Post-Conference Report for the WSEAS Conferences:
AMTA '08, MCBC '08, MCBE '08, ICAI '08
Bucharest, Romania, June 24-26, 2008

 

9th WSEAS Int. Conf. on AUTOMATION & INFORMATION (ICAI'08)
 

Host and Sponsor:


ACADEMIA ROMANA
Institute of Solid Mechanics of Romanian Academy, Department of Dynamic Systems, C-tin Mille 15 Sector 1, Bucharest Tel./Fax. 0040 021 312 6736 www.acad.ro


 

Scientific Sponsor: 

National University Research Council
1 Schitu Magureanu Street, Sector 5, Code 76626, Bucharest, Romania
Tel. 004 021 307.19.18
Fax. 004 021 307.19.19



University Politehnica of Bucharest
Splaiul Independentei 313, Bucharest, Postal Code 060042, ROMANIA
Telephone: +4021-402 91 00 ; +4021-318 10 22 / 23 / 24 / 25
Fax: +4021-318 10 01




Executive Agency for Higher Education and Research Funding (UEFISCSU)

 

Opening Ceremony:

Prof. Malcolm J. Crocker
Distinguished University Professor
Auburn University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
201 Ross Hall, Auburn, AL 36849, USA

Prof. Ioan Dumitrache,
CorrespondingMember of Romanian Academy
President of the National University Research Council
Politehnica University of Bucharest, ROMANIA

Prof. Tudor Sireteanu
Member of the Technical Sciences Academy from Romania (ASTR)
Director of Institute of Solid Mechanics of Romanian Academy,
Department of Dynamic Systems, Bucharest, ROMANIA

Prof. Paul Dan Cristea,
Corresponding Member of Romanian Academy
Director of the Romanian Bioinformatics Society
Biomedical Engineering Centre,
University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, ROMANIA

Prof. Pier Paolo Delsanto,
Chair of Structural Mechanics, Bioindustry Park of Canavese
Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing Lab
Politecnico of Torino, ITALY

Prof. Hongnian Yu
Department of Computing, Engineering and Technology
Staffordshire University, Stafford ST16 9DG, UK

Prof. Gh. Pascovici
University of Koeln, GERMANY

Prof. Virgil Tiponut
Electronic and Telecommunications Faculty
POLITEHNICA University Timisoara, ROMANIA

 

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

Plenary Lecture 1:

A Lifetime Dedicated To Acoustics Acad. Prof. Radu VOINEA, Member of Romanian Academy President of the Acoustics Commission of the Romanian Academy ROMANIA Member of the Technical Sciences Academy from Romania (ASTR) http://www.acad.ro/academia2002/acadrom/pag_ist.htm

Plenary Lecture 2:

Sound Quality by Prof. Malcolm J. Crocker, Distinguished University Professor Auburn University, Department of Mechanical Engineering 201 Ross Hall, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.

Plenary Lecture 3:

The Effect of Structural Degradation on the Dynamic Behaviour of Buildings Prof. Tudor Sireteanu, Member of the Technical Sciences Academy from Romania (ASTR) Director of Institute of Solid Mechanics of Romanian Academy, Department of Dynamic Systems, Bucharest, ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 4:

On the sound propagation in the open air Prof. Veturia Chiroiu, Member of the Technical Sciences Academy from Romania (ASTR) Head of Department of Deformable Media Romanian Academy, Institute of Solid Mechanics, ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 5:

Measurement and reproduction of spatialization in room acoustics Prof. Lamberto Tronchin, Chair of the Musical Acoustics Group of the Italian Association of Acoustics University of Bologna, ITALY.

Plenary Lecture 6:

Phenomenological Universalities as a new tool for experimental and cross-disciplinary research Prof. Pier Paolo Delsanto, Chair of Structural Mechanics, Bioindustry Park of Canavese Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing Lab Politecnico of Torino, ITALY

Plenary Lecture 7:

Nucleic Acid Structural Properties Identified by Genomic Signal Analysis Prof. Paul Dan Cristea, Corresponding Member of Romanian Academy Director of the Romanian Bioinformatics Society Biomedical Engineering Centre, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, ROMANIA http://www.acad.ro/academia2002/acadrom/pag_ist.htm

Plenary Lecture 8:

Processing of Polymer Matrix Nanocomposites with Carbon Nanotubes Prof. Josè M. Kenny, Chairman of the Board of European Center of Nanostructured Polymers (ECNP), Italian Consortium for Science and Technology of Materials University of Perugia, Terni, ITALY http://www.unipg.it/materials http://www.nanofun-poly.com http://www.ecnp.eu.org

Plenary Lecture 9:

Complex Procedure for Evaluating the Fatigue Wear of Tibial Inserts for Patients with Abnormal Walking Prof. Lucian Capitanu, Scientific Director of Institute of Solid Mechanics of Romanian Academy Romanian Academy, ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 10:

