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10th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics

We would like to inform you that we extended to January 8th, 2019, the submission deadline for your potential contribution with an article in the subject area “Informatics”, or in any other area of your research interest included among the topics suggested in the 10th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: : IMCIC 2019 (http://www.2019iiisconf.org/imcic), to be held on March 12 – 15, 2019, in Orlando, Florida, USA, jointly with:
The 10th International Conference on Education, Training and Informatics: ICETI 2019
The 10th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2019

You can find more details, as well as the URLs of the different events, at http://www.2019iiisconf.org/cfp-spring2019.asp

The new deadlines for this second CFP are the following:
January 8th, 2019: Article submissions
January 8th, 2019: Invited session proposals
January 29th, 2019: Notifications of acceptance
February 12th, 2019: Uploading of camera-ready or final version

To submit your article, please click the “Authors” tab on the conference website. Submissions for face-to-face and virtual presentations are both accepted.

The Proceedings of IMCIC and ICSIT/ICETI have been indexed by Elsevier’s SCOPUS since 2010. The 2019 proceedings will also be sent to Elsevier’s SCOPUS.

Keynote speakers will be selected from registered authors of submissions made according to this first call for papers, and whose submissions are among the best submissions. The identification of the best will be based on the quantitative evaluation of the reviewers and the % of reviewers recommending the acceptance of the submission as related to all the reviewers who made their respective reviews.

Registered authors of accepted submissions for this CFP will be invited to make an additional presentation with no additional charge , if such a presentation is oriented to inter-disciplinary communication, and will have the option of writing an invited paper associated with their respective invited presentation. If received on time, this invited paper would be included, as such, in the conference proceedings.

Details about the following issues have also been included at the URLs given above:
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.
Waiving the registration fee of effective invited session organizers.
Best papers awards.
Publication of best papers in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI), which is indexed in EBSCO, Cabell, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), and Google Scholar, and listed in Cabell Directory of Publishing Opportunities and in Ulrich’s Periodical Directory. (All papers to be presented at the conference will be included in the conference printed and electronic proceedings). We are supplying our Journal’s meta-data to DOAJ. Many aggregators, databases, libraries, publishers and search portals collect DOAJ free metadata and include it in their products; examples are Scopus, Serial Solutions and EBSCO.

Please consider forwarding to the appropriate colleagues and/or groups who might be interested in submitting contributions to the above mentioned collocated events. New information and deadlines are posted on the conference and the IIIS web site (especially at the URL provided above).

Best regards,

IMCIC 2019 Organizing Committee

6 Resist the Urge to Be Average

  • Everywhere around you are average people.
  • They entice you into being more like them by offering their acceptance and by leading you to believe that everyone else is already more like them than like you.
  • But the “average person sales pitch” leaves out that you will be sacrificing your goals, individuality, and unique ideas and that you will lead a life determined more by the preferences of the group than by you.

Psychologists have observed that bad habits can spread through an office like a contagious disease. Employees tend to mirror the bad behaviors of their co-workers, with factors as diverse as low morale, poor working habits, and theft from the employer all rising based on the negative behavior of peers.
Greene 1999

2nd CFP (deadline extension) – Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics (March 12-15, 2019)

We would like to inform you that we extended to January 8th, 2019, the submission deadline for your potential contribution with an article in the subject area “Informatics”, or in any other area of your research interest included among the topics suggested in the 10th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: : IMCIC 2019 (http://www.2019iiisconf.org/imcic), to be held on March 12 – 15, 2019, in Orlando, Florida, USA, jointly with:
The 10th International Conference on Education, Training and Informatics: ICETI 2019
The 10th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies: ICSIT 2019

You can find more details, as well as the URLs of the different events, at http://www.2019iiisconf.org/cfp-spring2019.asp

The new deadlines for this second CFP are the following:
January 8th, 2019: Article submissions
January 8th, 2019: Invited session proposals
January 29th, 2019: Notifications of acceptance
February 12th, 2019: Uploading of camera-ready or final version

To submit your article, please click the “Authors” tab on the conference website. Submissions for face-to-face and virtual presentations are both accepted.

The Proceedings of IMCIC and ICSIT/ICETI have been indexed by Elsevier’s SCOPUS since 2010. The 2019 proceedings will also be sent to Elsevier’s SCOPUS.

Keynote speakers will be selected from registered authors of submissions made according to this first call for papers, and whose submissions are among the best submissions. The identification of the best will be based on the quantitative evaluation of the reviewers and the % of reviewers recommending the acceptance of the submission as related to all the reviewers who made their respective reviews.

Registered authors of accepted submissions for this CFP will be invited to make an additional presentation with no additional charge , if such a presentation is oriented to inter-disciplinary communication, and will have the option of writing an invited paper associated with their respective invited presentation. If received on time, this invited paper would be included, as such, in the conference proceedings.

Details about the following issues have also been included at the URLs given above:
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.
Waiving the registration fee of effective invited session organizers.
Best papers awards.
Publication of best papers in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (JSCI), which is indexed in EBSCO, Cabell, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), and Google Scholar, and listed in Cabell Directory of Publishing Opportunities and in Ulrich’s Periodical Directory. (All papers to be presented at the conference will be included in the conference printed and electronic proceedings). We are supplying our Journal’s meta-data to DOAJ. Many aggregators, databases, libraries, publishers and search portals collect DOAJ free metadata and include it in their products; examples are Scopus, Serial Solutions and EBSCO.

Please consider forwarding to the appropriate colleagues and/or groups who might be interested in submitting contributions to the above mentioned collocated events. New information and deadlines are posted on the conference and the IIIS web site (especially at the URL provided above).

Best regards,

IMCIC 2019 Organizing Committee

3 Creativity Comes from Within

Everyone wants to think of something new—solve a problem no one else can solve, offer a valuable idea no else has conceived of. And every business wants to encourage its employees to have the next great idea.

So when a business offers its employees a bonus for creative ideas, a flood of great, original thoughts should come pouring in.

Right?
We think that creativity, like any other task, can be bought and sold. But creativity is not the same as hard work and effort; it requires genuine inspiration. It is the product of a mind thoroughly intrigued by a question, a situation, a possibility. Thus, creativity comes not in exchange for money or rewards but when we focus our attention on something because we want to.

Experiments offering money in exchange for creative solutions to problems find that monetary rewards are unrelated to the capacity of people to offer original ideas. Instead, creativity is most frequently the product of genuine interest in the problem and a belief that creativity will be personally appreciated by superiors.

Cooper, Clasen, Silva-Jalonen, and Butler 1999

2 It’s Not How Hard You Try

  • Work hard and you will be rewarded. It sounds simple.
  • But remember what it was like studying for a test? Some kids studied forever and did poorly. Some studied hardly at all and made great grades.
  • You can spend incredible effort inefficiently and gain nothing. Or, you can spend modest efforts efficiently and be rewarded.
  • The purpose of what you do is to make progress, not just to expend yourself.

Effort is the single most overrated trait in producing success.People rank it as the best predictor of success when in reality it is one of the least significant factors. Effort, by itself, is a terrible predictor of outcomes because inefficient effort is a tremendous source of discouragement, leaving people to conclude that they can never succeed since even expending maximum effort has not produced results.

Scherneck 1998