WSEAS Post Conference Report, June 2007, Vancouver, Canada (21 images)

The WSEAS conferences in Vancouver, Canada, June 2007

Vancouver, Canada, June 18-20, 2007

* 8th WSEAS Int. Conf. on NEURAL NETWORKS (NN'07)
* 8th WSEAS Int. Conf. on FUZZY SYSTEMS (FS'07)
* 8th WSEAS Int. Conf. on EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING (EC '07)

Vancouver, Canada, June 19-21, 2007

* 8th WSEAS Int. Conf. on ACOUSTICS & MUSIC: THEORY & APPLICATIONS (AMTA '07)
* 8th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY (MCBC'07)
* 8th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS (MCBE'07)
* 8th WSEAS Int. Conf. on AUTOMATION & INFORMATION (ICAI'07)

provided a novel forum for the presentation of new ideas and advanced developments in fields of study which have a wide range of applications. Chairman of the event was
Prof. Dr.Akshai Aggarwal, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
WSEAS thanks him for his great support.

The Co-Chairmen of the International Scientific Committee met over two lunches in the first 2 days of the conferences to discuss and propose new research projects in the frame of IARAS and WSEAS.
The WSEAS Conference Manager of American Branch had also several discussions with all the members of the International Scientific Committee during the meeting. The meetings were characterized by their friendly atmosphere as well as the high quality of the presentations and discussions.

A variety of topics constituted the focus of paper submissions. In regular sessions papers addressed several interesting topics. Prominent lectures provided key-note speeches for the conference. Moreover, special sessions were organized, and invited lectures were given by well-known researchers. The conferences explored also the technical implications of the emerging control and information technologies.

These WSEAS conferences are organized annually by the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) in cooperation with IARAS (International Association for Research and Science), International Association of Mechanical Engineers (IASME), several university laboratories and Research Centers. In 2008 these conferences will have the support of the:

* Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
* Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
The additional features of this multiconference were
1) Publication of the Proceedings in 3 media: hard-copy, CD, E-Library
(A) Books in the "Artificial Intelligence Series" and "Mathematics and Computers in Science and Engineering" of WSEAS  with ISBN and ISSN indexed by the major Citation Indices (ISI ranked): www.worldses.org/indexes

(B) CD-ROM Proceedings with pages' numbers with ISBN and ISSN indexed by the major Citation Indexes: www.worldses.org/indexes

(C) E-Library: http://www.wseas.org/online

and possible, for a very small number of papers:

(D) JOURNAL PUBLICATION: Expanded and enhanced versions of papers published in the conference proceedings also going to be considered for possible publication in one of the WSEAS journals that participate in the major International Scientific Indices (Elsevier, Scopus, EI, Compendex, INSPEC, CSA .... see: www.worldses.org/indexes     ).

2) WSEAS gave a very strong and important tool to all the participants: A new username and password without expiry date for on-line access in the WSEAS Conference proceedings FOR EVER.

3) WSEAS gave also in the CD-ROM Proceedings, the Proceedings of the relevant previous WSEAS conferences in Croatia (2006).

4) Also, the Participants received also another CD-ROM containing the Proceedings of the WSEAS Conferences in Portorose, Slovenia, May 2007. Therefore the participants were really very happy, because they had the opportunity to study the proceedings of many previous WSEAS Conferences.


5) Because the WSEAS will maintain the same policy in 2008, the CD-ROM Proceedings of these conferences will be distributed to the authors that will participate in Bulgaria (May 2008) and Romania (June 2008).

7) Rich cultural and social part as usual in WSEAS events. The importance of these conferences can be proved by the impact of these conferences in 2006: See, please http://www.wseas.org/reports

8) The conference Books (Hard-Copy Proceedings), CD-ROM proceedings and Journals (with selected papers) published by WSEAS Press continue to sell for a long time after the meeting has taken place. This is another demonstration of the prestige the scientific community attribute to the meetings organized by the WSEAS.
For example, they are distributed via AMAZON:  WSEAS @ AMAZON.COM      


Conference Statistics
 Submitted papers:  496
Accepted papers:   231

      acceptance ratio = (Number of accepted papers / Number of Submitted)*100 = 46.57%    


Remark:  Two withdrawn accepted papers are considered as accepted papers in our statistics.


