Post-Conference Report from the WSEAS Conferences in Houston, USA

University of Houston, USA, April 30-May 2, 2009

* COMPUTATIONAL and INFORMATION SCIENCE (CIS'09)

* MANAGEMENT, MARKETING and FINANCES (MMF'09)

* AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS (AMERICAN-MATH '09)

* APPLICATIONS of ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (AEE '09) and APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETICS, WIRELESS and OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(ELECTROSCIENCE '09)

With much proud the WSEAS Organizers, Prof. V. Zafiris invited the
First Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ron Goldman, Rice University, USA

Hosted and Sponsored by the
UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON - DOWNTOWN
http://www.uhd.edu/

Co-Sponsored: * Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NORWAY

More than 200 participants attended totally.

General Chair: Prof. Vasilis Zafiris

Prof. Goldman and Prof. Zafiris

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

Plenary Lecture 1:

Plenary Lecture 2:

Plenary Lecture 3:

Plenary Lecture 4:

Stability Analyses of a System of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications by Prof. Daniel N. Riahi, University of Texas-Pan American, USA.

Plenary Lecture 6:

General Ray Method for Solution of Boundary Value Problems for Laplace Type Equations: Theoretical Foundation and Applications by Prof. Alexander Grebennikov, Autonomous University of Puebla, MÉXICO.

Plenary Lecture 7:

Flexibility in Mathematics Education: Leveraging the Power of the Spreadsheet by Assoc. Prof. Steve Sugden, Bond University, AUSTRALIA.

Plenary Lecture 8:

Studying Modules Using Endomorphisms by Prof. Ulrich Albrecht, Auburn University, USA.

Plenary Lecture 9:

Reduction Methods for Approximate Solution of the Singular Integro-Differential Equations in Lebesgue Spaces by Prof. Iurie Caraus, Moldova State University, MOLDOVA.

Plenary Lecture 10:

On Devaney's Definition of Chaos for Discontinuous Dynamical Systems by Prof. Byungik Kahng, University of Minnesota, USA.

Plenary Lecture 11:

Measures, Rates of Change for Solutions to Elliptic and Parabolic Equations, and Square Functions
by Prof. Caroline Sweezy, New Mexico State University, USA.

Plenary Lecture 12:

Contributions to the Resolution of the Gibbs Phenomenon by Prof. Nataniel Greene, City University of New York, USA.

Plenary Lecture 13:

Overview of Differential Reduction for Hypergeometric Function Representation of Feynman Diagrams by Prof. Bennie F. L. Ward, Baylor University, TX, USA.

 
Plenary Lecture 14:

Marketing Research about Attitudes, Difficulties and Interest of Academic Community about Institutional Repository by Prof. Angela Repanovici, Transilvania University of Brasov, ROMANIA.

Plenary Lecture 15:

Towards Pervasive Business Intelligence: Advances in Location Intelligence by Prof. Zeljko Panian, University of Zagreb, CROATIA.

Plenary Lecture 16:

Topological Electromagnetics and its Applications by Prof. Guennadi A. Kouzaev, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NORWAY

Plenary Lecture 17:

Nanotechnology Research Advances in Mexico by Prof. Armando Barranon, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, MEXICO

Plenary Lecture 18:

The Real Time Control of Modular Walking Robot Stability by Prof. Luige Vladareanu, Romanian Academy, ROMANIA

100% of the WSEAS Books are in ISI / SCI (Web of Science). Download them now from the site of ISI . (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. Letter of March 10, 2009 or old letters in http://www.wseas.us/indexes.

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! See this link

 

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

BISC Homepage URLs
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URL: http://www-bisc.cs.berkeley.edu/

Rector, Vice-Rectors and President of the Faculties in the Conference opened the congress.

With great participation and great interest as usually in WSEAS events

2 coffee-breaks per day and 1 great banquet completed the necessary background for our unforgettable event.

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

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

  More than 200  participants attended totally.

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#april2009

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