University of Texas at Arlington,
Electrical Engineering Dept., Room 530,
Nedderman Hall, 416 Yates Street, Box 19016
Arlington, TEXAS 76019, rao@uta.edu
http://www-ee.uta.edu/dip Ph:817-272-3478
Fax: 817-272-2253
Post-Conference
Report for the WSEAS Conferences:
ECC'08, F-and-B'08, EG'08, MN'08
Malta, September 11-13, 2008
Keynote Lecture:
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Professor K.R. Rao, IEEE Fellow University of Texas at Arlington, Electrical Engineering Dept., Room 530, Nedderman Hall, 416 Yates Street, Box 19016 Arlington, TEXAS 76019, rao@uta.edu http://www-ee.uta.edu/dip Ph:817-272-3478 Fax: 817-272-2253 |
Plenary Lecture 1:
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Digital Measurements of Non-Sinusoidal Electrical Quantities and
Metrological Performance by Prof. Costin Cepisca, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, ROMANIA. |
Plenary Lecture 2:
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Topological Theory of Electromagnetic Boundary Problems by Prof. Guennadi A. Kouzaev, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NORWAY. |
Plenary Lecture 3:
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Branching Processes and the Problem of Admixture of Neanderthal
Mitochondrial DNA to Archaic H. Sapiens by Prof. Krzysztof A. Cyran, Silesian University of Technology, POLAND. |
Plenary Lecture 4:
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Use of Artificial Intelligent Techniques to Fault Diagnosis in Analog
Systems by Prof. Damian E. Grzechca, Silesian University of Technology, POLAND. |
Plenary Lecture 5:
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Why are Wordnets important? by Prof. Janos Csirik, University of Szeged, HUNGARY. |
Plenary Lecture 6:
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PARALLEL PROCESSING IN FINITE ELEMENT PROGRAMS FOR ENGINEERING
APPLICATIONS by Assoc. Prof. ION CARSTEA, UNIVERSITY OF CRAIOVA, ROMANIA. |
Plenary Lecture 7:
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Critical Review of the Physical Foundations of Unsaturated soil
Mechanics by Prof. Rafi Baker, Israel Institute of Technology, ISRAEL. |
Plenary Lecture 8:
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Arsenic Contamination of Groundaters in Southeast-Asia and Europe,
Mechanisms Inducing its Mobility and Groundwater Treatment by Prof. Ioannis A. Katsoyiannis, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science & Technology, SWITZERLAND. |
Plenary Lecture 9:
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Natural Hazards Induced by Large Intermediate Vrancea Earthquakes in SE
Europe by Prof. Andrei Bala, National Institute for Earth Physics, ROMANIA. |
Plenary Lecture 10:
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The Paleontological History of Wildfire: An Important Tool to Define
Fluctuations in the Atmospheric Composition by Prof. André Jasper, UNIVATES, BRAZIL. |
Plenary Lecture 11:
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Evaluating and Planning Waste Landfill Top Covers with the Help of
Vegetation and Population Ecology by Prof. Brigitte Klug, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU), AUSTRIA. |
Plenary Lecture 12:
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An Overview on the Landslide Susceptibility Assessment Techniques by Prof. Murat Ercanoglu, Hacettepe University, TURKEY. |
Plenary Lecture 13:
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The Method of Sequence Stratigraphy by Prof. Octavian Catuneanu, University of Alberta, CANADA. |
Plenary Lecture 14:
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Climate Change (in Sweden)- Geotechnical and Contaminated Land
Consequences by Prof. Yvonne Andersson-Skold, Swedish Geotechnical Institute (SGI), SWEDEN.
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Are we going towards a Global Planetary Magnetic Change? Possible Scientific Perspectives and Consequences to our Everyday Life by Prof. Angelo De Santis, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, ITALY. |
Plenary Lecture 17:
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RISK METHODOLOGIES IN KARST TERRAINS by Dr KT Witthueser, University of Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA. |
Plenary Lecture 18:
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Source identification using CMB models and effects of emission control
on reducing ambient air pollution in industrial city |
Plenary Lecture 19:
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Modifications of groundwater regimes in a highly-urbanized coastal area
in Hong Kong over the last century by Prof. Jimmy JIAO, The University of Hong Kong, CHINA. |
Plenary Lecture 20:
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How a horizontal surface is traced by Prof. Petr Vanicek, University of New Brunswick, CANADA. |
Plenary Lecture 21:
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Biological and chemical remediation of chlorinated dioxins by Prof. Yoon-Seok Chang, Pohang University of Science and Technology, KOREA. |
Plenary Lecture 22:
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Heterogeneous Photo-Fenton Process for Effective Removal of Organic
Pollutants Contaminated in Wastewater by Prof. Xijun Hu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. |
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Monitoring land degradation by the integration of in situ and remote
sensed data: badlands in Basilicata region |
WSEAS provides a very important
tool to all the participants
A permanent username and password for accessing WSEAS conference proceedings
on-line for ever.
GREAT COMPETITION
The WSEAS Organizing Committee announced for second time during the Banquet
an important competition among its members and friends: Write an article
(post-conference report) with theme: "The role and importance of the WSEAS in
the dissemination of scientific knowledge and the knowledge transfer: My
personal experience". This report must be based exclusively on your personal
experience in some WSEAS meeting and might contain photos also. No specific
format is determined; however your text must not be less than 100 words or one
A4 page and should be sent directly to WSEAS until 30 September 2008 by email to
wseas-team(a)wseas.org replacing (a) with @ There will be 30 winners who will
receive a free registration to 3 conferences within 2009, while the 3 first will
also receive totally 30 books from WSEAS Press and free accomodation in the
Hotel where the WSEAS Conference in 2009 will take place. In exceptional cases,
WSEAS will also cover the aeroplane tickets of these first 3 winners. The
winners will be announced on the web.
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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)
See here
the best papers
Click: http://www.wseas.us/reports/2008/best2008.htm#september2008
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 on Computing Research
Editors: Costin Cepisca, Guennadi A. Kouzaev, Nikos E. Mastorakis.
Pages: 470 pages,
Price: 110 EUR
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Environment and Geoscience
Editors: Angelo De Santis, Rafi Baker, Brigitte Klug, Petr Vanicek, Luiz Jose
Homem D´El-Rey Silva, Alberto Foyo, Murat Ercanoglu, Dragana Dordevic.
Pages: 250 pages,
Price: 70 EUR
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Finite
Differences, Finite Elements, Finite Volumes and Boundary Elements
Selected Topics in Maritime and Naval Science and Engineering (MN'08)
Editors: Nikos E. Mastorakis, Ion Carstea.
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 (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).
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 4 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.
Most of the participants danced and enjoyed themselves during this fantastic
night.
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