There are many good focused conferences in any one of the major themes of WMSCI Conferences. There are also very good conferences even in the more specific areas included in the major themes of WMSCI Conferences. 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. WMSCI 2007 will bring together both kinds of audiences, so participants, with a focused research, will be able to:
1. Present their focused research in a specific area for scholars/researchers specialized in their paper discipline and, perhaps, for specialists from other related disciplines and generalists with a more comprehensive intellectual outlook.
2. Get feedback from researchers with the same specific background, as is usual in focused conferences.
3. Get possible feedback from scholars/researchers in related disciplines, thereby opening the possibility of analogies generation, new applications to/from different discipline, business or industrial areas; and, possibly, new models for re-thinking anew some of their research problems.
4. Organize sessions where papers from related areas are presented, in order to increase the probability of getting the benefits mentioned in (3).
5. Attract speakers with a wider intellectual interest in order to get a more comprehensive conceptual framework and to give context to their research effort.
This would allow specialists and focused researchers, to see the forest besides the tree of their discipline, and to be aware about the neighboring trees.
WMSCI 2007 participants, with non-focused or multi-focused research or with a comprehensive intellectual, industrial or business interest, will be able to:
1. Present their research, ideas, reflections, new concepts/designs or industrial/business innovations to a similar or a specialized audience, so suggestions about possible improvements could emerge and possibly new research or development projects could come out into view.
2. Present ideas that would require multi-disciplinary or interdisciplinary efforts to be researched or developed in action-research programs.
3. Constitute international, multi- and/or inter-disciplinary teams or workgroups in order to conduct research requiring synergic relationships among different kinds of talents, cognitive styles, intellectual faculties and/or research/industrial interests.
4. Create new research areas, based on both: a general framework and various disciplines or focused research areas. This could be done by means of international research teamwork and/or by the elaboration and edition of a multiple-authors book in the Newly Created Field. The newly created Informing Sciences Field is one example on this issue. Our past conferences served to support the initial efforts of their proponents, and now the group has its own yearly conference, newsletter, etc.
Invited Sessions can be organized in a specific or a general theme. These Invited Sessions may grow to Focus Symposia, workshops, satellite events, micro-conferences or even conferences by their own in the context of WMSCI or as independent or associated spin offs from WMSCI. At least two independent yearly conferences and several associated conferences are actually spin offs from WMSCI conferences.
Invited Sessions with high quality papers might be selected for multiple-authors book publications.
Authors of the Best 10%-20% papers will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (JSCI). The first 18 issues of JSCI are being sent, as promotional (free) subscriptions to the libraries of the universities and organizations to which the authors of the papers are affiliated.
