WORLDCOMP Conference: The Intl. Conf. on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP)

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, a significant number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication consideration in these books. The web sites for the two book series will be made available after the logistics are finalized between our committee and the publishers (both book series projects have been approved.) We anticipate having between

10 to 20 books a year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes: Scopus, Ei village, SCI, ...).

BIOCOMP'13 is composed of a number of tracks, including: tutorials, sessions, workshops, posters, and panel discussions. The conference will be held July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

O Microarrays

O Bioinformatics and Big Data

O Big Data in genomics and cancer research O Bioinformatics and new cloud resources O Molecular dynamics and simulation; Molecular interactions O Molecular sequence classification, alignment and assembly O Molecular sequence and structure databases O Computational Systems Biology O Gene regulation O Gene pattern discovery and identification O Gene expression analysis; Gene expression databases O Genetic network modeling and inference O Comparative genomics O Evolution of regulatory genomic sequences O RNA and DNA structure and sequencing O Biomedical engineering O Combinatorics and bioinformatics O Biological data mining and knowledge discovery O Biological databases and information retrieval O Bio-ontologies + semantics O Biological data integration and visualization O Image processing in medicine and biological sciences O Pattern classification and recognition O Sequence analysis and alignment O Informatics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research O Software tools and methods for computational biology and bioinformatics O Protein modeling O Proteomics; Protein folding and fold recognition O Metabolic modeling and pathways O Evolution and phylogenetics O Macromolecular structure prediction O Medical informatics O Epidemic models O Structural and functional genomics O Amino acid sequencing O Stochastic modeling O Cheminformatics O Computational drug discovery and experimental medicine O Cancer informatics O Experimental studies and results O Application of computational intelligence in drug design O High-performance computing and applications in biology O Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, ...) O Other aspects & applications relating to technological advancements

in medicine & biological sciences & emerging roadmaps.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 18, 2013: Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)

April 18, 2013: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)

May 5, 2013: Final papers + Copyright + Registration

July 22-25, 2013: The 2013 International Conference on Bioinformatics

and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'13)

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offering of BIOCOMP (2012) included research labs and centers affiliated with:

University of Minnesota, USA; Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA; George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; North Carolina A & T State University, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts, USA; Texas A&M University, USA; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; University of Iowa, USA; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Medical Image HPC and Informatics Lab, Iowa, USA; P3P8PCTD210427 and many others.

Sponsors At-Large included (corporate, associations, organizations):

Intel Corporation; Super Micro Computer, Inc., California, USA; Altera Corporation; The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; US Chapter of World Academy of Science; High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology; Luna Innovations; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Manx Telecom; Computer Science Research, Education, and Applications Press; HoIP Telecom; Hodges Health; Leading Knowledge; OMG; Science Publications and others.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org .

Submissions must be uploaded by March 18, 2013 and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. The name of the conference (ie, BIOCOMP) must also be stated on the first page of the paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.

Papers whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process.

(Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each published paper. Science citation databases include: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others. Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings; in the past, the proceedings were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site at the conference.

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, a significant number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication consideration in these books. We anticipate having between 10 to 20 books a year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes: Scopus, Ei village, SCI, ...).

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS) except for the submission is limited to 2 pages. On the first page, the author should state that "This paper is being submitted as a poster". Poster papers (if accepted) will be published if and only the author of the accepted paper wishes to do so.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of The

2012 Congress that BIOCOMP was (and will be) part of included: Dr. Selim Aissi, (formerly: Chief Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation, USA) Senior Business Leader & Chief Architect, Visa Corporation, USA; Prof.

Babak Akhgar, PhD, FBCS, CITP, Professor of Informatics, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK; Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Professor of Computer Science, Elected Fellow of ISIBM, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supercomputing (Springer), University of Georgia, USA; Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science, Director of Computer Science and Software Engineering Programs, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Gerry Vernon Dozier, Professor of Computer Science, Chair of Department of Computer Science and Director of Center for Advanced Studies in Identity Sciences, Center for Cyber Defense, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina, USA; Dr. Michael R.

