Honorary Presidents: Bela Banathy, Stafford Beer and George Klir
Program Committee Chair: William Lesso
General Chair: Nagib Callaos
Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez
MAJOR THEMES
* Information Systems Development
* Information Systems Management
* Management Information Systems
* Virtual Engineering
* Mobile/Wireless Computing
* Communication Systems and Networks
* Emergent Computation
* Image, Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing
* Computing Techniques
* Human Information Systems
* Education and Information Systems
* Control Systems
* Economic and Financial Systems
* Globalization, Development and Emerging Economies
Others
* SCI in Biology and Medicine
* SCI in Psychology, Cognition and Spirituality
* Natural Resources
* Human Resources
* Conceptual Infrastructure of SCI
* SCI in Art
* Network Control
* Network Applications
* Network Control
* Network Management
* SCI in Physics, Astronomy and Chemistry
* Informatics and Cybernetics Applications to Engineering
ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC CO-SPONSORS
* WOSC: World Organization on Systemics and Cybernetics (France)
* The Center for Systems Studies (UK)
* Systems Society of Poland
* Society Applied Systems Research (Canada)
* Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society
* Simon Bolivar University (Venezuela)
* Polish System Society (Poland)
* Italian Society of Systemics
* ISSS: International Society for the Systems Sciences (USA)
* ISI: The International Systems Institute (USA)
* IFSR: International Federation of Systems Research (Austria/USA)
* Cybernetics and Human Knowing: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics and Cybersemiotics (Denmark)
* CUST, Engineer Science Institute of the Blaise Pascal University (France)
* Concurrency and Architecture Group, the Telematics Engineering Department of the University of Las Palmas of Gran Canaria (Spain).
* The Tunisian Scientific Society (Tunisia).
* American Society for Cybernetics (Canada)
* Laboratory of Research in Computacional Intelligence department of Informatica Universidad Nacional de San Luis (Argentina)
Technical Co-Sponsor
* IEEE, Computer Society (Chapter: Venezuela)
ORGANIZED BY THE IIIS: The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.
ACTIVE PARTICIPATION
Those interested in participating in:
* The organization of Invited Session(s)
* The organization of Focus Symposium
* The reviewing Process
* The conference Promotion
* Recommending Scholars/Researchers in order to have an active participation and/or submit the papers.
* Proposing Organizations/Institutes/Universities as Academic/Scientific Co-sponsors.
Please, enter to the conference web site http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/, and fill the respective form. If by any reasons you are not able to access the page mentioned above, please, try the following page: http://www.iiisci.org/sci2002/. If you have any problems linking to the conference web site, or you need to send or receive additional information, contact the General Chair Professor Nagib Callaos: ncallaos@callaos.com
ncallaos@aol.com
ncallaos@telcel.net.ve
PARTICIPANTS
Participation of both, researchers and practitioners is strongly encouraged. Papers may be submitted on: research in science and engineering, case studies drawn on professional practice and consulting, and position papers based on large and rich experience gained through executive/managerial practices and decision-making. For this reason, the Program Committee is conformed according to the criteria given above.
TYPES OF SUBMISSION ACCEPTED
1. Papers
* Research
* Review
* Position
* Report
2. Panel Presentation, Workshop and/or Round Table Proposals
3. New Topics and Invited Sessions Proposals (which should include a minimum of 5 papers)
4. Focus Symposia (which should include a minimum of 15 papers)
EXTENDED ABSTRACTS AND PAPER DRAFTS SUBMISSION FORM
Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent taking into account the following format:
1. Major theme of the paper, related to the major themes given above.
2. Paper title.
3. Extended abstract of 500 to 1500 words and/or paper drafts of 2000 to 5000 words, in English.
4. Author(s) and/or co-author(s) with names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses.
Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent to the conference web site (http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/), filling the respective form and uploading the respective paper or extended abstract. If the conference web site is not accessible for you, you can also make your submission by e-mail, attaching it to the following e-mail addresses: nacallao@telcel.net.ve and WMSCI2001@aol.com.
DEADLINES
December 19, 2001: Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500 words) or paper drafts (2000-5000 words).
December 19, 2001: Invited session proposals.
February 20, 2002: Acceptance notifications.
