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Call for Papers and Reviewers for a Special Track (IDREC 2018, www.iiis-2018.org/idrec;
July 8-11, 2018, in Orlando, Florida, USA) and for a Special Issue of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI, www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/home.asp)
In Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Communication
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Publications
- About the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI)
- Diagram Sumarizing the Options as Associated to Publications
Suggested non-exclusionary areas/topics of IDREC 2018
Publications
The following publishing policy applies only to the special track and special issue of the Journal related to IDREC 2018
Authors of accepted abstracts or extended abstracts will have two options (See also diagram below)
- To register at the conference for presentation-only, and from there on they will have the options for publishing their final papers (with no additional cost) in a) the post-conference volume of the proceedings, and/or b) the journal (as described in 2.a and 2.b below). In any case the final version of the full papers should be reviewed by our two-tier reviewing methodology and, for the journal; they should also be reviewed by the journal reviewers.
- To submit before or by the deadline (January 16th, 2018) a full draft paper (2000-5000 words) via the conference web site. In this case, if the full draft paper is accepted and at least one author registers for the conference and pays the registration fees, then it will be presented at the conference and published in the respective pre-conference proceedings; which will be delivered at the conference registration desk (the presentation might be face-to-face or an asynchronous virtual one). The paper will also be published in a regular issue of the journal, with no additional cost to the authors, if and only if:
2.a.The paper is selected as the best session's paper by the respective session’s audience and/or if
2.b.The paper is among the best quantitatively evaluated according our two-tier reviewing that requires double-blind and non-blind reviewing. Each of these two methods is a necessary condition, but each one alone is NOT a sufficient condition. This makes our methodology more rigorous than the usual double blind one. A brief description of our two-tier reviewing can be found at https://www.iiis.org/peer-reviewing.asp. - A special issue of the Journal will also be published on Inter-disciplinary Research, Education, and Communication, with no additional costs for the respective author(s). Journal’s reviewers ((https://www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/JournalReviewers.asp?var), randomly selected, will make the respective peer reviews, via double-blind reviewing. An example of this special issue has been posted at https://www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/Contents.asp?var=&Previous=ISS1607
About the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI)
JSCI was asked by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) to re-apply because DOAJ identified more rigorous criteria to list journals in its directory and to index them. After re-applying the Journal was accepted again with the following new benefits (we are doing a copy and paste from the email we received from them):
"Benefits of supplying DOAJ with metadata:
- Our statistics show more than 900 000 page views and 300 000 unique visitors a month to DOAJ from all over the world.
- Many aggregators, databases, libraries, publishers and search portals collect our free metadata and include it in their products. Examples are Scopus, Serial Solutions and EBSCO.
- DOAJ is OAI compliant and once an article is in DOAJ, it is automatically harvestable.
- DOAJ is OpenURL compliant and once an article is in DOAJ, it is automatically linkable.
- Over 95% of the DOAJ Publisher community said that DOAJ is important for increasing their journal's visibility.
- DOAJ is often cited as a source of quality, open access journals in research and scholarly publishing circles."
We are supplying our Journal’s meta-data to DOAJ; which is frequently referenced as a white list for electronic open access journals.
Publications policy for the IDREC 2018 event
Since 2003, the Journal’s purpose has been to publish the best papers of those presented at IIIS’ conferences. With some special issues (like IDREC 2018) authors will also have the possibility of improving their using the feedback they got in the conference and. then, to have their post-print articles reviewed again by the Journal’s Reviewers.
Direct Submission to the Journal, Via "Fast Track Submissions"
As it has been informed on the journal web site, a direct submission to the journal must be done via Fast Track Submissions (Details are given in the section with the same name at the journal web page www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/ProcSendPaper.asp?var).
In this case, acceptances of full papers will be for both: journal publication AND Conference presentation* including, consequently, proceedings publication. In such a case the author(s) should make a note (potentially a footnote), alerting the reader about the double publication, in order to avoid the perception of self-plagiarism. Details regarding this issue had been posted at www.iiis.org/Nagib-Callaos/self-plagiarism
* Virtual presentations will be done by asynchronous means of communication. More details have been posted at http://www.iiis2018.org/imsci/Website/VParticVirtualSessions.asp?vc=17
Fast Track Submissions should be done via two sequential steps:
Step 1. The submission of an abstract (300-600 words) written for interdisciplinary communication at: www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/subabstract/subabstract.asp, for its internal review (oriented to the abstract’s adequacy to the topic)
Step 2. If your abstract is accepted then you will be asked to submit your draft paper (2000-5000 words); which will be externally reviewed by means of the methodology we have been using since 2006 and which proved to improve A) our acceptance decision-making regarding papers acceptance and B) the final version of the to be published paper. This methodology includes mandatory two-tier reviewing processes (double-blind and non-blind). You can find more details regarding this methodology at https://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Methodology.pdf.
