Post-Conference Report for the WSEAS Conferences:
E-ACTIVITIES '07, ISP '07, CIMMACS '07, ELECTROSCIENCE '07, EED'07, and MECHANICS'07
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, December 14-16, 2007

 

3rd WSEAS Int.Conf. on APPLIED and THEORETICAL MECHANIC (MECHANICS'07) 

The conferences aimed at bringing together active researchers in the areas of the respective conference and exchange information through the presentations and discussion of papers dealing with a wide variety of topics and the conference highly succeeded in meeting its goals

Many interesting presentations and papers were discussed and a variety of topics constituted of the focus of papers submitted.
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.

With pride, WSEAS received the following Important contributions and upgraded them as keynote and plenary lectures:

Plenary Lecture 1:

Fault Tolerant Systems Design in VLSI using Data Compression under Constraints of Failure Probabilities – Overview and Status by Prof. Sunil R. Das, University of Ottawa, Canada and Troy University, USA.

Plenary Lecture 2:

The Impact of Open Educational Resources, Web 2.0, and XML on Education by Prof. C. Sidney Burrus, Rice University, Texas, USA.

Plenary Lecture 3:

Modeling and Analysis of the Web-Like Networks by Prof. Narsingh Deo, University of Central Florida, FL, USA.

Plenary Lecture 4:

Learning data structures with inherent complex logic by Professor Wlodzislaw Duch, Department of Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland.

Plenary Lecture 5:

Design Challenges and Opportunities of the “End of Scaling” Nanoscale CMOS, by Prof. Ching-Te Chuang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA.

Plenary Lecture 6:

Natural Rain – Analysis, Modeling, Simulation by Prof. Marius Otesteanu, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania.

Plenary Lecture 7:

Upon modeling and testing of hand-arm system vibrations in the view of professional diseases prevention. A systematic approach by Prof. Dr. Ing Simona Lache, University Transilvania of Brasov, Romania.

Plenary Lecture 8:

Application of boundary element method to mixed boundary-value problems of linear elastostatics by Prof. Necla Kadioglu, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.

Plenary Lecture 9:

Control Solutions against Nonlinearities and Uncertainties in MEMS by Prof. Ahmet Kuzu, TUBITAK – MAM - BTE, Turkey.

Plenary Lecture 10:

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Scaled boundary finite element method and soil-structure interaction: coupled consolidation dynamic analysis of fully saturated soils by Prof. Mahmoud A. H. Hassanen, Strathclyde University, United Kingdom.

 

Plenary Lecture 11:

Artificial MetaPlasticity and the Challenge to train ANNS with reduced Pattern Availability by Prof. Diego Andina, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain.

Plenary Lecture 12:

Discrete Optimization Methods, the Ameso Class of Problems and their Applications in Logistics and Supply Chains by Prof. Michael N. Katehakis, Rutgers Bussines School, NJ, USA.

Plenary Lecture 13:

Influence of Non-Ideal Input Supply Voltages on the Electromagnetic Torque of PWM VSI Fed Induction Motor Drive by Prof. Jiri Klima, CZU in Prague, Czech Republic.

 

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Conference Statistics
Submitted papers: 932
Accepted papers: 421
acceptance ratio = (Number of accepted papers / Number of Submitted)*100 = 45.17%

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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 

Additional features of the conferences :

1) Publication of the Proceedings in 3 media: hard-copy, CD, E-Library
(A) Five books in the "Electrical and Computer 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)  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 provides a very important tool to all the participants; a permanent username and password for accessing WSEAS conference proceedings on-line for ever.

3) The Participants received numerous coffee-breaks, and a Welcome Drink

4) Cultural and social activities as customary in WSEAS events.

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):

Environmental Science, Ecosystems & Development.
Editors: Marius Otesteanu, Selma Celikyay, Nikos Mastorakis, Simona Lache, F.-K. Benra.
Pages : 486 pages,
price: 110 EUR.
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Topics in Advanced Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
Editors: F.-K. Benra, Nikos Mastorakis, Simona Lache, Necla Kadioglu, Mahmoud A. H. Hassanen.
Pages : 306 pages,
price: 90 EUR. 
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E-Activities: Networking the World.
Editors: M. Gloria Sanchez-Torrubia.
Pages : 406 pages,
price: 110 EUR. 
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Advanced Topics in Information Security and Privacy.
Editors: Michael N. Katehakis, Antonio Zamora, Rafael Alvarez.
Pages : 202 pages,
price: 70 EUR. 
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Computational Intelligence, Man-Machine Systems and Cybernetics.
Editors: Michael N. Katehakis, Diego Andina, Nikos Mastorakis.
Pages : 414 pages,
price: 110 EUR.  
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Topics in Applied Electromagnetics and Communications.
Editors: Slobodan I. Babic, Nikos Mastorakis, Jiri Klima.
Pages : 166 pages,
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 February 28, 2008 and upload it via
http://...............  (the full web address was given only to authors that presented a paper)
until February 28, 2008

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 February 28, 2008 , 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:  The 6th WSEAS International Conference on COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS and CYBERNETICS (CIMMACS '07)
Won by: Peter Holub
Title: LOPA - A Method to Analyse Safety Integrity Systems according to IEC 61511
Authors: Holub P., Borcsok J