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• The 4th International Conference on PISTA "06

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WAYS OF PARTICIPATION

To participate in PISTA 2006 fill, please, the respective form at the conference web site (http://www.conf-info.org/pista06 ).

Participation in the conference could be done by means of one or several of the following activities:

· The submission of a paper.

• 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.

Kinds of 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. Hence, the Program Committee has been conformed according to the criteria given above.

Types of Submissions Accepted

1. Papers

· Research papers.

1. in science
2. in engineering, including systems analysis, design, implementation, synthesis, deployment, maintenance, etc.

· Review papers.

· Case studies.

· Position papers.

· Reports: technical reports, engineering reports, reports on a methodological application, etc.

2. Invited –Sessions

Data regarding invited session to be organized by the submitter (title of the invited session, name of the organizer, affiliation, titles of the papers accepted for the invited session, authors’ names, etc.). More details could be found below or at the conference web site.

3. Panel Presentation, Workshop and/or Round Table Proposals.
4. Focus Symposia (which should include a minimum of 15 papers)

DEADLINES

March 28^th, 2006: Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500 words) or paper drafts (2000-5000 words).

March 28^th, 2006: Invited Sessions proposals. Acceptation of invited session proposals will be done in about one week of its registration via the respective conference web form, and the final approval will be done after the registration of at least five papers in the respective session.

April 19^th, 2006: Acceptance notifications.

May 10^th, 2006: Submission of camera-ready papers: hard copies and electronic versions.

ACCEPTATION POLICY FOR PAPERS PRESENTATION

Submitted papers will be sent to reviewers. The best 10% of the papers will also be published in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (JSCI). Acceptance decisions regarding papers presentation at the conference, and their respective inclusion in the conference’s proceedings, will be based on their content review and/or on the respective author’s CV. Invited papers will not be reviewed and their acceptance decision will be based on the topic and the respective author’s CV. Some of these invited papers, if chosen by the session chair as the best paper of the session, might also be published by JSCI Journal, because the 30% of sessions best papers will also be published in the journal. All accepted papers, which should not exceed six single-spaced typed pages, will be published by means of paper and electronic proceedings.

Two kinds of reviewing processes:

Acceptance decisions related to the submitted papers will be based on both: closed, double-blinded review and open, non-blinded review. Consequently:

1. papers submitted to PISTA 2006 Organizing Committee will be sent to three members of the conference Program Committee and/or to additional reviewers for its respective double-blinded reviews; and

2. they also will be submitted to reviewers nominated by their respective authors for its non-blinded review. The author(s) of each submitted paper should nominate at least one reviewer, and can nominate a maximum of three reviewers for the non-blind review of their respective submitted paper.

Acceptance of a submitted paper will be based on both kinds of reviewing. The selection of the best 10%-20% papers, for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (JSCI), will also be done based on both kinds of reviewing.

Several studies have shown the strength and the weaknesses of these two methods of reviewing. Many editors and authors also addressed this issue, some of whom have concluded that the reviewing should be double blinded and some others reached the opposite conclusion. David Kaplan, a highly cited author for example, stated that to overcome the weaknesses of peer-reviewing and to fix it “Review of a manuscript would be solicited from colleagues by the authors. The first task of these reviewers would be to identify revisions that could be made to improve the manuscript. Second, the reviewers would be responsible for writing an evaluation of the revised work.” (Kaplan D., 1995, “How to Fix Peer Review”, The Scientist, Volume 19, Issue 1, Page 10, Jun. 6. Also in http://www.scienceboard.org/community/perspectives.142.html).

Since both of these reviewing methods are opposites without contradiction between them, both methods can be used in a way as to complement one another, getting their advantages and reducing their respective disadvantages. This is the aim of PISTA 2006’s Organizing Committee while choosing to combine both of them in the reviewing process of the papers that are submitted to the conference.

Reviewing papers submitted to invited session organizers

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