10th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (MMACTEE '08)

We had the honor of having the following academic personalities who opened the conferences NN'08, FS'08, EC'08, and MMACTEE'08:

Prof. Rumen Pranchov - Vice Rector of TU-Sofia.
Prof. Petko Petkov - Corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Dimitar Dimitrov - Dean of Faculty of Automatics.
Prof. Valeri Mladenov - Head of department Theory of Electrical Engineering.
Prof. Nikos Mastorakis - Executive Director of WSEAS and Director of Computer Sci.Lab at Hellenic Naval Academy.


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

Plenary Lecture 1:

Quadratic  Optimization Models and Algorithms. One Algorithm for Linear Bound Constraints based on Neural Networks by Prof. Nicolae Popoviciu, Hyperion University of Bucharest, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 2:

Meta-adaptation: neurons that change their mode by Prof. Dominic Palmer-Brown, University of East London, UNITED KINGDOM.

Plenary Lecture 3:
 

Use of Intelligent Evolutionary Agents in the Analysis of Genomic Signals By Prof. Paul Dan Cristea, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 4:

Travelling waves of the form of compactons, peakons, cuspons and their CNN realization by Prof. Petar Popivanov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BULGARIA.

Plenary Lecture 5:

From Fuzzy Systems to Fuzzy Networks by Prof. Alexander Gegov, University of Portsmouth, UNITED KINGDOM.

Plenary Lecture 6:

Fuzzy Techniques in Optimization-Based Analog Design by Prof. Gabriel Oltean, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 7:

Fuzzy Models in Bioinformatics by Prof. Tuan D. Pham, James Cook University, AUSTRALIA.

Plenary Lecture 8:

Some IP Security Issues By Prof. Zoran Bojkovic, University of Belgrade, SERBIA.

Plenary Lecture 9:

Towards Narrowing The Gap Between Artificial Intelligence & Its Destination by Prof. Suash Deb, National Institute of Science & Technology, INDIA.

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: 523
Accepted papers: 210
acceptance ratio = (Number of accepted papers / Number of Submitted)*100 = 40.15%
 

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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 Topics on Neural Networks
Honorary Editors: Lotfi A. Zadeh, Janusz Kacprzyk.
Editors: Dimitar P. Dimitrov, Valeri Mladenov, Snejana Jordanova, Nikos Mastorakis.
Pages:  240 pages, 
Price:  70 EUR
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Advanced Topics on Fuzzy Systems
Honorary Editors: Lotfi A. Zadeh, Janusz Kacprzyk.
Editors: Dimitar P. Dimitrov, Valeri Mladenov, Snejana Jordanova, Nikos Mastorakis.
Pages:  240 pages, 
Price:  70 EUR
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Advanced Topics on Evolutionary Computing
Honorary Editors: Lotfi A. Zadeh, Janusz Kacprzyk.
Editors: Dimitar P. Dimitrov, Valeri Mladenov, Snejana Jordanova, Nikos Mastorakis.
Pages:  160 pages, 
Price:  50 EUR
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Computational Methods and Intelligent Systems
Honorary Editors: Lotfi A. Zadeh, Janusz Kacprzyk.
Editors: Dimitar P. Dimitrov, Valeri Mladenov, Snejana Jordanova, Nikos Mastorakis.
Pages:  340 pages, 
Price:  90 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:
To be announced soon.

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)
During the Banquet, that took place in a taverna inside the University Campus, Professor Mladenov and Professor Mastorakis invited all the chairmen and co-organizers of the previous NN, FS and EC (Prof. R.Freund, Prof. T. Pham, Prof. D. Simian, Prof. A. Madureira), to address some short speeches to WSEAS participants. They emphasized how important is the collaboration of WSEAS with well-known universities (like Harvard, MIT, Cambridge (UK)) and they promised to continue organizing WSEAS conferences in collaboration with local universities for mutual academic benefits.

In his Speech, Prof. Mastorakis gave emphasis on the applications of Computational Intelligence in the upcoming Web 3.0, and promised to announce for a workshop or conference about Web 3.0 and Social Networking with interaction with the fields of Computational / Artificial Intelligence.

The academic authorities of the university participated also in the banquet, and many participants had the opportunity for public relations and for establishing collaborations for various academic projects.

The menu in Banquet included a variety of genuine traditional food from Bulgaria with local and European/International music. Almost all the participants participated in the entertainment that started from 20:00 and finished at 1:30 after midnight.

During the afternoon of the third day, some attendees participated in an excursion on the mountain "Vitosha", with lift ("teleferic") with spectacular view of all the Sofia's plateau, snows and ski facilities.

At the end, all the attendees promised to participate again in the next WSEAS Conference in Prague, Czech Republic in 2009, where the conference will take place again inside the University with support and sponsorship of the University.


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