Grimaila, Associate Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology, Systems Engineering, Fellow of ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM, Editorial Board of ISSA Journal, Air Force Center of Cyberspace Research, Advisor to the Prince of Wales Fellows & Prince Edward Fellows at MIT and Harvard Universities and PC member of NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE); Prof. Kun Chang Lee, Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Business School and Department of Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea; Prof., Dr., Dr.h. Victor Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software Department (SSD), Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Associate Director of School of Computing and Information Science, Chair of International Advisory Board of IEEE IDAACS and Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, Chair Bangor Foreign Policy Forum, Cooperating Professor of Mathematics & Statistics Department UMaine, Cooperating Professor of School of Policy & International Affairs UMaine, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Prof. Andy Marsh, Director of HoIP, Director of HoIP Telecom, UK, Secretary-General of WABT, Vice- president of ICET, Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea, President of KITCS, Presidentof FTRA, Editor-in- Chiefs of HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals; Ashu M. G. Solo (Publicity Chair), Fellow of British Computer Society, Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies America; Prof. Sang C. Suh, Head and Professor of Computer Science, Vice President, of Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Director of Intelligent Cyberspace Engineering Lab (ICEL), Texas A&M University, Com., Texas, USA; Prof. Layne T. Watson, IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Virginia, USA

The 2013 Program Committee for BIOCOMP conference is currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committees are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs., fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, as well as deans and provosts.

Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email editor@world-comp.org the following information for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise and the name of the conference (ie, BIOCOMP) offering to help with.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

BIOCOMP is an international conference that serves researchers, scholars, professionals, students, and academicians who are looking to both foster working relationships and gain access to the latest research results.

It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences; namely, The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP). The Congress is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or more attendees from over 85 countries.

The 2013 Congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U.

of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former director of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice- President, HPCC Systems), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the Congress's atmosphere, see the 2012 delegates photos available at: http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp

An important mission of the Congress is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The Congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The Congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the Congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of December 2012, papers published in the Congress proceedings have received over 27,000 citations (includes about 2,000 self-citations).

Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ .

CONTACT:

Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org

Friday, January 25, 2013

Call for Papers & Sessions: The 2013 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'13) at WORLDCOMP'13, USA, July 22-25, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

and

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS

Paper Submission Deadline: March 18, 2013

BIOCOMP'13

The 2013 International Conference on Bioinformatics

and Computational Biology

July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper. In addition, like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 35%) will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others). BIOCOMP'13 is composed of a number of tracks, including: tutorials, sessions, workshops, posters, and panel discussions. The conference will be held July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

O Microarrays

O Bioinformatics and Big Data

in medicine & biological sciences & emerging roadmaps.

IMPORTANT DATES:

January 31, 2013: Workshop / Session Proposals

March 18, 2013: Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)

April 18, 2013: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)

May 5, 2013: Final papers + Copyright + Registration

July 22-25, 2013: The 2013 International Conference on Bioinformatics

and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'13)

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offering of BIOCOMP (2012) included research labs and centers affiliated with:

NC A&T, Carnegie Mellon, Clemson, UNC Wilmington), USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Texas A&M University, USA; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; University of Iowa, USA; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing and Communications Laboratory, USA; Medical Image HPC and Informatics Lab, Iowa, USA; and others.

Sponsors At-Large included (corporate, associations, organizations):

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org .

Papers whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process.

(Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:

Each conference is composed of a number of tracks. A track can be a session, a workshop, or a symposium. A session will have at least 6 papers; a workshop at least 12 papers; and a symposium at least 18 papers. Track chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their tracks, including:

soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of track chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the printed books (and indexed in science databases as such).

Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums) should include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the topic of the track, the name of the conference the track is submitted for consideration (ie, BIOCOMP), and a short description on how the track will be advertised (in most cases, track proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the track proposer).

E-mail your track proposal to editor@world-comp.org . We would like to receive the track proposals as soon as possible but by no later than January 31, 2013.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of The

GENERAL INFORMATION:

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of December 2012, papers published in the Congress proceedings have received over 27,000 citations (includes about 2,000 self-citations).

Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ .

