POST-CONFERENCE REPORT

OVERALL:

The following international conferences:

5th WSEAS International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING and DATA BASES (AIKED '06)

5th WSEAS International Conference on SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, PARALLEL and DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (SEPADS '06)

5th WSEAS International Conference on ELECTRONICS, HARDWARE, WIRELESS and OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS (EHAC '06)

5th WSEAS International Conference on SIGNAL PROCESSING, ROBOTICS and AUTOMATION (ISPRA '06)

were held in the University of Alcala, Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain, on February 15-17, 2006.

Co-Chairmen and Co-Editors of the Proceedings: Professor Pablo Luis Lopez Espi (Spain) Professor Jose M. Giron-Sierra (Spain) Professor Athanasios Drigas (Greece)

Conference Statistics:

Submitted papers to the 4 conferences: 569
Accepted papers of the 4 conferences: 347

The conference began with an Official Welcome and speeches by:

Prof. Eloy Garcia-Calvo, Vice-Principle of Research of University of Alcala
Prof. Francisco Lopez-Ferreras, Dean of Polytechnic High School
Prof. Sebanstian Sanchez-Prieto, Head of Department of Automatic
Prof. Manuel Rosa-Zurera, Head of Department of Signal Processing and Communications

The welcome speeches were followed by a Plenary Lecture given by Prof. Angel Fernando Kuri-Morales:
 

Plenary Lecture

Approximate Calculation of Information via Evolutionary Algorithms

Prof. Angel Fernando Kuri-Morales
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
Rio Hondo No. 1
Mexico 01000, D.F.
Mexico
akuri@itam.mx

 

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 )

*  1.  ISI (ISINET),
*  2.  INSPEC (IEE)
*  3.  CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
*  4.  ELSEVIER and Elsevier Bibliographic Database
*  5.  ZENTRALBLATT
*  6.  MATHSCINET of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
*  7.  MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
*  8.  Computer Science Bibliography Administrator
*  9.  British Library
*  10.  DEST Database (Australia)
*  11.  Swets Information Services
*  12.  Engineering Information
*  13.  SCOPUS
*  14.  EBSCO
*  15.  Mayersche
*  16.  European Library in Paris (France) 
*  17.  National Library of Greece
(see also: www.worldses.org/indexes )

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 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING and DATA BASES
was given to Shohei Kameda for his paper:
Spider Algorithm for Clustering Time Series
[Authors: Shohei Kameda, Masayuki Yamamura]

The Best Student Paper Award for SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, PARALLEL and DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
was given to Dimitrios Georgoulas for his paper:
In-Motes: An Intelligent Agent Based Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
[Authors: Dimitrios Georgoulas, Keith Blow]

The Best Student Paper Award for ELECTRONICS, HARDWARE, WIRELESS and OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
was given to to Balázs Héder for his paper:
General N-state Markov Model Applicable for Attenuation Time Series Generation Parametrised from Gaussian Fade Slope Model
[Authors: Balázs Héder, János Bitó]

The Best Student Paper Award for SIGNAL PROCESSING, ROBOTICS and AUTOMATION
was given to to Roberto Javier López Sastre for his paper:
Electronic Funds Transfer Service over GPRS and Secure TCP/X.25 Gateways
[Authors: Roberto Javier López Sastre, Sergio Lafuente Arroyo, Francisco Javier López Herrero, Amelio Vázquez Reina]

SOCIAL PART:

1. Coffee-Breaks: The conference attendees enjoyed 6 coffee-breaks, which were served in the restaurant of the University. During the Coffee-Breaks the attendees had several opportunities to exchange ideas and proposals for common projects and collaboration.

2. Banquet: The Conference Banquet took place in AC Alcala hotel's restaurant. In addition to the rich menu, the participants had the opportunity of enjoying a group of Flamenco singers.

The whole event was really impressive. All the participants had a very good time and enjoyed themselves very much.

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, and the University of Alcala for the excellent collaboration.
See also:  http://www.worldses.org/feedback2005.txt
and http://www.worldses.org/feedback2006.txt