Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Call For Papers and Sessions: The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'14), U.S.A., July 21-24, 2014

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                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                                &
                    CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS

              Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2014

             The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science,
             Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

         July 21-24, 2014, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
                            WORLDCOMP'14
               (The web site is Under Construction)
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You are invited to submit a 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). See the following links for a small subset of the publications based on the Congress: (some of these books and special issues have already received the top 25% downloads in their respective fields - we also have a number of Elsevier and Springer books in the pipeline based on the last offering of the congress):


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 21-24, 2014. For the complete list of joint conferences, see below.


IMPORTANT DATES:

January 21, 2014:  Workshop / Session Proposals
March 15, 2014:    Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 15, 2014:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 3, 2014:       Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 21-24, 2014:  The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer
                   Engineering, and Applied Computing
                   (including all affiliated conferences).


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 15, 2014 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 printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site at the conference. 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. The proceedings/books of this congress have been evaluated for inclusion into major science citation index databases. We are happy to report that so far, the evaluation board of science citation index databases have approved the indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the following conference tracks into relevant indexing databases (indexing databases include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others): BIOCOMP, DMIN, ERSA, GCA, ICAI, ICOMP, ICWN, IKE, IPCV, PDPTA, and SAM; please see above for the full name of each of these conferences.

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series (multiple books in each series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence).

After the conference (the whole process takes 12 months), 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, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others). For a recent and a very small subset of the books that have been published based on the extended versions of accepted papers for this congress, see:



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.


PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:

Each conference (see below for the list) 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, CSC, ...), 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 21, 2014.


LIST OF CONFERENCES (alphabetical order based on conference acronym)

o BIOCOMP'14:
  The 15th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational
  Biology

o CSC'14:
  The 12th International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'14:
  The 10th International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'14:
  The 13th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise
  Information Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'14:
  The 14th International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
  Systems and Algorithms

o ESA'14:
  The 12th International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications

o FCS'14:
  The 10th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science

o FECS'14:
  The 10th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'14:
  The 10th International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and
  Applications

o GEM'14:
  The 11th International Conference on Genetic & Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'14:
  The 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'14:
  The 15th International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data

o ICWN'14:
  The 13th International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'14:
  The 13th International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'14:
  The 18th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision,
  & Pattern Recognition

o MSV'14:
  The 11th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'14:
  The 20th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing
  Techniques and Applications

o SAM'14:
  The 13th International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'14:
  The 12th International Conference on Software Engineering Research and
  Practice

o SWWS'14:
  The 12th International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services

July 21-24, 2014, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA.

All conferences listed above will be held simultaneously; ie, same location and dates.


CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offerings of the congress included research labs and centers affiliated with (each sponsored all or at least one track of the congress):
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:  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; 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; Aldebaran Robotics Inc., USA; Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc., USA; NVIDIA Corporation, USA; Pico Computing, Inc., USA; Solarflare Communications, Inc., USA; Science Publications and many others.


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of the last offerings of the 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, Co-Director of CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & organised Crime research), Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK; Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and Chair, Vice Chair, IEEE/SEM-Computer Chapter; University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; 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, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. George Jandieri, Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief Scientist at The Institute of Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia; Prof. D. V. Kodavade, Head of Computer Science and Engineering, DKTE Institute, India; Prof. Kun Chang Lee, Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor and Associate Director, School of Computing and Information Science, Chair Int'l Advisory Board of IEEE IDAACS, Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Prof. G.N. Pandey, Vice-Chancellor, Arunachal University of Studies, India; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea and President of KITCS, President of FTRA, Editor-in-Chiefs: HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals; Prof. Fernando G. Tinetti, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, Co-editor, Journal of CS and Technology (JCS&T); Dr. Predrag Tosic, Microsoft, Washington, USA; Prof. Vladimir Volkov, The Bonch-Bruevich State University of Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Dr. Michael R. Grimaila, Air Force Institute of Technology, Fellow of ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM, 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. Victor Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software Department, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; 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; 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 (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; and others.

The 2014 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.

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: 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.


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 (Dean, Cornell University - formerly at 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), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates and author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA); and many other distinguished speakers.