CONTACT:

Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Call For Papers: The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'13), July 22-25, 2013, USA, Paper Submission Deadline: March 18, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

and

CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS

Paper Submission Deadline: March 18, 2013

WORLDCOMP'13

The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science,

Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper. In addition, like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 35%) will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others). The Congress is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, sessions, workshops, poster and panel discussions); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 22-25, 2013. For the complete list of joint conferences, see below.

IMPORTANT DATES:

January 31, 2013: Workshop / Session Proposals

March 18, 2013: Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)

April 18, 2013: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)

May 5, 2013: Final papers + Copyright + Registration

July 22-25, 2013: The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science,

Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

(including all affiliated conferences).

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offering of the congress (2012) included research labs and centers affiliated with:

Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, USA; Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA; George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Center for Cyber Defense, NCAT, North Carolina, USA; Center for Advanced Studies in Identity Sciences (CASIS: C A&T, Carnegie Mellon, Clemson, UNC Wilmington), USA; Knowledge Management & Intelligent System Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen, Germany; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Texas A&M University, USA; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; University of Iowa, USA; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing and Communications Laboratory, USA; Medical Image HPC and Informatics Lab, Iowa, USA; and others. Sponsors At-Large included (corporate, associations, organizations): Intel Corporation; Super Micro Computer, Inc., California, USA; Altera Corporation; The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; US Chapter of World Academy of Science; High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology; Luna Innovations; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Manx Telecom; Computer Science Research, Education, and Applications Press; HoIP Telecom; Hodges Health; Leading Knowledge; OMG; Science Publications and others.

SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org . Submissions must be uploaded by March 18, 2013 and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should

include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. The name of the conference that the paper is being submitted for consideration must also be stated on the first page of the paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each published paper. Science citation databases include: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, & STN International); and others. Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings; in the past, the proceedings were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/ Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site at the conference.

SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

LIST OF CONFERENCES (alphabetical order based on conference acronym)

o BIOCOMP'13:

The 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

o CDES'13:

The 13th International Conference on Computer Design

o CGVR'13:

The 17th International Conference on Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality

o CSC'13:

The 10th International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'13:

The 9th International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'13:

The 12th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise

Information Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'13:

The 13th International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable

Systems and Algorithms

o ESA'13:

The 11th International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications

o FCS'13:

The 9th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science

o FECS'13:

The 9th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer

Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'13:

The 9th International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and

Applications

o GEM'13:

The 10th International Conference on Genetic & Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'13:

The 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'13:

The 14th International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data

o ICWN'13:

The 12th International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'13:

The 12th International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'13:

The 17th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision,

& Pattern Recognition

o MSV'13:

The 10th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and

Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'13:

The 19th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing

Techniques and Applications

o SAM'13:

The 12th International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'13:

The 11th International Conference on Software Engineering Research

and Practice

o SWWS'13:

The 12th International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services

All conferences listed above will be held simultaneously; ie, same location and dates. A link to each of the conferences can be found at:

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org .

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of The 2012 congress included: Dr. Selim Aissi, (formerly: Chief Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation, USA) Senior Business Leader & Chief Architect, Visa Corporation, USA; Prof. Babak Akhgar, PhD, FBCS, CITP, Professor of Informatics, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK; Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Professor of Computer Science, Elected Fellow of ISIBM, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supercomputing (Springer), University of Georgia, USA; Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science, Director of Computer Science and Software Engineering Programs, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Gerry Vernon Dozier, Professor of Computer Science, Chair of Department of Computer Science and Director of Center for Advanced Studies in Identity Sciences, Center for Cyber Defense, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina, USA; Prof. Madjid Fathi, Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Director of Knowledge Management and Intelligent Systems Center, University of Siegen, Germany; Dr. Michael R. Grimaila, Associate Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology, Systems Engineering, Fellow of ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM, Editorial Board of ISSA Journal, Air Force Center of Cyberspace Research, Advisor to the Prince of Wales Fellows & Prince Edward Fellows at MIT and Harvard Universities and PC member of NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE); Prof. Kun Chang Lee, Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Business School and Department of Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea; Prof., Dr., Dr.h. Victor Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software Department (SSD), Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Associate Director of School of Computing and Information Science, Chair of International Advisory Board of IEEE IDAACS and Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, Chair Bangor Foreign Policy Forum, Cooperating Professor of Mathematics & Statistics Department UMaine, Cooperating Professor of School of Policy & International Affairs UMaine, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Prof. Andy Marsh, Director of HoIP, Director of HoIP Telecom, UK, Secretary-General of WABT, Vice-president of ICET, Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea, President of KITCS, Presidentof FTRA, Editor-in-Chiefs of HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals; Dr. Hassan Reza, Associate Professor of Computer Science, UND Aerospace, University of North Dakota, USA; Ashu M. G. Solo (Publicity Chair), Fellow of British Computer Society, Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies America Inc.; Prof. Sang C. Suh, Head and Professor of Computer Science, Vice President, of Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Director of Intelligent Cyberspace Engineering Lab (ICEL), Texas A&M University, Com., Texas, USA; Prof. Layne T. Watson, IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Virginia, USA.

