Post-Conference Report from the WSEAS Conferences in Prague

More than 250 people atteed                          Prof. Eugene Kindler, University of Ostrava           Prof. Jiri Bila, Czech Techn. Univ. in Prague
During the Banquet the organizers delivered the Best Paper Awards. 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... DOWNLOAD PPT: ONE NIGHT IN PRAGUE WITH THE WSEAS (made by Prof. M.Balas)

(supported by the Czech Techn. University in Prague, March 2009)


Prof. Balas, Aurel Vlaicu Univ. of Arad, Romania        More than 250 participants attended these WSEAS parallel conferences





Banquet A superb and brilliant banquet with more than 50 different plates, 4 musicians' band, folklore dances.
Actually WSEAS offered: P?ffy Sekt Brut
5 kinds of Maki sushi rolls with salmon and vegetable, 3 different Beef carpaccio with parmesan
4 Herb gervais with cheese, 7 different vegetable in balsamico & honey
2 different Marinated Mozzarela with basil pesto
3 different Pasta salads with corn, Garnished peach with crab slalad
Cheese variation with nuts, Marinated chicken breast with ginger
Marinated pork tenderloin slices, Marinated beef tenderloin slices
Beef sirloin ?STROGANOFF?, Baked potatoes , Traditional roast duck & red wine cabbage
Bohemian dumplings, Cold cucumber soup, Moussaka, Mixed vegetable salad
peppers & lettuce salad, Balsamico a yoghurt dressing + oils, spicy etc.
12 kinds of Fresh fruit salad. Desserts: many different Chocolate mousse with nuts
Minidesserts, Apple pie, liter/Vanila ice cream, baked goods, Rolls, Bread
Beverages-open bar: plenty of czech beer all the night (unlimited consumption)
white & red wine  (unlimited consumption), mineral water, soft drinks, tea, coffee

Coffee-Breaks: from morning to night every day we had permanent flow of  coffee, tea, orange juice, mineral water
with Vanila profiterols, Croiassants, Fresh fruit (melons, apples), baked pastry pockets (4 kinds), Cookies (quark/jam), Stewed fruit
Home made pie (10 different kinds), Fancy bread, Fresh fruit (oranges, grapes) , Open sendwiches, Sacher cake, Orange Mouse
Home made quark cake, Flippers, Fresh fruit (bananes, mandarines), and Ciabata with ham & cheese, Poppy cookies, Fresh fruit (pears)

See photos

The coffee-breaks:  From morning to night: food and beverages unlimited to the WSEAS participants. permanent flow of  coffee, tea, orange juice, mineral water
with Vanila profiterols, Croiassants, Fresh fruit (melons, apples), baked pastry pockets (4 kinds), Cookies (quark/jam), Stewed fruit
Home made pie (10 different kinds), Fancy bread, Fresh fruit (oranges, grapes) , Open sendwiches, Sacher cake, Orange Mouse
Home made quark cake, Flippers, Fresh fruit (bananes, mandarines), and Ciabata with ham & cheese, Poppy cookies, Fresh fruit (pears)


 


Professional Dancers performing Charleston and teaching Charleston to the participants


 

More than 250 participants attended totally.


Prague, Czech Republic, March 23-25, 2009

* 10th WSEAS Int.Conf. on ACOUSTICS & MUSIC: THEORY & APPLICATIONS (AMTA '09)
* 10th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY (MCBC'09)
* 10th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS IN BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS (MCBE'09)
* 10th WSEAS Int. Conf. on AUTOMATION & INFORMATION (ICAI'09)


Prague, Czech Republic, March 23-25, 2009

* 10th WSEAS Int. Conf. on NEURAL NETWORKS (NN'09)
* 10th WSEAS Int. Conf. on FUZZY SYSTEMS (FS'09)
*
10th WSEAS Int. Conf. on EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING (EC '09)

The WSEAS Conferences have great tradition not only in the pure academic part, but in the cultural presentation of the place that host the conference.
Here we enjoyed a typical concert of the 16th century. Local Dancers performed faithfully the dances of that time and offered us an unforgettable night


The WSEAS Conferences have great tradition not only in the pure academic part, but also in the cultural presentation of the town/country that hosts the conference.
Here we enjoyed a typical concert of the 16th century. Local Dancers performed faithfully the dances of that time and offered us an unforgettable night

On the other hand high speed Internet was FREE in all the rooms and the WSEAS provided the cost to the Hotel ADRIA (not the participants)

A natural cave in the basement of the hotel was the pleasant surprise. WSEAS used it as Conference Room in the morning and as Restaurant in the nights
(See photos above)

 

The secretariat opened 1 day before from morning tonight and was open from 8:00 until 21:00 every day helping the needs of our excellent academicians
(See photos above)


The Sessions were full and all the Session Chairmen were happy that chaired so successful sessions



The natural cave of the hotel became Conference Room in the morning and restaurant at night. It was really wonderful
The names of all the conference rooms were inspired by the Greek Ancient Religion: Triton, Plouton, Zeus, Adis etc...












