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　　11th International Workshop on Meta-synthesis and Complex Systems

　　CALL FOR PAPERS

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　　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

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　　Papers Due: *** 31 March 2011 *** 

　　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.

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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, 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 times.

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　　Topics of Interest

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　　The presentations and papers at MCS2011 are expected to cover but not limited to the following areas:

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　　On-Line Submissions and Publication

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　　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.

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　　Important Dates

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　　Electronic submission of full papers

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

　　*** 31 March 2011 ***

　　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).

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　　MCS 2011 Organization

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　　*** Contact Information ***

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

　　Emails of acting chairs:

　　Xijin Tang   xjtang@amss.ac.cn 

　　Xiaoji Zhou  zh_xj@sina.com