The Congress is among the top five largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from about 85 countries/territories. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:

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 14, 2013, papers published in the conference proceedings that have been held as part of this congress, have received over 27,500 citations (includes about 3,300 self-citations). Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/. The citation data does not even include more than 15,000 other citations to papers in conferences whose first offerings were initiated by worldcomp.


CONTACT:

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



Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Call For Participation: The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'13), USA, July 22-25, 2013



                      Call For Participation

            The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

                July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA


This is an invitation to attend The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. The congress is composed of 22 main tracks (14 tutorials, 145 sessions and workshops, and 22 keynotes/invited lectures/panel discussions, ...); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 22-25, 2013.
Attendees will have full access to all conferences' sessions, tracks, and tutorials. Registration is required to attend. As of now, 59% of registrants are from academia, 22% from industry; 14% from government and funding agencies; and 5% unknown. About half of the attendees are from outside USA; from 85 different countries. Speakers are affiliated with 287 academic institutions, 118 corporations, and 48 government agencies.

See below for:

A. General Information
B. Topical Scope
C. Registration Information (Deadline: June 30) D. Financial Assistantship for full-Time Students E. Congress Schedules/Programs F. Location of congress G. Planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes H. Partial list of organized sessions I. Misc. and Poster Submission

We look forward to seeing you in July.
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A. General Information:

B. Topical Scope:

   Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP); Computer Design (CDES);
   Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR); Scientific Computing (CSC);
   Data Mining (DMIN); e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
   and e-Government (EEE); Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms
   (ERSA); Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA); Foundations of Computer
   Science (FCS); Frontiers in Education in Computer Science & Computer
   Engineering (FECS); Grid and Cloud Computing and Applications (GCA); Genetic
   and Evolutionary Methods (GEM); Artificial Intelligence (ICAI); Internet
   Computing and Big Data (ICOMP); Wireless Networks (ICWN); Information and
   Knowledge Engineering (IKE); Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern
   Recognition (IPCV); Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV);
   Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA);
   Security and Management (SAM); Software Engineering Research and Practice
   (SERP); and Semantic Web & Web Services (SWWS).

C. Registration Information: (Deadline: June 30, 2013)

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 2013). Unfortunately, a few of our awardees
   are not able to secure USA visa in a timely manner to attend the meeting. The
   congress is now providing the released funds 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,
   DVD, dinner reception, 4 breakfasts, 12 refreshments, access to all tracks and
   tutorials, ...), registration fee waiver, possibly with 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, ...). Please also provide any matching fund you may be able
   to secure. In the Subject Header of your email write "student sponsorship".
   Award decisions will be finalized within 48 hours of receipt of the requested
   information.

E. Congress Schedules/Programs: (under construction - will be made
   available during the first week of July - either by email or on the web)

F. Location of Congress:
   (Attendees are advised to book their hotel rooms as soon as possible -
   our block of reserved rooms is likely to be fully booked soon.)

G. Planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes: (partial list)

   Tutorials are free to conference registrants - Tutorial titles include:
   (most tutorials are 3 hours long):
   -> Accessing Comprehensive Meaning in Information and Language Processing
   -> Robust Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems
   -> Introduction to Cryptography and Network Security
   -> Management, Security and Sustainability for Cloud Computing
   -> Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems
   -> Introduction to Cloud Computing Software Architecture, and an Innovation in Cloud
   -> Visualization & Data Mining for High Dimensional Datasets
   -> Beautiful Mind (The Human Brain)
   -> Data Center Networks
   -> How to use Android Tablet to Create Content, Publish, and Share
   -> Roll Your Own Cybersecurity Tools with Python
   -> Creating Bioinformatic Workflows within the BioExtract Server Leveraging iPlant Resources
   -> Extensions AND Applications of Universum Learning

H. PARTIAL list of organized sessions (multiple speakers per session):
   Some of these sessions are further divided into more focused sessions and many
   have topics that overlap the topics of other sessions.

