Plenary Lecture 1:

The Convolution and Impulse Response Scandals by Prof. Irwin W. Sandberg, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Plenary Lecture 2:

Switching of Predation on Prey Species in the Presence of Predator Interference by Prof. Balswaroop Bhatt, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.

Plenary Lecture 3:

Spectral Structure of the Equilateral Triangle by Prof. Brian J. McCartin, Kettering University, USA.

Plenary Lecture 4:

Path-Based Modeling: A Generalized Framework for Formulating Combinatorial Optimization Problems as Linear Programs by Prof. Moustapha Diaby , University of Connecticut, USA.

Plenary Lecture 5:

Plenary Lecture 6:

Intelligent Pattern Recognition and Biometrics by Prof. Patrick Wang , Northeastern University, USA.

Plenary Lecture 7:

The spectral problems of some nonlinear differential equations by Prof. Gabriella Bognar , University of Miskolc, Hungary.

Plenary Lecture 8:

TOWARD PHYSICS OF THE MIND: CONCEPTS, EMOTIONS, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND SYMBOLS by Prof. Leonid Perlovsky , Harvard University and the Air Force Research Lab., USA.

Plenary Lecture 9:

Measuring Innovation Efficiency of Chinese Low- and Medium-Technology Sectors by Prof. Jiancheng Guan, Fudan University, China.

Plenary Lecture 10:

The Global Impact of Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Studying a Growing Economic Force in Small and Medium sized Business Enterprises by Prof. Daphne Halkias , Hellenic American University, Greece.

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: 412
Accepted papers: 198
acceptance ratio = (Number of accepted papers / Number of Submitted)*100 = 48.06%
 

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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):

Recent Advances on Applied Mathematics
Editors: Charles Long, Siavash H. Sohrab, Gabriella Bognar, Leonid Perlovsky
Pages:  465 pages, 
Price:  110 EUR
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Recent Advances on Development and Financial Engineering.
Editors: Leonid Perlovsky, Irwin W. Sandberg, Daphne Halkias.
Pages: 200 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 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.

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 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:  AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS (MATH '08)
Won by: Jaydipta
Title: Wavelet Based Speech Enhancement Technique Using Median Function Thresholding
Authors: A.K.Sinha, Shikhar Kanti Dutta, Budhaditya Dev, Jaydipta, Ranjana Kumari

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 50 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.

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