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POWER, ICOSSSE, ACS, EDU, REMOTE, Venice, Italy, November 2007


Post-Conference Report for the WSEAS Conferences:
POWER'07, ICOSSE'07, ACS'07, EDU'07, and REMOTE'07
Venice, Italy, November 21-23, 2007

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  • WSEAS organized the following parallel conferences:

  • 7th WSEAS/IASME Int.Conf. on ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS, HIGH VOLTAGES, ELECTRIC MACHINES (POWER'07)
  • 6th WSEAS Int.Conf. on SYSTEM SCIENCE and SIMULATION in ENGINEERING (ICOSSSE'07)
  • 7th WSEAS Int.Conf. on APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE (ACS'07)
  • 6th WSEAS Int.Conf. on EDUCATION and EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY (EDU'07)
  • 3rd WSEAS Int.Conf. on REMOTE SENSING (REMOTE'07)


  • The conferences were opened by Prof. Bimal K. Bose, Life Fellow IEEE, that addressed a short welcome speech before his Keynote Lecture and his Tutorial.
    Prof. Bimal K. Bose,
    Life Fellow IEEE,
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    The University of Tennessee
    Knoxville, TN 37996-2100, USA
    Tel- (865) 974-8398, Fax: (865) 974-5483
    E-mail: bbose@utk.edu


    (Prof. Bimal K. Bose, Life Fellow IEEE, has held the position of Condra Chair of Excellence (Endowed Chair) in Power Electronics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville since 1987, where he was responsible for teaching and research program in power electronics and motor drives. Concurrently, he served as Distinguished Scientist (1989-2000) and Chief Scientist (1987-1989) of EPRI-Power Electronics Applications Center, Knoxville,TN. Prior to this, he was a Research Engineer in the GE Corporate R & D Center (now GE Global Research Center), Schenectady, NY, for 11 years (1976- 1987), an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, for five years (1971-1976), and a faculty member at Bengal Engineering and Science University for 11 years (1960-1971). He is specialized in power electronics and motor drives, specially including power converters, PWM techniques, microcomputer/DSP control, electric/hybrid vehicle drives, renewable energy systems, and artificial intelligence (expert system, fuzzy logic and neural network) applications in power electronics and motor drives. He has been power electronics consultant in a large number of industries. He holds a Honorary Professorship in Shanghai University (1991), China University of Mining and Technology (1995), X'ian Mining University (1998) , Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2002), and Honorary Adviser of Beijing Power Electronics R & D Center (1990). He has authored around 200 papers and holds 21 U.S. patents. He has authored/edited seven books in power electronics: Power Electronics and Motor Drives - Advances and Trends (Academic Press, 2006), Modern Power Electronics and AC Drives (Prentice-Hall, 2002), Power Electronics and AC Drives (Prentice-Hall, 1986), Power Electronics and Variable Frequency Drives (Wiley/IEEE Press, 1997), Modern Power Electronics (IEEE Press, 1992), Microcomputer Control of Power Electronics and Drives (IEEE Press, 1997), and Adjustable Speed AC Drive Systems (IEEE Press, 1981). He has given tutorials, keynote addresses and invited seminars extensively throughout the world. Dr. Bose,
    Life Fellow IEEE, has served as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE in both the IAS and IES, and is now Vice-Chair of the IAS Distinguished Lecturer Program. Currently, he is a member of IEEE USA Energy Policy. He is a recipient of a number of awards, including IEEE Power Electronics Society Newell Award (2005), IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), IEEE Meritorius Achievement Award in Continuing Education (1997), IEEE Lamme Gold Medal (1996), IEEE-IES Eugene Mittelmann Award (for lifetime achievement in power electronics and motor drives) (1994), IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award (1994), IEEE-IAS Outstanding Achievement Award (1993), Calcutta University Mouat Gold Medal (1970), GE Silver Patent Medal (1986, GE Publication Award (1985), and a number of IEEE prize paper awards. He also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award (2006) from Bengal Engineering and Science University.)
     

