MACMESE, DNCOCO, Trinidad and Tobago, November 2007 (124 images)
Post-Conference Report for the WSEAS
Conferences:
MACMESE '07 and DNCOCO '07
Trinidad and Tobago Islands
(Caribbean Sea), November 5-7, 2007
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The
University
of the West Indies
(http://www.uwi.tt),
St.. Augustine Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science, St. Augustine, Trinidad (W. I.)
and the
WSEAS
Society (http://www.wseas.org) ,
coorganized the following two parallel
conferences:
* 9th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MATHEMATICAL and COMPUTATIONAL METHODS in SCIENCE and
ENGINEERING (MACMESE'07)
(This conference was part of the MMACTEE international conference until 2006)
* 6th WSEAS Int. Conf. on DATA NETWORKS, COMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS (DNCOCO '07),
(The name of this conference was ISCOCO until 2005)
The two parallel Conferences were opened by Professor
Bal Bhatt
(see in the left side of the picture) ,
who is director of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
of the University of West Indies and he was the
chairman of the conference and Professor Winston
Mellowes, who is the Chairman, Professor
Dyer Narinesingth, who is the Dean of the University of West Indies, the
Campus Principal Professor Bridget Brereton, Mr. John Roopchan of
the Ministry of Education and Dr. Bhoendradatt Tewarie, Director of the
Institute of Critical Thinking, where the conference was held. After the
opening ceremony the first keynote speaker was Professor Biswa N.
Datta (Distinguished Research Professor at the Northern Illinois University,
USA), who has presented the recent advances on
computational methods for active vibration control and model updating in
vibrating structures. Professor Eyad H. Abed
(Institute for Systems Research,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, USA)
who was PLENARY SPEAKER also presented new results on selective modal analysis
of dynamic systems
On Tuesday, 6th
November 2007 (2nd day of the conference),
Professor Imre J. Rudas
(See the picture in the left) (Institute
of Intelligent Engineering Systems John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics
Budapest Tech, Budapest, Hungary) who was PLENARY
SPEAKER also described interesting aggregation procedures in intelligent
systems.
On Tuesday evening was the
cocktail party for all participants of the WSEAS Conference, who were invited at
the office of the Campus Principal Professor Bridget Brereton (See pictures
below)
Both
of the WSEAS Conferences in
Trinidad were characterized by their friendly atmosphere (see photos below)
as well as the high quality of the presentations and discussions. A variety of
topics constituted the focus of paper submissions. In regular sessions papers
addressed several interesting topics. Prominent lectures provided key-note and
plenary speeches for the conference. Moreover, special sessions were organized,
and invited lectures were given by well-known researchers.
With pride, the WSEAS received the following Important Contributions and
upgraded them as Keynote
and Plenary Lectures.:
WSEAS gave a very strong and important tool to
all the participants: A new username and password without expiry date for
on-line access in the WSEAS Conference proceedings FOR EVER.
Conference Statistics
Submitted papers: 335
Accepted papers: 147
acceptance ratio = (Number of accepted papers / Number of Submitted)*100 =
43.88%
Remark: Two withdrawn accepted papers are considered as accepted papers in
our Statistics.
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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
The additional
features of these 2 conferences
1) Publication of the Proceedings in 3 media: hard-copy, CD, E-Library
(A)
One Book in the "Electrical and Computer Engineering Series" and "Energy
and Environmental 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 gave a very strong and important tool to all the participants: A new
username and password without expiry date for on-line access in the WSEAS
Conference proceedings FOR EVER.
3) The Participants received 6 very rich coffee-breaks (offered by the
University
of the West Indies
(http://www.uwi.tt),
St.. Augustine Institute of Mathematical Sciences),
1 Welcome Drink (offered by the
University
of the West Indies
(http://www.uwi.tt),
St.. Augustine Institute of Mathematical Sciences) and 1 Gala Dinner with the high
quality of the WSEAS
4) Cultural and social part as usual 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
.: BOOK (hard-copy of the
Proceedings):
Editors:
Balswaroop Bhatt (Trinidad and Tobago), Bhoendradatt Tewarie (Trinidad and
Tobago), Athina Lazakidou (Greece), Konstantinos Siasiakos (Greece). Pages :
506, price: 80 EUR
[Contents],
[Order],
[Full
PDF of the Papers], [Help]
.: 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 China (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 until December 31, 2007
and upload it via
http://............... (the full web address was given only to authors
that presented a paper)
until December 31, 2007
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.
After all this procedure, the accepted papers that come from WSEAS Conferences
in Canada will be published in the various WSEAS Transactions. IF you miss the
deadline of December 31, 2007 , or if your paper was not presented in the
WSEAS Conferences, THEN: you can upload it quite independently as regular paper
from the WSEAS Site for the Journals:
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 that presented a paper) So, in this form you will need a password (the
password was given only to the authors that presented a paper).
.: BEST STUDENT PAPERS:
The Organizing Committee received the forms that the Session Chairmen filled in
after the end of their Sessions and after additional evaluation and discussion
decided the following.
The Criteria were:
a) Originality and scientific impact
b) Good presentation
c) Paper presented by a student
The results of this evaluation are:
Conference: DNCOCO
Won by:
Tobias Eggendorfer
Title: A Secure and Covert Communication Channel for HTTP Tar Pits to Implement
Dynamic Web Page Blocks to Bar Spammer's Harvesters
Authors:
Tobias Eggendorfer
Conference: MACMESE
Won by:
Kumanan Krishnapillai
Title: Fatigue based 3D Structural Design Optimisation Implementing Genetic
Algorithms and Utilising the Generalised Frost-Dugdale Crack Growth Law
Authors:
K. Krishnapillai, R. Jones
.: INDICES:
PROCEEDINGS: The Proceedings related to the Conference are covered by:
1. ISI (ISINET)
2. INSPEC (IET, former IEE)
3. CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
4. ELSEVIER and Elsevier Bibliographic Database
5. ZENTRALBLATT
6. ULRICH
7. MATHSCINET of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
8. MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
9. 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:
1. ISI through the INSPEC (IEE)
2. INSPEC (IET, former IEE)
3. CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
4. ELSEVIER and Elsevier Bibliographic Database
5. ZENTRALBLATT
6. MATHSCINET of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
7. ULRICH
8. MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS of AMS (American Mathematical Society)
9. 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
.: SOCIAL PART (Coffee-Breaks, Banquet, Excursions)
6 very rich coffee-breaks with
Coffee, Tea, Milk,
Sweets, Cakes, Pastries,
Juices and Sandwiches
(offered by the
University
of the West Indies
(http://www.uwi.tt),
St.. Augustine Institute of Mathematical Sciences).
See the pictures above.
1 Excellent Welcome Drink (offered by the
University
of the West Indies
(http://www.uwi.tt),
St.. Augustine Institute of Mathematical Sciences).
See the pictures above.
1 Gala Dinner. Participants
enjoyed a wonderful night.
See the pictures above.
.: Some Excursions took place after the conference.
See the pictures above.
