19th International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and
Computers, (CSCC 2015), Zakynthos Island, Greece, July 16-20, 2015
jointly with INASE.org conferences
www.cscc.co and www.inase.org
*** 44 ISI/SCI/SCOPUS (with Impact Factor from Thomson Reuters) will host the
extended version of all the accepted papers after the conference.
*** Proceedings will be published in CD-ROM and to 17 hard-copy volumes.
Hard-copy volumes and the CD-ROM will be distributed to the participants in the
conference and will be indexed in ISI, SCOPUS, DBLP, AMS, Zentrablatt, ACM,
Compendex, Engineering Village, DoPP, Copernicus, Scholargoogle and other 25
indexes.
*** Photos from CSCC 2014 and INASE.org conferences can be found here:
inase-news.blogspot.com/2014/12/post-conference-report-inase_15.html
If you want to organize a special session contact us: [email protected] and
[email protected] (do not use the address: [email protected] )
Successful Special Session organizers always receive full or partial financial
support and other benefits
(Editors in the Proceedings and Members in the committee of CSCC 2016)
As of June 20, 2015 we have:
60 Special Sessions in CSCC.co and other 10 Special Sessions in other INASE.org
events , 5 Plenary Speakers, 5 Tutorials,
44 ISI/SCI/SCOPUS (with Impact Factor from Thomson Reuters) will host the
extended version of all the accepted papers after the conference
and will be indexed in ISI, SCOPUS, DBLP, AMS, Zentrablatt, ACM, Compendex,
Engineering Village, DoPP, Copernicus, Scholargoogle and other 25 indexes
www.cscc.co <Jointly with the conferences of INASE: www.inase.org >
Sponsored by 1) Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria,
2) Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy and
3) University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
4) Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE RA, Egypt Chapter
Plenary Speakers (confirmed their trips and accommodation)
1) Professor Pierre Borne, IEEE Fellow, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France
2) Professor Erchin Serpedin, IEEE Fellow, Texas A&M University, USA
3) Professor Tadeusz Kaczorek, IEEE Fellow, Warsaw University of Technology,
Poland
4) Professor George Vachtsevanos, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
5) Professor Minjuan Wang, San Diego State University, USA
Tutorials:
1) Professor Sudharman K. Jayaweera, University of New Mexico, USA
2) Professor Rodolfo A. Fiorini, Politecnico di Milano University, ITALY (1)
3) Professor Rodolfo A. Fiorini, Politecnico di Milano University, ITALY (2)
4) Professor Dalibor Biolek, University of Defence/Brno University of
Technology, CZECH RPB
5) Professor Claudio Talarico, Gonzaga University, WA, USA
Zakynthos Island:
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Zakynthos is a tourist destination, with an international airport served by
many charter flights from northern Europe.
The island's nickname is To fioro tou Levante (Italian: Il fiore di Levante,
English: The flower of the East), given by the Venetians
History of Zakynthos - Monuments - Museums - Natural Beauty - Night Life -
Easy Transportation by Air, and 40 minutes by Boat from greek mainland
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Zakynthos was inhabited from the Neolithic Age, as some archaeological
excavations have proved. The ancient Greek poet Homer mentioned the island in
the Iliad and the Odyssey, stating that the first inhabitants of it were the
son of King
Dardanos of Troy called Zakynthos and his men. In mythology the island was then
conquered by King Arkesios of Kefalonia, and then by Odysseus from Ithaca.
Later on, a treaty was signed that made Zakynthos an independent democracy, the
first established in Greece, that lasted more than 650 years. The Athenian
military commander Tolmides concluded an alliance with Zakynthus during the
First Peloponnesian War sometime between 459 and 446 BC.
The importance of this alliance for Athens was that it provided them with a
source of tar. Tar is a more effective protector of ship planking than pitch
(which is made from pine trees). The Athenian trireme fleet needed protection
from rot, decay and the teredo, so this new source of tar was valuable to them.
The tar was dredged up from the bottom of a lake (now known as Lake Keri) using
leafy myrtle branches tied to the ends of poles.
It was then collected in pots and could be carried to the beach and swabbed
directly onto ship hulls. Alternatively, the tar could be shipped to the
Athenian naval yard at the Piraeus for storage. During the Middle Ages, the
island was part of the Byzantine theme of Cephallenia. After 1185 it became
part of the County palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos under the Kingdom of
Naples until its last Count Leonardo III Tocco was defeated by the Ottomans in
1479. The Turkish rule lasted only until 22 April 1484, when it was swapped
with the Turks by Venetian secretary Giovanni Dario, negotiator of the treaty
of Constantinople (1479), against neighboring Cephalonia and an annual tribute
of 500 ducats. From then on Zakynthos remained an overseas colony of the
Venetian Republic until its very end in 1797, following the fate of the Ionian
islands, completed by the capture of Cephalonia in 1500
and Lefkas in 1684 from the Turks. Venetian rule protected the island from
Ottoman domination but in its place it put a feudal oligarchy. The cultural
influence of Venice (and of Venetian on local dialect) was considerable. The
wealthy made a habit of sending their sons to Italy to be educated. Good
examples are Dionysios Solomos, a native of Zakynthos and Greece's national
poet, and Ugo Foscolo, also native of Zakynthos and a national Italian poet.
However, both the Greek language and Orthodox faith survived intact. From the
16th to the 18th centuries, it was one of the largest exporters of currants in
the world together with Cephalonia. French, Ionian state period and British
Rule: The Treaty of Campoformio dismantling the Venetian Republic awarded the
Ionian Islands to France. General Antoine Gentili, leading a French
expeditionary force with boats captured in Venice, took control
of the islands on 26 June 1797. From 1797 to 1798, the island was part of the
French départment Mer-Égée. A Russian-Turkish fleet captured the island on 23
October 1798. From 1800 to 1807, it was part of the Septinsular Republic,
nominally under sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire but protected by Russia. In
18001801, Britain attempted to take control of the Ionian islands from
Zakynthos after a revolt, under the leadership of James Callander Campbell[7]
but these intentions stopped after the Peace of Amiens.[8][9][10] After a
second period under French control (18071809) following the treaty of Tilsit,
it was conquered by Great Britain on 16 October 1809, and was part of the
British protectorate of the United States of the Ionian Islands from 1815 to
1864. In 1864, Zakynthos, together with all the other Ionian Islands, became a
full member of the Greek state, ceded by Britain to
stabilize the rule of the newly crowned Danish-born King of the Hellenes,
George I. During the Nazi occupation of Greece, Mayor Karrer and Bishop
Chrysostomos refused Nazi orders to turn in a list of the members of the town's
Jewish community for deportation to the death camps. Instead they hid the
town's 275 Jews in rural villages. Every Jew of Zakynthos survived the war.
Statues of the Bishop and the Mayor commemorate their heroism on the site of
the town's historic synagogue, destroyed in the earthquake of 1953. In 1978,
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Israel,
honored Bishop Chrysostomos and Mayor Loukas Karrer with the title of
"Righteous among the Nations", an honor given to non-Jews who, at personal
risk, saved Jews during the Holocaust. After the war, all of the Jews of
Zakynthos moved either to Israel or to Athens.
See you in Zakynthos, Greece in July
Prof. Kleanthis Psarris, The City University of New York, USA
Prof. George Vachtsevanos, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Valeri Mladenov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Prof. Aida Bulucea, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
Prof. Klimis Ntalianis, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece
Prof. Nikos Mastorakis, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria and HNA, Greece
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