IMSCI 2010 - The 4th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2010

The 4th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2010

June 29th - July 2nd, 2010 ? Orlando, Florida, USA

http://www.iiis2010.org/IMSCI/

Honorary President: William Lesso
Program Committee Chairs: Friedrich Welsch and Freddy Malpica

General Chairs: Nagib Callaos and Andrés Tremante

Conference’s Major Themes

Main Themes

? Impact of Informatics and Cybernetics on Societies and Cultures
? Socio-political regulations of Informatics and Cyber-Technologies
? Information society Technologies
? Knowledge-based Society
? Interdependencies between Society and Information and Communication Technologies
? Social and Societal Roles of Information and communications Technologies
? Globalization and Informatics/Cybernetics
? Information Society Policy-Making
? Ethics and Informatics/Cybernetics
? e-Inclusion, Digital Inclusion or inclusive Information Society. Global e-Inclusion
? Digital Divide
? e-Accessibility ? Opening up the Information Society
? eHealth
? eSkills. Computer-literacy
? eLearning
? eCommunities
? eBusiness
? eGovernment
? eCommerce

Additional Themes, Areas and Topics are included in the collocated conferences and symposia, these ares the following:

? Education and Training Systems and Technologies (EISTA 2010)
? Application of Education Technologies (EISTA 2010)
? Applications of Information and Communication Technologies in Education and Training (EISTA 2010)
? Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (EISTA 2010)
? Educational Research, Theories, Practice and Methodologies (EISTA 2010)
? Informatics and Society. (PISTA 2010)
? Informatics, Voting and Political Parties. (PISTA 2010)
? Informatics and Government. (PISTA 2010)
? Ethical and Legal Issues related to Informatics. (PISTA 2010)
? Relations between Society/Organizations and Informatics. (SOIC 2010)
? Relations between Society/Organizations and Cybernetics/Cyber-Technologies. (SOIC 2010)

Program Committee
The Program Committee has about 18 members, who are complemented by about 490 reviewers. The names, affiliations and countries of the PC’s members as well as the additional reviewers could be found at the Conference’s web site, or more specifically at www.iiis2010.org/imsci/PCommitte.asp
The Program Committee is mostly formed by 1) the authors of the sessions' best papers of IMSCI 2009; 2) its effective invited session organizers who also were co-editors of the conference proceedings; and 3) some members of past IMSCI Conferences, who were also authors of best papers. (Those who manifested no interest in participating in the Program Committee have been removed).

Virtual Participation
Given the Global Recession, and thinking of those scholars, researchers and professionals related with the conference topics but unable to attend it personally (usually due to insufficient funding for the traveling costs) a Virtual Participation mode has been established, with the same peer reviewing and validity than face-to-face ones.
Submissions made for Virtual Participation would go through the same reviewing processes of the regular papers (double-blind, non-blind, and participative peer reviewing) and, if accepted (according to the same acceptance policy), they will be included in the proceedings and will be eligible for journal publication, with no additional cost, if they are, according to their reviewers, among the best 10%-20% of those physically and virtually presented at the conference.

Each regular session, included in the conference program, will be associated to a corresponding virtual session where all final versions of the articles to be presented will be displayed and authors can comment them via electronic forums. Registered authors of virtual participations will have access to all conference program sessions (and papers). Their article will be displayed as the regular ones. Virtual authors also have the option of sending, besides the final version of their article in a PDF document, an electronic presentation (PowerPoint, flash, etc. and/or a 15-20 minutes video)

After paying the respective shipping and handling costs, registered authors of virtual participation, who have paid their registration fee, can get delivered the same conference material that the regular attendees receive at the registration desk.

Ways of Participation and Support

Participation in the conference could be done by means of one or several of the following activities:
? The submission of a paper/abstract.
? The organization of Invited Session(s)
? Tutorial proposals
? 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.
? Panel Presentation.
? 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.

Deadlines
October 7th, 2009: Submission of draft papers (2000-5000), extended abstracts (400-2000) and abstracts for inter-disciplinary communication (200-600 words)
October 7th, 2009: Invited Sessions proposals. Acceptance of invited session proposals will be done in about one week of its proposal via the respective conference web form, and final approval will be done after the inclusion of at least five papers in the respective session
November 23th, 2009: Notifications of acceptance.
February 3rd, 2010: Submission of camera-ready or final versions of the accepted papers.
June 29th, 2010: Conference Starts
July 2nd, 2010: Conference Ends

Some invited sessions might have a different timetable according to its organizer and chair, but in any case the camera ready deadline should be met.

Types of Submissions Accepted
1. Papers/Abstracts
? Research papers
a. in science
b. 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 and/or Round Table Proposals. Panel or round table proposals can be made using the web page related to invited sessions proposals.
4. Focus Symposia (which should include a minimum of 15 papers). Focus symposia proposals can be made using the web page related to invited sessions proposals.
Tutorial or workshop presentation, which can be proposed sending an email to imsci-AT-mail.iiis2010.org