CALL FOR PAPERS
 
ISAS '98
 
4TH  INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS
IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WORLD MULTICONFERENCE ON=20
SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS: SCI'98
 
Orlando-Florida
July 12-16
http://www.iiis.org
 
Buena Vista
PALACE
Resort & Spa
at Walt Disney World Village
 
 
 
Honorary Presidents:  Bela H. Banathy,  Staford Beer and George Klir
Program Chair:  William Lesso
Conference Chair:  Nagib Callaos
 
 
ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC SPONSORS
 
=B7 World Organization of Systemics and Cybernetics (WOSC) (France)
=B7 IFSR: International Federation for Systems Research (Austria/USA)=09
=B7 International Systems Institute (USA)
=B7 ISSS: International Society for the Systems Sciences (USA)
=B7 ISI: The International Systems Institute (USA)
=B7 CUST, Engineer Science Institute of the Blaise Pascal University=
 (France)
=B7 The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and
Cybernetics (Canada)
=B7 Society Applied Systems Research (Canada)
=B7 Cybernetics and Human Knowing: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics and
Cybersemiotics (Denmark)
=B7 International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (USA)
=B7 Simon Bolivar University (Venezuela)
=B7 Polish System Society (Poland)
=B7 Italian Society of Systemics
=B7 Systems Society of Poland
=B7 Andean Society of Systemics
=B7 The Electronic and Computer Music Studios of The University of
Massachusetts (USA)
=B7 Institute of Neurosurgery (Ukrania)
=B7 Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society=20
=B7 Institute of Automation of the University of Maribor (Slovenia)
=B7 The Centre for Systems Studies (UK)
=B7 IEEE/Latinoamerica
=B7 Brain Science Research Center at Korea Advanced Institute of  Science=
 and
Technology (KAIST)
 
 
 
ORGANIZED BY THE IIIS
 
The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.
 
 
 
 
INCLUSION OF ISAS =9198 PROCEEDINGS IN A CD-ROM EXTENDED ENCYCLOPEDIA
 
An electronic version of the ISAS =9198 proceedings will also be available=
 on
CD-ROM, with search and hypertext features. Other media, such as sound,
animation and video, are also being considered.
 
These proceedings will also be included in the CD-ROM Extended Encyclopedia
of Systemics and Cybernetics =99, whose development in presently in=
 progress.
 
 
PARTICIPATIVE DESIGN FOR EARLY AUTHORS
 
Authors of early submitted and accepted papers will have the opportunity to
make suggestions about new requirements that are not being fulfilled by ISAS
98 software, which was a first prototype. In this way they could engaged in
the evolutive participative design that is being followed for both the
Electronic Proceedings and  the CD-ROM   Extended Encyclopedia.
 
 
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 SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED  =20
 
=B7 Research, Review or Position Papers
=B7 Panel Presentation, Workshop and/or Round Table Proposals
=B7 New Topics Proposal (which should include a minimum of 5 papers)
=B7 Focus Symposia (which should include a  minimum of 15 papers)
=B7 Tutorial Proposal (which should include an outline of it and a brief
biography, and clearly indicate whether the tutorial is half-day or full-day
duration and whether it is technically or managerially oriented).
=20
 
SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR EARLY SUBMISSIONS
 
Submissions will be reviewed by three Program Committee Members as soon as
they are received. Consequently, early submissions that were not accepted by
at least two referees, will have the opportunity to re-submit their papers
according the suggestions done by their reviewers. The hope of the=
 Organizing
Committee is to provide a supporting process for improving the quality of
papers that otherwise would have been rejected. Just early submissions could
have this kind of support.
 
