Call for Participation for the IIIS Summer 2014 Conference
June 30 - July 4, 2014, in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
July 15-18, 2014, in Orlando, Florida, USA
About IIIS
Integration is a main purpose of the international Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS)
| • | Integration among disciplines: Inter-Disciplinary Research, Education, and Communication. | |
| • | Integration of Academic Activities: Research, Education, and Consulting/Real life Problem solving. | |
| • | Integration among Academy, Industry, and Society. |
Consequently, IIIS organizes multi-disciplinary conferences where 1) disciplinary presentations are made by disciplinarians who can also get immersed in a multi- and inter-disciplinary intellectual environment, and 2) Inter- and trans-disciplinarians provide and are provided with the intellectual environment that might generate analogical thinking which supports the production of novel ideas, working hypothesis, more comprehensive understanding, and the kind of collaborative research that might integrate disciplines, understanding and action, science and design, academy and Industry. Read more...
Summer 2014 Conference
Conference in New South Wales, Australia
CCISE 2014: The 2nd Conference on Complexity, Cybernetics, and Informing Science and Engineering , to be held in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, on June 30 - July 4 , 2014.
Conferences in Orlando, Florida, USA
WMSCI 2014: The 18th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (www.iiis2014.org/wmsci), to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 15-18, 2014. About the Conference… | Plenary Keynote Speakers and Program Committees Co-Chairs…
| Events being organized in the context of WMSCI 2014: | ||
| • | CKSE 2014: The 2nd International Symposium on Cognition/Knowledge Science and Engineering | |
| • | Summer IREPS 2014: The Summer 4th International Symposium on Integrating Research, Education, and Problem Solving | |
| • | KGCM 2014: Special Track on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management | |
| • | DeMset 2014: Special Track on Design and Modeling in Science, Education, and Technology | |
EISTA 2014: The 12th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications , to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 15-18, 2014.
IMSCI 2014: The 8th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics , to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 15-18, 2014.
| Events being organized in the context of IMSCI 2014: | ||
| • | PISTA 2014: Special Track on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications | |
| • | SOIC 2014: Special Track on Social and Organizational Informatics and Cybernetics | |
CISCI 2014: The 13th Ibero-American Conference on Systems, Cybernetics and Informatics / Décima Tercera Conferencia Iberoamericana en Sistemas, Cibernética e Informática , to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 15-18, 2014.
| Events being organized in the context of CISCI 2014: | ||
| • | SIECI 2014: Décimo Primer Simposium Iberoamericano en Educación, Cibernética e Informática | |
| • | CICC 2014: Tema Especial sobre Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Cognición y del Conocimiento | |
Keynote Speakers for the Orlando’s Conferences
Technical and Plenary keynote speakers will be selected from early submissions because this selection requires an additional evaluation (besides to the quality of the paper assessed by its reviewers) related to the authors' CV and the paper's topic.
Reviewing Process
All Submitted papers/abstracts will go through three reviewing processes: (1) double-blind (at least three reviewers), (2) non-blind, and (3) participative peer reviews. Final acceptance depends of the three kinds of reviews but a paper should be recommended by non-blind reviewers AND blind reviewers in order to be accepted for presentation at the conference and to be included in the respective conference proceedings. A recommendation to accept made by non-blind reviewers is a necessary condition, but it is not a sufficient one. A submission, to be accepted, should also have a majority of its double-blind reviewers recommending its acceptance. This double necessary conditions generate a more reliable and rigorous reviewing than a those reviewing methods based on just one of the indicated methods, or just on the traditional double-blind reviewing. More details regarding this issue can be found at www.iiis.org/peer-reviewing.asp.
The three kinds of reviews mentioned above will support the selection process of those papers/abstracts that will be accepted for their presentation at the conference, as well as those to be selected for their publication in JSCI Journal. Details regarding the Acceptance Policy can be found at www.iiis.org/acceptance-policy.asp.
Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers/abstracts, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Non-registered authors will not have access to the reviews of their respective submissions.
Virtual Participation for the Orlando’s Conferences
Submissions for Face-to-Face or for Virtual Participation are both accepted. Both kinds of submissions will have the same reviewing process and the accepted papers will be included in the same proceedings. Pre-Conference and Post-conference Virtual sessions (via electronic forums) will be held for each session included in the conference program, so that sessions papers can be read before the conference, and authors presenting at the same session can interact during one week before and after the conference. Authors can also participate in peer-to-peer reviewing in virtual sessions.
Invited Sessions Organizers
Registration fees of an effective invited session organizers will be waived according to the policy described in the web page (click on 'Invited Session', then on 'Benefits for the Organizers of Invited Sessions'), where you can get information about the ten benefits for an invited session organizer. To propose the organization of an Invited Session, please visit the conference web site, and go to the menu option “Invited Sessions” and then to the menu sub-option “Invited Sessions Organiziers.”
Best Papers
Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference (included those virtually presented) will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.
One best paper of each session included in the program will be selected by the respective session’s co-chairs after consulting with the session’s audience. Invited Sessions organizers will select the best paper of the session they organized. If there is a tie in a given session, the paper that will be selected as the best session’s paper will be the one which have had the highest quantitative evaluations average according to its double-blind and non-blind reviews.
The selection process of the best 10%-20% to be also published in the Journal, will be based on the sessions’ best papers and the quantitative evaluation average made by its anonymous and non-anonymous reviewers.
