GENERAL:
The following international conferences were held in Istanbul, Turkey from May 27 to May 29, 2006

9th WSEAS International Conference on APPLIED MATHEMATICS

5th WSEAS Int.Conf. on TELECOMMUNICATIONS and INFORMATICS (TELE-INFO '06)

5th WSEAS Int.Conf. on SIGNAL PROCESSING (SIP '06)

WSEAS thanks the following Chairmen-Organizers of the event
Prof. Dr. Metin Demiralp
Full Member of Turkish Academy of Sciences
& Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Prof. Dr. Aydin Akan
Istanbul  University, Turkey


Photo from the Opening


Photo from the Opening


Photo from the Opening


Photo from the Parallel Sessions


Photos from the Parallel Sessions


Photos from the Parallel Sessions


Photos from the Parallel Sessions


Photos from the Parallel Sessions


Photo from the Parallel Sessions


Photos from the Parallel Sessions

Conference Statistics:

Submitted papers to the 3 conferences: 634
Accepted papers of the 3 conferences: 312
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SCIENTIFIC PART:
Review Process: Each paper was reviewed at least by 2 independent reviewers. The WSEAS Secretariat sent each paper to 4 reviewers. Some papers received reviews from 4 different referees. The WSEAS Secretariat forwarded these comments by personalized emails to the responsible for the correspondence author. 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 2 referees and which are modified sufficiently to take into account all the comments of (at least 2) referees of the conference are invited to send an extended version in the WSEAS Journals (WSEAS 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: (see also: www.worldses.org/indexes )

INDEXING
The WSEAS Books and Conference Proceedings related to these conferences are covered by:
1) ISI (ISINET)
2) INSPEC (IEE).
3) CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts).
4) ELSEVIER and Elsevier Bibliographic Database.
5) ZENTRALBLATT,
6) ULRICH,
7) MATHSCINET of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
8) MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
9) Directory of Published Proceedings
10) Computer Science Bibliography Administrator
11) American Chemical Society and its Index: Chemical Abstracts Service.
12) European Library in Paris (France)
13) DEST Database (Australia)
14) Engineering Information
15) SCOPUS
16) EBSCO
17) British Library
18) National Library of Greece
19) German National Library of Science and Technology


The WSEAS Journals where extended versions of selected and invited papers from these conferences have been published are indexed by
1) ISI through the INSPEC (IEE)
2) INSPEC (IEE)
3) CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
4) ELSEVIER and Elsevier Bibliographic Database.
5) ZENTRALBLATT
6) MATHSCINET of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
7) ULRICH
8) MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
9) Computer Science Bibliography Administrator
10) British Library
11) American Chemical Society and its Index: Chemical Abstracts Service.
12) European Library in Paris (France)
13) DEST Database (Australia)
14) Swets Information Services
15) Engineering Information
16) SCOPUS
17) EBSCO
18) Mayersche
19) Index of Information Systems Journals
20) National Library of Greece.
 

 Plenary Lectures:

Expectation Value Based Mathematical Methodology in Quantum Optimal Control Problems 

Prof. Metin Demiralp
Informatics Institute
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

 Abstract: Quantum Optimal Control Problems are encountered in many fields of physics, chemistry and a lot of applied sciences and their mathematical background and tools are quite rich in nature. Since the most of the cost functionals used in these problems are beyond the quadratic nature, the variationally obtained control equations are nonlinear partial differential equations coupled with one or more functional equations. The character of the motion corresponds to a boundary value problem in time. The solution of these equations can be obtained through various standing methods. One of the recently developed methods to this end is based on the expectation values of certain quantum mechanical operators. Instead of the wavefunction's evolution, these expectation values' evolution is taken into consideration. The result is a set of coupled ordinary differential equations with nonliearities both in the structure and in the accompanied boundary conditions. Nevertheless they are ordinary differential equations and there is an abundance of methods to solve them. This presentation will cover the mainlines and important aspects of this approach after an introductory historical development section. Most recent applications will also be mentioned.

