EEDS 2014: The 2014 International Conference on
Energy, Environment, Development and Economics

Santorini Island, Greece, July 17-19, 2014

About the Conference

* The 2014 International Conference on Energy, Environment, Development and Economics is an international forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research and development results in all areas of  Energy, Environment, Ecology, Development, Sustainability and Economics and their possible advanced applications in real life. The Conference has a distinguished Organizing Committee, Steering and Program Committee with extensive academic qualifications, ensuring that the conference maintains high scientific standards and has a broad international coverage.  All the papers are subject to peer, thorough, strict review by committees' members or 2 or 3 additional reviewers.
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* The Proceedings of the Conference will be published in CD-ROM and Hard-Copy (as book) with all the accepted and registered papers of the conferences and will be indexed in: ISI (Thomson Reuters), ELSEVIER, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt MATH, British Library, EBSCO, SWETS, EMBASE, CAS - American Chemical Society, EI Compendex, Engineering Village, DoPP, GEOBASE, Biobase, TIB|UB - German National Library of Science and Technology, American Mathematical Society (AMS), Inspec - The IET, Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory, Scholar Google.

* As in all the Previous Conferences, extended versions of all the accepted papers will be promoted to various Journals depending on the quality of each paper (Indexed in ISI, SCOPUS, ACM, DBLP, EI Compendex, AMS, ACS, CiteSeerX, Zentralblatt, British Library, EBSCO, SWETS, EMBASE, CAS, Scholar Google etc) for publication as well as in various Springer Verlag Books (Check our Previous Books in Springer).
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Plenary Lecture 1 | Plenary Lecture 2

Special Session 1 | Special Session 2

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Paper Submission

Papers must be written in the correct format:  MS Word.doc  or LaTeX  or LaTeX2   and must be uploaded using the following form as .doc, or .pdf file. As in all the Previous Conferences, all the accepted and registered Papers will be indexed as peer-reviewed publications in ISI and SCOPUS and will be published in CD-ROM and Book (hard-copy). As in all the Previous Conferences, extended versions of accepted papers will be distributed to various Journals depending on the quality of each paper (Indexed in ISI, SCOPUS, ACM, DBLP, EI Compendex, AMS, ACS, CiteSeerX, Zentralblatt, British Library, EBSCO, SWETS, EMBASE, CAS, Scholar Google etc) for publication as well as in various Springer Verlag Books (Check our Previous Books in Springer). Only full papers will be promoted to reviewers for peer thorough review. Abstracts will be rejected by default. For the review process only active scholars with many recent publications in ISI and/or SCOPUS will be used and the list with their names will be published in the Proceedings: Hard-Copy and CD-ROM as in all our previous conferences.  The deadline for paper submission expired. We do not accept papers any longer.

Organizing Committee

General Chairs (Editors of the Proceedings)

  1. Prof. Nikos Mastorakis
    Industrial Engineering Department
    Technical University of Sofia
    Bulgaria
  2. Prof. Vladimir Sokolov,
    University of Karlsruhe,
    Karlsruhe, Germany
  3. Prof. Reinhard Neck
    Department of Economics
    Klagenfurt University
    Klagenfurt, Austria
  4. Prof. Rui Pedro Juliao,
    Universidade Nova De Lisboa
    Lisbon, Portugal

Senior Program Chair

  1. Prof. Shoji Arai, Kanazawa University,
    Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture,
    Japan

Program Chairs

  1. Prof. Panos Pardalos,
    Department of University of Florida,
    USA
  2. Prof. Filippo Neri
    Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica
    University of Naples "Federico II"
    Naples, Italy
  3. Prof. Bharat Doshi,
    John Hopkins University,
    Mayrland, USA

Tutorials Chair

  1. Prof. Pradip Majumdar
    Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Northern Illinois University
    Dekalb, Illinois, USA

Special Session Chair

  1. Prof. Essam Eldin Khalil,
    ASME Fellow,
    Cairo University, Cairo,
    Egypt

     

Workshops Chair

  1. Prof. Hyung Hee Cho, ASME Fellow,
    Yonsei University (and National
    Academy of Engineering of Korea),
    Korea

Local Organizing Chair

  1. Dr. Claudio Guarnaccia, University of Salerno, Italy

Publication Chair

  1. Prof. Marcin Kaminski,
    Department of Structural Mechanics,
    Al. Politechniki 6, 90-924 Lodz, Poland

Publicity Committee

  1. Prof. Kumar Tamma,
    University of Minnesota,
    Minneapolis, MN, USA
  2. Prof. Gang Yao,
    University of Illinois at Urbana -
    Champaign, USA

