MCS 2011 - The 11th International Workshop on Meta-Synthesis and Complex Systems

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Category complex system modeling; decision support systems; Soft OR

Deadline: April 20, 2011 | Date: September 07, 2011-September 09, 2011

Venue/Country: Lanzhou, China

Updated: 2011-04-01 20:59:42 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 11th International Workshop on Meta-synthesis and Complex Systems (MCS 2011)

Jointly held with the 2011 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI2011)

September 7-9, 2011, Lanzhou, China

MCS 2011 URL: http://meta-synthesis.iss.ac.cn/mcs2011/

BI 2011 URL: http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi11/amtbi.php?conf=bi

Papers Due: *** 31 March 2011 20 April 2011 (extended)

Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a volume of the series

of LNCS/LNAI, which are indexed by EI.

Selected papers from the MCS 2011 will be recommended to 2 SCI journals.

Activated with regular exchanges on complex system modeling mainly between Japanese and

Chinese scholars as well as a major project on meta-synthesis system research (1999-2003)

in China, the international workshop on meta-synthesis and complex system became an annual

event since 2001. After successful MCS2001 (Beijing), MCS2002 (Shanghai, together with KSS2002),

MCS2003 (Guangzhou, together with KSS2003), MCS2004 (Beijing), MCS2005 (Kobe, one workshop of

IFSR2005), MCS2006 (Beijing, together with KSS2006), MCS2007 (Beijing, one workshop of ICCS2007),

MCS2008 (Singapore, a special track at IEEE SMC2008), MCS2009 (Chengdu, a workshop at MCDM2009)

and MCS2010 (Toronto, a workshop at WI-IAT2010), MCS workshop will be continuously held in 2011

to provide opportunities for those researchers who are interested in systems sciences,

complex problem solving and advanced modeling, knowledge-oriented technology and integration,

decision sciences and advancing support technologies, etc. to facilitate interdisciplinary

studies under the context of the 2011 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI2011)

held in Lanzhou, China.

More about meta-synthesis:

Originally proposed in 1990 by the famous Chinese system scientist Qian Xuesen (1911-2009)

towards open complex giant systems, meta-synthesis system approach emphasizes to make full

use of cutting-edge information technologies and aims to achieve knowledge creation and

wisdom emergence along human-machine collaborative complex problem solving process.

Intensive research has been engaged into meta-synthesis approach to complex system modeling

with an interdisciplinary view together with more practice in both reality and the designed

scenarios. In recent years, computational approaches have been greatly enhanced to explore

knowledge-related technologies to mine more hidden patterns, tacit meanings from humans,

which thus brings out many new foci on diverse topics. As new wicked problems, e.g. emergency management and terrorism, bring more troubles to the current world, similar systems thinking

like meta-synthesis have been of further exploration, such as the advanced concept group in

Sandia National Laboratories. It is expected that the meta-synthesis system approach will

be of more solid foundations and wide applications. MCS workshop aims to facilitate idea

generation, knowledge sharing and scientific collaboration among those endeavors.

In the memoriam of his 100th anniversary of Professor Qian's birth, MCS2011 is dedicated

to Professor Qian Xuesen, who proposed the advancing systemic thoughts on

qualitative-to-quantitative meta-synthesis system approach toward complex systems

ahead of the times.

Topics of Interest

The presentations and papers at MCS2011 are expected to cover but not

limited to the following areas:

- Chance discovery

- Computing methods for uncertainty modeling

- Consensus methods and technologies, e.g. voting model, MCDM, etc.

- Decision support system

- Dynamic social network modeling and simulation

- Knowledge creation, creativity support, awareness support, etc.

- Knowledge discovery: data mining, text mining, recommendation system and

relevant Web intelligence tools

- Knowledge systems engineering and knowledge management

- Meta-synthetic system modeling and advanced environment,

e.g. crisis & emergency management, socioeconomic system, service system, etc.

- Problem structuring methods and system methodologies

etc.

On-Line Submissions and Publication

Please submit the conference paper through the Brain Informatics 2011 On-Line Paper

Submission Page. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only, and

should have a maximum of 12 pages in the Springer LNCS/LNAI style.

Please select The 11th International Workshop on Meta-Synthesis and Complex Systems

during your paper submission to MCS2011.

Each full-length paper will be under at least 2 anonymous reviewers. All submitted

papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and

clarity to MCS2011. Accepted papers will be published by Springer as a volume of the

series of LNCS/LNAI, which are indexed by EI.

Selected papers presented at MCS2011 will be recommended to the following journals

after the finish of the workshop, as done to the previous MCS workshops since 2005,

1)Journal of Systems Science and Complexity(SCI-E, Springer-Verlag)

2)Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering(SCI-E, Springer-Verlag)

3)International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science(a journal of International

Society for Knowledge and Systems Sciences published by IGI Global).

Please note that the recommended papers will be under modification in consideration

of copyright and again of peer review requested by the journals. MCS2011 organizers

do not guarantee the acceptance of those recommended papers by those journals.

Important Dates

Electronic submission of full papers

(maximum of 12 pages in the Springer LNCS/LNAI style.)

*** 31 March 2011 20 April 2011 (extended)***

Notification of paper acceptance: June 1, 2011

Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 24, 2011

Conference: September 7-9, 2011

Note: There is no a separate workshop registration fee

(i.e., BI conference registration covers everything).

MCS 2011 Organization

Honorable Chairs:

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

Nakamori, Yoshiteru (JAIST, Japan)

Wang, Huanchen (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

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

Acting Chair:

Xijin TANG (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS, China)

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

Members:

Alidaee, Bahram (University of Mississippi, USA)

Bai, Guohua (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

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

Chen, Jian (Tsinghua University, China)

Di, Zengru (Beijing Normal University, China)

He, Jing (Victoria University, Australia)

Kijima, Kyoichi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Kochenberger, Gary A. (University of Colorado at Denver, USA)

Liu, Yijun (Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Lu, Yuchang (Tsinghua University, China)

Lv, Jinghu(Academy of Mathematics & Systems Science, CAS, China)

Midgley, Gerald (University of Hull, UK)

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

Ohsawa, Yukio (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Rong, Lili (Dalian University of Technology, China)

Ryoke, Mina (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Shen, Huizhang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

Sun, Jiantao (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

Ulieru, Mihaela (University of New Brunswick, Canada)

Wallner, Fritz (University of Vienna, Austria)

Wang, Dahui (Beijing Normal University, China)

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

Wang, Xianjia(Wuhan University, China)

Wei, Cuiping (Qufu Normal University, China)

Wei, Yiming (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

Xi, Youmin(Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)

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

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

Yu, Lean (Academy of Mathematics & Systems Science, CAS, China)

Zhang, Minjie (University of Wollongong, Australia)

Zhang, Ning (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China)

Zhang, Pengzhu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

Zhang, Wen (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

*** Contact Information ***

General contact email address: mcsiss.ac.cn

Emails of acting chairs:

Xijin Tang xjtangamss.ac.cn

Xiaoji Zhou zh_xjsina.com