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What WIKIPEDIA wrote for the WSEAS
World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, a nonprofit which funds research, organizes conventions, and publishes journals. The current President is Dr. Charles Long, emeritus professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin at Steven's Point.
WSEAS organizes and sponsors more than fifty conferences [1] per year and publishes several scientific journals[2] like: The WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS[3](SCImago: 0,039), the [4] SCImago: 0,038, the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS AND CONTROL[5], the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS AND CONTROL[6] SCImago: 0,039, the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS[7] SCImago: 0,038, the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON MATHEMATICS[8] SCImago: 0,039, the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRONICS[9] SCImago: 0,038, the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS[10], the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICINE[11], the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS[12] SCImago: 0,039, the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ADVANCES in ENGINEERING EDUCATION[13], the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON APPLIED AND THEORETICAL MECHANICS[14], the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER[15], the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON FLUID MECHANICS[16], the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING[17], the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT[18], the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS[19],
Within the years 2004-2007, about 7000 articles published by WSEAS have been indexed by INSPEC[20].
From 2008, the PDF files of the WSEAS Journals are open on the web and everybody can download them, free without any kind of password or subscription.
The WSEAS gives also high readability to published papers having open the WSEAS E-Library [21] The only thing that you will need to make one-time registration in one conference or to pay one annual subscription to receive a password without expiry date. Practically, the WSEAS E-LIBRARY is open for all with more than 50000 visits per month is open for all the WSEAS members and WSEAS allows the scanning from the search engines (google, etc....)].[22]
Many Reviewers help volunteerly the WSEAS difficult task each year. The WSEAS forward their names to WSEAS Administration and you can check their names here [23]
WSEAS also publishes the feedback that receives from its members in its WSEAS Feedback Forum[24].
Full post-conference reports also appear after the scientific events in the WSEAS Post-Conference Reports[25].
The WSEAS Increasing Impact attracts every year much scientific interest among top Researchers and University Professors from all over the world, to mention only a few recent WSEAS Speakers: Lotfi Zadeh, Dimitri Bertsekas, Sunil Das, Bimal K. Bose, Janusz Kacprzyk, Leonid Kazovsky, Rao Kamissety, Ronald Yager, Narsingh Deo, Sidney Burrus, Biswa N. Datta, Mihai Putinar, Stamatios Kartalopoulos, David Staelin, A. Bers, Athanasios Manikas, Wlodzislaw Duch, George Giannakis, Nikos Markatos, Wasfy B Mikhael, Valeri Mladenov, Panos Pardalos, George Tsamasphyros, Tadeusz Kaczorek, Leon Chua, Irwin W. Sandberg, Constantin Udriste, Andris Buikis ,Metin Demiralp , Michael N. Katehakis, Imre J. Rudas, Brian A. Barsky, Dimitris Kazakos, Alexey L Sadovski, Amedeo Andreotti, Ion Carstea, Sudip Misra, Victor-Emil Neagoe, Panos M. Pardalos, Hamid Abachi, Ryszard S. Choras, Hamido Fujita, Miroslav Begovic, Josef Boercsoek, Dumitru Cazacu, Costas G. Helmis, Zhixin Wang, Sankar K. Pal, Ulrich Albrecht, Jim Cunningham, Dorian Cojocaru, Andrzej Ordys, Fumiaki Imado, Milan Stork, Remi Leandre, Kleanthis Psarris, Kinshuk, Moustapha Diaby, Brian McCartin, Patrick Wang, Costin Cepisca, Charles Long, Gabriela Bognar, Angel Kuri-Morales, Jiancheng Guan, and many others ....
Approximately each year about 3000 academicians attend the WSEAS Conferences and more than 3000 papers are published by WSEAS each year out of more than 10000 submitted papers. While from 10000 papers in WSEAS Conferences, approximately 4000 are approved and from them around 3000 thousand make registration and attend the congresses.
As one can check the Abstracting/Indexing Status of WSEAS Books, WSEAS Journals
and WSEAS Conference Proceedings is important. All the papers in the WSEAS Books
and Journals are refereed papers by 3 international reviewers. The List of the
Reviewers exist in all the WSEAS Books (Hard-Copy or CD-ROM) as well as
Journals. The WSEAS Administration would like to extend a special thanks to its
Reviewers, Organizers of Conferences, Organizers of Special Sessions, Guest
Editors, International Scientific Committees, Chairmen of Local Chapters,
Faculty Members and Students that have published papers in WSEAS Books
(Conference Proceedings - Digests of Papers - Research Monographies) and
Journals.
The WSEAS Books and Conference Proceedings: are indexed by
Also the WSEAS participates permanently in the following editions
The WSEAS Press publishes High Quality Textbooks, Monographies, Other Conference Proceedings. WSEAS can also undertake to include them in several international indexes. The full text of your book is sent to five international reviewers and after 3 months the author(s) receive(s) the reviewers' comments with the recommendation of the Associate Editor for publication or not. At the same time interval of these 3 months the author(s) must not negotiate(s) the publication of the book with any other international publisher Policy for the WSEAS Books.[27] Recent WSEAS Books.[28]
The WSEAS is a non-for-profit organization with several acts of donating money, goods, time (see below). WSEAS efforts are extended to support a charitable cause, usually over an extended period of time and in regard to a defined objective. In a more fundamental sense, the WSEAS philanthropy may encompass any altruistic activity which is intended to promote good or improve human quality of life. The WSEAS does not discriminate people according national, racial, religious, and class differences. WSEAS snuggles all the nations, cultures and religions as you can see below.
