Call for Participation for Special Session(s) on
Integrating Academic Activities: Research, Education and Real Life Problem Solving
July 5-8, 2016, in Orlando, Florida, USA
Co-organizers and co-chairs
Dr. Nagib Callaos, University Simon Bolivar and the International Institute of Infomatics and Systemics, USA.
Dr. Mauris Desilva, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, and founder of 3D Printing and Advanced Robotic Solutions, USA.
Dr. Jeremy Horne, President-emeritus, Southwest Area Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA.
Professor T. Grandon Gill, University of South Florida, USA (Academic Director of the Business Administration Doctorate)
Dr. Suzanne Lunsford, Wright State University, USA.
Profesor José I. Peláez, Universidad de Málaga, Spain.
The organization of this special event will include at least one conversational session, a plenary keynote address, and paper presentation sessions(s), where accepted articles related to this CFP will be presented.
Submissions on articles can be made on any of the topics of the following special tracks and/or the topics listed below:
- Integrating Academic Activities: Research, Education and Real Life Problem Solving (IREPS 2016)
- Research and Consulting, Research via consulting and consulting via research (R&C 2016)
Publications
All accepted and presented articles will be included in IMSCI 2016 proceedings. IMSCI proceedings have been indexed by Elsevier-Scopus since 2005. A special issue of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI) will be published on Integrating Academic Activities: Research, Education and Real Life Problem Solving and/or on Research and Consulting, if an adequate number of articles are submitted, accepted and, consequently, presented at the conference. Otherwise, best papers will be published in regular issues. JSCI is indexed by EBSCO, Cabell, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Academic Journals Database, and Google Scholar and listed in Cabell Directory of Publishing Opportunities and in Ulrich’s Periodical Directory.
Who is encouraged to Participate in this Event
This event is especially (but not uniquely) oriented to the following academics, researchers, and professionals or consultants:
- Those who participated in the design, implementation, and/or administration of organizations oriented to integrate academic activities or relate "Research and Consulting."
- Those who have been working in relating research and education, education and real life problem solving, research, education and real life problem solving or in organizations of "Research and Consulting", or have done an ad hoc work in some of them.
- Those academics who have done research via consulting.
- Those consultants who have done consulting via research.
- Those who have experience and/or knowledge to share regarding the relationships among academic activities and between research and consulting.
Ways of participating in this event
An academic, researcher, professional, or consultant might participate in this event submitting a contributed article which, if accepted, will be included in the conference program. This article might be:
- A research and/or a reflection paper regarding the integration of academic activities or the relationships between research and consulting.
- A case study, or the description of a specific case in which academic activites have been integrated or research was done via consulting or consulting was done via research. Such a case can be related to any of the topics of the collocated events and conferences.
- A position paper regarding the participation of a university’s faculties in integrating academic activities, in search via consulting or consulting via research.
- An article regarding the conception, design, and/or the implementation of an organization oriented to the integration of academic activities or relating "research and consulting".
- An article describing the different legal and structural forms in which an organization of research and development has been integrated into an academic context in order to synergistically relate the academic organization to the private and public sector and, in general, to Society.
- An article describing a seminar delivered in the private or public sector that generated the integration of academic activities or new projects based on relating “research and Consulting”, of consulting based new hypothesis formulation, new reflections, new research, case studies, etc.
Suggested, non Exclusive, Topics on Integrating Academic Activities: Research, Education and Real Life Problem Solving
- Relating research and education
- Relating research and real life problem solving
- Relating research and consulting: research via consulting and consulting via research
- Relating research and education
- Research Education
- Educational Research
- Relationships between research and teaching. Teaching via collaborative research
- esearching via teaching or educational action research
- Relationships between research and practice
- Integrating research, teaching and consulting or practice
- Action research applied to the Integration of Academic Activities
- Qualitative and hybrid research applied to the Integration of Academic Activities
- Relating research with innovation
- Research programs and projects engineering
- Application of Action Research in the integration of academic activities
- Application of case studies in the integration of academic activities
Suggested, non Exclusive, Topics on Research and Consulting
- Relationships between Research and consulting
- Research via consulting
- Consulting via research
- Relating research and consulting as a way of integrating academic research to industry, public and private sectors, and the Society at large.
- Application of Action Research in the integration of research and consulting
- Application of case studies in relating research and consulting
- Application of Action Research in the integration of research and practice
- Application of case studies in relating research and practice