After including the 100% of the WSEAS Books are in ISI / SCI (Web of Science) and recognized as journals by many academicians
See the Letter of March 10, 2009 or old letters in http://www.wseas.us/indexes  New Letters from British Library, American Chemical Society, SWETS, see more:  http://www.wseas.us/indexes , and after the increase of the impact (trend line) of the WSEAS Journals in an exponential manner ( See this link  )
more and more excellent papers are in a permanent competition for one position in some WSEAS Conference.

 

 








 

More than 250  participants attended totally.

These conferences were hosted within the premises of the University of Cambridge, UK
The organizing committee offered the attendees a luxurious banquet and every day has open buffet from morning
to night in two different places (permanent coffee-breaks with coffee, milk, juices, coca-cola, a great variety of fruits, more than 10 different kinds of of sweets,   (see the photos). Some excursions to the general area of the University took place after the conference
 


 



From: "Lotfi A. Zadeh" <zadeh@eecs.berkeley.edu>



Dear Prof. Mastorakis

I would like to express my deep appreciation to you and WSEAS people
who sent me messages or called to express their sympathy.
It was, in all, a difficult experience but there are many others
whose experiences were much more difficult than mine.

Just a quick note to let you know that after spending some time at a
rehabilitation center and recuperating at home, I returned to work on Monday, February 23, 2009.
So far, so good.


Warm regards to all,

Sincerely,

Lotfi

--
Lotfi A. Zadeh
Professor in the Graduate School
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)

Address:
729 Soda Hall #1776
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/

 

The International Scientific Committee met during the Conference three times in a restaurant well known for the standards of its cuisine and its friendly atmosphere.  Ways to improve the Conference were discussed over dinner: in particular the topics were revised and new ones suggested, as well as a few nominations for new members to the committee being proposed.  Following the meeting, the decision was taken to reconvene the Conference, and a few locations were suggested.  The WSEAS Conference Division will investigate these so that the dates and location of 2010 can be finalized as soon as possible.



 

Best Papers:
During the Banquet the organizers delivered the Best Paper Awards. 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 for each discipline)
Click here to see the best papers for each conference:
http://www.wseas.us/reports/2009/best2009.htm#march2009


Photo from EXCURSIONS:


Prague by night

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

Plenary Lecture 1:

Analogies in Melodies of Early Christian Liturgical Chant Originating From Different Cultural Domains
by Prof. Eugene Kindler, University of Ostrava, CZECH REPUBLIC.

Plenary Lecture 2:

Real and Virtual Sound Quality in Room and Musical Acoustics
by Prof. Lamberto Tronchin, University of Bologna, ITALY.

Plenary Lecture 3:

Macrosonics: Sound as a Source of Energy
by Prof. Juan A. Gallego-Juarez, CSIC, SPAIN.


 

Plenary Lecture 4:

Particle Methods Applied in Biology and Chemistry, by Prof. Franck Assous, Ariel University Center & Bar-Ilan University, ISRAEL

Plenary Lecture 5:

 

Advanced Classification and Regression Algorithms, by Prof. Dana Simian, University Lucian Blaga of Sibiu, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 6:

Statistical Global Metabolic Control Analysis
by Prof. Zelimir Kurtanjek, University of Zagreb, CROATIA.

 

Plenary Lecture 7:

Introduction of an Hamiltonian Function and a Canonical Representation Aimed at a Possible Driving of the Evolution of a Cells Colony
by Prof. Joseph Quartieri, University of Salerno, ITALY.

Plenary Lecture 8:

Algorithm for Encoding Messages with Visual Key
by Assoc. Prof. Dorel-Mihail Dusmanescu, Petroleum and Gas University of Ploiesti, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 9:

System-theoretic Foundations of the Theory of Economic Policy
by Prof. Reinhard Neck, Klagenfurt University, AUSTRIA.

Plenary Lecture 10:

Knowledge and Information Technology and Urban (Regional) Development
by Assoc. Prof. Niksa Alfirevic, University of Split, CROATIA.

