ECC, Athens, Greece, September 25-27, 2007


The WSEAS Society, the Members of IARAS Projects and the following Collaborating Universities: 
   1) Universitι Paris-Sud, FRANCE,  
   2) Technical University of Sofia, BULGARIA,
   3) Federal University, UFRN, BRAZIL  
   4) Institute of Solid Mechanics of the Romanian Academy, ROMANIA

co-organized the EUROPEAN COMPUTING CONFERENCE (ECC'07) in Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece, in September 25-27, 2007.

The Co-Chairmen of the International Scientific Committee met over the first coffee-break to discuss and propose new research projects in the frame of IARAS and WSEAS.
The WSEAS Conference Manager of European Branch had also several discussions with all the members of the International Scientific Committee during the meeting. The meeting was characterized by its 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 and plenary speeches for the conference. Moreover, special sessions were organized, and invited lectures were given by well-known researchers.

 


 
Digital Video Image Quality and Perceptual Coding
by Prof. K. R. Rao, UTA, Arlington, Texas, USA.

Motion-Tuned Wavelet Transform and Hierarchical Motion Estimation
by Prof. Patrice Brault, Universitι Paris-sud, France.


 

Foundations of Nonlinear Signal Processing for Emerging Intelligent
Communication and Computing Systems
by Prof. Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, University of California, USA.


 
Non-Commutative Localizations and Torsion-Free Modules
by Prof. Ulrich Albrecht, Auburn University, USA.


 

An Agent-oriented Computational Semantics for Ogden's Basic English
by Prof. Jim Cunningham, Imperial College London, UK.


 

Residual Norm Minimizing Exponential Matrix Factorization for Solving Ode Sets
by Prof. Metin



The Accepted Papers will be published as Chapters in a SPRINGER VERLAG Book (ISI, INSPEC, CSA, Ulrigh, DBLP, ACM, IET indexed)


 Meanwhile, the participants received a Book of Abstracts in the conference (published by WSEAS)

Editors: N.Mastorakis, Ph. Dondon, V. Mladenov,  P.Brault, C. Udriste,  J.A. Costa, L. Vladareanu, pages 300, price: 10 EUR for the Book of Abstracts.
The Full Proceedings are available only by SPRINGER VERLAG
[Cover of the Book of Abstracts], [Order], [Help]

 

CHAIR

 Prof. Dr.-Eng. Nikos E. Mastorakis,
Military Insitutes of University Education (ASEI)
Hellenic Naval Academy
Terma Chatzikyriakou 18539,
Piraues, GREECE

Dr. - Eng.Philippe Dondon,
IARAS,
ENSEIRB rue A Schweitzer 33400 Talence,
FRANCE,


CO-CHAIR

Prof. Dr.-Eng. Valeri Mladenov
Head of Department Theory of Electrical Engineering
Technical University of Sofia
BULGARIA


Prof. Dr.-Eng. Patrice Brault,
Head of the Coding and Math Modeling Department
IEF, Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale (CNRS UMR 8622)
Batiment 220 Universitι Paris-sud, Orsay 91405 cedex,
FRANCE

Prof. Dr. Constantin Udriste
Dean of Faculty of Applied Sciences
President of Balkan Society of Geometers
University Politehnica of Bucharest
Department of Mathematics
Splaiul Indpendentei 313
ROMANIA


Prof. Dr. Jose Alfredo F. Costa
Adaptive Systems Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
Federal University, UFRN
BRAZIL


Dr.-Eng. Luige Vladareanu
Senior Scientific Researcher of Romanian Academy
Department of Dynamic Systems
Romanian Academy, Institute of Solid Mechanics
Bucharest, ROMANIA


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.


Conference Statistics
Submitted papers:  398
Accepted papers:   141

      acceptance ratio = (Number of accepted papers / Number of Submitted)*100 = 35.42%    


Remark:  One withdrawn accepted paper is considered as accepted paper in our statistics.


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.: 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:
Attention: Due to the fact that the copyright belongs to Springer Verlag, WSEAS cannot promote any paper to the WSEAS Journals from this conference.


.: 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: EUROPEAN COMPUTING CONFERENCE Vouliagmeni Beach, Athens, Greece, September 25-27, 2007
Won by: Sunil Mallya
Title: Ssort: Peak Analysis for Efficient String Sorting
Authors: Sunil Mallya and Kavi Mahesh



.: 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


.: SOCIAL PART (Coffee-Breaks, Banquet, Excursions)
6 coffee-breaks Coffee, Tea, Milk, Sweets, Cakes, Pastries, Juices were available for the Guests during the conference.
A wonderful Banquet with over than 50 different courses (self-service buffet) with delicacies from the Greek Islands was given to the participants in the evening of September 26. You can see in the previous pictures a folklore show with 3 different appearances from a) Greek Mainland b) Greek Islands and c) City of Athens. Most of the participants danced and enjoyed themselves during this fantastic night. After 23:00 the 4-members' Orchester offered to the guests International Music.

.: Some Excursions to  Cape Sounion and the near greek islands took place after the conference.