Post-Conference
Report for the WSEAS Conferences:
EED '08, MECHANICS '08, E-ACTIVITIES '08, ISP '08, CIMMACS '08
Cairo, Egypt, December 29-31, 2008
This important 3 days multiconference offered
to the colleagues 2 banquets (60
different courses (self-service buffet), live music and live dances with more
than 30 dancers and 18 folklore appearances)
and one great excursion, see
photos below
(The WSEAS Offered free the Busses for the Conference Excursions
and the English Speaking Tour Guide free. Dec,31, 2008:
Tour in Cairo
· Pyramids of Giza
· Sun Boat
· Sphinx
· Papyrus museum
· Bazaar
Memphis and Sakkara
· Stepped pyramid of Sakkara
· Tomps of Nobles
· Tomps of ministers
· Memphis museum
· TiTi pyramied
The 2 banquets were superb and they included
Oriental dance in 18 different appearances -- see below
Sofi dance
Egyptian singers
Open Buffet
After the excursion of 31/12/2008, we continued with the Session/Symposium:
E-Learning with 18 important papers
All the conference participants had free internet access.
The
International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) met during the Conference in a
Cairo restaurant well known for the standards of its cuisine and its friendly
atmosphere. Ways to improve the Conference were discussed over dinner: in
particular the topics were revised and new ones suggested, as well as a few
nominations for new members to the ISAC being proposed. Following the meeting,
the decision was taken to reconvene the Conference, and a few locations were
suggested. The WSEAS Conference Division will investigate these so that the dates
and location of 2010 can be finalized as soon as possible.
With pride, WSEAS received the following Important contributions and upgraded them as keynote and plenary lectures:
Plenary Lecture 1:
Wavelet Based Fatigue Data Editing: Application for Accelerated Fatigue
Tests of Steel Specimens under Spectrum Loadings by Associate Professor Shahrum Abdullah, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, MALAYSIA |
Plenary Lecture 2:
Virtual or Reality? Does Educational Robots Really Be Useful? by Assistant Professor Maiga Chang, Athabasca University, CANADA |
Plenary Lecture 3:
Web-based Collaborative Interior Design and Furniture e-commerce by Professor Yen-Chun Lin, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, TAIWAN |
Plenary Lecture 4:
Advances in Information Security and Privacy by Assoc. Prof. Kamel Hussein Rahouma, Minia University, EGYPT |
WSEAS provides a very important
tool to all the participants
A permanent username and password for accessing WSEAS conference proceedings on-line
for ever.
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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
Best Papers (Evaluated by committees of 6
international experts, different for each discipline)
Additional features of the conferences : JOURNALS: INDICES:
Click here to see the best papers for each conference:
http://www.wseas.us/reports/2008/best2008.htm#december2008b
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
What is the Permanent Procedure for additional Journal publication for a very
small number of High-Quality Papers presented in the WSEAS Conferences (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).
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 5 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.
Two wonderful Gala with more than 60 different courses (self-service buffet)
were given to the participants in the evening of the second day of the
conferences as well as in the 3rd day of the conference.
Most of the participants danced and enjoyed themselves during this fantastic
night.
.: See your
feedback about the Conference:
http://www.worldses.org/feedback.htm