Post-Conference Report for the WSEAS Conferences:
a) MMACTEE, WAMUS, NOLASC, EDUTE, CONTROL,
and
b) RES, EPESE, WWAI,
Arcachon, France, October 2007 (84 images -  See below)

The WSEAS Society, the Members of IARAS Projects and several laboratories from Collaborating Universities: 
co-organized in Arcachon, France, October 13-15, 2007 the following five conferences:

* 9th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (MMACTEE '07)
* 6th WSEAS Int. Conf. on NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS, NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS AND CHAOS (NOLASC '07)
* 7th WSEAS Int. Conf. on WAVELET ANALYSIS & MULTIRATE SYSTEMS (WAMUS '07)
* 3rd WSEAS Int. Conf. on DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS and CONTROL (CONTROL '07)
* 3rd WSEAS/IASME Int. Conf. on EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES (EDUTE' 07)

Also the WSEAS , IASME and several laboratories from Collaborating Universities co-organized in Arcachon, France,  from October 14 until October 16, 2007 the following three conferences:

* RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES (RES' 07)
* ENERGY PLANNING, ENERGY SAVING, ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION  (EPESE '07)
* WASTE MANAGEMENT, WATER POLLUTION, AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR CLIMATE  (WWAI'07)

The Conference was opened by Professor Leon Chua (University of Berkeley, USA) who was the KEYNOTE SPEAKER of the first multiconference. Prof. Tadeusz Kaczorek (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) who was PLENARY SPEAKER also described some of his research projects currently being carried out by his team (multidimensional systems, mathematical systems theory) and invited the delegates to contact the senior member of his staff in charge of these projects. Prof. Philippe Dondon made an excellent work preparing and co-ordinating these
events. He printed out the Proceedings in Arcachon in Books (hard-copies). These books have been ranked as ISI Books. The WSEAS headquarters produced two CD-ROMs. One CD-ROM for the first 5 conferences and a second CD-ROM for the other 3 conferences. Important Speeches addressed also by Prof. Costas Helmis (University of Athens, Greece) and other distinguished Plenary Speakers (see the full list below). Prof. Philippe Dondon who is also the WSEAS Chairman and IARAS Director in France emphasizes that another important activity is the research collaboration with other institutions in European Programmes. Prof. Dondon said, that the WSEAS and the IARAS always welcome participation in such programmes and would be happy to discuss future consortia with any of the colleagues attending. All the WSEAS Conferences in Arcachon were characterized by their friendly atmosphere (see photos below) 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.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
 

CNN: A Brain-Like Supercomputer on A Chip by Prof. Leon O. Chua, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

  PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Positive Linear Systems with Delays By Prof. Tadeusz Kaczorek, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.

 

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Wavelet Decomposition: New Applications and Performance for Advanced Applications by Prof. F. Castanié, TeSA, Toulouse, France.

 

Applications of the Malliavin Calculus of Bismut type without probability by Prof. Remi Leandre, Universite de Bourgogne, France.

 

Automatic Generation of Database in Computer-Aided Design using the Finite Element Method by Prof. Daniela Carstea, High School Group of Railways, Craiova, Romania.

 

Advanced Algorithms for Coupled and Inverse Problems in Electrical Engineering by Assoc. Prof. Ion Carstea, University Of Craiova, Romania.

 

Finite element modelling of the absorption in the human head of the electromagnetic field radiated by a mobile phone antenna by Assoc. Prof. Dumitru Cazacu, The University of Pitesti, Romania.

 

Cable Asset Management Using Failure Forecasting and Statistical Assessment of Diagnostic Testing by Prof. Miroslav Begovic, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

 

Advances in Digital X-Ray Detectors Constituted by Semiconductor Pixel Matrices, by Prof. Maria Rizzi, Politecnico di Bari, Italy.

Indoor Air Quality by Prof. Costas G. Helmis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Environmental Education and Design; The Role of Landscape Architecture by Prof. Martin van den Toorn, Delft University of Technology, Holland.

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:  682
Accepted papers:   235

      acceptance ratio = (Number of accepted papers / Number of Submitted)*100 = 34.45%    


Remark:  Three withdrawn accepted papers are considered as accepted papers 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 


The additional features of thes 2 multiconferences
(i.e. MMACTEE, NOLASC, WAMUS, CONTROL, EDUTE -- October 13-15
and RES, EPESE, WWAI -- October 14-16) were

1) Publication of the Proceedings in 3 media: hard-copy, CD, E-Library
(A) 2 Books in the "Electrical and Computer Engineering Series" and "Energy and Environmental Engineering Series" of WSEAS  (see details, contents, author indices and editors below) with ISBN and ISSN indexed by the major Citation Indices (ISI ranked): www.worldses.org/indexes

(B) 2 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) The Participants received 7 coffee-breaks and 1 Gala Dinner with the high quality of the WSEAS

4) 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

5) 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      

 

.: BOOKS (hard-copy of the Proceedings):
Editors: Ph. Dondon (France), V. Mladenov (Bulgaria), S. Impedovo (Italy), C. Cepisca (Romania). Pages 450, price: 100 EUR
[Contents], [Order], [Full PDF of the Papers], [Help]



Editors: C. Helmis (Greece), S. Celikyay (Turkey). Pages 275, price: 50 EUR
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.: 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 China (after the recommendation of Chairmen). So, the authors with accepted & presented papers received the following e-mail:


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 language 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 December 31, 2007 and upload it via
http://...............  (the full web address was given only to authors that presented a paper)
until December 31, 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 December 31, 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).



.: 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: CONTROL
Won by: Pavel Pokorny
Title: Energy-Efficient Train Control and Speed Constraints
Authors: Pavel Pokorny

Conference: MMACTEE
Won by: Keiji Nakabayashi
Title: A New Technique of Multi-layer Thermal Analysis for VLSI Chips
Authors: Keiji Nakabayashi, Kazuo Nakajima, Hajimu Iida

Conference: WWAI  
Won by: Hana Gavendova
Title: Emissions from the Military Vehicles
Authors: Hana Gavendova, Alena Bumbova

Conference: RES
Won by: Frantisek Vajkay

Title: Energy Saving Lighting with Light Guides
Authors: Frantisek Vajkay, Jitka Mohelnikova

Conference: EPESE
Won by: Tomas Hlavacka

Title: Evaluation of Energy Consumption and Indoor Air Quality of a Low Energy Row House
Authors: Tomas Hlavacka

Conference: NOLASC
Won by: Hasan Roosta

Title: Sub-Pixel Classification of MODIS Images
Authors: Hasan Roosta, Mohammad Reza Saradjian

Conference: EDUTE
Won by: Marian Cristian Mihaescu

Title: Building Intelligent Educational Networks
Authors: Marian Cristian Mihaescu

.: 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



.: SOCIAL PART (Coffee-Breaks, Banquet, Excursions)
7 coffee-breaks Coffee, Tea, Milk, Sweets, Cakes, Pastries, Juices were available for the Guests.
The Banquet was very good and included also a magician show. Participants enjoyed a wonderful night.


.: Some Excursions took place after the conference.