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