For submissions directly sent to the journal, there should be about the double of the reviewers that those required for the conference. This is because the papers accepted for the conference should go through a third tier of reviewing before being accepted for their publication in the journal. The mentioned duplication of reviewers (for the fast track submission) applies to both kinds of reviewers: those suggested for the non-blind and those randomly selected by us for the double-blind reviews of the Draft Paper (2000-5000 words)
Deadlines for Direct Submission to the Journal
First phase: for internal review (oriented to the abstract’s adequacy to the topic)
December 1st, 2017: Submissions of abstracts (300-600 words), for face-to-face and virtual presentations*. The earlier you submit your abstract, the earlier you receive the acceptance notification and, hence, the earlier you can start working on your draft full paper in order to meet the respective submission deadline for the external review of your paper.
* Virtual presentations will be done by asynchronous means of communication. More details have been posted at http://www.iiis2018.org/imsci/Website/VParticVirtualSessions.asp?vc=17
December 6th, 2017: Notifications of abstract acceptance.
Second phase: for external review
January 16th, 2018: Submission of full papers (2000-5000 words)
February 20th, 2018: Notifications of full paper acceptance
March 21st, 2018: Submission of camera-ready or final versions of the accepted papers. Final versions should have been well proofread and copy edited. Otherwise, they will not be included in the pre-conference proceedings, but they will be included in the journal when an adequate proofreading and print editing has been made. They might also be included in the post-conference volume of the proceedings, if adequate proofreading and copy editing has been made by the respective deadline.
Publication(s) in the journal will have no additional charge for the authors who have already paid their conference registration fee.
Journal publications will be in a special issue of the journal or in a regular issue if there is no adequate number of articles to complete a special issue. In any case, the journal publication will be made in Volume 16 (year 2018)
Suggested non-exclusionary areas/topics of IDREC 2018
- Inter-disciplinarity
- What are disciplines and how disciplinarity is different?
- Science as intellectual culture, and disciplines as subcultures in academic departments and scholarly associations.
- Practicing interdisciplinarity.
- The interdisciplinary nature of Science.
- The interdisciplinary nature of real life problem solving.
- The interdisciplinary nature of technological innovations.
- The interdisciplinary nature of professional activities and consulting.
- The interdisciplinary nature of administering Higher Education and professional career designs.
- Interdisciplinarity experiences.
- Interdisciplinarity and effective intellectual variety and diversity.
- Interdisciplinarity and lifelong self-education for Higher Education professors and lecturers.
- Creating interdisciplinary campus cultures.
- Case Studies.
- Trans-disciplinarity
- Recreating integrated knowledge.
- Notions of transdisciplinarity.
- Transdisciplinarity and effective praxis.
- Philosophy of transdisciplinarity.
- Transdisciplinary topics and concepts as means for interdisciplinary communication.
- Trasdisciplinarity in Science.
- Trasndisciplinarity in different sectors: environment, globalization, education, health, business, industry, government, tailored information systems development, systems engineering, multi-disciplinary systems, professional activities, etc.
- Interdisciplinary Research: By “research”, in this context, is meant as any scholarly, reflection, or creative activity, including scientific experimentation, scientific creativity, scientific analogical thinking, innovations, multi-disciplinary systems engineering, engineering and architectural designing methodologies, actions-research, action-learning, action-design, case study design, etc.
- Drivers of Inter-disciplinary research.
- Interactive research: integrating interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, and inter-sectoral.
- Multi-disciplinary systems research and Development.
- Innovation oriented research.
- Interactions between Research and Consulting.
- Research oriented to real life problem solving.
- Research in Industry and Business.
- How Academy can facilitate interdisciplinary research.
- How funding organization can foster interdisciplinary research.
- How academic and professional society van promotes interdisciplinary research.
- Information research and inter-disciplinarity.