Plenary Lecture 11:

  Identification of Non-Linear Systems Using Neural Networks, with Application at Fuzzy Systems
Prof. Constantin Volosencu,
“Politehnica” University of Timisoara, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 12:

Methodologies for Implementing IT Governance Concept and Measuring IT Business Value: Managing IT as a Business not a 'Technical' Problem
by Assoc. Prof. Mario Spremic, University of Zagreb, CROATIA.

Plenary Lecture 13:

Iterative Solution Paradigms for Uncalibrated Robot Vision Control
by Assoc. Prof. Mirjana Bonkovic, University of Split, CROATIA.

Plenary Lecture 14:

Textual Substitution Methods for Image Compression
by Prof. Bruno Carpentieri, Universita di Salerno, ITALY.

Plenary Lecture 15:

Programming Languages as Tools for Describing and Modeling Anticipatory Systems
by Prof. Eugene Kindler, University of Ostrava, CZECH REPUBLIC.

Plenary Lecture 16:

Multimedia Delivery over Mobile Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks
by Prof. Tarek Saadawi, City University of New York, USA.

Plenary Lecture 17:

Convergence of Data Management Technologies: Potential uses for Digital Ecosystems for Collaborative Intelligence Analysis
by Prof. Geoff Skinner, The University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA.

Plenary Lecture 18:

Advances on Structural Optimization of Neoprene Passive Vibroisolation Devices
by Prof. Silviu Nastac, University "Dunarea de Jos" of Galati, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 19:

Advances in Automated Diagnostic Systems
by Prof. Elif Derya Ubeyli, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey

Plenary Lecture 20:
 
Integrating Fuzzy Regression and Fuzzy Time Series into Knowledge-Based Modelling
by Prof. Anna Walaszek-Babiszewska, Opole University of Technology, POLAND.

Plenary Lecture 21:

Fuzzy Techniques for Sensors
by Assoc. Prof. Valentina E. Balas, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 22:

The Fuzzy-Interpolative Adaptive Controllers
by Assoc. Prof. Marius M. Balas, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, ROMANIA

Plenary Lecture 23:

Adaptive Tabu Search (ATS) and Management Agent (MA)
by Prof. Sarawut Sujitjorn, Suranaree University of Technology, THAILAND.

Plenary Lecture 24:

Knowledge Discovery in Remote Access Databases
by Prof. Zakaria Suliman Zubi, Al-Tahadi University, LIBYA

 

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

 

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.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 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).

 

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. 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 5 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)
    Banquet A superb and brilliant banquet with more than 50 different plates, 4 musicians' band, folklore dances.
    Actually WSEAS offered: Pálffy Sekt Brut
    5 kinds of Maki sushi rolls with salmon and vegetable, 3 different Beef carpaccio with parmesan
    4 Herb gervais with cheese, 7 different vegetable in balsamico & honey
    2 different Marinated Mozzarela with basil pesto
    3 different Pasta salads with corn, Garnished peach with crab slalad
    Cheese variation with nuts, Marinated chicken breast with ginger
    Marinated pork tenderloin slices, Marinated beef tenderloin slices
    Beef sirloin „STROGANOFF“, Baked potatoes , Traditional roast duck & red wine cabbage
    Bohemian dumplings, Cold cucumber soup, Moussaka, Mixed vegetable salad
    peppers & lettuce salad, Balsamico a yoghurt dressing + oils, spicy etc.
    12 kinds of Fresh fruit salad. Desserts: many different Chocolate mousse with nuts
    Minidesserts, Apple pie, liter/Vanila ice cream, baked goods, Rolls, Bread
    Beverages-open bar: plenty of czech beer all the night (unlimited consumption)
    white & red wine  (unlimited consumption), mineral water, soft drinks, tea, coffee

    Coffee-Breaks: from morning to night every day we had permanent flow of  coffee, tea, orange juice, mineral water
    with Vanila profiterols, Croiassants, Fresh fruit (melons, apples), baked pastry pockets (4 kinds), Cookies (quark/jam), Stewed fruit
    Home made pie (10 different kinds), Fancy bread, Fresh fruit (oranges, grapes) , Open sendwiches, Sacher cake, Orange Mouse
    Home made quark cake, Flippers, Fresh fruit (bananes, mandarines), and Ciabata with ham & cheese, Poppy cookies, Fresh fruit (pears)

    See photos


     

    .: See your feedback about the Conference:               
     

    See the total list with your impressions from the WSEAS Conferences and Journals
    within 2009: http://www.worldses.org/feedback2009.txt
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    For previous years, see: http://www.worldses.org/feedback.htm
    WSEAS will publish yours comments
    ( http://www.worldses.org/feedback.htm  ) and will circulate them in a booklet!

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