    The conferences aimed at bringing together active researchers in the areas of the respective conference and exchange information through the presentations and discussion of papers dealing with a wide variety of topics and the conference highly succeeded in meeting its goals

    Many interesting presentations and papers were discussed and a variety of topics constituted of the focus of papers submitted.
    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, WSEAS received the following Important contributions and upgraded them as keynote and plenary lectures:
     

    Keynote Lecture:

     

     

    Power Electronics - Its Impact on Energy and Environment,
    by Prof. Bimal K. Bose, The University of Tennessee, TN, USA.

    Tutorial:

     

     

    Recent Advances and Applications of Power Electronics and Motor Drives
    by Prof. Bimal K. Bose, The University of Tennessee, TN, USA.
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    Plenary Lecture 1:

    Simulation of Electromagnetic Devices using Coupled Models
    by Assoc. Prof. Ion Carstea, University Of Craiova, Romania.

    Plenary Lecture 2:

    Cognitive based reasoning and recognition for Intelligent Human Interaction
    by Prof. Hamido Fujita, Iwate Prefectural University(IPU), Iwate, Japan.

    Plenary Lecture 3:
     

    Message Security in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
    by Prof. Sudip Misra, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

    Plenary Lecture 4:

    Plenary Lecture 5:

    Advanced Parallel Processing Systems (Architectures and Applications)
    by Prof. Hamid Abachi, Monash University, Australia.

    Plenary Lecture 6:



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    Lightning Performance of Power Distributions Lines: Models and Critical Aspects,
    by Prof. Amedeo Andreotti, University Federico II of Naples, Italy.

    Plenary Lecture 7:

    Multiscale modeling of phase transitions dynamics
    by Prof. Bjorn Kvamme, University of Bergen, Norway.

    Plenary Lecture 8:

    Parameter Estimation on Manifolds
    by Prof. Karlheinz Spindler, Fachhochschule Wiesbaden, Germany.

    Plenary Lecture 9:

    Computer Vision Techniques for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems - Applications and Trends
    by Prof. Miguel Angel Sotelo Vazquez, University of Alcala, Spain.

    Plenary Lecture 10:

    Feature extraction for CBIR and Biometrics applications
    by Prof. Ryszard S. Choras, University of Technology & Life Sciences, Poland.

    Plenary Lecture 11:

    Research and Development of Safety Related Systems
    by Prof. Josef Boercsoek, Universitat Kassel, Germany.

     

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


    Conference Statistics
    Submitted papers: 932
    Accepted papers: 454

    acceptance ratio = (Number of accepted papers / Number of Submitted)*100 = 48.71%     
     

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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 


    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):


    Computer Science Challenges
    Editors: Roberto Revetria, Antonella Cecchi, Maurizio Schenone, Valeri Mladenov, Alexander Zemliak. Pages : 450.  Price: 80 EUR
    [Contents], [Order], [Full PDF of the Papers], [Help]



    Systems Science and Simulation in Engineering
    Editors: Roberto Revetria, Antonella Cecchi, Maurizio Schenone, Valeri Mladenov, Alexander Zemliak. Pages : 440.  Price: 80 EUR
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    Challenges in Power, High Voltages and Machines
    Editors: Jiri Klima, Christian Bouquegneau, Petre Tusaliu, Fabrizio Pilo.
    Pages : 386 . Price: 70 EUR
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    New Horizons in Education and Educational Technology
    Editors: Roberto Revetria, Antonella Cecchi, Maurizio Schenone, Valeri Mladenov, Alexander Zemliak. Pages : 320.  Price: 70 EUR
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    Challenges in Remote Sensing
    Editors: Roberto Revetria, Antonella Cecchi, Maurizio Schenone, Valeri Mladenov, Alexander Zemliak.
    Pages : 130, 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 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 papers are still undergoing the evaluation process and the result will be announced very soon.



    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



    SOCIAL PART:

    Welcome Gala

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    Numerous coffee-breaks with Coffee, Tea, Milk and Juice.

    Gala Dance

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