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.: LOCATION: Vancouver is a wonderful town in the Pacific Ocean, in the Territory of British Columbia, almost on the borders of Canada with USA. Natural beauty, national parks, indian monuments and indian art, wild nature, marvelous islands, water sports, wonderful seashores and beaches, and night life compose an interesting backdrop for this WSEAS event.


.: REVIEW PROCESS: Each paper was reviewed at least by 3 independent reviewers. The WSEAS Secretariat sent each paper to 5 reviewers. Some papers received reviews from 5 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 


 
.: JOURNALS:
.: What is the Permanent Procedure for additional Journal publication for a very small number of High-Quality Papers presented in the WSEAS Conferences in Canada (after the recommnedation of Chairmen). So, the authors with accepted & presented papers received the following e-mail:

                                                                                                                     July 2, 2007



We have started now the procedure for the evaluation of the extended versions of your papers for possible inclusion in the WSEAS journals after new rounds of review.

INTRODUCTION: You know that our goal is to maintain very strong international journals, to increase the impact of our beloved WSEAS Transactions, really top journals as they really are. To this end, we need only high quality papers, breakthrough works of archival value, i.e. papers that are well written from any point of view, completed studies (with their numerical examples or experiments that must be compared with the previous results in the literature), excellent english and of course correct WSEAS format. The papers also must be substantially extended version of the paper that was presented in the conference (with more than 40% new material). We need papers that will attract the attention of other scholars citing them increasing our impact. In the next few years, the WSEAS transactions must be in every academic library, in every corner of the earth. To this end, we need your high quality contribution.

HOW TO PROCEED: a) Check very carefully if your idea is really important, breakthrough in your field and can appear in a Journal of the quality and the level of the WSEAS Transactions. If you doubt, do not send it so easily. Your paper must not be only a good idea. It must be a complete study with theoretical background, complete bibliographical references; without grammatical and syntactical errors. For theoretical works: full comparison with previous published papers is necessary. We need numerical examples, applicability of the method, originality, novelty and directions for future research. For experimental or computational works: full comparison with previous published papers is necessary. We need real experiments with the necessary documentation, while for computational work, we need full benchmarks. Of course along discussions for the applicability of the method, originality, novelty and directions for future research.
 
b) Complete the extended version of your paper until September 30, 2007 and upload it via
http://...............  (the full web address was given only to authors that presented a paper)
until September 30, 2007

c) If your extended version fulfills the paragraph a), then our Editors will send it to 3 independent Reviewers outside your country. If not, our Editors are entitled to reject it from this early stage informing you properly. The positive answer of the 3 reviewers is necessary (attention: 2 yes and 1 no implies NO, i.e. rejection).

d) Our Editors will collect the reviewers' remarks and will send them again to you for acceptance/ acceptance after minor revision / acceptance after major revision / rejection

e) Possibly new rounds of review will be needed.

f) No additional fee is needed in case of acceptance.

After all this procedure, the accepted papers that come from WSEAS Conferences in Canada will be published in the various WSEAS Transactions. IF you miss the deadline of September 30, 2007, or if your paper was not presented in the WSEAS Conferences, THEN: you can upload it quite independently as regular paper from the WSEAS Site for the Journals:
http://www.worldses.org/journals/index.html 

The final list of the papers must have the approval of our Editors and 3 Reviewers, and of course the Editor-in-Chief of the particular Journal.

We want only authors that presented their papers to complete this web form:
http://...............   (the full web address was given only to authors that presented a paper) So, in this form you will need a password (the password was given only to the authors that presented a paper).