 
SUBMISSIONS AND DEADLINES
 
Extended/abstracts or draft papers could be sent via E-mail and/or postal
mail (and/or fax) according  the following addresses:
 
Postal Addresses:
 
IIIS
6220 S. Orange Blossom Trail, Suite 173
Orlando, FL 32809,  USA=20
 
or
 
Simon Bolivar University
Dpto.  Procesos y Sistemas=20
AP 89000
Caracas, Venezuela
 
E-mail Addresses:
 
WMSCI98@aol.com =20
Ncallaos@aol.com
 
Fax Numbers:
 
1-407-8566274 (Orlando, USA)
58-2-9638852 (Caracas, Venezuela)
 
 
March, 23, 1998 Submission of extend abstract or paper draft (500-1500=
 words).
April, 27,1998          Acceptance notifications.
May  25, 1998           Submission of papers camera/ready, hard copies and elect
ronic
versions.
 
 
PUBLICATIONS
 
Participants who wish to present a paper are requested to submit three
copies of a condensed first draft by March 23, 1998. Submitted papers will
be referred. ISAS =B498 papers will  be published by means of paper and
electronic proceedings. Selected papers will be published  by the
International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, and included in the
CD-ROM Extended Encyclopedia of Systemics, Informatics and Cybernetics=E4,
whose development is presently in progress. Notification of acceptance will
be sent to authors by April, 27, 1998. The full paper, which cannot exceed
eight single-spaced typed pages, should be sent by means of diskette and
photoready hard copies of artwork, not later than May 25, 1998.=20
 
 
WEB SITE
 
http://www.iiis.org
 
 
PURPOSE
 
The purpose of the Conference is to bring together  university professors,
Corporate Leaders, Academic and Professional Leaders, consultants,
scientists and engineers, theoreticians and practitioners, all over the
world to discuss themes of the conference and to participate with original
ideas or innovations, knowledge or experience, theories or methodologies, in
the areas of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI). Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI) are being increasingly related to each
other and to almost every scientific discipline and human activity.
Their common transdisciplinarity characterizes and communicates them,
generating strong relations among them and with other disciplines. They
interpenetrate each other integrating a whole that is permeating human
thinking and practice. This phenomenon induced the Organization Committee to
structure SCI =9198 as a multiconference where participants may focus on an
area, or on a discipline, while maintaining open the possibility of
attending conferences from other areas or disciplines. This systemic
approach stimulates cross-fertilization among different disciplines,
inspiring scholars, generating analogies and provoking innovations; which,
after all, is one of the very basic principles of the systems movement and a
fundamental aim in cybernetics.
 
 
BACKGROUND
 
The success achieved in ISAS =9195 (Information Systems Analysis and
Synthesis) held in Baden-Baden (Germany), symbolized by the award granted by
the International Institute for Advanced Studios in Systems Research and
Cybernetics (Canada), as the best and largest symposium at the 5th
International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics,
encouraged its sponsors and session chairs to organize ISAS =9196 at Orlando
and prepare a more general Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and
Informatics (SCI =9197) at Caracas (Venezuela). The widely acknowledged
success of ISAS =9196 (held on July 22-26 at Orlando) by means of=
 spontaneous
verbal feedback and a written comprehensive evaluation from 143 authors, of
high quality papers, from 32 countries, galvanized the Program and
Organizing Committees to make a definitive commitment to organize SCI =9198
and ISAS =9198 at Orlando, in July 12-16, 1998. Many Program and Organizing
Committee members from past international and world conferences are joining
us for SCI '98 and ISAS =9198, including most of those who organized the=
 World
Conference on Systems sponsored by UNESCO and the United Nations' World
Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO). We are still looking for
more organizational support from experienced scholars, consultants,
practitioners, professionals and researchers, as well as from international
or national organizations, public or private, academic or professional.
 
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTE
 
=B7 Albanese, Andres (International Computer Science  Institute, USA)
=B7 Canamero, Dolores (Free University of Brussels)
=B7 Cohen, Eli (Baruch College, USA)
=B7 Danchev, Alexi (Centre of Environmental Economics and Policy, Bulgaria)
=B7 Dubois, Daniel (Universite De Liege, Belgium)
=B7 Fernandez, Jorge (Ameritech Library Services,  Academic  Division, USA)
=B7 Horiuchi, Yoshihide (University of Shizuoka, Japan)
=B7 Lasker, George (University of Windsor, Canada)
=B7 Lefevre, Thierry (The Asian Institute of  Technology, Thailand)
=B7 Lesso, William (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
=B7 Lubbe, Sam (Vista University, South Africa)
=B7 Mernick, Marjan (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
=B7 Naranjo, Michel (Universite Blaise Pascal, France)
=B7 Xu, Li (USA)
 
 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 
Integrated by 210 prestigious scholars/researchers from 54 countries=
 (details
at the web page http://www.iiis.org or by e-mail request).
 
