu, in the so called "Bosceto" Garden also with food and beverages for the participants and their accompanied persons. See Details below.


For the History of the WSEAS, we remind that these conferences were held History of the conference:
in Malta (2001), Skiathos, Greece (in 2002), Crete, Greece (in 2003) and Izmir, Turkey (in 2004).
In 2006, they will take place in Lisbon, Portugal.
 

SCIENTIFIC PART:
Conference Statistics:
Submitted papers: 413
Accepted papers: 250
from these 250 papers, the WSEAS Committee approved additional Journal Publication for the best papers of the conferences.

Review Process: Each paper was reviewed at least by 3 independent reviewers. The WSEAS Secretariat sent each paper to 5 reviewers. Some papers received review from 5 different referees. The WSEAS Secretariat had forwarded to the responsible for the correspondence author these comments by personalized emails. The full list of the reviewers will be available in the web page: http://www.worldses.org/reviewers.htm

Only authors of those papers, which are found to have very positive response from 3 referees and which are modified satisfactorily to take into account all the comments of (at least 3)  referees of the conference are invited to send an extended version in the WSEAS Journals (WSEAS Transactions). The extended version is checked again by two additional referees and a rejection or acceptance is notified to the authors. WSEAS Organizing Committee therefore congratulates those, who have been able to get the distinction of having their paper published in the Transactions.

WSEAS sent a full report of the whole review process and the whole correspondence
to the following international indexes that have recognized officially the Validity and the Reputation
of the WSEAS Conferences:

* INSPEC (IEE),
* AMS (American Mathematical Soceity),
* Mathematical Reviews,
* ZENTRABLATT,
* ISI (ISINET),
* ELSEVIER,
* CSA,
* ELP,
* NLG,
* Engineering Index,
* Directory of Published Proceedings,
* British Library,
* Swets Information Services

 

KEYNOTE SPEECH in the 5th WSEAS International Conference on
SIMULATION, MODELLING and OPTIMIZATION  (SMO ‘05)

Computational Intelligence for Solving Differential Equations (ODE and PDE)

Professor Nikos E. Mastorakis
Military Institutes of University Education (ASEI)
Hellenic Naval Academy
www.wseas.org/mastorakis

Abstract: In this plenary lecture, we illustrate the application of Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms in the Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations. Several Specific Examples are given.

Genetic Algorithms in conjunction with the so-called Nelder-Mead method can solve a variety of problems especially Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations with non-linearities.

In the photo in the left:
Prof. Nikos E. Mastorakis

KEYNOTE SPEECH  in the 5th WSEAS International Conference on
SIGNAL, SPEECH and IMAGE PROCESSING (SSIP ‘05)

Overview of H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10

Professor Dr. K.R. Rao 
IEEE Fellow,  Professor of Electrical Engineering Department
 University of Texas at Arlington.  TX 76019, USA
 E.E. Dept, UTA, 416 Yates Street
 Box 19016, Ph:1-817-272-3478, Fax; 1-817-272-2253
 http://www-ee.uta.edu/dip 
 rao@uta.edu

In the photo in the left: Prof. Kamisetty R. Rao

 

Abstract: The video coding standards are being developed to satisfy the requirements of applications for various purposes, better picture quality, higher coding efficiency, and more error robustness. The new international video coding standard H.264 / MPEG-4 part 10 aims at having significant improvements in coding efficiency, and error robustness in comparison with the previous standards such as MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4 part 2. This paper describes an overview of H.264 / MPEG-4 part 10. We focus on the detailed features like coding algorithm and error resilience of new standard, and compare the coding schemes with the other standards. The performance comparisons show that H.264 can achieve a coding efficiency improvement of about 1.5 times or greater for each test sequence related to multimedia, SDTV and HDTV.

In the photo in the left: Prof. Kamisetty R. Rao
is presenting his Keynote Presentation
(August 17, 2005)

    
TUTORIAL:

Also a Successful Tutorial attracted much attention by many delegates:
"Digital Multimedia Broadcasting". The instructor was: Professor Giovanni E. Corazza, University of Bologna, Italy.

In the photo:

Professor Giovanni E. Corazza
is presenting his Tutorial.

BEST STUDENT PAPERS:

Best Student Paper Award for  the 5th WSEAS International Conference on SIMULATION, MODELLING and OPTIMIZATION (SMO ‘05)
was given to Mr. Miguel Francisco  for his paper:
Optimization of a sanitary discharge valve using a numerical approach

Best Student Paper Award for  the 5th WSEAS International Conference on SIGNAL, SPEECH and IMAGE PROCESSING (SSIP ‘05)
was given to the Mrs.  Betül Karaömeroglu for his paper:
Gabor Wavelet Based PCA for Face Recognition

Best Student Paper Award for  the 5th WSEAS International Conference on MULTIMEDIA, INTERNET and VIDEO TECHNOLOGIES (MIV ‘05)
was given to Mr. Charlène Goudemand for his paper:
QoS Optimization of MPEG-2 Video Transmission over ADSL Channels using Hierarchical Modulations

Best Student Paper Award for  the 1st WSEAS International Symposium on Digital Libraries
was given to Mr. Jari Timonen for his paper:
Noise Reduction in LSA-Based Essay Assessment

In the Photo, Professor Zoran Bojkovic grants the best student paper for MIV'05 to Mr. Charlène Goudemand for his paper:
QoS Optimization of MPEG-2 Video Transmission over ADSL Channels using Hierarchical Modulations

 

Below other Photos from the Various Parallel Sessions:

SOCIAL PART:
 Coffee-Breaks: The WSEAS Organizing Committee offered 6 very rich coffee-breaks. Each coffee-breaks were composed by filter coffee, tea,  juices, cakes, biscuits, sweets and 3 different fruit tarts for the WSEAS Guests. The Coffee-Breaks took place in a big balcony over the swimming pool and the participants had many opportunities to interchange ideas and proposal for common projects and collaboration.

Each Conference offered 2 Banquets. The first Banquet was the Official Banquet of the Conference (August 18, 2005) around the Swimming pool of the Hotel (Corfu Holiday Palace), with live Greek and International Music and a variety of greek folklore dances  with live greek and international orchester, singers, and a great ballet of 8 dancers. The second Banquet was the Banquet that the Mayor Mr. Yannis Trepeklis offered to the participants of the Conference in an excellent place inside the town of Corfu, in the so called "Bosceto" Garden also with food and beverages for the participants and their accompanied persons. The Picture in the left is from the Dance in Banquet of August 18.

The Picture in the left is from the Dance in Banquet of August 18. .

The Banquets were impressive, with a variety of different courses (over than 50 different courses from greek and international cuisine)

The Orchester was composed by 5 players.

A special professional greek dances' ballet with 6 members with the name Caryatides, offered 2 hours entertainment to WSEAS Guests and taught ... Greek Dances.

The second Banquet was the Banquet that the Mayor Mr. Yannis Trepeklis offered to the participants of the Conference in an excellent place inside the town of Corfu, in the so called "Bosceto" Garden also with food and beverages for the participants and their accompanied persons. See Details below.
 

In the photo: the Mayor of Corfu, Mr. Yannis Trepeklis (right) and the Professor Nikos E. Mastorakis (left) during the second Banquet.

The overall impression of the meeting was excellent. WSEAS Administrative Council thank each of you for increasing the WSEAS Reputation by these wonderful and important meetings.
See also:  http://www.worldses.org/feedback2005.txt