Call for Participation for Special Tracks(s) on:
- Integrating Academic Activities: Research, Education and Real Life Problem Solving (IRESP 2017), and
- Research and Consulting (RC 2017): Research via Consulting and Consulting via Research
These special tracks are being organized in the context of both IIIS 2017 conferences to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on:
- March 21-24, 2017 (iiis-spring17.org/imcic) and
- July 8-11, 2017 (iiis2017.org/wmsci)
Deadlines
| Deadlines | Spring: March 21 – 24, 2017 | Summer: July 8-11, 2017 |
| Submissions | November 11, 2016 | November 11, 2016 |
| Notifications of acceptance | December 16, 2016 | December 16, 2016 |
| Upload of camera-ready (final versions) of the accepted papers | January 20, 2017 | February 20, 2017 |
Submissions may be made to any of these two tracks, for any of the two conferences at:
| Special Track | Spring: March 21 – 24, 2017 | Summer: July 8-11, 2017 |
| IREPS 2017 | www.iiis-spring17.org/ireps | www.iiis2017.org/ireps |
| RC 2017 | www.iiis-spring17.org/rc | www.iiis2017.org/rc |
To make your submission, please, use the respective links shown above and then choose the tab ‘AUTHORS”.
Co-organizers and co-chairs
Dr. Nagib Callaos, University Simon Bolivar and the International Institute of Infomatics and Systemics, USA.
Dr. Mauris Desilva, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, and founder of 3D Printing and Advanced Robotic Solutions, USA.
Dr. Jeremy Horne, President-emeritus, Southwest Area Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA.
Professor T. Grandon Gill, University of South Florida, USA (Academic Director of the Business Administration Doctorate)
Dr. Suzanne Lunsford, Wright State University, USA.
Profesor José I. Peláez, Universidad de Málaga, Spain.
The organization of these two tracks into a special event will include at least one conversational session, a plenary keynote address, and regular sessions where accepted articles will be presented. The plenary session is a general one, i.e. it is for all the attendees of the collocated events.
Publications
- All accepted and presented articles will be included in respective proceedings. WMSCI proceedings have been indexed by Elsevier-Scopus since 2005, and all IMCIC proceedings have been sent to Elsevier-Scopus for their indexation. WMSCI 2017 and IMCIC 2017 proceedings will both be sent for their indexation in Scopus.
- A special issue of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI, https://www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/Past.asp) will be published on Integrating Academic Activities: Research, Education and Real Life Problem Solving and/or on Research and Consulting, if an adequate number of articles are submitted, accepted and, consequently, presented at the conferences. Otherwise, best papers will be published in regular issues. JSCI is indexed by EBSCO, Cabell, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Academic Journals Database, and Google Scholar and listed in Cabell Directory of Publishing Opportunities and in Ulrich’s Periodical Directory.
- Selecting the papers for their publication in the journal will be based on:
- The best papers selected by the respective session audience, and
- The average of the quantitative evaluations of the reviewers if the submission and the review was made for draft papers (2000-5000 words). Regarding the second point, articles which acceptances were based abstracts and extended abstracts would require an additional review of the final full paper in order to be candidates for their selection for the journal’s publication.
Who is encouraged to Participate in this Event
This event is especially (but not uniquely) oriented to the following academics, researchers, and professionals or consultants:
- Those who participated in the design, implementation, and/or administration of organizations oriented to integrate academic activities or relate "Research and Consulting."
- Those who have been working in relating research and education, education and real life problem solving, research, education and real life problem solving or in organizations of "Research and Consulting", or have done an ad hoc work in some of them.
- Those academics who have done research via consulting.
- Those consultants who have done consulting via research.
- Those who have experience and/or knowledge to share regarding the relationships among academic activities and between research and consulting.
Ways of participating in this event
An academic, researcher, professional, or consultant might participate in this event submitting a contributed article which, if accepted, will be included in the conference program. This article might be:
- A research and/or a reflection paper regarding the integration of academic activities or the relationships between research and consulting.
- A case study, or the description of a specific case in which academic activites have been integrated or research was done via consulting or consulting was done via research. Such a case can be related to any of the topics of the collocated events and conferences.
- A position paper regarding the participation of a university’s faculties in integrating academic activities, in search via consulting or consulting via research.
- An article regarding the conception, design, and/or the implementation of an organization oriented to the integration of academic activities or relating "research and consulting".
- An article describing the different legal and structural forms in which an organization of research and development has been integrated into an academic context in order to synergistically relate the academic organization to the private and public sector and, in general, to Society.
- An article describing a seminar delivered in the private or public sector that generated the integration of academic activities or new projects based on relating “research and Consulting”, of consulting based new hypothesis formulation, new reflections, new research, case studies, etc.
Suggested, non Exclusive, Topics on Integrating Academic Activities: Research, Education and Real Life Problem Solving
- Relating research and education
- Relating research and real life problem solving
- Relating research and consulting: research via consulting and consulting via research
- Relating research and education
- Research Education
- Educational Research
- Relationships between research and teaching. Teaching via collaborative research
- esearching via teaching or educational action research
- Relationships between research and practice
- Integrating research, teaching and consulting or practice
- Action research applied to the Integration of Academic Activities
- Qualitative and hybrid research applied to the Integration of Academic Activities
- Relating research with innovation
- Research programs and projects engineering
- Application of Action Research in the integration of academic activities
- Application of case studies in the integration of academic activities
Suggested, non Exclusive, Topics on Research and Consulting
- Relationships between Research and consulting
- Research via consulting
- Consulting via research
- Relating research and consulting as a way of integrating academic research to industry, public and private sectors, and the Society at large.
- Application of Action Research in the integration of research and consulting
- Application of case studies in relating research and consulting
- Application of Action Research in the integration of research and practice
- Application of case studies in relating research and practice
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