Post-Conference Report for the WSEAS Conferences:
EEESD'08, LA '08
Faro, Algarve, Portugal, June 11-13, 2008

 

Plenary Lecture 1:

World Energy and Future by Prof. M. Kostic, Northern Illinois University, USA.

Plenary Lecture 2:

Landscape Architecture: One of the Major Actors Shaping Urban Landscape by Prof. Dr. SELMA CELIKYAY, Zonguldak Karaelmas University, TURKEY.

Plenary Lecture 3:
 

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Solar radiance measurements for fixed and tracking photovoltaic systems by Prof. Nicola Pitrone, Universita degli Studi Catania, ITALIA.

 

Plenary Lecture 4:
 

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Water, Environment and Sustainability by Prof. Miquel Salgot, University of Barcelona, SPAIN.

WSEAS provides a very important tool to all the participants
A permanent username and password for accessing WSEAS conference proceedings on-line for ever.

Conference Statistics
Submitted papers: 373
Accepted papers: 148
acceptance ratio = (Number of accepted papers / Number of Submitted)*100 = 39.68%

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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):

New Aspects of Energy, Environment, Ecosystems and Sustainable Development
Editors: Thomas Panagopoulos, Teresa Noronha Vaz, Maria Dulce Carlos Antunes.
Pages:  590 pages, 
Price:  130 EUR
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New Aspects of Landscape Architecture
Editors: Thomas Panagopoulos, Jon Bryan Burley.
Pages:  190 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 Bulgaria (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 and upload it via
http://...............  (the full web address was given only to authors who presented a paper)

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.


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 who presented a paper) So, in this form you will need a password (the password was given only to the authors who 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:  4th IASME / WSEAS Int.Conf. on ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, ECOSYSTEMS and SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (EEESD'08)/ENERGY
Won by: Costin Ioan Cosoiu
Title: Numerical and experimental investigation of wind induced pressures on a photovoltaic solar panel
Authors: Costin Ioan Cosoiu, Andrei Damian, Radu Mircea Damian, Mircea Degeratu

Conference:  4th IASME / WSEAS Int.Conf. on ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, ECOSYSTEMS and SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (EEESD'08)/ENVIRONMENT and SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Won by: Joao Rolim
Title: A time continuous soil water balance model for crop rotation irrigation requirement analysis
Authors: Joao Rolim, Jose Teixeira

Conference:  1st WSEAS Int.Conf. on LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE (LA '08)
Won by: Pedro Miguel Vargues
Title: Geographic information system to predict visual impact assessment
Authors: Pedro Miguel Vargues

INDICES:
PROCEEDINGS: The Proceedings related to the Conference are covered by:
01. ISI (ISINET)
02. INSPEC (IET, former IEE)
03. CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
04. ELSEVIER and Elsevier Bibliographic Database
05. ZENTRALBLATT
06. ULRICH
07. MATHSCINET of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
08. MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
09. 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:
01. ISI through the INSPEC (IEE)
02. INSPEC (IET, former IEE)
03. CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
04. ELSEVIER and Elsevier Bibliographic Database
05. ZENTRALBLATT
06. MATHSCINET of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
07. ULRICH
08. MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
09. 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 2 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 - light lunches: Coffee, Tea, Milk, Sandwiches, Sweets, Cakes, Pastries, Juices were available for the Guests during the conference.
A wonderful Gala with more than 20 different courses (self-service buffet) were given to the participants in the evening of the second day of the conferences. You can see in the previous pictures a rich folklore show with many artists, different appearances and several happenings.
Most of the participants danced and enjoyed themselves during this fantastic night.

The conference had 3 excursions:
a) Ecological Park of the town
b) Ancient Monastery of the town (see photos)
c) Observatory of the town (see photos)


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