Post-Conference Report from the WSEAS Conferences that sponsored and organized by the Morgan State University, Baltimore, USA

November 7-9, 2009


11th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICAL and COMPUTATIONAL METHODS in SCIENCE and ENGINEERING (MACMESE'09)
8th WSEAS Int. Conf. on DATA NETWORKS, COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS (DNCOCO '09).
2nd WSEAS Int. Conf. on SENSORS and SIGNALS (SENSIG '09).
2nd WSEAS Int. Conf. on VISUALIZATION, IMAGING and SIMULATION (VIS'09).
2nd WSEAS Int. Conf. on NATURAL HAZARDS (NAHA'09)
2nd WSEAS Int. Conf. on CLIMATE CHANGES, GLOBAL WARMING, BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS (CGB '09).
2nd WSEAS Int. Conf. on URBAN REHABILITATION AND SUSTAINABILITY (URES'09)
2nd WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATERIALS SCIENCE (MATERIALS'09)

 

See all the pictures:

http://picasaweb.google.com/wseas.headquarters/WSEASConferencesBaltimoreUSANovember792009#

 

 

 

 

 


Coffee-Break with Coffee, Tea, Milk, Mineral Water, Sandwiches, Pastries, Variety of Juices, Cookies with several discussions





A little book exhibition


 
 


Conference Secretariat was available to help the 250 WSEAS-ers from eight to eight (08:00 - 20:00) every day!


The Banquet took place with a great variety of foods and beverages

 

 


Prof. M. Jha addressed welcome speeches to the participants thanking them for their contributions and awarded also the best student prizes

 


All the participants enjoyed the night and at the end promised each other to meet again in a next WSEAS conference

 


This wonderful night of the Banquet included also Popular music and folklore dances


and what a pleasant surprise:  .... Greek Music in Baltimore!!!!


This wonderful night of the Banquet included also Popular music and folklore dances

 

Plenary Speakers:

Plenary Lecture 1:
 
Traffic Monitoring and Rate Allocation in Sensor Networks
by Prof. Titsa Papantoni-Kazakos, University of Colorado, USA.

Plenary Lecture 2:

Use of Uncertainty in Decision-Making
by Prof. Shinya Kikuchi, Virginia Tech, USA

Plenary Lecture 3:

Exact Responses of Nonlinear Systems under Nonstationary Random Excitations
by Prof. C. W. Solomon To, University of Nebraska, USA.

Plenary Lecture 4:

Analytical Synthesis Method - A New Mathematical Design Method for the Analog Circuit Design
by Prof. Chun-Ming Chang, Chung Yuan Christian University, CHINA.

Plenary Lecture 5:

On the Problem of Packing Trees in Graphs
by Prof. Louis Petingi, City University of New York, USA.

Plenary Lecture 6:

Nonlinear Boundary Value Problem of the Meniscus for the Capillarity Problems in Crystal Growth Processes
by Assoc. Prof. Liliana Braescu, West University of Timisoara, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 7:

Application of the Self Organizing Maps to Biometric Authentication using Behavior Characteristics
by Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi Dozono, Saga University, JAPAN.

Plenary Lecture 8:

A Weakened Weak (W2) Formulation for Certified Solutions with Bounds, Real-Time Computation and Inverse Analysis of Biomechanics Problems
by Prof. Gui-Rong Liu, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE.

Plenary Lecture 9:

Is Ethnic Counting, a Primitive Mathematical Method, a Major Fundamental in Babylonian Culture, and how does Primitive, Now Children's Counting Habits, Reflect in Contemporary Societies?
by Mr. Anker Fjeld Simonsen, SWEDEN.

Plenary Lecture 10:

The Material Point Method in Large Strain Problems
by Prof. Zdzislaw Wieckowski, Technical University of Lodz, POLAND.

Plenary Lecture 11:

Economic Development and Sustainability: New Models and Perspectives
by Prof. Massimiliano Ferrara, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, ITALY.

Plenary Lecture 12:

Applied Engineering on Biosystems
by Prof. J. A. M. Felippe de Souza, UBI - University Beira Interior, PORTUGAL.

Plenary Lecture 13:

Adaptive Approach to Management of the Multi-path Wireless Solutions
by Prof. Tomas Zelinka, Czech Technical University in Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC.

Plenary Lecture 14:

Design Framework for Heterogeneous Chip Multiprocessing Targeting Dynamic Reconfiguration
by Prof. Sotirios G. Ziavras, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA.

Plenary Lecture 15:

Mathematical Theory of Information Technology
by Prof. Mark Burgin, UCLA, USA.

Plenary Lecture 16:

Using Some Web Content Mining Techniques to Extract Arabic Text from the Web Documents
by Prof. Zakaria Suliman Zubi, Al-Tahadi University, LIBYA.
 