- Evaluating interdisciplinary research. Peer-review of interdisciplinary research.
- Problem focused research.
- Case study research.
- Interdisciplinary research initiatives, projects, and case studies.
- Interdisciplinary Education
- Interdisciplinary pedagogy in Higher Education.
- Learning to synthesize.
- Undergraduate general education.
- Facilitating interdisciplinary scholars and courses.
- Fostering interdisciplinary in doctoral students.
- Design of interdisciplinary career.
- System Approach education as a means for interdisciplinary education.
- Fostering systems thinking.
- The role of trans-disciplinary concepts in interdisciplinary education.
- Cross-disciplinary students and professors' teams in scientific initiative.
- Cross-disciplinary students and professors' teams for the solution of real life problems.
- Managing and generating consensus in interdisciplinary teams.
- Real life problem oriented education.
- Action learning.
- Action Design.
- Case study based education.
- Service learning.
- Interdisciplinary education initiatives, projects and case studies.
- Methodological innovations in interdisciplinary teaching and education.
- Design of interdisciplinary courses, intellectual collaboration, and coaching integrative thinking.
- Interdisciplinary Communication (which includes the communication of disciplinary research to other disciplines
- Trans-disciplinary topics, notions and concepts as means for interdisciplinary communication.
- Multi-disciplinary conferences and events as means to allow and foster interdisciplinary.
- Intra-disciplinary conference presentations presented again, but for interdisciplinary communication.
- Interdisciplinary communication as a means to decrease the number of errors; (e.g., errors generated by inadequate interdisciplinary communication in health systems and among medical doctors are the major contributors to the eight leaning causes of deaths in the USA, more than individual errors; the huge financial, managerial and psychological costs for inadequate interdisciplinary communication in tailored information systems development; etc.)
- Horizontal Leadership and Interdisciplinary Communication.
- Interdisciplinary collaboration and communication.
- Interdisciplinary team communication.
- Differences between disciplinary and interdisciplinary communication.
- Cross intellectual nurturing between intercultural and interdisciplinary communication (based on the notion that disciplines are academic and/or intellectual cultures.
- Interdisciplinary research initiatives, projects, and case studies.
- Why study interdisciplinary conversations and dialogues?
- Relationships between Interdisciplinary Research and Interdisciplinary Education
- Research oriented to increasing the effectiveness in interdisciplinary education.
- Interdisciplinary education oriented to future interdisciplinary research.
- Long life learning for improving research skills required for inter-disciplinary research.
- Cybernetic and synergic relationships between Interdisciplinary Research and Interdisciplinary Education.
- Solving real life problems by student teams as a means of interdisciplinary education.
- Research oriented to technological innovation as a means of interdisciplinary education.
- Educating for inter-disciplinary research.
- Case Studies.
- Relationships Between Interdisciplinary Research and Interdisciplinary Communication
- Research in interdisciplinary communication.
- Cybernetic and synergistic loops between Interdisciplinary Research and Interdisciplinary Communication.
- Interdisciplinary communication as a necessary condition for interdisciplinary research.
- Cybernetic and synergistic loops between Interdisciplinary Communication and analogical thinking.
- Creative potential of Interdisciplinary Communication via analogical thinking.
- Transforming research into innovation via Interdisciplinary Communication.
- Relationships between interdisciplinary communication and interdisciplinary education
- Research in interdisciplinary education.
- Cybernetic and synergistic loops between Interdisciplinary research and education.
- Education and training in interdisciplinary communication.
- Interdisciplinary communication skills for a liberal and diversified education.
- Interdisciplinary teaching in different settings and students in different disciplines as a means for interdisciplinary education and self-education to university professors.
- Conference presentations at multi-disciplinary conferences as an effective means of interdisciplinary self-education and communication.
- Integration of Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Communication (IDREC)
- Approaches to integration.
- The integration imperative for effective real life problem solving.
- Intellectual collaboration, integrative thinking, and analogical thinking.
- Multiplying the above indicated synergies by effectively relating three complementary components in a systemic whole where cybernetic loops and meta-loops combines for amplified synergistic effects generating emergent properties of the whole not in any of the components and not necessarily possible to be inferred from them.
- Relationships between Complexity or Systemic and IDREC.
- ICT support of IDREC.
- Relationships between IDREC and Analogical thinking and/or Creative Thinking.
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