Integrating Research and Practice |
Call for Papers
Motivation and Purpose
Because Informatics and Cybernetics (communication and Control) have an increasing potentiality in supporting integrative processes, the Organizing Committee of The 6th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2016, is trying to organize in the context of this conference five very related special tracks each one of which support different way of integrating research and practice. These related tracks are the following:
• | stCSM 2016:
Case Studies and Methodologies
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• | ARAL 2016:
Action Research and Action Learning
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• | IDREC 2016:
Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Communication
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• | IREPS 2016:
Integration of Research, Education, and Problem Solving
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• | QRMSE 2016:
Qualitative Research and Methodologies in Science and Engineering
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These different tracks represent different ways, approaches, and/or methodolcogies that showed to be effective in the Integration of Research and Practice. What they have in common is their proven effectiveness in 1) making adequate translating between disciplinary/technical terms and concept into everyday language, and 2) appropriately relating quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
The integration of Research and Practice through any of the above mentioned special tracks are at the heart of the founding objectives of the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS). Read more...
This is why the IIIS offered to support the human and the financial resources to publish a special issue of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics: JSCI, entitled “Integrating Research and Practice,” if an adequate number of quality papers are presented at IMCIC, in these 5 special track. The Special Issue might be a hybrid one, i.e. the papers will be linked to the videos of the respective presentation, as for example the already published special Issue (#6, volume 12) on “Knowledge Integration and Inter-Disciplinary Communication” related to the respective presentation at the conference organized by IIIS in July 2014.
Keynote Speakers
Technical and Plenary keynote speakers will be selected from early submissions because this selection requires an additional evaluation (besides to the quality of the paper assessed by its reviewers) related to the authors' CV and the paper's topic.
Reviewing Process
All Submitted papers/abstracts will go through three reviewing processes: (1) double-blind (at least three reviewers), (2) non-blind, and (3) participative peer reviews. Final acceptance depends of the three kinds of reviews but a paper should be recommended by non-blind reviewers AND blind reviewers in order to be accepted for presentation at the conference and to be included in the respective conference proceedings. A recommendation to accept made by non-blind reviewers is a necessary condition, but it is not a sufficient one. A submission, to be accepted, should also have a majority of its double-blind reviewers recommending its acceptance. This double necessary conditions generate a more reliable and rigorous reviewing than a those reviewing methods based on just one of the indicated methods, or just on the traditional double-blind reviewing. More details regarding this issue can be found at www.iiis.org/peer-reviewing.asp.
The three kinds of reviews mentioned above will support the selection process of those papers/abstracts that will be accepted for their presentation at the conference, as well as those to be selected for their publication in JSCI Journal. Details regarding the Acceptance Policy can be found at www.iiis.org/acceptance-policy.asp.
Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers/abstracts, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Non-registered authors will not have access to the reviews of their respective submissions.
Virtual Participation
Submissions for Face-to-Face or for Virtual Participation are both accepted. Both kinds of submissions will have the same reviewing process and the accepted papers will be included in the same proceedings. Pre-Conference and Post-conference Virtual sessions (via electronic forums) will be held for each session included in the conference program, so that sessions papers can be read before the conference, and authors presenting at the same session can interact during one week before and after the conference. Authors can also participate in peer-to-peer reviewing in virtual sessions.
Invited Sessions Organizers
Registration fees of an effective invited session organizers will be waived according to the policy described in the web page (click on 'Invited Session', then on 'Benefits for the Organizers of Invited Sessions'), where you can get information about the ten benefits for an invited session organizer. To propose the organization of an Invited Session, please visit the conference web site, and go to the menu option “Invited Sessions” and then to the menu sub-option “Invited Sessions Organiziers.”
Best Papers
Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference (included those virtually presented) will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.
One best paper of each session included in the program will be selected by the respective session’s co-chairs after consulting with the session’s audience. Invited Sessions organizers will select the best paper of the session they organized. If there is a tie in a given session, the paper that will be selected as the best session’s paper will be the one which have had the highest quantitative evaluations average according to its double-blind and non-blind reviews.
The selection process of the best 10%-20% to be also published in the Journal, will be based on the sessions’ best papers and the quantitative evaluation average made by its anonymous and non-anonymous reviewers.
About IIIS
Integration is a main purpose of the international Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS)
• | Integration among disciplines: Inter-Disciplinary Research, Education, and Communication. | |
• | Integration of Academic Activities: Research, Education, and Consulting/Real life Problem solving. | |
• | Integration among Academy, Industry, and Society. |
Consequently, IIIS organizes multi-disciplinary conferences where 1) disciplinary presentations are made by disciplinarians who can also get immersed in a multi- and inter-disciplinary intellectual environment, and 2) Inter- and trans-disciplinarians provide and are provided with the intellectual environment that might generate analogical thinking which supports the production of novel ideas, working hypothesis, more comprehensive understanding, and the kind of collaborative research that might integrate disciplines, understanding and action, science and design, academy and Industry. Read more...