April 10, 2002: Submission of camera-ready papers: hard copies and electronic versions.
PAPERS REVIEWING AND PUBLICATION
Submitted papers will be reviewed. Accepted papers, which should not exceed six single- spaced typed pages, will be published by means of paper and electronic proceedings.
Best papers will be selected for awards and might be recommended for journal publications.
Multiple author books will be published by IIIS, based on the best-invited sessions, the best focus symposia or the best mini-conferences, and the topic of the papers.
INVITED SESSIONS
Based on past conferences experience, we suggest the following steps in order to organize an invited session:
1) Identify a special topic in the scope of SCI 2002, and the invited session title.
2) Fill the invited session organization form, provided in the conference web page http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/, and fill the respective form. If by any reasons you are not able to access the page mentioned above, please, try the following page: http://www.iiisci.org/sci2002/. If you don’t have access to the web, contact the General Chair, via e-mail: ncallaos@callaos.com; ncallaos@aol.com; callaos@telcel.net.ve.
3) If the identified topic is suitable, the General Chair will accept the proposal, and you will receive an acceptation by e-mail, in few days. This acceptation is not a final approval of the proposed session, but a pre-approval. The final approval will depend on identifying at least five papers for the proposed session and informing, at least, about their titles. With this acceptation: a) the proposed session will be included in the conference web page as well as its organizer and the chairs’ names, and b) its organizer will be able to announce his/her invited session in the context of SCI 2002, by any media that he/she thinks appropriated, such as: Web page, hard copy call for papers, call for papers attached to e-mails, etc.
4) Contact researchers and/or practitioners in your field to see if they can contribute a paper to your proposed session and attend at SCI 2002.
5) Collect the extended abstracts or the paper drafts from each prospective participant.
6) Write a summary (1-2 page) with the main objectives, which must be related to the invited/selected papers.
7) As soon as you have 5 papers, you will complete the form regarding the invited session papers, provided in the conference web page http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/.
8) Step 7 will take your invited session to the status of an approved one if the papers fulfil all the requirements (i.e. quality). All the approved invited sessions will be included in the SCI 2002 conference program.
9) In order to obtain a more diverse and variety opinions, do not accept more than 2 papers from the same author, unless his/her co-author will be the one who will present the additional paper.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Integrated by (197) prestigious scholars/researchers from 48 countries:
Abe, Akinori (Japan) Lau, Vincent (Hong-Kong)
Abe, Jair Minoro (Brazil) Lebby, Gary (USA)
Abi-Raad, Maurice (Australia) Lee, Hsuan-Shih (Taiwan)
Acuña Castillo, Silvia Teresita (Argentina) Lee, Jong kun (Korea-(Republic-of)
Ali, Zulfiqur (United-Kingdom) Lefevre, T (Thailand)
Allegra, Mario (Italy) Liang, Jie (USA)
AlMohammad Bader, AlBdaiwi (Kuwait) Long, Steven (USA)
Ammenwerth, Elske (Germany) Loutfi, Mohamed (United-Kingdom
Amos, David (France) Lu, Ning H. (USA)
Andrieux, Laurent (France) Luo, Zhi-wei (Japan)
Anzaloni, Alessandro (Brazil) Maciel, Paulo (Brazil)
Audestad, Jan Arild (Norway) Martin, Curtis (USA)
Aveledo, Marianella (Venezuela) Masaki, Murakami (Japan)
