Call for Participation for Special Session(s) and Special Issue of the Journal on:
- Integrating Academic Activities: Research, Education and Real Life Problem Solving
- Research and Consulting: Research via Consulting and Consulting via Research
March 13-16, 2018, in Orlando, Florida, USA
Co-organizers and co-chairs
Dr. Nagib Callaos, University Simon Bolivar and the International Institute of Infomatics and Systemics, USA.
Professor T. Grandon Gill, University of South Florida, USA (Academic Director of the Business Administration Doctorate)
Dr. Jeremy Horne, President-emeritus, Southwest Area Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA.
Professor Suzanne Lunsford, Wright State University, USA.
Professor Michael Savoie, University of North Texas, USA, Former Dean of the College of Technology & Computing at Utah Valley University, USA, and CEO of HyperGrowth Solutions.
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 2018)
- Research and Consulting, Research via consulting and consulting via research (R&C 2018)
Publications
The following publishing policy applies only to the special session(s) and special issue of the Journal related to IRESP-RC 2018
Authors of accepted abstracts or extended abstracts will have two options (See also diagram below)
- To register at the conference for presentation-only, and from there on they will have journal publishing opportunities with additional reviewing, but with no additional cost to them, as it is described in 2.a and 2.b below.
- To submit a full draft paper (2000-5000 words) via the conference web site according the respective deadline. If full draft paper paper is accepted, it will be presented at the conference and published in the respective proceedings. Further publications in the journal with no additional cost will be done if (See also diagram below):
2.a.The paper is selected as the best session paper by the respective session’s audience and/or if
2.b.its publication is recommended by the majority of the randomly selected journal’s reviewers, in its double blind review.
- A special issue of the Journal will also be published on Integrating Academic Activities: Research, Education and Real Life Problem Solving and/or on Research and Consulting, with no additional costs for the respective author(s). Journal’s reviewers ((https://www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/JournalReviewers.asp?var), randomly selected, will make the respective peer reviews. An example of this special issue has been posted at https://www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/Contents.asp?var=&Previous=ISS1607
About the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI)
JSCI was asked by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) to re-apply because DOAJ identified more rigorous criteria to list journals in its directory and to index them. After re-applying the Journal was accepted again with the following new benefits (we are doing a copy and paste from the email we received from them):
"Benefits of supplying DOAJ with metadata:
- Our statistics show more than 900 000 page views and 300 000 unique visitors a month to DOAJ from all over the world.
- Many aggregators, databases, libraries, publishers and search portals collect our free metadata and include it in their products. Examples are Scopus, Serial Solutions and EBSCO.
- DOAJ is OAI compliant and once an article is in DOAJ, it is automatically harvestable.
- DOAJ is OpenURL compliant and once an article is in DOAJ, it is automatically linkable.
- Over 95% of the DOAJ Publisher community said that DOAJ is important for increasing their journal's visibility.
- DOAJ is often cited as a source of quality, open access journals in research and scholarly publishing circles."
We are supplying our Journal’s meta-data to DOAJ; which is frequently referenced as a white list for electronic open access journals.
About the Conference
IREPS 2018 and RC 2018 are being organized in the context of the 9th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2018 (www.iiis-spring18.org/imcic) being jointly organized with the following events:
- The 9th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2018 (iiis-spring18.org/icsit)
- The 9th International Conference on Education, Training and Informatics: ICETI 2018 (iiis-spring18.org/iceti)
These events have different deadlines (usually) and different peer reviewing the methodology and do not have a Journal’s special issue, but just regular issues in which the best 25%-35% of the accepted and presented papers are published, with no additional costs for the authors.
These conferences are organized by the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS, www.iiis.org). Testimonials about these conferences has been posted at https://iiis.org/testimonials.asp. Details regarding conferences since 2011 can be found at https://iiis.org/recentconferences.asp, and less detail, since 2002, can be found at the IIIS web site.
Publications policy for the IREPS/RC 2018 event
Since 2003, the Journal’s purpose has been to publish the best papers of those presented at IIIS’ conferences. With some special issues (like IREPS/RC 2018) authors will also have the possibility of improving their using the feedback they got in the conference and. then, to have their post-print articles reviewed again by the Journal’s Reviewers.
Who is encouraged to participate in this IREPS 2018 and RC 2018
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
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