You can read for example the Letter of Petros Molyviatis, Minister of External Affairs and President of Fire Victims here [29] Throughout the summer of 2007, a series of massive forest fires broke out in several areas across Greece. The most destructive and lethal infernos raged from August 23 to August 27 mainly in western and southern Peloponnese as well as in southern Euboea, resulting in 68 confirmed fatalities as of September 21. Some of these firestorms are believed to be the result of arson although many proved to be the result of mere negligence. Hot temperatures (three consecutive heat waves of over 40C / 105F) and drought have made the 2007 summer an especially severe one in Greece.[1] From the end of June 2007 to early September 2007, over 3,000 forest fires were recorded across the nation. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature-Greece, overall these wildfires destroyed a total of 177,265 hectares (438,040 acres). Nine more people were killed in blazes in June and July.
Donation of 18000 EUR for Rehabilitation of Archaeological Monuments of great Importance in Crete Island and Revealment of Frescos (Wall Painting) of the Early Cretan School (December 27, 2007) RECEIPT from the Bank[30]
WSEAS offered the amount of 18000 EUR for the Rehabilitation of the ancient Temples "Agia Triada" & "Panagia" in the village Sfaka, Sitia, Lassithi Prefecture, Crete, Greece. In these monuments, constructed around 1500 during the Venetian occupation of Crete, there were several and important Frescos (Wall Paintings) under the Plasters ("Sovas") of the Churches. WSEAS supported financially this project and now these very old frescos (Wall Paintings, Hagiographies) were revealed after the removal of plasters and the visitors can admire works of the early Cretan School. WSEAS is willing to help the world cultural heritage by actions like this. We hope to organize an excursion to this place in one of our next Conferences in Crete.
Donation of the 15% of the registration fees from 4 conferences to the
tsunami victims (February 2005) The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, was an
undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time) December
26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The
earthquake triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most
landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing more than 225,000 people in
eleven countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 m (98
ft). This was the ninth deadliest natural disaster in modern history. Indonesia,
Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, and Myanmar were hardest hit. With a magnitude of
between 9.1 and 9.3, it is the second largest earthquake ever recorded on a
seismograph. This earthquake had the longest duration of faulting ever observed,
between 8.3 and 10 minutes. It caused the entire planet to vibrate as much as 1
cm (0.4 in). The disaster is known by the scientific community as the great
Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, and is also known as the Asian Tsunami and the
Boxing Day Tsunami. The tsunami occurred exactly one year after the 2003 Bam
earthquake and exactly two years before the 2006 Hengchun earthquake. The plight
of the many affected people and countries prompted a widespread humanitarian
response. In all, the worldwide community donated more than $7 billion (2004 US
dollars) in humanitarian aid.
Donation of the 10% of the registration fees from 4 conferences to the
victims of the earthquake of the town Bam in IRAN (December 2003)
On December 26, 2003 at 5:26 AM local time(1:56 AM UTC) Bam Citadel "the biggest adobe structure of the world" and most of the city of Bam proper were devastated by an earthquake. The United States Geological Survey estimated its magnitude as 6.6 on the Richter scale. The BBC reported that "70% of the modern city of Bam" was destroyed. Death toll numbers as high as 80,000 were rumoured on the street and 70,000 reported in the media. However, the total death toll was given as 56,230 on January 17 and the latest estimate from Tehran has halved previous estimates to 26,271 deaths. An additional 50,000 were reported injured, however this number is very uncertain; the most reported number is 30,000, which may have originated from an early Reuters account. According to the Iranian news agency IRNA, the old Bam Citadel was "levelled to the ground". An international relief effort to help the survivors got under way as soon as news of the scale of the disaster reached the outside world. Rescue efforts quickly became a body recovery exercise, with many of the dead being buried in mass graves with the mullahs sanctioning abbreviated Islamic burial rites due to the huge numbers and fear of disease. The high death toll occurred because very few people who were trapped when their mud-brick homes collapsed managed to survive. Rescue workers reported that the collapsing mud-brick structures had completely disintegrated and buried people in piles of earth, rather than trapping them in voids or air pockets between building slabs, as would happen in a concrete building collapse. Those few who did survive being trapped were generally rescued within the first few hours, after being dug out by local survivors, or were trapped in ventilated air pockets. Among the survivors of the earthquake was 97-year-old Sharbanou Mazandarani, who was trapped in her home for eight days. Rescue workers took three hours to dig her out after sniffer dogs found her. She survived by being under a table near a ventilation pipe. The international relief effort staged in the earthquake's aftermath helped to thaw relations somewhat between Iran and western countries. Numerous countries (including the United States and UK) sent supplies and search-and-rescue teams including the International Rescue Corps. In February of 2004 Bam was visited by Charles, Prince of Wales, a further indication of the improvement of international relations following the disaster.