International Liaisons

  1. Prof. Quan Wen,
    Department of Economics University of Washington,
    Seattle, WA, USA
  2. Prof. Fotios Rigas,
    School of Chemical Engineering,
    National Technical University of Athens,
    Greece.
  3. Prof. Vincenzo Niola
    Departement of Mechanical Engineering for Energetics
    University of Naples "Federico II"
    Naples, Italy
  4. Prof. Christopher G. Provatidis,
    National Technical University of Athens,
    Zografou, Athens, Greece

Steering Committee

  • Prof. Aida Bulucea, University of Craiova, Romania
  • Prof. Zoran Bojkovic, Univ. of Belgrade, Serbia
  • Prof. Ottavia Corbi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
  • Prof. Imre Rudas, Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary

Program Committee

A) Program Committee for ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPEMT

  • Prof. Bharat Doshi, John Hopkins University, Mayrland, USA
  • Prof. Gang Yao, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, USA
  • Prof. Lu Peng, Luisian State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
  • Prof. Y. Baudoin, Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium
  • Prof. F.Rigas, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
  • Prof. S. Sohrab, Northwestern University, IL, USA
  • Prof. A. Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  • Prof. A. I. Zouboulis, Dept. of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Prof. Z. A. Vale, ISEP - Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Antonio Bernardino de Almeida, Portugal
  • Prof. M. Heiermann, Dr., Department of Technology Assessment and Substance Flow, Potsdam, Germany
  • Prof. I. Kazachkov, National Technical University of Ukraine (NTUU KPI ), Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Prof. A. M.A. Kazim, UAE University, United Arab Emirates
  • Prof. A. Kurbatskiy, Novosibirsk State University, Department of Physics, Russia
  • Prof. S. Linderoth, Head of Research on Fuel Cells and Materials Chemistry at Riso National Laboratory. Denmark
  • Prof. P. Lunghi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, University degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
  • Prof. J. Van Mierlo, Department of Electrotechnical Engineering and Energy Technology (ETEC) Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  • Prof. Pavel Loskot, Swansea University, UK
  • Prof. N. Afgan, UNESCO Chair Holder, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Prof. F. Akgun, Gebze Kocaeli, Turkey
  • Prof. Fernando Alvarez, Prof. of Economics, University of Chicago, USA
  • Prof. Mark J. Perry, Prof. of Finance and Business Economics, University of Michigan-Flit, USA
  • Prof. Biswa Nath Datta, IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Research Prof., Northern Illinois University, USA
  • Prof. Panos Pardalos, Distinguished Prof. Director, Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida, USA
  • Prof. Gamal Elnagar, University of South Carolina Upstate,Spartanburg, SC, USA
  • Prof. Luis Tavares Rua, Cmte Guyubricht, 119. Conj. Jardim Costa do Sol. Atalaia, Brazil
  • Prof. Igor Kuzle, Faculty of electrical engineering and computing, Zagreb, Croatia
  • Prof. Maria do Rosario Alves Calado, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
  • Prof. Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania
  • Prof. Jiri Strouhal, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic
  • Prof. Morris Adelman, Prof. of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, USA
  • Prof. Germano Lambert-Torres, Itajuba,MG, Brazil
  • Prof. Jiri Klima, Technical faculty of CZU in Prague, Czech Republic
  • Prof. Goricanec Darko, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
  • Prof. Ze Santos, Rua A, 119. Conj. Jardim Costa do Sol, Brazil
  • Prof. Ehab Bayoumi, Chalmers University of Technology,Goteborg, Sweden
  • Prof. Robert L. Bishop, Prof. of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, USA
  • Prof. Glenn Loury, Prof. of Economics, Brown University, USA
  • Prof. Patricia Jota, Av. Amazonas 7675, BH, MG, Brazil
  • Prof. S. Ozdogan, Marmara University, Goztepe Campus, Kuyubasi, Kadikoy, Istanbul, Turkey