The 2013 Program Committee for individual conferences are currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committees are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs., fellows of various societies, heads/ chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, as well as deans and provosts. 4042

Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email editor@world-comp.org the following information for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise & the name of the conference(s) offering to help with.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:

Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums) should include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the topic of the track, the name of the conference the track is submitted for consideration (ie, BIOCOMP, CDES, ...), and a short description on how the track will be advertised (in most cases, track proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the track proposer).

E-mail your track proposal to editor@world-comp.org . We would like to receive the track proposals as soon as possible but by no later than January 31, 2013.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The Congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former director of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice- President, HPCC Systems), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2012 delegates photos available at:

http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp

An important mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of December 2012, papers published in the conference proceedings that are currently being held as part of WORLDCOMP, have received over 27,000 citations (includes about 2,000 self-citations). Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ .

CONTACT:

Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org

Monday, June 25, 2012

Call for Participation: The 2012 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012

Call For Participation

BIOCOMP'12

The 2012 International Conference on Bioinformatics

and Computational Biology

July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

This is an invitation to attend BIOCOMP'12 Conference. BIOCOMP'12 is an important part of WORLDCOMP'12 Congress (a federated congress). The Congress is composed of 22 main tracks (9 tutorials, 188 sessions and workshops, and 39 keynotes/invited lectures/panel discussions, ...); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 16-19, 2012.

Attendees will have full access to all conferences' sessions, tracks, and tutorials. Registration is required to attend. We anticipate about

2,000 attendees for the Congress: 62% from academia; 24% from industry; 11% from government agencies; and 3% unknown. About half of the attendees are from outside USA; from 88 different countries. Speakers are affiliated with 320 academic institutions, 89 major corporations, and multiple government agencies.

See below for:

A. General Information

B. Topical Scope

C. Registration Information

D. Financial Assistantship for full-Time Students E. List of Co-Sponsors F. Detailed Congress Schedules/Programs G. Location of BIOCOMP H. Planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes

We look forward to seeing you in July.

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A. General Information - select the tab "BIOCOMP"

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

Or go directly to:

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/biocomp12

B. Topical Scope of BIOCOMP'12 (list of topics that appeared in CFP):

Microarrays; Molecular dynamics and simulation; Molecular interactions

Molecular sequence classification, alignment and assembly; Molecular

sequence and structure databases; Computational Systems Biology; Gene

regulation; Gene pattern discovery and identification; Gene expression

analysis; Gene expression databases; Genetic network modeling and

inference; Comparative genomics; Evolution of regulatory genomic sequences;

RNA and DNA structure and sequencing; Biomedical engineering; Combinatorics

and bioinformatics; Biological data mining and knowledge discovery;

Biological databases and information retrieval; Bio-ontologies + semantics;

Biological data integration and visualization; Image processing in medicine

and biological sciences; Pattern classification and recognition; Sequence

analysis and alignment; Informatics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical

Research; Software tools and methods for computational biology and

bioinformatics; Protein modeling; Proteomics; Protein folding and fold

recognition; Metabolic modeling and pathways; Evolution and phylogenetics;

Macromolecular structure prediction; Medical informatics; Epidemic models;

Structural and functional genomics; Amino acid sequencing; Stochastic

modeling; Cheminformatics; Computational drug discovery; Experimental

medicine and analysis tools; Personalized medicine; Cancer informatics;

Graph theory and computational biology; Experimental studies and results;

Application of computational intelligence in drug design; High-performance

computing and applications in biology; Computer-based medical systems

(automation in medicine, ...).