EU Objective of 120g CO2/km Emission for New Cars a Challenge for Tribology Prof. Ivan Iliuc, Department of Tribology Institute of Solid Mechanics of Romanian Academy Romanian Academy, ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 11:

New trends in multivariate approximation and optimization Assoc. Prof. Dana Simian, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, University Lucian Blaga of Sibiu ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 12:

Prof. Radu Munteanu, Member of the Technical Sciences Academy from Romania (ASTR) Rector of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 13:

Prof. Abdellatif Miraoui, Head of the Department of GESC (Génie Electrique et Systèmes de Commande) Electrical Engineering and Control Systems University of Technology Belfort-Montbeliard, FRANCE

Plenary Lecture 14:

On Human Adaptive Mechtronics Prof. Hongnian Yu, Department of Computing, Engineering and Technology Staffordshire University, Stafford ST16 9DG, UK

Plenary Lecture 15:

Non-linear implications in seismic isolation systems for buildings Prof. Dinu Bratosin, Member of the Technical Sciences Academy from Romania (ASTR) Scientific secretary, Department of Technical Sciences of the Romanian Academy Romanian Academy, Institute of Solid Mechanics, ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 16:

Tele-AUCTION, a service for SMEs' acquisitions Prof. Cornel Resteanu, National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 17:

Algorithms used to obtain aggregated value sets from relational databases Prof. Mirela-Catrinel Voicu, West University of Timişoara, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 18:

From Model-Based Strategies to Intelligent Control Systems Prof. Ioan Dumitrache, Corresponding Member of Romanian Academy. Politehnica University of Bucharest, ROMANIA. http://www.acad.ro/academia2002/acadrom/pag_ist.htm

Plenary Lecture 19:

Advanced front-end electronics to extend the pulse height spectroscopy range well beyond the ADC analog input range Prof. Gh. Pascovici, University of Koeln, GERMANY

Plenary Lecture 20:

Applications of Neural Networks in Mobile Robots Navigation Prof. Virgil Tiponut, Electronic and Telecommunications Faculty POLITEHNICA University Timisoara, ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 21:

Some approaches concerning autonomous mobile robot control Prof. Sergiu Cononovici, Departament of Robotics Romanian Academy, Institute of Solid Mechanics Bucharest, ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 22:

Predictive control strategies for image based visual servoing of robot manipulators Prof. Corneliu Lazăr, Vice-Dean of Automation and Computers Faculty Technical University “Gh.Asachi” Iasi, ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 23:

Numerical Algorithms for Analysis and Synthesis of Distributed Parametersystems in Engineering Prof. Ion Carstea, University of Craiova, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 24:

Identification in Sensor Networks Prof. Constantin Volosencu, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 25:

A Survey of Some Automotive Integrated-Starter-Generators and their Control Assoc. Prof. Dorin Dumitru Lucache, “Gh.Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 26:

Adapting a Blowdown Type Wind Tunnel for Ground Effect Simulation Tests Prof. Richard Selescu, Department of Aerodynamics, “Elie Carafoli” National Institute for Aerospace Research – INCAS, ROMANIA

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A permanent username and password for accessing WSEAS conference proceedings on-line for ever.

Conference Statistics
Submitted papers: 487
Accepted papers: 245
acceptance ratio = (Number of accepted papers / Number of Submitted)*100 = 50.03%

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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):

Advanced Technology for Acoustics & Music
Honorary Editors: Radu Voinea, Tudor Sireteanu, Malcolm J. Crocker.
Editors: Luige Vladareanu, Veturia Chiroiu, Polidor Bratu, Ion Magheti.
Pages:  150 pages, 
Price:  50 EUR
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Automation & Information: Theory and Advanced Technology
Honorary Editors: Radu Voinea, Tudor Sireteanu, Malcolm J. Crocker.
Editors: Luige Vladareanu, Veturia Chiroiu, Polidor Bratu, Ion Magheti.
Pages:  580 pages, 
Price:  130 EUR
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Mathematics and Computers in Biology and Chemistry
Honorary Editors: Radu Voinea, Tudor Sireteanu, Malcolm J. Crocker.
Editors: Luige Vladareanu, Veturia Chiroiu, Polidor Bratu, Ion Magheti.
Pages:  240 pages, 
Price:  70 EUR
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Mathematics and Computers in Business and Economics
Honorary Editors: Radu Voinea, Tudor Sireteanu, Malcolm J. Crocker.
Editors: Luige Vladareanu, Veturia Chiroiu, Polidor Bratu, Ion Magheti.
Pages:  240 pages, 
Price:  70 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:  9th WSEAS Int. Conf. on AUTOMATION & INFORMATION (ICAI'08)
Won by: Cornel Secara
Title: A genetic algorithm based strategy for redundancy resolution with multiple criteria
Authors: Cornel Secara

Conference:  9th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS (MCBE'08)
Won by: Ioana Gabriela Marcu
Title: Abstract State Machines for Product Family Modeling
Authors: Emil M. Popa, Ioana Gabriela Marcut