    B) Program Committee for ECONOMICS
  • Prof. Morris Adelman, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, USA
  • Prof. Robert L. Bishop, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, USA
  • Prof. Glenn Loury, Professor of Economics, Brown University, USA
  • Prof. Fernando Alvarez, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, USA
  • Prof. Mark J. Perry, Professor of Finance and Business Economics, University of Michigan-Flit, USA
  • Prof. Quan Wen, Department of Economics University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  • Prof. David E. Giles, Department of Economics, University of Victoria, Canada
  • Prof. Joao Ricardo Faria, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
  • Prof. Jacob Engwerda, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
  • Prof. Thomas D. Crocker, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Ave. Laramie, USA
  • Prof. Jean-Marie Dufour, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Prof. Laura Gardini, Universita degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino PU, Italy
  • Prof. Junsen Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Prof. Reinhard Neck, Department of Economics, Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria
  • Prof. Panos Pardalos, Department of University of Florida, USA
  • Prof. Shuliang Li, The University of Westminster, London, UK
  • Prof. Jiri Strouhal, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic
  • Prof. Morris Adelman, Prof. of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, USA
  • Prof. Robert L. Bishop, Prof. of Economics, Emeritus, MIT, USA
  • Prof. Glenn Loury, Prof. of Economics, Brown University, USA
  • Prof. Fernando Alvarez, Prof. of Economics, University of Chicago, USA
  • Prof. Mark J. Perry, Prof. of Finance and Business Economics, University of Michigan-Flit, USA
  • Prof. Biswa Nath Datta, IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Research Prof., Northern Illinois University, USA
  • Prof. Gamal Elnagar, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, USA
  • Prof. Jiri Klima, Technical faculty of CZU in Prague, Czech Republic
  • Prof. Ze Santos, Rua A, 119. Conj. Jardim Costa do Sol, Brazil
  • Prof. Ehab Bayoumi, Chalmers University of Technology,Goteborg, Sweden
  • Prof. Maria do Rosario Alves Calado, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
  • Prof. Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu, "Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania
  • Prof. Zhuo Li, Beijing University Of Technology, Beijing, China
  • Prof. Pradip Majumdar, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois, USA
  • Prof. Ricardo Gouveia Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
  • Prof. Jirí Strouhal, University of Economics Prague, Czech RepublicUSA

Topics of Interest

A) Energy, Environment, Development: Environment and sustainable development, Sustainable management, Indoor Air Quality in Offices and Houses, Quality of water, Global change, climate and biodiversity, Sustainable marine ecosystems, Climate and global change, Advanced Marine research, Research on Natural hazards, Cleaner energy systems, Renewable energy Systems, Combined Heat and Power Systems, Combustion and gasification, Energy Storage, Materials Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Hydrogen energy production, storage and transmission, Fuel Cells, Electrolysis, Hydrides, Biomass an Bio-energy, Wind energy and wind resources, Solar Energy Systems, Cogeneration Systems, Distributed generation systems, Energy conservation and generation, Distributed generation, embedded generation, Industrial Gas Turbines and Microturbines, Energy conservation in Industry, Economic and efficient energy systems, Socio-economic aspects of energy, Energy technology transfer, Oceanographic laser remote sensing, Applied thermodynamics and Eco-informatics, Thermodynamics of Ecosystems, Environmental management, Biodiversity, Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering, Air pollution and its effects on ecosystems, Cost reduction and less emission, Coasts and Seas, Sustainability indicators, Environmental risk, Recovery of damaged areas, Brownfields, Forestation, Science and the humanities, Soil and agricultural issues, Landscapes, The city of tomorrow and cultural heritage, Impact on society, the economy and employment, Sustainable Process Model, Strategic Management, Natural resources management, Feasibility Analysis, Refurbishment Investment Appraisal, Governance, urban design and cultural heritage, Nuclear Energy and Environmental Protection, Socio-economic and infrastructure issues, International strategy for energy, development and environment, Design and nature, Systems Theory for Environment and Ecosystems, Mathematical Biology, Simulation, Computational and Applied Mathematics for Energy, Environment, Development and Ecosystems, Air-conditioning and Refrigeration Systems, Bio-fuels and food scarcity, Biofuels sustainability, City planning, Clean Transportation Fuels, Combined and Co-generation Energy Systems, Community participation in environmental issues, Deregulation of electric supply industry, Development of methods for the analysis and evaluation of complex system, Development of models of energy, water and environment systems, Distributed power generation, Ecosystems analysis, protection and remediation, Education in Sustainable Development, Energy Analysis, Energy and Environmental Issues, Energy and Sustainable Development, Energy Conservation, Energy Conversion and Management, Energy economics, engineering and education, Energy efficient appliances, Energy Policy and Planning, Energy resources, Energy Storage, Energy, gender and environment, Environmental economics, Environmental impact assessment, Environmental legislation and policy, Environmental management, Forecasting, Fossil fuel resources and management, Fuels and Alternatives, Geo-informatics, Green Building, Hybrid vehicles sustainability, Hydrogen as fuel, Hydrogen fuel and Emerging Energy Technologies, Hydrogen strategy and sustainable development, Indicators of sustainability, Integrated territorial and environmental risk analysis, Issues and Opportunities for Coal in Developing Countries, Manufacturing and Services, Marine environment, Material Design and Analysis, Plant Integrity, Policy and Planning, Politics and sustainability, Power and energy systems, Regional planning, Renewable Energy and Emerging Energy Technology, Renewable Energy Technologies, Resources management, Rural development, Social and cultural issues, Solid waste management, Sustainability science, Sustainable development in agriculture, Sustainable development in developing countries, Thermodynamic Optimization and Exergy Analysis, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics, Transportation, Urban landscapes, Waste management, Waste to energy, emissions and its control, Waste water treatment, Others...
B) Economics: Organisational Behaviour, Group Dynamics, Organisational Design, Business Management, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Decision Analysis, Production and Operations Management , Project Management, Human Resources Management, Quality Management, Business Process Reengineering, Business Design and Business Strategy, Managerial Accounting , Multinational Business Design and Development, Business Ethics, Risk Management and Risk Analysis, Marketing, Production and Logistics, Security Problems, Manufacturing, Manufacturing and Logistics, Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Production Control, Control Systems, Monitoring, Diagnosis and Maintenance, Real-Time Systems, Large Scale Systems, Hierarchical Systems, Man-Machine Integration, Manufacturing Systems, Concurrent Engineering, Lean/Agile/Virtual Manufacturing, Electronic Commerce, Digital Marketing, Digital Libraries Administration, Virtual Reality, Virtual and Extended Enterprises, Business Law, Legal Aspects of Electronic Transactions, Security and Electronic Payment Systems, Strategic Inventory Control and Warehousing, Public Finance , Policies to Increase Economic Growth, Labor Economics, International Trade, Natural Resources and the Environment, National and International Monetary Economics, Regional Economics, Taxation andGovernment Expenditure, Stock Exchange Analysis and Prediction, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Agriculture Economics, Managerial Economics, Economics of Energy Systems, Economics of Transportation Systems, Political Sciences, Sociology, Crisis Management, Cooperations of Companies, Banking Sector, History of Economics and Business Science, Education, Applications, Others..
 