Albanese, A. (USA) ~ Albarran, M. (USA) ~ Alouani, A. (USA) ~  Andonian, G.
(Canada) ~
Ang, M. (Singapore)  ~ Atkinson-Abutridy, J. A. (Chile) ~ Aydin, E.D.=
 (Turkey).
 
Baharin, I. (Malaysia) ~ Bahill, T. (USA) ~ Banathy, B. (USA) ~ Baran, B.
(Paraguay) ~  (France) ~ Bellin, D. (USA) ~ Bownan, H. (Great Britain) ~
Brelaz de Castro, J. (Brazil) ~ Brezillon, P. (France) Bulz, N. (Romania)
 
Callaos, N. (Venezuela) ~ Carvalho, J. (Portugal) ~ Cernuzzi, L. (Paraguay)
~ Chaudhry, F. (Bahrain) Chen, C. (USA) ~ Chen, N. (Canada) ~ Csirik, J.
(Hungary)
 
Degani, A. (USA) ~ DeMichiell, R. (USA) ~ Denis, B. (France) ~ Dubois, D.
(Belgium) ~ Dumdum, U. R. (USA)
 
Elsimary, H. (Egypt) ~  Erosa M., V. (Mexico)=20
 
Farre, G. (USA) ~ Fernandez, J. (USA) ~ Fernandez B., M. C. (Spain)=20
 
Galal, A. (Egypt) ~ Ghorab, K. (U. Arab E.) ~ Glanville, R. (England) ~
Guan, L. (Australia) ~ Gundy, S. (Hungary) ~ Guvenir, H. (Turkey) .
 
Hamalainen, R. (Finland) ~ Herrscher, E. (Argentina) ~ Horiuchi, Y. (Japan)
~ Hwang, Y. (China)
 
Kanchanasut, K. (Thailand) ~ Khoong, C. M. (Singapore) ~ Kohout, L. J. (USA)
~ Koizumi, T. (Japan) ~  Krasner, H. (USA) ~ Kribbe, W. (Holland) ~  Kuc,
T.Y. (Korea)=20
 
Lara, F. (Mexico) ~ Lara, N. (Mexico) ~ Lasker, G. (Canada) ~Laufer, K.
(USA) ~ Lee, I. (Korea)
Lefevre, T. (Thailand) ~ Lesage, J. J. (France) ~ Lesso, W. (USA) ~Leung, H.
F. (Hong Kong) ~ Levy, N. (France) ~ Liu, H. (Singapore) ~ Liu, J. (Hong
Kong) ~  Losavio, F. (Venezuela) ~ Low, B. T. (Hong Kong).
 
Maciaszek, L. (Australia) ~ Malatesta, M. (Italy) ~ Mbaeyi, P.
(Nigeria/Germany) ~ Mejia, M. (Mexico) ~ Mikolajczak, B. (USA) ~ Minai, A.
(USA) ~ Minati, G. (Italy) ~  Montilva, J. (Venezuela) Mori, H. (Japan) ~
Murgu, A. (Finland) ~
 
Naranjo, M. (France)
 
Oksala, T. (Finland)
 
Patel, A. (Ireland) ~ Perez-Llera, C. (Spain)  ~ Ponomarev, D. (Russia) ~
Prabhakaran, B. (USA)=20
 
Rajan, E. G. (India) ~ Randrup, A. (Denmark) ~ Roberts, S. (United Kingdom)
~  Rubin, S. (USA) ~ Rudas, I. (Hungary)=20
 