Hebbian Learning and Negative Feedback Neural Networks

Professor Colin Fyfe
The University of Paisley, Scotland

 Abstract: The central idea of this presentation is that artificial neural networks which use negative feedback of activation can use simple Hebbian learning to self-organise in such a way that they uncover interesting structure in data sets. The network in its simplest form performs a Principal Component Analysis. Extensions to the network are shown to perform Exploratory Projection Pursuit: they find low-dimensional filters of the data which reveal interesting structure in the data. For example, we might search for outliers from the main body of the data or clusters within the data set and this search can be performed in a hierarchical manner – we find one cluster in the midst of many and then re-project the data from this one cluster to attempt to find subclusters. There are two main ways of performing these searches and these are contrasted and compared and a composite method created which exhibits useful properties from the two underlying methods.The network can also be used to find independent components of a data set in a number of different ways. For example, one extension to the basic network is shown to perform a type of Factor Analysis – it identifies a set of factors which when OR-ed together will construct the data set. Other methods are used to perform Independent Component Analysis which is extensively used in blind source separation – extracting one signal from a linear mixture of signals. The network can also be used for clustering in a topology preserving manner: there are several ways of clustering using this network in such a way that similar data points are clustered close to one another and only similar data points are treated this way. In part 2 of the talk, twinned networks are introduced: these networks have two input data streams on which they self-organise using simple Hebbian learning with negative feedback again. In their basic form, the networks are shown to perform Canonical Correlation Analysis, the statistical technique which finds those filters onto which projections of the two data streams have greatest correlation. Various extensions of the basic methods are devised in order to create methods which react to more than two data streams at a time or which deal with problems such as multicollinearity. A further extension is the twinning of the Exploratory Projection Pursuit methods from the first part of the book so that the new network identifies shared structure across two data streams. This new network is also shown to perform Independent Component Analysis. A final chapter deviates somewhat from the rest of the book since its emphasis is on an extension of the Principal Curve algorithm so that we now have two curves learning on two data streams simultaneously. Since the scope of the talk is the development of new algorithms, all algorithms which are derived analytically, are illustrated on artificial data before being used on real data sets. Where it is of interest, the results are compared with those from standard statistics or from alternative artificial neural networks.

Next Generation Optical Networks, SDH and Protocols

 Professor Stamatios Kartalopoulos
The University of Oklahoma,
USA

 Abstract: As communication needs evolve, the current optical network requires both synchronous and asynchronous traffic with enhanced efficiently, scalability, protection strategies, and performance-cost objectives. The next generation optical network is based on DWDM technology and is designed on new standard protocols to efficiently address these requirements. This network may be viewed as an amalgamation of the best concepts from legacy synchronous and asynchronous networks, adding to it new concepts that enhance network attributes including efficiency-cost. This short course starts with a review of critical optical network topologies, the SONET/SDH standard and DWDM technology. It describes the next generation SONET/SDH, Data-over-SONET/SDH, Packet-over-SONET/SDH, error handling, protection switching, the Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS), the Generalized Framing Procedure (GFP), the Link Access Procedure for SDH (LAPS), Internet and Ethernet over SONET/SDH, Virtual Concatenation (VC), Multi-Service Switching Platform (MSSP), Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP), Next Generation SONET/SDH over DWDM, as well as the Optical Transport Network (OTN). This course is supported by notes and optionally by four books authored by the instructor (published by IEEE/Wiley): “Next generation SONET/SDH” (2004), “Understanding SONET/SDH and ATM” (1999), “Introduction to DWDM Technology” (2001), and “DWDM: Networks, Devices and Technology” (2003).