Badawy, Wael (Canada) Meijer, Bart R. (The Netherlands)
Baïna, Jamal (France) Motus, Leo (Estonia)
Banathy, Bela A. (USA) Mounir Alaoui, Salim (USA)
Banathy, Bela H. (USA) Najarian, Kayvan (USA)
Beheshti, Mohsen (USA) Nakashima, Hideyuki (Japan)
Bemley, Jesse L. (USA) Naranjo, Michel (France)
Bica, Marin (Romania) Naviner, Lirida (France)
Boiko, Igor (Canada) Neagoe, Victor-Emil (Romania)
Bozinovski, Stevo (Macedonia) Neelov, Igor (Finland)
Brankovic, Ljiljana (Australia) Nishio, Satoru (Japan)
Bruzzone, Agostino G. (USA) Nunes da Silva, Ivan (Brazil)
Burge, Jamika (USA) Ohsawa, Yukio (Japan)
Buzuloiu, Vasile (Romania) Ohta, Toshizumi (Japan)
Cano Escriba, Juan Carlos (Spain) Ohyama, Yasuhiro (Japan)
Carretero, Jesús (Spain) Oka, Ryuichi (Japan)
Castillo, Oscar (Mexico) Okun, Oleg (Finland)
Cernuzzi, L (Paraguay) Palade, Vasile (Romania)
Champarnaud, Jean-Marc (France) Patel, Ahmed (Ireland)
Chandra, Ramesh (India) Patterson, Jr. F. G. (USA)
Chen, Chung-Ming (Taiwan) Pelaez, Javier R. (Brazil)
Chen, Pei-Min (Taiwan) Perales, Francisco José (Spain)
Cheng-Li, Liu (Taiwan) Petrounias, Ilias (United-Kingdom)
Chiu, Yi-Jen (USA) Pham, Tuan (Canada)
Cohen, Eli (USA) Piattini, Velthuis Mario (Spain)
Curcio, Igor (Finland) Pierre, Samuel (Canada)
David, Amos (France) Postigo, José (Aegentina)
Duale, Ali (USA) Potaturkin, Oleg (Russian)
Dubois, Daniel (Belgium) Power, Gregory (USA)
Dujet, Christiane (France) Power, James (Ireland)
Duong, Tuan (USA) Prokop, Roman (Czech-Republic)
Eastabrook, Glenn (Canada) Protheroe, Dave (United-Kingdom)
Elizondo, César (Mexico) Ramesh, B. Inampudi (India)
Esquivel, Susana (Argentina) Refice, Mario (Italy)
Farooqui, Aamir (USA) Remmel, Jeff (USA)
Fernandez, Jorge (USA) Rishe, Naphtali (USA)
Ferri, Fernando (Italy) Rodríguez, Manuel (Spain)
Fong, Anthony (Hong-Kong) Sadka, Abdul H. (United-Kingdom)
Fulantelli, Giovanni (Italy) Saglietti, Francesca (Germany)
Gammoudi, Mohamed Mohsen (Tunisia) Sancho, Gómez José Luis (Spain)
Ganz, Aura (USA) SaseetharraN, M (Sasheei) (USA)
Garcia-Zambrana, Antonio (Spain) Savolainen, Vesa (Finland)
Gendron, Michael (USA) Seah, Winston (Singapore)
Goldman, C. (Israel) Shinonaga, Hideyuki (Japan)
Gou, Bei (USA) Sommerer, Christa (Japan)
Gou, Hongmei (China) Succi, Giancarlo (Canada)
Granja-Alvarez, Juan Carlos (Spain) Surdu, John (USA)
Grout, Ian (Ireland) Suzuki, Naoki (Japan)
Grzymala-Busse, Jerzy (USA) Szabo, Raisa (USA)
Gunay, Kibarer (Turkey) Takahashi, S. (Colombia)
Guo, Qinglian (Japan) Tamulis, Arvydas (Lithuania)
Guoyin, Wang (China) Teixeira, Antonio Luis Jesus (Portugal)
Gutierrez, Rafael (USA) Testorf, Markus (USA)
Guu, Sy-Ming (Taiwan) Tinetti, Fernando G. (Argentina)
H.S., Raymond NG (Hong-Kong) Torres, Michel (France)
Ha, Quang (Australia) Trofimov, Vyacheslav (Russian-Federation)
Hamid, Issam A. (Japan) Tsai, Cheng-Fa (Taiwan)
Hanratty, Timothy (USA) Tseng, Shian-Shyong (Taiwan)
Hantos, Peter (USA) Uchôa, Elvira (Brazil)
Hernandez-Encinas, Luis (Spain) Vafaie, Haleh (USA)
Hideo, Fujimoto (Japan) Van der Schaar, Mihaela (The Netherlands)
HongSheng, Li (China) Vanhala, Jukka (Finland)
Horvath, L. (Hungary) Vergez, Christophe (France)
Hu, Yunfa (China) Verna, Didier (France)
Iliopoulos, Costas (United-Kingdom) Watanabe, Tomio (Japan)
Izworski, Andrzej (Poland) Welzl, Michael (Austria)
Jacomet, M. (Switzerland) Whymark, Greg (Australia)
Jean-Philippe, Vacher (France) Wolfram, Klein (Germany)
Jha, Manoj (USA) Wong, Kin Yeung (Hong-Kong)
Jordan, Andrzej (Poland) Wu, Xuezhong (China)
Jozwiak, Lech (The Netherlands) Xenos, Michalis (Greece)
Juric, Matjaz B. (Slovenia) Xia, F. (Macau)
Kalganova, Tatiana (United-Kingdom) Xiong, Yingen (China)
Kamijo, Shunsuke (Japan) Yamaguchi, Yoko (Japan)
Karlin, Jay (USA) Yasser, E. (Egypt)