Plenary Lecture 17:

 
Z Print Rapid Prototyping Technique and ANSYS Simulation – Major Tools in New Product Design
by Assoc. Prof. Mihaiela Iliescu, “POLITEHNICA” University of Bucharest, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 18:

Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis by Using Artificial Intelligence and Information Fusion
by Prof. Hariton Costin, The “Gr.T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, IASI, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 19:

Scientific Visualization for 3-Dimensional Geometric Design of Highways
by Assoc. Prof. Manoj K. Jha, Morgan State University, USA.

Plenary Lecture 20:

Climate Change Curricula and the Challenge for Educators
by Assoc. Prof. Richard Snow, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA

Plenary Lecture 21:

Methodological Approach for Virtual Sensors design using Artificial Neural Networks
by Prof. Francklin Rivas-Echeverria, Universidad de Los Andes, VENEZUELA.



V
olunteers:

We thank our Volunteer
* Saurabh Kwatra
 

for their assistance!
WSEAS offered them a FREE REGISTRATION in any WSEAS Upcoming Conference.
 

Totally, over than 200 delegates attended. (The rejection rate of the papers was very high)

During the Banquet the organizers welcomed the WSEAS participants and gave appointment on several
other WSEAS conferences in the future

 

See an enhanced Photo Album of the conferences here: 

http://picasaweb.google.com/wseas.headquarters/WSEASConferencesBaltimoreUSANovember792009#

 

Best Papers:
The Best Paper award honors the author(s) of a paper of exceptional merit dealing with a subject related to the Conference's technical scope, see the photos above and the list of the awardees here...)
(The papers evaluated by committees of 6 international experts, different


http://www.wseas.us/reports/2009/best2009.htm#november-2009

 

All the WSEAS Books are in ISI / SCI (Web of Science). Download them now from the site of ISI
 
http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/science_products/a-z/conf_proceedings_citation_index?parentKey=432529
 (Click on the link: List of Conferences 2004-2008 and download them in an EXCEL file from the site of ISI). As you can see from the site of ISI the criteria for including Books and Proceedings in ISI are very strict and most of the conferences of older societies are not in the ISI Index while all the WSEAS books and proceedings are inside ISI / SCI (Web of Science). Check it on the site of ISI please, now.
 
 NEW: The 4 most recent WSEAS journals (WSEAS Trans. on Biology and Biomedicine, WSEAS Trans. om Fluid Mechanics, WSEAS Trans. on Heat and Mass Transfer, WSEAS Trans. on Business and Economics) have been accepted in SCOPUS and so all the WSEAS Journals are now in SCOPUS. All the WSEAS Books, Proceedings and JOURNALS are also indexed in ACM. Click here: http://portal.acm.org  , select "The Guide" and then type WSEAS. See the complete indexing of WSEAS Books, Proceedings, Journals in ACM, ASM, ELSEVIER other 30 indexes at: http://www.wseas.us/indexes 
 NEW Letters from British Library, American Chemical Society, SWETS, see more: http://www.wseas.us/indexes
 The impact (trend line) of the WSEAS Journals increase exponentially! http://www.wseas.us/indexes 

 

Dear Professor Mastorakis,

You deserve compliments and congratulations on your making WSEAS an important international forum for exchange of
information and ideas.

    With cordial regards.

       Sincerely,

          Lotfi Zadeh
 
-- 

Lotfi A. Zadeh

Professor in the Graduate School

Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)



Address:

729 Soda Hall #1776
july-a-2009
Computer Science Division

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

zadeh@eecs.berkeley.edu

Tel.(office): (510) 642-4959

Fax (office): (510) 642-1712

Tel.(home): (510) 526-2569

Fax (home): (510) 526-2433

URL: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zadeh/

BISC Homepage URLs

URL: http://zadeh.cs.berkeley.edu/

URL: http://www-bisc.cs.berkeley.edu/

WSEAS provided a very important tool to all the participants
A permanent username and password for accessing WSEAS conference proceedings on-line for ever.



See this photo album:

http://picasaweb.google.com/wseas.headquarters/WSEASConferencesBaltimoreUSANovember792009#

 


Additional features of the conferences :

1) Publication of the Proceedings in 3 media: hard-copy, CD, E-Library
(A)
4  books of WSEAS  (see details, contents, author indices and editors below) with ISBN and ISSN indexed by the major Citation Indices (ISI ranked): www.wseas.us/indexes

(B)  CD-ROM Proceedings with pages' numbers with ISBN and ISSN indexed by the major Citation Indexes: www.wseas.us/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.wseas.us/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  

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  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).

INDEXES:
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. ACM
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. ULRICH
26. MEDLINE
27. British Library
28. National Library of Greece
29. German National Library of Science and Technology
30. IARAS Index
31. World Textiles


JOURNALS:
The WSEAS journals are covered by:

01. ACM
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

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    Several excursions took place in the 2nd and 3rd day of the conference

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