With the purpose of fostering "inter-disciplinary communications", participants registered at any conference or symposia can attend any sessions of the collocated events. Registered participants will also receive a CD containing the proceedings of all collocated events and will have a password to access any virtual session of these events so they can comment the papers presented at any of them. Each face-to-face session will have a corresponding virtual session.

Submissions for face-to-face or for virtual participation are both accepted. Both kinds of submissions 1) will have the same reviewing process; 2) the accepted papers will be included in the same proceedings; and 3) authors of the best 20%-25% papers will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics with no additional costs, i.e. the respective article processing charge will be waived for them.

Authors of the best 25% - 30% papers presented at the conference (including those presented via virtual participation) will be invited to extend/adapt their papers for their respective publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI), with no additional cost. JSCI has been 1) indexed by EBSCO, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and in Google Scholar; 2) listed in Cabell Directory of Publishing Opportunities and in Ulrich’s Periodical Directory; re-published in academcia.edu, a community that includes more than 10,000,000 academics.

Details about the following issues have also been included at the conference web site:

•   pre-and post-conference virtual sessions

•   virtual participation

•   two-tier reviewing combining double-blind and non-blind methods

•   access to reviewers’ comments and evaluation average according to eight criteria

•   waiving the registration fee of effective invited session organizers

•   best-papers awards