C. Registration Information:

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/registration

D. Financial Assistantship for full-Time Students:

The congress has finalized the financial assistantship decisions for students

who are affiliated with non-USA institutions (decisions were communicated

with the awardees in March and April 2012). Unfortunately, 26 of the awardees

are not able to secure USA visa in a timely manner to attend the meeting. The

congress is now providing these 26 slots to full-time graduate students who

are enrolled in USA institutions. This financial assistantship is for

attendance only (ie, excludes speakers and authors of papers). Sponsored

students will receive the complete conference package (printed books/proceedings,

CD, dinner reception, 4 breakfasts, 12 refreshments, access to all tracks and

tutorials, ...), registration fee waiver, partial help with hotel accommodation,

and/or possibly some help with airfare. In order to apply, send the following

information for consideration to sc@world-comp.org as soon as possible

(include as attachments in pdf only): a 2-page CV; a letter from your major

professor or Department Head/Chair stating that you are a full-time graduate

student in good standing; and a break-down of your itemized costs (airfare,

hotel, ...). In the Subject Header of your email write "student sponsorship".

Award decisions will be finalized within 24 hours of receipt of the requested

information.

E. List of Co-Sponsors:

Appears on the right-most column of Home Page below:

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

F. Detailed Congress Schedules/Programs: (look for BIOCOMP)

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/program

G. Location of BIOCOMP:

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/location

H. Planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes: (WORLDCOMP)

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/keynotes

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/tutorials

CONTACT:

Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Call for Post-Conference Proceedings Papers with Extended Deadline of June 4, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline: June 4, 2012

The 2012 International Conference on

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

BIOCOMP'12

July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA

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INVITATION:

You are invited to submit a full paper (max of 7 pages) for consideration.

All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings

(ISBN) and will also be made available online. Abstract submissions (1 to 2

pages) will be considered for poster presentations. The conference proceedings

will be made available in printed book as well as online. The proceedings

will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/

data for each paper. The proceedings of the congress that BIOCOMP is part of

enjoys a high number of citations; about 26,000 citations have been made (so

far) to papers published in the proceedings. The conference is co-sponsored

by various associations and groups as well as centers, large labs, and

institutes affiliated with University of Iowa, George Mason University,

Texas A&M University, Harvard University and MIT, University of Minnesota,

US national labs, and many others. Corporate sponsors include, Intel

Corporation, Super Micro Computer, Inc., and others.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the opportunity to submit

their papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers". Therefore, authors

who have already submitted papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers"

should IGNORE this announcement. (Those who have been notified that their

papers have been accepted, MUST still follow the instructions that were

emailed to them; including meeting the deadlines mentioned in the

notifications that were sent to them).

IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES:

Please note that the conference web site refers to different deadlines; those

who receive this announcement should ignore the deadlines mentioned on the

web (we are not updating the deadlines on the conference web site because we

would like to control the number of submissions - we can only manage a limited

number of additional submissions at this late date). What appears below are

the current deadlines.

June 4, 2012: Submission of papers for evaluation

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by

uploading them to the following general evaluation web site:

http://world-comp.org

June 17, 2012: Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance

June 27, 2012: Registration

July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Bioinformatics and

Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'12)

July 30, 2012: Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication

(papers submitted and accepted in response to this announcement

will be published in the Final Edition of the proceedings which

will go to press soon after the conference.)

