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WMSCI, the World Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, is a conference that has occurred annually since 1995, which emphasizes on the systemic relationships that exist or might exist among different disciplines in the fields of Sytemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics. Inter-disciplinary communication is stressed in WMSCI conferences. ==History== WMSCI is organized by the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics: IIIS (www.iiis.org). Its General Chair has usually been retired Professor Nagib Callaos. The conference is often held in Orlando, Florida.〔(A Short CV of Professor Nagib Callaos )〕 The annual WMSCI Conferences started in Baden-Baden, Germany, in 1995, as ISAS (Information Systems Analysis and synthesis, where about 50 papers were presented. In 1997, after earning the non-financial sponsorship of the World Organization of systems and Cybernetics (WOSC, changed its name to World conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics: SCI. In 2005 it changed its acronym to WMSCI because SCI coincided with the acronym of the Scientific citation index, and collocated conferences has been added since then. The multi-conference has grown to have about 900 registered participants, in 2004. the majority of whom present papers. Since its start in 1995, more than 10,000 papers have been presented in WMSCI and its collocated conferences. Up to 2005 it allowed about 15% of non-reviewed submissions, based on the importance of the topic or the potential presenter CV. The general chair of the conference explained, in a recent workshop founded by the National Science Foundation that the reasons why they accepted non-reviewed paper was because the conference is a multi-disciplinary one and scholarly associations of several conferences accept almost all submissions on a non-reviewed base. The most prestigious and largest conferences of OR/MS (IFORS and INFORMS), for example, explicitly informed (and still informing) in their web sites that “Contributed abstracts are not reviewed and virtually all abstracts are accepted." Consequently, WMSCI 2005 general chair, Dr. Nagib Callaos, informed in the mentioned workshop that since the conference was a multi-dissiplinary one he saw no problem in accepting for presentation (not necessarily publication) 15% of non-reviewed submissions, in order to follow the standards of other disciples like those represented by the International Federation of Operations Research Societies (IFORS), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS, the International Federation of Operations Research Societies (IFORS),the American Mathematical Society, etc.See for example http://meetings2.informs.org/sanfrancisco2014/abstract_contributed_i.html in which it is clearly stated that “Contributed abstracts are not reviewed and virtually all abstracts are accepted.” An article related to what has been presented at the mentioned workshop founded by the National Science Foundation can be found at http://iiis.org/contents/A_Case_Triggered_by_the_Acceptance_of_a_Bogus_Paper.pdf Since 2006 1) just reviewed papers are accepted, 2) authors of accepted papers have access to the reviews of the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their paper, and 3) the reviewing process is based on double-blind and non-blind reviewing.〔(WMSCI 2013 )〕〔(WMSCI 2014 )〕〔(The IIIS/SCI Conferences on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics ) critical review by Justin Zobel when non-reviewed papers were accepted〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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