Motives and Main Purpose

Complexity, Cybernetics, and Informing Science/Engineering are increasingly being related on the conceptual, methodological, and practical dimensions. T. Grandon Gill’s book (Informing Business: Research and Education on a Rugged Landscape) shows the strong and important relationships between Complexity and Informing Science (specifically academic informing), and the potentiality of these relationships in supporting the integration of academic activities: Research, Education, and Consulting or real Life Problem Solving. On the other hand, the concepts and tools of Cybernetics (Communication and Control) are providing an increasingly effective support for more adequate integrative processes in the context of Informing Science and Engineering, as well as in the context of relating academic activities, more effective and synergistically, among themselves and with professional practice and Society at large.

The purpose of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Complexity, Cybernetics, and Informing Science and Engineering: CCISE 2014 is to bring together scholars and professionals from the three fields, Complexity, Cybernetics, and Informing Science/Engineering (including scholars/professionals in their supporting tools and technologies) in order to promote and foster inter-disciplinary communication and interactions among them; oriented to foster the formation of the intellectual humus required for inter-disciplinary synergies, inter-domain cross-fertilization, and the production of creative analogies. Consequently, formal disciplinary oriented breakout sessions will be complemented with interdisciplinary presentations and informal conversational sessions.

There are many good disciplinary, specific and focused conferences in any one of the major themes of CCISE 2014. There are also good general conferences, which have a wider scope and are more comprehensive. Each one of these kinds of conferences has its typical audience. CCISE 2014 Organizing Committee purpose is to bring together both kinds of audiences, so participants with a disciplinary and focused research will be able to interact with participants from other related disciplines for interdisciplinary communication and potential inter-disciplinary collaborative research.

References

Ershov, A.P., 1959, "Academician A.I. Berg on cybernetics and the perestroika in 1959", Microprocessor devices and systems, 1987, No. 3, p. 3. (In Russian); quoted by Ya. Fet in the foreword of “The History of Cybernetics, edited by Ya. Fet, - Novosibirsk: "Geo" Academic Publishers, 2006. - 301 pp. - (In Russian). Accessed on September 14th, 2009 at http://www.ithistory.org/resources/russia-from-the-history.pdf

Gill, T. G., 2010, Informing Business: Research and Education on a Rugged Landscape, Santa Rosa, California: Informing Science Press

Hoefler, M. 2002, International Informatics Society Launched in Santa Fe; accessed on August 16th, 2009 at http://www.lascruces.com/~rfrye/complexica/d/IIS%20Launch%20PR.doc

Michlmayr, E., 2007, Ant Algorithms for Self-Organization in Social Networks; Ph. D. Thesis Submitted to the Vienna University of Technology Faculty of Informatics, on May 14th, 2007; accessed on August 16th, 2009 at http://wit.tuwien.ac.at/people/michlmayr/publications/dissertation_elke_michlmayr_FINAL.pdf

Organizational Issues

Submissions

Details regarding the types of submission can be found at the menu option Papers/Abstract Submissions

Submitted papers will undergo double-blind and non-blind reviewing processes. They may also have peer-to-peer participative review. More details regarding the Reviewing Policy is found at the menu option “Multi-Methodological Reviewing Process for Multi-Disciplinary Conferences”.

The acceptance policy to be applied to the reviewed submissions made to CCISE 2014 is based on the Majority Rule, applied to the reviews received for each submitted article. Details on this issue can be found at the menu option “Acceptance Policy”.
Best papers

The best paper of each section will be selected and their author(s) will receive a corresponding Award Certificate, via PDF document attached to a congratulation email.

Authors of the Best 10%-20% papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (JSCI).