MCDM 2009 - The 9th International Workshop on Meta-synthesis and Complex Systems -the 20th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision making

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Category MCDM 2009

Deadline: December 15, 2008 | Date: June 21, 2009

Venue/Country: Chengdu, China

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Chengdu/Jiuzhaigou, China

June 21-26, 2009

Welcome

The International Workshop on Meta-Synthesis and Complex Systems is formerly as a Sino-Japan

workshop to facilitate the exchanges between Chinese and Japanese scholars in the field of systems

science and complex problem solving. After successful MCS¡¡?2001(Beijing), MCS¡¡?2002 (Shanghai,

together with KSS¡¡?2002), MCS¡¡?2003 (Guangzhou, together with KSS¡¡?2003), MCS¡¡?2004(Beijing),

MCS¡¡?2005(Kobe, one workshop of IFSR¡¡?2005), MCS¡¡?2006 (Beijing, together with KSS¡¡?2006),

MCS¡¡?2007 (Beijing, a registered workshop of ICCS¡¡?2007) and MCS¡¡?2008 (Singapore, a special track at

IEEE SMC¡¡?2008), MCS serial workshops gained so much attention worldwide.

Studies on complex systems have been greatly developed in recent years, as traditional reductionism

methods are inappropriate or not enough to deal with the complex system modeling which have already

been realized along the system rethinking tide since the end of 1970s. Complexity is regarded as one of

most salient features and concerning topics among those complex or ill-structured problems for which

people engage in exploring effective methods. Meta-synthesis system approach is one of them. It absorbs

ideas from many disciplines and methods such as meta-analysis, and aims to take advantages of machines

(in quantitative intelligence) and humans (in qualitative intelligence) to solve those complex or

ill-structured problems. The word meta-synthesis is not limited to a system approach proposed by Chinese

scientists, but also used by researchers from other domains, such as education, health care and some other

social sciences research among western scholars. Thus, worldwide exchanges will facilitate the fusion of

diverse ideas. More foci had been put as computational approaches have been greatly enhanced to explore

knowledge-related technologies have also been widely applied to mine more hidden patterns, tacit

meanings from humans, which thus brings out many new foci on diverse topics, such as agent-based

modeling about social problems, knowledge network, consensus and convergence technologies, etc.

MCS¡¡?2009 will be continuously held to provide opportunities for those researchers who are interested in

systems sciences, complex problem solving and advanced modeling, meta-synthesis, artificial life,

knowledge-oriented technology and integration, decision sciences and supporting technologies, etc. with

the to facilitate interdisciplinary studies by joining the 20th International Conference on Multi-Criteria

Decision Making (MCDM¡¡?2009) in Chengdu/Jiuzhaigou in June of 2009.

In consideration of the topics, scopes, paper quality improvement, and increasing participants, especially

MCS appeals more young people, the adoption of MCS as one part of MCDM¡¡?2009 will bring new views

or new problems about system modeling and complex problem solving especially during the unstructured

social problem solving to MCDM. Also MCS workshop will also be benefited from a much wider

community and exchanges. We hope to see a growing community to distribute new ideas and latest

research results on effective concepts, methodologies and advanced tools to tackle those wicked problems

and to explore next-generation tools for complex system modeling and human decision making. Joining

MCDM¡¡?2009 will help MCS workshop to intensify the research on MCDM practically applied into the

meta-synthesis and complex problem solving studies, such as exploring new or implementing available

consensus technologies into meta-synthesis system enabled by Web 2.0 technologies.

Scope

The presentations and papers at KSS2006 are expected to cover but not limited to the following areas:

¡§C AI and fuzzy systems

¡§C Chance Discovery

¡§C Complex System Modeling and Complexity

¡§C Consensus methods and technologies

¡§C Creation of agent-based social systems sciences

¡§C Decision support systems

¡§C Knowledge creation: creativity support, awareness support, etc.

¡§C Knowledge discovery: data mining, text mining, and Web intelligence tools

¡§C Knowledge systems engineering

¡§C Meta-synthesis and advanced modeling

¡§C Social network analysis and knowledge management

¡§C Systems methodologies

¡§C etc.

Important Dates

December 15, 2008 Submission of full-length paper

January 5, 2009 Notification of acceptance

January 31, 2009 Final camera-ready paper

January 31, 2009 Early registration opens

March 10, 2009 Early registration closes

If you just want to attend the workshop with no full-length paper, you are also welcome to submit

an abstract before February 28, 2009. We will review the contents and send Notification of acceptance

on March 31, 2009. Presentations will be arranged for the authors of the accepted abstracts at the

formal schedule of the workshop.

Submission and Publications

Detailed paper format instructions are provided on the MCDM¡¡?2009 web site

http://www.mcdm2009.cn/default.html. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Paper

uploading will soon be ready at http://msks.iss.ac.cn:8080/mcs2009/. Early birds are also welcome to

send your papers directly to xjtangamss.ac.cn (Subject: mcs09 paper)

All accepted papers will be published in one proceeding by Springer¡¡?s Lecture Notes in Economics

and Mathematical Systems. After the workshop, selected papers will be recommended to Journal of

Systems Science and Systems Engineering (SCI-E, EI), Journal of Systems Science and Complexity

(SCI-E, EI), International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science (an ISKSS journal) and other SCI

journals recommended by MCDM¡¡?2009 as we normally have done during past MCS workshops.

MCS¡¡?2009 Program Committee

Honorable Chairs:

Gu, Jifa (Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Nakamori, Yoshiteru (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Wang, Huanchen (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

Yu, Jingyuan (Beijing Institute of Information and Control, China)

Acting Chairs:

Tang, Xijin (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Zhou, Xiaoji (Beijing Institute of Information and Control, China)

Members:

Bai, Guohua (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Brugha, Cathal M. (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Che, Hongan (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China)

Chen, Jian (Tsinghua University, China)

Di, Zengru (Beijing Normal University, China)

Fang, Fukang (Beijing Normal University, China)

Guo, Lei (Academy of Mathematics & Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Kijima, Kyoichi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Liu, Yuanzhang (Academy of Mathematics & Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Lu, Yuchang (Tsinghua University, China)

Midgley, Gerald (Institute of Environmental Science and Research, New Zealand)

Makowski, Marek (International Institute for Applied System Analysis, Austria)

Ohsawa, Yukio (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Ryoke, Mina (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Shen, Huizhang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

Shi,Yong (Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences,

China & University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA)

Sun, Jiantao (Microsoft Research Asia)

Ulieru, Mihaela (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

Wallner, Fritz (University of Vienna, Austria)

Wang, Haibo (Texas A&M International University, USA)

Wang, Shouyang (Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Wang, Zhongtuo (Dalian University of Technology and Chinese Academy of Engineering, China)

Wei, Cuiping (Qufu Normal University, China)

Wei, Yiming (Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Yang, Jianmei (South China University of Technology, China)

Yoshida, Taketoshi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Zhang, Minjie (University of Wollongong, Australia)

Zhang, Pengzhu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

Co-Sponsors

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

International Society of Knowledge and Systems Science

Shanghai Academy of Systems Science

IEEE SMC Beijing Chapter

Systems Engineering Society of China

Complexity Research Council of Chinese Society of OPEM

If you have further inquiries, please contact Dr. Xijin TANG via xjtangamss.ac.cn (Subject: mcs09).