PS-SMO-SSIP-MIV-DIWEB-Santander-Spain-September-2008

PS-SMO-SSIP-MIV-DIWEB-Santander-Spain-September-2008 (101 images)

Post-Conference Report for the Conferences (organized by the WSEAS, University of Cantabria and University of Alcala):
POWER SYSTEMS (PS '08), SIMULATION, MODELLING AND OPTIMIZATION (SMO '08), SIGNAL, SPEECH AND IMAGE PROCESSING (SSIP '08), MULTIMEDIA, INTERNET & VIDEO TECHNOLOGIES (MIV '08), DISTANCE LEARNING and WEB ENGINEERING (DIWEB '08)
Santander, Cantabria, Spain, September 23-25, 2008

The WSEAS,, University of Cantabria and University of Alcala co-organized the following important conferences (see more images bellow)

acceptance ratio = (Number of accepted papers / Number of Submitted)*100 = 33.89% (see details below)

A great number of Researchers from different but related areas such as energy and power engineering, signal processing, Internet, e-learning or vídeo technologies participated in this multiconference that was held at the School of Industrial Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of Cantabria. Five conferences shaped the agenda of this forum promoted by the organization of WSEAS, two universities. The Conferences attracted the interest of more than 400 scientists and engineers from 36 countries around the world.

The opening ceremony of the congress was held in September 23 at the Faculty of Sciences. The professor at the UC Jose Maria Zamanillo, organizer of the event as a member of the Group of Radiofrequency and Microwave Engineering Department of Communications, opened the session and presented to the audience: the Vice President of Research and Knowledge Transfer, Prof. Jose Carlos Gomez Sal . The first deputy mayor of the Municipality of Santander, Samuel Ruiz, the deputy director of the ETSIIT, Francisco Javier Azcondo, responsible for the WSEAS Prof. in the Hellenic Army Academy, Nikos Bardis and University Professor Boksburg Pablo Luis Lopez was the Chairmen of the symposiums .

Prof. José María Zamanillo explained that the WSEAS events during these three days would address recent developments, fresh methodologies and state-of-the-art applications in real life. Both theoretical aspects and industry applications were presented thanks to the participation of experts from universities and companies from all the world. According to what Francisco Javier Azcondo said later, "The WSEAS Multiconference is of vital importance because it encourages synergies and cooperation, since in engineering, even to develop a single project, the presence and collaboration different technologies is necessary.

The Vice President welcomed the congress on behalf of the rector and highlighted the fact that "if such events are held here is because there are groups of Research & Development working on a scientific level that it fosters." Jose Carlos Gomez Sal recalled that the University of Cantabria is one of the most important Spanish universities regarding development and scientific research, especially in comparison to its size.

For his part, Samuel Ruiz said that "events like this make our city to become a world reference in the field of science and knowledge, and contribute to the enhancement of the idea that Santander is now more than ever a great university town." The councilman noted that the value in science contribute to the aspiration of Santander to become European Capital of Culture. "The scientific culture is culture," added the vice president.

Finally, Prof. Bardis transmitted the common hope that "the WSEAS will give us again the approval to organize the conference in this place for every two years." The intent of the organizers of the event -- the Universities of Cantabria and Alcala de Henares -- is that this multiconference will be held on a biannual in Spain, where he has been this year for first time, and very probably establish in Santander a new WSEAS local chapter!

After the opening ceremony, the partipants of the conference went to the School of Industrial Engineering and Telecommunications, which hosted the various scientific sessions. The five conferences were "Power Systems" (PS'08), "Simulation, modeling and optimization" (SMO'08), which includes a special session on circuits and systems at high frequency, "Signal, speech and image processing" (SSIP '08), "Multimedia, Internet & Video Technologies (MIV'08) and" Distance learning & web engineering "(DIWEB'08).