.: SPRINGER VERLAG
What is the Permanent Procedure for additional publication for a very small number of High-Quality Papers presented in Volumes of SPRINGER VERLAG (after the recommnedation of Chairmen).So, the authors with accepted & presented papers received the following e-mail:

                                                                                                                                                    July 2, 2007


If you prefer to publish the extended version of your paper in Springer Verlag, then write your paper again following the Springer Verlag Format http://www.worldses.org/transactions/Springer-Verlag.zip 
and send it to us by email: (the specific email address was given only to the authors that presented papers in Vancouver) until July 31.
See the file http://www.worldses.org/transactions/Springer-Verlag.zip  for the Springer verlag Format Write your paper using the http://www.worldses.org/transactions/Springer-Verlag.zip  and send to us by email until July 31.





.: 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

The results of this evaluation are:

Conference: NN
Won by: C.K. Liew

Title: Test Pattern Dependent Neural Network Systems for Guided Waves Damage Identification in Beams
Authors: C.K. Liew, M. Veidt

 

 

Conference: FS
Won by: Maria Alessandra Torsello

Title: Relational fuzzy approach for mining user profiles
Authors: Giovanna Castellano, Anna Maria Fanelli, Maria Alessandra Torsello

 

 

Conference: EC
Won by: Saeed Almarzoug  

Title: Application of Luus-Jaakola optimization method to the design of optical coatings
Authors: Saeed Almarzoug, Richard Hodgson

 

 

Conference: AMTA
Won by: Kenneth John Faller II  

Title: Sampling Rate Impact on the Performance of a Head-Related Impulse Response Decomposition Method
Authors: Kenneth John Faller II, Armando Barreto

 

 

Conference: ICAI
Won by: Miguel A. Toledo C.  

Title: Priority Tasks Allocation through the Maximum Entropy Principle
Authors: Miguel A. Toledo C., J. Jesús Medel J.

 

 

Conference: MCBE
Won by: Simona Boboila  

Title: An Optimized Hierarchical Model for Agent-Mediated E-Commerce
Authors: Cristea Boboila, Simona Boboila

 

 

Conference: MCBC
Won by: Alexander Zorin  

Title: Complex schemes of filtering in experimental data estimation
Authors: Alexander Zorin




.: INDICES:
PROCEEDINGS: The Proceedings related to the Conference are covered by:
1. ISI (ISINET)
2. INSPEC (IET, former 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. EMBASE
18. Compendex (CPX)
19. GEOBASE
20. BIOBASE
21. BIOTECHNOBASE
22. FLUIDEX
23. OceanBase
24. BEILSTEIN Abstracts
25. World Textiles
26. MEDLINE
27. British Library
28. National Library of Greece
29. German National Library of Science and Technology
30. IARAS Index

JOURNALS:
The WSEAS journals are covered by:
1. ISI through the INSPEC (IEE)
2. INSPEC (IET, former 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. EMBASE
19. Compendex (CPX)
20. Geobase
21. BIOBASE
22. BIOTECHNOBASE
23. FLUIDEX
24. OceanBase
25. BEILSTEIN Abstracts
26. World Textiles
27. MEDLINE
28. Mayersche
29. Index of Information Systems Journals
30. National Library of Greece
31. IARAS Index



From these excellent and well-organized conferences, WSEAS Press published also two Books that contain the conference proceedings. Please, order them from the WSEAS Press: http://www.worldses.org/books/index.html

Editors: Akshai Aggarwal (Canada), Ronald Yager (USA), I. W. Sandberg (USA). Honorary Editors: Lotfi Zadeh (USA), A. A. Goldenberg (Canada), pages 360, price: 80 EUR, (details)

Editors: Akshai Aggarwal (Canada), Ronald Yager (USA), I. W. Sandberg (USA). Honorary Editors: Lotfi Zadeh (USA), A. A. Goldenberg (Canada), pages 340, price: 80 EUR, (details)






.: SOCIAL PART (Coffee-Breaks, Banquet, Excursions)
The Coffee, Tea, Milk, Sweets, Cakes, Pastries, Orange Juice, Apple Juice and Appricot Juice were available for the Guests. WSEAS thanks Prof. Dr.Akshai Aggarwal, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
for his great support. The Banquet was superb. Participants enjoyed a wonderful self-service buffet (more than 50 courses). The WSEAS participants enjoyed two folklore shows with Songs and Dance. WSEAS organizers who always support the cultural activities were really very happy.


.: Some Excursions took place after the conference.