Location and Venue

Conference Publications

Accepted Papers are going to be published in

(a) Book, Hard-Copy Proceedings (will be sent to the following indexes: ISI, SCOPUS, EI Compendex, AMS, ACS, CiteSeerX, Zentralblatt, British Library, EBSCO, SWETS, EMBASE, CAS, Scholar Google etc)
(b) CD-ROM Proceedings (will be sent to the following indexes: ISI, SCOPUS, EI Compendex, AMS, ACS, CiteSeerX, Zentralblatt, British Library, EBSCO, SWETS, EMBASE, CAS, Scholar Google etc)
Review Procees for Book and CD-ROM:
Papers will undergo thorough peer review by 3 international experts. Reviewers have always proper academic qualifications (recent publications in SCOPUS and ISI). You will receive comments from those 3 reviewers and your paper might be
* a) accepted as it is (unaltered)
* b) accepted after minor revision
* c) accepted after major revision
* d) rejected
We cannot guarantee acceptance for cases b) and c), if the reviewers are not satisfied by your response and your (minor or major) modifications to your conference paper.


(c) After new peer thorough review of their extended versions in well-known and reputable international scientific journals depending on the quality of each paper (Indexed in ISI, SCOPUS, ACM, DBLP, EI Compendex, AMS, ACS, CiteSeerX, Zentralblatt, British Library, EBSCO, SWETS, EMBASE, CAS, Scholar Google etc)
as well as in various Springer Verlag Books (Check our Previous Books in Springer).
Review Process for Extended Version in collaborating journals:
Extended Versions of high-quality journals will undergo again thorough peer review by 3 international experts. You will receive comments from other reviewers and your extended paper might be
* a) accepted as it is (unaltered)
* b) accepted after minor revision
* c) accepted after major revision
* d) rejected
We cannot guarantee acceptance for cases b) and c), if the reviewers are not satisfied by your response and your (minor or major) modifications to your extended paper.

(d) E-Library with free access for all (no username, no password).