CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The
2016 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
July 25-28,
2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016
This is an invitation to attend The 2016 World Congress
in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. The
congress
is composed of 20 major tracks composed of: 9 tutorials
(3 hours each);
618 research presentations divided into 105 sessions and
workshops;
and 12 keynotes, invited lectures, and panel discussions,
... - all
will be held simultaneously, same location and dates:
July 25-28, 2016.
Attendees will have full access to all conferences'
sessions, tracks,
and tutorials. Registration is required to attend. As of
now, 55% of
registrants are from academia, 24% from industry; 20%
from government
and funding agencies; and 1% unknown (correct as of June
27). About
half of the attendees are from outside USA; from 74
nations. The
congress has participants, speakers, authors affiliated
with over 176
different universities (including many from the top 50
ranked
institutions), major IT corporations (including,
Microsoft, Google,
Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung,
IBM, Ebay, GE,
Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Hitachi, NTT,
...), major
corporations (including, Exxon Mobil, Johnson &
Johnson, JPMorgan Chase,
Raytheon, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC, Airbus,
Boeing, Hyundai, ...),
government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, US Air
Force, NSA National
Security Agency, ...), US National Labs (including, NASA,
ANL, LLNL,
Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Los Alamos
National Lab,
National Cancer Institute, NIST, ...), and a number of Venture
Capitalists as well as distinguished speakers discussing
Intellectual
Property issues.
See below for:
A. General Information
B. Broad Topical Scopes
C. Registration Information for attendees (Deadline: July
18, 2016)
D. Location of congress (hotel) and online reservation
system
E. Partial list of planned Tutorials and Featured
Keynotes
F. Misc Information
We look forward to seeing you July 25-28, 2016.
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A. GENERAL INFORMATION:
http://www.worldcomp.org/events/2016
B. BROAD TOPICAL SCOPES: (10 to 70 research presentations
for each topic)
Advances in Big
Data Analytics (ABDA); Bioinformatics & Computational
Biology
(BIOCOMP); Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (BIOENG);
Scientific
Computing (CSC); Data Mining (DMIN); e-Learning, e-Business,
Enterprise
Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE); Embedded
Systems,
Cyber-physical Systems, and Applications (ESCS); Foundations
of Computer
Science (FCS); Frontiers in Education (FECS, includes ABET);
Grid, Cloud, and
Cluster Computing (GCC); Health Informatics and Medical
Systems (HIMS);
Artificial Intelligence (ICAI); Internet Computing and
Internet of Things (ICOMP); Wireless Networks
(ICWN); Information &
Knowledge
Engineering (IKE); Image Processing, Computer Vision, &
Pattern
Recognition (IPCV); Modeling, Simulation and Visualization
Methods (MSV);
Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
Applications
(PDPTA); Security and Management (SAM); and Software
Engineering
Research and Practice (SERP).
C. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: (Deadline: July 18, 2016)
http://worldcomp.org/registration
D. LOCATION OF CONGRESS:
http://worldcomp.org/event_location
Attendees are to
reserve their hotel rooms as soon as possible. A limited
number of rooms
are available at the reduced negotiated rate -
reservations
will be honored on the first-come first-served basis.
E. PLANNED TUTORIALS AND FEATURED KEYNOTES: (partial
list)
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/tutorials/index_html
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/keynotes/index_html
In addition to
the above, there are a number of focused invited talks
and lectures in
individual tracks (these are not listed in the above
links but will
be listed in the individual schedules for each conference
track.)
Tutorials are
free to conference registrants - Tutorial titles include
(partial list):
most tutorials are about 3 hours long:
-> ABET
Accreditation Process of Computer Science Program
->
Visualization & Data Mining for High Dimensional Datasets
->
Energy-Aware Resource Management for Computing Systems
-> Becoming
Successful Developing and Selling Mobile Apps and IoT
Systems -
Best Practices, Tools, Technologies and Processes for
University
Students and Professors
-> Reactive
Web Development Using Play and Akka
-> Cyber
Infrastructure for Emerging computing Technologies: A New
Global
Perspective
-> What's the
Secret? You're staring at it! Steganography from Greece
to Cyberspace
-> A Deep
Dive Into Hybrid Cloud Adoption
-> and
others.
Partial/featured
list of Keynotes/Invited Talks:
-> Search for
Extraterrestrial Life in Our solar System
Dr. Firouz
Naderi
Former
director of Solar System Exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
(JPL) - (Oversaw robotic spacecraft dispatched to all
corners of
the solar system); Prior position: NASA's Program Manager
for Mars
Exploration; Recipient of NASA's outstanding Leadership Medal
and NASA's
Distinguished Service Medal (NASA's highest award); In
appreciation
of his contributions, The International Astronomical
Union (IAU)
and NASA/JPL has named an asteroid "Naderi" after his name.
-> Data
Science for High Dimensional Datasets
Prof. Alfred
Inselberg
Tel Aviv
University, Israel; University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA);
University of Southern California (USC); Senior Fellow at the
San Diego
Supercomputing Center, California, USA; Author of "Parallel
Coordinates:
VISUAL Multidimensional Geometry"; his work is praised by
Stephen
Hawking among many others.
-> Evolving
Systems: Theory and Applications
Prof. Igor
Schagaev
London
Metropolitan University, London, UK; Research Advisor of
ITACS Ltd, UK
->
(Potential) Recurrent Breast Cancer Treatment
Steve
Richfield* and Jane Eyre**
*Owner,
FixLowBodyTemp.com
**Owner,
NormalBodyTemperature.co.uk
-> Panel
Discussion: Multi- , Trans-Disciplinary Systems Engineering
Dr. John N.
Carbone; Engineering Fellow, Mission Support &
Modernization,
Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services,
Richardson,
Texas, USA
and
Dr. James A.
Crowder, Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence,
Information
and Services, Aurora, Colorado, USA
-> Panel
Discussion: Biologically-Inspired Computing: Merging Human
and AI
Learning Models
Dr. James A.
Crowder, Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence,
Information
and Services, Aurora, Colorado, USA
and
Dr. John N.
Carbone; Engineering Fellow, Mission Support &
Modernization, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services,
Richardson,
Texas, USA
-> + more
than 15 other Invited Talks and Panels.
F. MISC INFORMATION:
To get a feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see some
delegates photos
available at:
2015 Congress:
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6981287
2014 Congress:
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396
Last 10 years:
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/
MEASURABLE
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of January 5,
2016, papers published in the conference proceedings
that have been
held as part of this congress, have received 28,380
citations.
Citation data is obtained from Microsoft Academic Search.
The citation
data does not include more than 17,000 other citations to
papers in
conferences whose first offerings were initiated by this
congress (such
as: FUSION, ICWS, ICMLA, and others). In addition to the
proceedings, the
congress has also arranged the publication of a number
of books and
journal special issues; some of these publications have
already received
the top 25% most downloads in their respective fields.
See the link
below for a very small subset of the books published
mostly based on
extended versions of the accepted papers of this congress:
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/worldcomp-books-journal-special-issues
CONTACT:
Inquiries should
be sent to: sc@world-comp.org
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The information that appears in this announcement is
correct as of
June 1, 2016.