Those who wish to participate as attendees can register to attend the conference

by using the online registration system below:

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/registration

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

O Microarrays

O Molecular dynamics and simulation; Molecular interactions

O Molecular sequence classification, alignment and assembly

O Molecular sequence and structure databases

O Computational Systems Biology

O Gene regulation

O Gene pattern discovery and identification

O Gene expression analysis; Gene expression databases

O Genetic network modeling and inference

O Comparative genomics

O Evolution of regulatory genomic sequences

O RNA and DNA structure and sequencing

O Biomedical engineering

O Combinatorics and bioinformatics

O Biological data mining and knowledge discovery

O Biological databases and information retrieval

O Bio-ontologies + semantics

O Biological data integration and visualization

O Image processing in medicine and biological sciences

O Pattern classification and recognition

O Sequence analysis and alignment

O Informatics and Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research

O Software tools and methods for computational biology and bioinformatics

O Protein modeling

O Proteomics; Protein folding and fold recognition

O Metabolic modeling and pathways

O Evolution and phylogenetics

O Macromolecular structure prediction

O Medical informatics

O Epidemic models

O Structural and functional genomics

O Amino acid sequencing

O Stochastic modeling

O Cheminformatics

O Computational drug discovery

O Experimental medicine and analysis tools.

O Personalized medicine

O Cancer informatics

O Graph theory and computational biology

O Experimental studies and results

O Application of computational intelligence in drug design

O High-performance computing and applications in biology

O Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, ...)

O Other aspects & applications relating to technological advancements

in medicine & biological sciences & emerging roadmaps.

SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS AND INDEXING INFORMATION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them

to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org

Submissions must be uploaded by June 4, 2012 and must be in either

MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and

references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable

typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers

will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their

final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously

published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first

page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,

postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should

also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical

keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. The name of

the conference that the paper is being submitted for consideration must

be stated on the first page of the paper (ie, BIOCOMP) as well as a 100 to

150-word abstract. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if

accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.

Authors whose papers are ACCEPTED will be instructed to upload their papers

to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the

publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting.

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and

will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in

science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each

published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET / The

Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for

Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core

scientific literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals;

only about 9% are proceedings; the set of proceedings that BIOCOMP is part

of has been selected to be among the 9% - accessable from INIST, Datastar,

Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others.

Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in

EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the proceedings that BIOCOMP

was part of were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be

sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be

invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a

number of research books contracted with various publishers. These books

will be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will be

forming journal special issues to be published after the conference. For a

few examples of such recent books and journal issues formed based on BIOCOMP,

see the links below:

http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-7045-9

http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-5912-6

+ a number of journal special issues published by BMC Genomics:

http://www.biomedcentral.com

Note that authors who submit papers in response to this announcement, will

have their papers evaluated for publication consideration in the Final

Edition of the conference proceedings which will go to press soon after the

conference (the conference would then make the necessary arrangements to ship

the printed proceedings/books to such authors). The Final Edition of the

conference proceedings will be identical to earlier edition except for a

number of sections/chapters appended to the proceedings/book. 4043

Submission of Poster Papers:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions

that appear above. On the first page, the author should state that "This paper

is being submitted as a poster for BIOCOMP". Poster papers (if accepted) will

be published if and only if the author of the accepted poster wishes to have

his/her poster published as a 2-page extended abstract.)

GENERAL INFORMATION:

BIOCOMP conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a

number of other federated research conferences (World Congress in Computer

Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing). This federated congress

is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer

engineering and applied computing. The congress will be composed of research

presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel

discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel

speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of

California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology),

Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan),

Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL),

Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe

(Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer

of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic

Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of

Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California),

Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Broad Institute of MIT

and Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi

(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project

Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL

Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC,

CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick),

Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue

University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer,

SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a

feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos available

at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606

An important mission of the congress is "Providing a unique platform for

a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,

developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted

effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities

(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,

and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also

attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as

their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that

have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to

achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated

research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated

research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model

facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of

computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The

Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary

research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for

cross-fertilization across sub-disciplines.

The list of co-sponsors of 2012 meeting is Currently being prepared;

for the 2011 list of sponsors, refer to:

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:

The congress proceedings enjoy a high number of citations. In total, about

26,000 citations have been made (so far) to papers published in the proceedings

of the federated congress. The link below contains the url's to the citation

data for each track (each link is a live search and so it may take a few

seconds for the data to pull up):

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/news

USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:

1. BIOCOMP 2012 web site:

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/biocomp12

2. To see the caliber of the past offering of worldcomp, see the 2011 congress web site:

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws

3. The 2011 delegates photos are available at:

http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606

CONTACT:

Any inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org