The 13th International Workshop on Meta-synthesis and Complex Systems (MCS 2013)

　　Organized in conjunction with IEEE SMC’2013, Manchester, Oct 13-16, 2013                

　　IEEE SMC 2013 url: http://www.smc2013.org/ 

　　MCS Paper submission url: https://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/smc2013_systems/ 

　　MCS 2013 url: http://meta-synthesis.iss.ac.cn/mcs2013/

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　　Papers Due: *** 15 April 2013 15 May 2013*** 

　　Accepted papers will be included in the IEEE SMC 2013 proceedings, which

　　are indexed by EI.

　　Selected papers from MCS 2013 will be recommended to 2 systems journals.

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　　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, a workshop of ICCS2007),

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

　　at MCDM2009), MCS2010 (Toronto, a workshop at WI-IAT2010), MCS2011 (Lanzhou,

　　a workshop at BI2011) and MCS2012 (Macau, a workshop of Active Media Technology 2012),

　　MCS is growing into a dedicated forum for complex system modeling and methodologies

　　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. Under the

　　context of IEEE SMC 2013 with the theme "Cyber Systems Enabling Knowledge Integration",

　　MCS’2013 aims to facilitate distributing new ideas and latest research results on

　　effective concepts, methodologies and advanced tools to tackle the wicked problems

　　on social, economic and environmental developments and exploring next-generation

　　knowledge intensive tools for complex system modeling and human decision making.

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　　Topics of Interest

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　　The presentations and papers at MCS2012 are expected to cover but not

　　limited to the following areas:

　　-  Complex system modeling and complexity

　　-  Computing methods for uncertainty modeling

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

　　-  Decision support systems

　　-  Dynamic social network modeling and simulation

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

　　-  Knowledge discovery: data mining, text mining and 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

　　-  Social dynamic network modeling and opinion dynamics

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　　On-Line Submissions and Publication

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　　Please submit your paper through the IEEE SMC 2013 Special Sessions paper submission 

　　url: https://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/smc2013_systems. All papers must be submitted

　　electronically in PDF format only, and should have a maximum of 6 pages in IEEE 2-column

　　style (http://www.smc2013.org/formatting). Please select "Meta-synthesis and Complex Systems

　　(SMC2013:S09)" when submitting.

　　Each full-length paper will be under at least 3 anonymous reviewers. All submitted

　　papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness,

　　presentation and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will be included in IEEE SMC 2013

　　proceedings, which are indexed by EI.

　　Selected papers presented at MCS2013 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 Systems Engineering(SCI-E, Springer-Verlag)

　　2)International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science(the official 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. MCS2013 organizers

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

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　　Important Dates

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　　Electronic submission of full papers:   *** 15 April 2013  15 May 2013 ***

　　(maximum of 6 pages in the IEEE 2-column style)        

　　Paper submission url: https://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/smc2013_systems/

　　Notification of paper acceptance: June 30, 2013

　　Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 31, 2013

　　Conference: October 13-16, 2013

　　Note: There is no a separate workshop registration fee

　　(i.e., IEEE registration covers everything).

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　　MCS 2013 Organization

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　　Acting Chair:

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

　　Yoshiteru NAKAMORI (JAIST, Japan)

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

　　Members:

　　Alidaee,Bahram (University of Mississippi, USA)

　　Bai, Guohua (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

　　Bai, Quan (Auckalnd University of Technology, New Zealand)

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

　　Chen, Jian (Tsinghua University, China)

　　Di, Zengru (Beijing Normal University, China)

　　Galam, Serge (CNRS, France)

　　Fang, Yong (CAS Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, China)

　　He, Jing (Victoria University, Australia)

　　Kijima, Kyoichi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

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

　　Li, Zhenpeng (Dali University, China)

　　Liu, Yijun (CAS Institute of Policy and Management, 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)

　　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)

　　Xia, Haoxiang (Dalian University of Technology, 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, Ning (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China)

　　Zhang, Pengzhu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

　　Zhang, Wen (CAS Institute of Software, China)

　　Zeng, Yi (CAS Institute of Automation, China)

　　*** Contact Information ***

　　General contact email address: mcs@iss.ac.cn 

　　Emails of the acting chairs:

　　Xijin Tang   xjtang@amss.ac.cn 

　　Yoshiteru Nakamori  nakamori@jaist.ac.jp 

　　Xiaoji Zhou  zh_xj@sina.com 

　　

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　　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.