 
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BEST STUDENT PAPERS
The Organizing Committee received the forms that the Session Chairmen filled in after the end of their Sessions and after additional evaluation and discussion decided the following.
The Criteria were
a) originality and scientific impact
b) good presentation
c) paper presented by a student

So, the results of this evaluation is:

The Best Student Paper Award for the 9th WSEAS International Conference on APPLIED MATHEMATICS  
was given to Engin Tas for the paper:
An Improved Version of Backpropagation Algorithm with Effective Dynamic Learning Rate and Momentum
Authors: Mammadagha Mammadov, Engin Tas

The Best Student Paper Award for the 5th WSEAS International Conference on TELECOMMUNICATIONS and INFORMATICS (TELE-INFO '06)
was given to Syrine Karoui for the paper:
A Bidirectional Bluetooth Authentication Scheme based on Game-Theoretic Framework
Authors: Nabil El Kadhi, Syrine Karoui, Fouad Ben Abdelaziz

The Best Student Paper Award for the 5th WSEAS International Conference on SIGNAL PROCESSING (SIP '06)
was given to Mustafa Sarimollaoglu for the paper:
Musical Instrument Classification Using Neural Networks
Authors: Mustafa Sarimollaoglu, Coskun Bayrak


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SOCIAL PART:

1. Coffee-Breaks: The conference attendees enjoyed 6 coffee-breaks with coffee, tea, cakes, sweets, apple-juices, orange-juices, cherry-juices.
During the Coffee-Breaks the attendees had several opportunities to exchange ideas and proposals for common projects and collaboration.

2. Banquet: The Conference Banquet (21:00 o'clock on Sunday, May 28) took place in the hotel in the Marmara Room with spectacular view over the Marmara Sea ("Propontis"). The participants enjoyed 42 different plates with many traditional turkish delicacies (meze), 3 different live orchesters with an impressive oriental show.
The first orchester included modern turkish music, the second orchester had a bouzouki with turkish  (and greek) folklore songs and the third orchester played for traditional turkish dances.

Special turkish local delicacies from Istanbul and other parties of Anatolia (like Adana, Ankara, Izmir, Kayseri) were offered in the banquet. Excellent local wine was offered unlimited to all.
It was an unforgettable night in the Hotel President built in the historical part of Istanbul, in a walking distance from the Church of Agia Sofia and Sultan Ahmet Camii.

 

The Orchester with the Modern Turkish Songs


Oriental Show: Belly Dance

Oriental Show: Belly Dance

Playing Bouzouki: Common Turkish and Greek Dances ("zeibek" and "chasap" dances)


Traditional Turkish Music and Oriental Show


It was a fantastic Banquet


Wonderful Night with Turkish Dances and Turkish Cuizine


Wonderful Night with Turkish Dances


A great variety of meals and delicacies


Anatolia is here ....


Anatolia is here ....


The Orchester plays rythms from the East, Central and West Anatolia (turkish folklore dances)


The WSEAS conferences give special emphasis in the culture and civilization. Here, dances
from the East, Central and West Anatolia


Turkish traditional dances from all the parts of Anatolia (Asian part of Turkey) and Rumeli
(European part of Turkey).


The dances shows the soul of a nation. Continue, please....


OK! We will continue in the same place during the WSEAS Conferences of 2007 (in Istanbul)

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EXCURSIONS:


Dolma Baktse Palace


Dolma Baktse Palace


Dolma Baktse Palace (Gate to Bosporous)


Dolma Baktse Palace (details from the interior)


Dolma Baktse Palace (details from the interior)


Dolma Baktse Palace


Dolma Baktse Palace


Dolma Baktse Palace


Dolma Baktse Palace


Dolma Baktse Palace


Dolma Baktse Palace


Dolma Baktse Palace


Byzantine Walls


Byzantine Walls


Byzantine Walls


Bridge connecting Europe and Asia (over the Bosporous)


Bridge connecting Europe and Asia (over the Bosporous)


Heydar Pasha (railway station)


Tower of Leandros


Bridge connecting Europe and Asia (over the Bosporous)


Bosporous (photo from the Rumeli Hisar)

Overlooking Black Sea ("Euxeinos Pontos")

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/feedback2006.txt

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