Saksonov, E. (Russia) ~ Santo, H. (Portugal) ~ Sarshar, M. (England) ~
Simunek, V. (USA) ~ Sinha, M. K. (India) ~ Smith, H.R. (USA) ~ Starkermann,
R. (Switzerland) ~  Stempkovsky, A. (Russia) ~ Sukkar, M. F. (Syria) ~=20
 
Tahboub, K. (Palestine) ~ Takahashi, S. (Colombia) ~ Tastle, W. (USA) ~
Tezak, O. (Slovenia) ~ Titli, A. (France) ~ Torres, M. (Venezuela)
 
Vallee, R. (France) ~ Vargas, T. (Colombia) ~ Vidart, J. (Uruguay)
 
Welzer, T. (Slovenia) ~ Westphal, H. (Germany) ~ Wildberger, M. (USA) ~
Wong, K. (Hong Kong)=20
Wrycza, S. (Poland)=20
 
Xexeo, G. (Brazil) ~ Xu, L. (USA)
 
Zaliwski, A. (Poland) ~ Zand, M. (USA) ~ Zeeuw, G. de (Holand) ~ Zoltan, C.
(Venezuela)
 
EARLY PARTICIPATION
 
Proactive participation is strongly encouraged. Those interested in
participating in the Program Committee, the Organizing Committee, the
Organizing of a Focus Symposium, or in organizing/chairing sessions on new,
or existing topics, please contact:
 
Prof. Nagib Callaos (Chair)
=09
IIIS
6220 S. Orange Blossom Trail, Suite 173
Orlando, FL 32809,  USA=20
Fax:     +1 (407) 856-6274
E-mail: WMSCI98@aol.com
 
 
Simon Bolivar University
Dpto. Procesos y Sistemas
A.P. 89000, Caracas, Venezuela
Tel/Fax (office): +58 (2) 9621519
Tel/Fax (office): +58 (2) 222832
Fax (home): +58 (2) 9638852
e-mail: ncallaos@usb.ve
 
Conference secretariat: nacallao@telcel.net.ve
 
 
 
 
INVITED SESSIONS
 
To organize an invited session for  ISAS '98, the following steps are=
 suggested:
 
1) Identify a special topic is in the scope of  ISAS '98.  You may contact
the chair or other program committee members on the suitability of the
topic, if it is not included in the Conference Program.
2) Contact researchers or practitioners in your field to see if they can
contribute a paper to your proposed session and attend ISAS =9198
3) Collect the abstracs (2-3 pages) from each perspective invitee.
4) Write a summary (1-2 page) on the session's significance and coherence of
the invited/selected papers.
5) Mail the invited session proposal including a summary and copy of all
abstracts before March 16, 1998, to Nagib Callaos.
 
 
CONFERENCE FEES
 
The conference fees will be $300 before April 20, 1998 and $350 after April
20, 1998.
 
JOURNALS PUBLICATIONS FOR BEST PAPERS
 
Best papers will be published by:
 
=B7 =93Cybernetics and Human Knowing: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics=
 and
Cybersemiotics=94. Members of the Program Committee who are referees of the
Journal will take the decision on the issue.
=B7 =93Journal of Law and Information Systems=94
=B7 =93Systems Journal=94
=B7 =93Educational Technology=94
=B7 =93Technological Forecasting & Social Change=94
 
Other Journals are being considered for other areas of  ISAS =9198.
 
More details could be found at the Conference web page (http://www.iiis.org)
or a detailed Call for Papers could be requested by e-mail
(nacallao@pop.telcel.net.ve). Answers to specific questions could be=
 requested
also by e-mail.
 
