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Welcome
to MCS2010
The serial International Workshop on Meta-Synthesis
and Complex Systems is to facilitate the exchanges between scholars in the
field of systems science and complex problem solving. 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) and MCS2007
(Beijing, one workshop of ICCS2007), MCS2008
(Singapore, a special track at IEEE SMC2008), MCS2009 (Chengdu,
a workshop at MCDM2009), MCS serial workshops gain so much attention worldwide.
Formally proposed in 1990 by the famous Chinese system scientist Qian Xuesen
(1911-2009) towards open complex giant systems, meta-synthesis approach
emphasizes to make full use of cutting-edge information technologies and aims
to achieve knowledge creation and wisdom emergence along 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, such as
knowledge creation and computerized support, knowledge network and knowledge
community structure, agent-based modeling about social problems, etc. As new
wicked problems, e.g. emergency management and terrorism, bring more troubles
to the current world, similar concepts like meta-synthesis have been of
discussion and 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.
MCS workshop 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. to facilitate interdisciplinary
studies under the context of the
2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and
Intelligent Agent System (WI-IAT2010)
held in Toronto.
Program Committee
Honorable Chair :
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. (Univeristy 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 (Institute of
Environmental Science and Research,
New Zealand)
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)
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Scope
This workshop will cover a
broad range of research topics in the fields of complex system
modeling, systems science and knowledge science. Topics
include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Chance discovery
- Complex system
modeling and complexity
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Computing methods for uncertainty modeling
- Consensus methods and
technologies
- Creation of
agent-based social systems sciences
- Decision support
systems
- Knowledge creation,
creativity support, awareness support, etc.
- Knowledge discovery:
data mining, text mining and Web intelligence tools
- Knowledge
systems engineering
- Meta-synthesis and
advanced modeling to practical problems, e.g. crisis & emergency management,
socioeconomic system, service system, etc.
- Problem structuring
methods and system methodologies
- Social network
analysis and knowledge management
etc.
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Important
Dates
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Apr 16, 2010 Submission due of papers
(Apr 23, 2010)
Jun 7, 2010 Notification of acceptance/rejection
Jun 21, 2010 Final camera-ready paper
Aug 31, 2010 MCS
2010
Sep 1-3, 2010 WI-IAT2010
main conference
All other deadlines follow WI-IAT2010
timetable.
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Papers Submission
Prospective authors are
welcome to use the WI-IAT2010 CyberChair
system for on-line paper submission. Paper format guidelines (Word, Pdf, Ps) and the
Latex formatting macros (Latex) are
available on the WI-IAT2010
Web site. Accepted papers are to be 4 pages in length. A maximum of one
additional page can be included, but is subject to a surcharge on the
conference registration fee. All steps will strictly follow WI-IAT2010
requirements. Please select The 10th International Workshop on
Meta-Synthesis and Complex Systems (MCS) during your paper submission
to MCS2010.
Each full-length paper will
be under at least 3 anonymous reviewers. All submitted papers will be
reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and
clarity to MCS2010. The accepted paper will be included in WI-IAT2010
proceedings published by IEEE press, as well as publication in the IEEE
digital library.
Selected papers presented at
MCS2010 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. MCS2010 organizers do
not guarantee the acceptance of those recommended papers by those journals.
Any further
inquiries are welcome to mcs@iss.ac.cn.
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Chairs
Contact
Xijin Tang xjtang@amss.ac.cn
Xiaoji Zhou zh_xj@sina.com
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