Karras, Dimitris A. (Greece) Yigang, He (China)
Kasabov, N. (New Zealand) Yu, Guoyang (China)
Kaupp, Gerd (Germany) Zboril, F. (Czech Republic)
Kawai, Shigeru (Japan) Zeeuw, G. (Holland)
Kim, Daeyoung (USA) Zhang, Qingying (China)
Klovsky, Daniel D. (Russian) Zhang, Yiying (Canada)
Koide, Seiji (Japan) Zimmermann, Kerstin (Austria)
Kolodnytsky, Mykola (Ukraine) Zong, Xuli (USA)
Kraiem, Naoufel (Tunisia) Zubairi, Junaid (USA)
Krajcar, Slavko (Croatia)
Krishnaswamy, Dilip ()
Kvasnica, Milan (Czech-Republic)
Lastra, Jose (Finland)
Details can be found in the conference web page http://www.iiis.org/sci2002/.
CONFERENCE FEES
The conference fees will be $340 before the Camera Ready deadline and $390 after the Camera Ready deadline.
This fee will include exclusively:
* A CD-ROM version of the proceedings
* One volume of the hard copy version of the Conference Proceedings. (Other volumes will be available with a 40% of discount for participants)
* Coffee breaks
* Welcome Reception
Each registration fee might include a maximum of one paper, which presentation will be included in the conference program and published in the conference proceedings.
Any other expenses must be afforded/provided by the participants. The registration fee does not include any post-conference services. There will be additional shipping and handling costs for those registered authors who, for unforeseen reasons, could not go to the conference. Any post-conference administrative requirements will be charged $20 per staff hour required to elaborate such a requirement, with a minimum of $10. Post-conference requirements will have their own deadline, which in no case will be more than three months, after the last day of the conference.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
Information Systems Development
A1 Development Methods and Methodologies
A2 Systemics and Systematic Methodologies and Meta-methodologies
A3 Evolutionary Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis and Prototyping
A4 Special Methodologies for Specific Kinds of Applications (DSS, EIS, etc.)
A5 User Interface Design
A6 Usability
A7 Requirements Engineering and specifications gathering
A8 Object Orientation
A9 Software Engineering
A10 Testing and Quality Assurance, Total Quality in Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis
A11 CASE Technologies
Information Systems Management
B1 Software Development Project Management
B2 Evaluation of Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis Projects and Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis Methodologies
B3 Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis Productivity: Effectiveness and/or Efficiency
B4 Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis Total (or Systemic) Quality
B5 Information Systems for Strategic Planning
B6 Reverse Engineering
B7 Educational and Training in Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis, and for End User Computing
B8 Software Development Prioritization and Planning
B9 Management of Programming
B10 Simulation
Management Information Systems
C1 The Digital MBA (MBA-ware)
C2 Software Tools for Managing People and Projects
C3 Computer Aided Thinking for Business
C4 Supporting Strategic and Financial Planning
C5 Business Process Modeling: Re-engineering, Dynamic Modeling, Workflow, etc.
C6 Sales and Financial Forecasting
C7 Business Decision Support
C8 Individual and/or Group Decision Support Systems
C9 Informational Support and Human Resources Development
C10 Business Globalization and Information Systems
C11 Information Technologies Applied to New Organizational Methods (Flexible organization, Virtual Corporation, Lean Production, JIT, EDI, Organizational De-verticalization, etc.).