ISAS =9197 PROCEEDINGS
 
ISAS =9197 proceedings are available in 3 volumes of hard copy and/or CD-ROM
version with search and hypertext features. For more information contact:
 
Ms. Jenia Bezada
nacallao@.telcel.net.ve
 
 
TOPICS
 
Not exclusionary suggested topics for each one of the Constitutive
Conferences are the following:
 
 
INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ISAS =9198)
 
Technical Areas
=B7 Systemic/Systematic Methodologies  and Meta-methodologies for  ISAS
=B7 Systemic-Computational Linguistic
=B7 Software for Systemic-Functional Linguistic
=B7 CASE technology
=B7 Image Processing
=B7 User Interface Design
=B7 Usability
=B7 Testing and Quality Assurance
=B7 Evolutionary ISAS and Prototyping
=B7 Requirements Engineering. Specification Gathering
=B7 Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems
=B7 Object Orientation in ISAS
=B7 Software Engineering
=B7 Special Methodologies for specific kind of applications (DSS, EIS,
Distributed Systems, Artificial Intelligence, etc.)
=B7 Hypermedia
=B7 GIS: Geographical Information Systems
=B7 Databases
=B7 Data Mining and Warehouses
=B7 Computer Supported Co-operative work
=B7 Case studies and empirical findings
=B7 Robotics
=B7 Intelligent Control Systems
=B7 Evolutionary Programs
=B7 Genetic Programming
=B7 Logic Programming
=B7 Neural Networks
=B7 Cooperative Multiagents Systems
=B7 Collective Algorithms and new Heuristics for Problem Solving
=B7 Collective Intelligence
=B7 Computer/Internet Security
=B7 Visual Information Systems
=B7 Internet Architecture
=B7 Internet Programming=09
=B7 Internet Security, real-time issues and fault tolerance
=B7 Enabling Technology for Internet Applications
=B7 Parallel Architectures for leveraging Internet
=B7 Abstract Data Structures for Distributed Computing and Semantic=
 Interchange
 
 
Managerial Area
 
     ISAS Management
 
=B7 Software Development Projects management
=B7 Evaluation of IS, ISAS Projects and ISAS Methodologies
=B7 ISAS Productivity: effectiveness and/or  efficiency
=B7 ISAS total (or systemic) quality
=B7 Information Strategic Planning
=B7 Reverse Engineering
=B7 Education and Training in ISAS, and for end-user computing
=B7 Software Development Prioritization and Planning
=B7 Management of Programming
 
 
     Managerial Informatics
 
=B7 The Digital MBA (MBA-ware)
=B7 Software Tools for Managing People and  Projects
=B7 Computer Aided Thinking for Business
=B7 Supporting Strategic and Financial  Planning
=B7 Supporting Market-Driven Change
=B7 Business Process Modelling:  Re-engineering, Dynamic Process Modelling,
Workflow   Automation,  etc.
=B7 Sales and Financial Forecasting
=B7 Business Decision Support
=B7 Individual and/or Group Decision Support Systems
=B7 Informational Support for Human Resources Development
=B7 Business Globalization and Information  Systems
=B7 Information Technologies applied to New Organizational Methods =
 (Flexible
Organization, Virtual Corporation, Lean Production,  JIT, EDI,
Deverticalization of Organizational Structures,  etc.)
=B7 Multimedia and Global Information Sharing
=B7 Internet (electronic) Trading
=B7 Ethics and other issues with Internet Trading
 
 
Human Information Systems
 
=B7 Neurolinguistics and its application to  requirements  Engineering,=
 Joint
Requirement Planning (JRP), Joint Application Design  (JAD)
=B7 Communication and Cognition
=B7 Information and Meaning
=B7 Systemic Linguistic (Natural Language)
=B7 Cognitive Systems Engineering
=B7 End-User Training for End-User Computing
=B7 Educational and Training Design
=B7 Education Systems
=B7 Human Resources Management Support Systems
=B7 Training Support Expert Systems
=B7 Training and Development Systems
=B7 Virtual Universities
=B7 Managerial Development
=B7 Group Decision Support Systems Applied: Participative and/or=
 Anticipative
Democracy
=B7 Praxiology:
 -Computer-Based Action and Knowledge Bases for Action-Research
 -Virtual Communities and Societies
 -Socio-economics systems: supporting participation=20
 -Supporting Collective Action
=B7  Information/evaluation Systems in Higher Education
=20