Call for Participation for the IIIS Summer 2021 Conference
July 18-21, 2021, in Orlando, Florida, USA

We invite you to participate and/or collaborate (submitting an article and/or sending this announcement to your colleagues) in the following multi-disciplinary collocated events. The purpose of the Organizing Committee is to include in the conference program 1) disciplinary presentations, 2) trans-disciplinary or non-disciplinary presentations, 3) participatory workshops and/or panels, 4) conversational sessions, in the context of a multi-disciplinary forum provided with the means for inter-disciplinary communications. In the following figure we tried to visually schematize the above mentioned ideas on integrating disciplinary events with conversational, participatory and trans-disciplinary ones in order to synergistically relate intra- and inter-disciplinary communication, in order to facilitate the generation of analogical thinking, hypothesis generation, scientific creativity, and technological innovation. Press here for a paper explaining the importance of integrating a) traditional and non-traditional conferences and 2) intra- and inter-disciplinary communications.

You can contribute submitting an article to any of the following events. We thought that the bellow disciplinary variety would be helpful in the formation of a multi-disciplinary forum which is a necessary condition for inter-disciplinary communication.

To be able to include inter-disciplinary presentations in the conference program, the international Institute of Informatics and Systemic is providing some financial support for fostering these inter-disciplinary communications. Consequently, the Organizing Committee will invite registered authors of accepted papers to make an additional presentation (with no additional cost) of their disciplinary presentation but for inter-disciplinary or non-disciplinary communication, or to present a paper regarding the importance of interdisciplinary research, education and problem solving. These additional presentations might have associated invited papers which would be included in the pre-conference proceedings or in the post-conference volume of the proceedings. Best papers of these inter-disciplinary presentations will also be published in a special issue of the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, entitled "Inter-disciplinary communications."

Summer 2021 Conference

WMSCI 2021: The 25^th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 18-21, 2021. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…

	Events being organized in the context of WMSCI 2021:
	•	AGIC 2021: Special Track on Academic Globalization and Inter-Cultural Communication. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	ICS 2021: Special Track on Information and Cyber Security. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	ISSE 2021: Special Track on Information Systems and Software Engineering. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	3DT-REIA 2021: Special Track on Research, Education, Innovations, and Applications of 3D Technologies. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	R&C 2021: Special Track on Research and Consulting. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	SIE 2021: Special Track on Innovation and Entrepreneurship and their relationships with Cybernetics and Informatics. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	IPIC 2021: Special Track on Enabling an Intelligent Planet via Informatics and Cybernetics. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	HSST 2021: Special Track on Health Sciences, Systems and Technologies. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	KCST 2021: Special Track on Knowledge and Cognitive Science and Technologies. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	BMIC 2021: Special Track on Bio- and Medical Informatics and Cybernetics. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	MEI 2021: Special Track on Management, Engineering and Informatics. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	RMCI 2021: Special Track on Risk Management and Cyber-Informatics. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	QRMSE 2021: Special Track on Qualitative Research, Modeling, and Methodologies | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	DeMset 2021: Special Track on Design and Modeling in Science, Education, and Technology | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…

EISTA 2021: The 19^th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications, to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 18-21, 2021. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…

IMSCI 2021: The 15^th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics, to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 18-21, 2021. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…

	Events being organized in the context of IMSCI 2021:
	•	PISTA 2021: Special Track on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	SOIC 2021: Special Track on Social and Organizational Informatics and Cybernetics | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	stCSM 2021: Special Track on Case Studies and Methodologies | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	IDREC 2021: Special Track on Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Communication | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	IREPS 2021: Special Track on Integrating Research, Education, and Problem Solving | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	ARAL 2021: Special Track on Action Research and Action Learning | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	KGCM 2021: Special Track on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…

English is the official language for all the events indicated above. However, for the following events the official languages are Spanish and Portuguese.

CISCI 2021: The 20^th Ibero-American Conference on Systems, Cybernetics and Informatics / Vigésima Conferencia Iberoamericana en Sistemas, Cibernética e Informática, to be held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on July 18-21, 2021. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…

	Events being organized in the context of CISCI 2021:
	•	SIECI 2021: Décimo Sexto Simposium Iberoamericano en Educación, Cibernética e Informática. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	IC 2021: Tema especial sobre Investigación y Consultoría | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	GCGC 2021: Tema especial sobre Generación, Comunicación y Gerencia del Conocimiento | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	IIT 2021: Tema especial sobre Ingeniería e Innovación Tecnológica | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	ECMA 2021: Tema Especial sobre Estudio de Casos: Metodologías y Aplicaciones. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…
	•	IIESP 2021: Tema especial sobre Integración de la Investigación, la Educación y la Solución de Problemas. | Topics… | Deadlines… | Submissions…

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 25%-30% of the papers presented at the conference (including 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 25%-30%, 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. The later will be applied to papers which acceptance was based on reviews made to draft papers. Reviews of abstracts and extended abstracts will not be valid for selecting best papers according to the quantitative evaluation of the respective submissions.

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...