C12 Financial Systems
C13 Concurrent Engineering
C14 Socioeconomic Systems
C15 Simulation
Virtual Engineering
D1 Virtual Reality
D2 Virtual Organization Design and Development
D3 Agent Technologies
D4 Managerial Gaming Support Systems
D5 Organizational Learning Support Systems
D6 Simulation
Mobile / Wireless Computing
E1 Wireless Data Networks
E2 Wireless / Mobile Computing
E3 Applications and Economics
E4 Mobile Computing Information High Ways
E5 Business Opportunities and Strategies
E6 Wireless / Mobile Software Applications
E7 Wireless / Mobile Software Engineering
E8 Wireless Networking
E9 Wireless / Mobile TCP/IP
E10 Mobility Management
Communication Systems and Networks
F1 Transmission Systems
F2 Voice Communication Systems
F3 Video Communication Systems
F4 Messaging Systems
F5 Broadband Networks:
Frame Relay, SMDS, ATM, B-ISDN, AINS, etc.
F6 Network Architectures, Topologies and Protocols
F7 Intra-, Extra- and Internet
Emergent Computing
G1 Evolutionary Programs
G2 Neural Networks
G3 Cooperative Multi-agent Systems
G4 Collective Algorithms and new Heuristic for Problem Solving
G5 Collective Intelligence
G6 Applications
Image, Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing
H1 Image and Multidimensional Signal processing
H2 Speech Processing
H3 Statistical Signal and Array Processing
H4 Multimedia Audio Processing
H5 Communication Signal Processing
H6 Very large Integration For Signal Processing
H7 Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing
H8 Digital Signal Processing
Computing Techniques
I1 Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems
I2 Hypermedia
I3 Computer Supported Cooperative work
I4 Robotics and Control Systems
I5 Geographical Information Systems
I6 Petri Nets
I7 Architectures, Tools and Distributed Systems
I8 Sets and Data Mining
I9 Databases
I10 Document and Natural Language Processing
I11 Modeling, Graphs and Algorithms
I12 Programming-Techniques
I13 Mathematical Methods and Optimization in Problem Solving Systems
I14 Parallel and Distributed Systems
I15 Simulation
Human Information Systems
J1 Neuro-linguistics and its application to requirements engineering, Join Requirement Planning (JRP), Joint Application Design (JAD).
J2 Communication and Cognition
J3 Cognitive System Engineering
J4 Cognitive Systems Engineering
J5 End-User Training and End-User Computing
J6 Human Resources Management Support Systems
J7 Training Support Expert Systems
J8 Training and Development Systems
J9 Managerial Development
J10 Group Decision Support Systems Applied: Participative and/or Anticipative Democracy.
J11 Praxiology
J12 Computer-Based Action and Knowledge
J13 Action Research in Information Systems
J14 Virtual Communities and Societies
J15 Socio-Economics Systems: supporting participation
J16 Supporting Collective Action
J17 Knowledge Acquisition and Organization
Education and Information Systems
K1 Information Systems Education
K2 Educational Support Systems, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Training, etc.
K3 Edutainment Hypermedia Systems
K4 Organizational Learning Support Systems: Organizational Dynamics Simulation, Managerial Gaming, etc.
K5 Decision Support Systems for Curricula Design
K6 Management Support Systems for Educational Organizations
K7 Information Systems for Higher Education
K8 Virtual Universities
K9 Higher Education Evaluation: Support Systems, Models, Case Studies, etc.
K10 Educational and Training Design: Support Systems, Models, Case Studies, etc.
Control Systems (L)
Economic and Financial Systems (M)
Globalization, Development and Emerging Economics (N)
Others (O)
SCI in Biology and Medicine (P)
SCI in Psychology, Cognition and Spirituality (Q)
Natural Resources (R)
Human Resources (S)
Conceptual Infrastructure of SCI (T)
SCI in Art (U)
Network Control
V1 QoS mechanism for IP networks
V2 Flow control and congestion control
V3 Scheduling and congestion control
V4 Multicast
Network Applications
W1 Architecture of the next generation network
W2 Next generation network service creation
W3 Softswitch and application servers
Network Management
X1 Network management theory
X2 Network management technologies and systems
X3 Test and evaluation of network management systems
