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Plenary Speeches, the
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MACMESE '07 and DNCOCO '07 excellent conferences in Trinidad and
Tobago Islands , co-organized by the University of West Indies and
WSEAS
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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.)
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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)

OPENING, KEYNOTE, PLENARY SPEECHES:
The two parallel Conferences were opened by Professor Bal Bhatt, 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 (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.
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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.:

KEYNOTE LECTU
Recent Advances on Computational Methods for Active Vibration Control
and Model Updating in Vibrating Structures : Linking Control to
Industry
by Prof. Biswa N. Datta, Northern Illinois University, USA.


PLENARY LECTURE 1:
New Results on Selective Modal Analysis of Dynamic Systems
by Prof. Eyad H. Abed, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA.

PLENARY LECTURE 2:
Polynomial Optimization via Sums of Squares Relaxations
by Prof. Mihai Putinar, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA,
USA.

PLENARY LECTURE 3:
Aggregation procedures in intelligent systems
by Prof. Imre J. Rudas, Institute of Intelligent Engineering Systems,
John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Hungary.

PLENARY LECTURE 4:
Selection Problems and Multi-criteria Decision Making
by Dr. Alexey L Sadovski, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA.


BENEFITS FOR THE PARTCIPANTS:
WSEAS, http://www.wseas.org 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.




..: 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 we
a) Originality and scientific impact
b) Good presentation
c) Paper presented by a student

The results of this evaluation will be announced soon in the web page:
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..: 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).

1 Excellent Welcome Drink (offered by the University of the West
Indies (http://www.uwi.tt), St.. Augustine Institute of Mathematical
Sciences).


1 Gala Dinner. Participants enjoyed a wonderful night.




..: Some Excursions took place after the conference. See the pictures:

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