The WSEAS would like to thank all the academic authorities of University of Cantabria and University of Alcala that were present in the conferences, the Santander City Council and the Government of Cantabria through SODERCAN, the Regional Plan for R & D + i and the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sport. The latter has planned, as a cultural parallel to the academic forum, a trip to the cave of El Soplao. The Mayor of the Town opened the PALACE of the QUEEN (it is closed for the public) and made an excursion especially for the WSEAS participants

	University of Cantabria Plaza de la Ciencia s/n. 39005 Santander, Spain
	University of Alcala Campus Universitario 28805 Alcala de Henares, Spain

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

Plenary Lecture 1:

Sustainability Issues for Electric Transportation Systems
by Prof. Aida Bulucea, University of Craiova, ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 2:

Fuzzy Control of Electrical Drives
by Prof. Constantin Volosencu, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 3:

Artificial Social Systems for Workflow Chart
by Assoc. Prof. Calin I. Ciufudean, “Stefan Cel Mare” Universtity of Suceava, ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 4:

Opposition-Based Computation
by Assistant Prof. Shahryar Rahnamayan, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), CANADA

Plenary Lecture 5:

Classification Methods for Bibliomining
by Prof. Ioana Moisil, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 6:

Modeling Pedestrian Dynamics in Evacuation Processes
by Prof. Robert A. Kosinski, Warsaw University of Technology, POLAND

Plenary Lecture 7:

Change Point in Time Series Data
by Prof. Azami Zaharim, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, MALAYSIA

Plenary Lecture 8:

System Dynamics Models for Business Process Optimization: An Application to Supply Chain Management
by Prof. Roberto Revetria, University of Genoa, ITALY

Plenary Lecture 9:

Influence of Segmentation to Efficiency of Joint Channel Coding and Cryptography
by Prof. Natasa Zivic, University of Siegen, GERMANY

Plenary Lecture 10:

Image Denoising: From Multiresolution frameworks to Variational frameworks.
by Prof. Sergio Amat, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, SPAIN

Plenary Lecture 11:

Enhancement and Restoration
by Prof. Hector Perez-Meana, National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, MEXICO

Plenary Lecture 12:

Signal Processing Education Challenge: A Speaker Verification R&D Undergraduate Team
by Prof. Roxana Saint-Nom, Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA), ARGENTINA

Plenary Lecture 13:

Multi-Channel Convolution for Room Acoustics Auralization
by Prof. Lamberto Tronchin, University of Bologna, ITALY

Plenary Lecture 14:

Content Aware Image Processing
by Assoc. Prof. Raimondo Schettini, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, ITALY

Plenary Lecture 15:

Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks Deployment
by Prof. Zoran S. Bojkovic, and Bojan M. Bakmaz, University of Belgrade, SERBIA

Plenary Lecture 16:

Game-Based Learning in Higher Education and Lifelong Learning: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
by Prof. Andreja Istenič Starčič, University of Ljubljana, SLOVENIA.

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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Conference Statistics
Submitted papers: 947
Accepted papers: 321
acceptance ratio = (Number of accepted papers / Number of Submitted)*100 = 33.89%

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#september2008b

The Mayor of the Town opened the PALACE of the QUEEN (it is closed for the public) and made an excursion especially for the WSEAS participants

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):

Distance Learning, Multimedia and Video Technologies
Editors: José Mª Zamanillo Sáinz de la Maza, Pablo Luis López Espí.
Pages: 220 pages,
Price: 70 EUR
[Contents], [Order], [Full PDF of the Papers], [Help]

Power Systems and Power Technology
Editors: José Mª Zamanillo Sáinz de la Maza, Pablo Luis López Espí, Aida Bulucea.
Pages: 320 pages,
Price: 90 EUR
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Computing and Computational Techniques in Sciences
Editors: José Mª Zamanillo Sáinz de la Maza, Pablo Luis López Espí.
Pages: 260 pages,
Price: 70 EUR
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Simulation, Modelling and Optimization
Editors: José Mª Zamanillo Sáinz de la Maza, Pablo Luis López Espí.
Pages: 420 pages,
Price: 110 EUR
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Signal, Speech and Image Processing
Editors: José Mª Zamanillo Sáinz de la Maza, Pablo Luis López Espí.
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 (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 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.
Most of the participants danced and enjoyed themselves during this fantastic night.

The Mayor of the Town opened the PALACE of the QUEEN (it is closed for the public) and made an excursion especially for the WSEAS participants

.: See your feedback about the Conference:
http://www.worldses.org/feedback.htm