WMSCI

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WMSCI is the acronym of the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, a computer science and engineering conference that has occurred annually since 1995, although prior to 2005 it was called simply SCI.

WMSCI is organized by the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.

1 About WMSCI
2 WMSCI major themes
3 WMSCI 2006 Plenary Sessions
4 Weakness of the Peer Reviewing and WMSCI acceptance policy
5 Attacks to WMSCI in 2005
6 External links

[edit] About WMSCI

The conference has become an international forum where researchers and practitioners examine key issues in Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. As well as participants from universities, governments, and industries share ideas, knowledge and experiences among different disciplines.

Since 1995, more than 10.000 papers of about 100 countries have been presented on WMSCI and its collocated conferences.

[edit] WMSCI major themes

- Information Systems, Technologies and Applications

- Communication and Network Systems, Technologies and Applications

- Control Systems, Technologies and Applications

- Computer Science and Engineering

- Optical Systems, Technologies and Applications

- Image, Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing

- Applications of Informatics and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering Systemics

- Concepts, Principles, Methodologies and Applications of Cybernetics

- Bio-Medical Informatics and Cybernetics

[edit] WMSCI 2006 Plenary Sessions

The WMSCI 2006 Plenary Sessions had the following Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Gary Metcalf: President Elect of The International Society of Systems Sciences, and Vice-president of The International Federations of Systems Research

Professor Suart A. Umpleby: The George Washington University Former President of The American Society of Cybernetics

Dr. Robert James: Former Director of Operations for the Faculty of the Air Force Academy

[edit] Weakness of the Peer Reviewing and WMSCI acceptance policy

The Peer Reviewing process used and accepted in almost all science and engineering conferences has 3 major weaknesses:

- Low level of agreement among reviewers

- Probability of Refusing High Quality Papers

- Possibilities of Plagiarism and Fraud Generated by the Reviewing Process

To avoid that, the IIIS Organizing Committee decided to apply the following rules to accept a paper:

1.- The majority rules when there is no agreement among the reviewers with regards to acceptance or non-acceptance, of a given submission.

2.- The non-acceptance of the submission when there is agreement among its reviewers for not accepting it.

3.- Acceptance of the paper when in doubt (a draw or a tie among the opinions of the reviewers, for example)

Further information about this issue can be found at: http://www.iiis-cyber.org/wmsci2007/Website/AcceptancePolicy.asp?vc=1

This acceptance policy has been criticized by some academics who considered it too liberal and feel its quality threshold for acceptance is low.

[edit] Attacks to WMSCI in 2005

WMSCI attracted publicity of a less favorable sort in 2005 when three graduate students at MIT succeeded in getting a paper accepted as a "non-reviewed paper" to the conference that had been randomly generated by a computer program called SCIgen. Documents generated by this software have been used to attack other similar conference worldwide. The SCIgen site includes an automatic paper generator that creates fake papers from random sequences of text phrases