IDREC 2014 - The 3rd International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Communication

Since Informatics and Cybernetics (communication and control) provide the most comprehensive and wide specter of multi-disciplinary techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, methodologies and/or theories for Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and/or Communication. Consequently, a conference related to Informatics, Cybernetics (Communication and Control), Complexity, and/or Systemics provide a very adequate context for the organization of a Symposium on Inter-Disciplinary Research, Education, and Communication. For this reason the Organizing Committee purpose is to provide multi-disciplinary forum and a fertile ground for the researchers, academics, and practitioners in Inter-disciplinary Research, Education, and communication.
The purpose of the International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Communication: IDREC 2014 is to bring together academic disciplinarians and inter-disciplinarians as well as professionals, consultants, and practitioners to share their knowledge and experiences with regards to 1) Inter-disciplinary research, Education, and Communications, 2) the actual or potential integrative relationships among them, 3) their actual or potential conceptual and/or instrumental support, through Complexity Studies and ICT respectively, and 4) their mutual reinforcing with analogical learning and creative thinking.
Submissions will be accepted regarding thinking about and/or doing Inter-disciplinary Research, Education, and/or Communications, as well as regarding their relationships with analogical learning, creativity, Complexity Studies, Systemics, and the ways in which ICT might or actually does support them. In this context, case studies as well as general theories, methodologies, reflection (especially practice based reflections) might the content of submission to be made to IDREC 2014. Disciplinary research will also be accepted as long as at least a 25% of its content is written for Interdisciplinary Communication.
IDREC 2014痴 meaning of Inter-Disciplinary Research includes the definition that The national Science Foundation adopted:
的nterdisciplinary research is a mode of research by teams or individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, and/or theories from two or more disciplines or bodies of specialized knowledge to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline or area of research practice. (National Academy of Science, The National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, of The National Academies, 2004, Facilitating interdisciplinary research. Washington: National Academy Press, p. 2).
The main areas/Topics of IDREC 2014 are the following:
Inter-disciplinary Research
Inter-disciplinary Education
Inter-Disciplinary Communication (which includes the communication of disciplinary research to other disciplines)
Relationships between Inter-disciplinary Research and Inter-disciplinary Education
Relationships between Inter-disciplinary Research and Inter-disciplinary Communication
Integration of Inter-disciplinary Research, Education, and Communication (IDREC)
Relationships between Complexity or Systemics and IDREC
ICT support of IDREC
Relationships between IDREC and Analogical thinking and/or Creative Thinking