AMSE NEWS

2008 (2)

2007 is gone…12 years now since the new AMSE Board decided to continue Professor Mesnard’s (AMSE founding member) initial work which started in 1980. Many things have changed since, we must adapt.

Journals Submission : 235 submissions have been received in 2007 and 140 papers were forwarded to Spain for edition. It is encouraging to see that the editorial effort is paid in return and our journals become more attractive. The selection becomes harder; please, read carefully the “Instructions to Authors” and keep the level. AMSE journals are indexed in 7 databases; we won’t keep this positive appreciation if the level (content and form) drops. Also, don't forget to indicate clearly the relation (tool or application) with modelling and/or simulation. Most of the papers are quickly seen by the Referees and the Board appreciates this very valuable contribution, because AMSE is everybody’s concern. For the (small but too high) rest there is a (worrying) delay and the Board does its best to reduce it. So, please help us; don’t delay the papers or tell us quickly if you are really unable to do this job of general interest (or to find one of your colleagues who is qualified). A failure delays uselessly our colleagues’ papers and makes the AMSE work heavier.

Please, don’t forget you should not send registered mail, or mail with a special delivery, to the AMSE address in Lyon (Avenue Berthelot). Registered mail requires a special delivery, not suitable for this letter box granted by the town hall of Lyon. Use normal mail there to prevent the return of your mail. If registered mail is necessary, please send it to the AMSE address in Tassin la Demi-Lune.

Also, don't forget the covering letter with your papers and don't forget to quote the paper number in all mail (when you have got a number). Papers without a covering letter will be returned. Considering the high number of submissions it can be difficult to guess what the paper is and to process it efficiently.

Other services, such as the publication of the contents of the latest issues of AMSE journals, have been introduced on our website since 2000. The web has become an important tool in AMSE action. Don’t forget to visit it regularly (journals & conferences).

Conferences : Among the communications presented, several (of high quality) are selected to appear, in an expanded version, in a special volume (“The Best-of”) to be edited during the following year. The 2007 congress program included Algiers (Algeria/July 2-4), Terni (Italy/October 22-24) and Calcutta ( India/ December 3-5); thanks to Dr M. Saïghi, in Algeria, to Pr P. Burrascano in Italy and to Pr S. Sengupta in India they had a great success. Now, we have started the 2008 program and Port-Saïd ( Egypt) is behind; prof N. El Khameesy did a great job. Palma de Mallorca is coming (June 18-20) and later on (November 18-20) we will have Petra in Jordan. Don’t forget to come to the AMSE conferences to meet the Executive Committee Members and to push up the AMSE scientific life; we need your action.

The AMSE Committee is working on the 2009 program; we shall let you know soon the decision.