   -> Accreditation + Assessment Strategies + Academic Reviews
   -> Attendance Tracking, Class Management Systems, Research Methods, Capstone Projects
   -> Learning Models, Methodologies, Tools and Case Studies
   -> Teaching Programming + Software Engineering and System Development + Online Courses
   -> Degree Programs, Curriculum, and Course Development + Related Issues
   -> Recruitment and Mentoring + Methods for Enhancing Educational Environment
   -> Teaching Methods + Teaching Support Systems and Tools + Case Studies
   -> Computational Biology and Medical Applications + Health Informatics
   -> Sequencing and Biotechnology + Bioinformatics
   -> Protein Classification and Structure Prediction, Folding, and Computational
      Structural Biology
   -> Data and Information Mining + Computational Biology + Medical Science
   -> Processor and Integrated Circuit Design + Low Power Computing
   -> Performance Issues + HPC and Multi-Processor Systems + FPGA
   -> Animation
   -> Virtual Reality + Computer Graphics
   -> Simulation, Modeling, and Visualization Methods
   -> Computational Science and Applications
   -> Scientific Computing + Data Management
   -> Complex Systems + Medical Science
   -> Real-World Data Mining Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives
   -> Segmentation, Clustering, Association + Web / Text / Multimedia Mining
   -> Regression and Classification
   -> Filtering, Feature Selection, Integration, Ensembles
   -> Learning Methods, E-learning + Educational Tools, and Related Issues
   -> E-Business, E-Commerce, E-Banking, Enterprise Information Systems, and Security
   -> Management, Tools, Web, Information Extraction
   -> Communication Techniques in Reconfigurable Systems
   -> Developing Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Systems
   -> Micro-Controllers and Embedded Systems + Network On Chip Systems and Applications
   -> HPC + Load-Balancing
   -> Approximation Algorithms + N-P Hard Problems
   -> Graph Based Methods
   -> Formal Verification + Automata
   -> Encryption
   -> Quantum Computing
   -> Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and Applications + Grid Computing
   -> Cloud Computing and Related Issues
   -> Multi-Objective Optimization + Combinatorial Optimization + Agent-Based Algorithms
   -> Swarm Optimization Algorithms and Applications
   -> Evolutionay Algorithms and Strategies
   -> Genetic Algorithms and Applications + Genetic Programming
   -> Agent Technologies and Applications
   -> Intelligent Linguistic Technologies
   -> Natural Language Processing and Related Methods
   -> Knowledge Discovery and Learning
   -> Knowledge and Information Representation, Processing
   -> Prediction and Forecasting Methods + Human Activity Discovery
   -> Fuzzy Logic and Applications + Cognitive Science and Systems
   -> Heuristic Search + Information Retrieval + Pattern and Similarity Analysis
   -> Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Novel Applications and Concepts
   -> Applications of Advanced AI Techniques to Information Management for Solving
      Company-Related Problems
   -> Learning and Applications - in particular, as it relates to MapReduce
   -> Expert Systems for Intelligent Automation Purposes in Power Systems
   -> Big Data: Data Management and Storage + Simulation + Applications
   -> Search + Intelligent Databases + Text Information Management
   -> Cloud Computing + Web Services + Internet Computing and Applications
   -> Security + Communication Systems + Recommender Systems
   -> Social Networks + Blogs + Text Messaging Systems and Related Issues
   -> Radio Networks + Radar + RFID - Utilization and Applications
   -> Sensor Networks and Applications
   -> Mobile Computing + Mobile Agents + AD-HOC Networks + MANET
   -> Wireless Networks and Energy Efficiency
   -> Novel Communication Systems + Transmission Systems + Protocols and Routing
   -> Knowledge Engineering and Management + Knowledge Acquisition
   -> Databases, Information Retrieval and Search
   -> Decision Support Systems
   -> Mining of Data Rich Sources
   -> Data and Information Mining + Forecasting Methods
   -> Stereo, 3D, Depth Algorithms, 3D Image Data Structures, and Applications
   -> Surveillance, Safety, and Related Methods and Systems
   -> Image Coding, Compression, Wavelets, Watermarking
   -> Imaging Software + Systems + Camera Calibration
   -> Biometrics: Gait, Iris, Fingerprint, ... + Handwriting Analysis
   -> Edge Detection and Enhancement Methods
   -> Medical Applications
   -> Image Retrieval and Image Databases
   -> Imaging Applications and Algorithms
   -> Image Reconstruction and Restoration
   -> Image Processing and Vision Algorithms
   -> Video Processing, Analysis and Applications + Animation
   -> Face, Gaze, Expression Recognition, Detection, Tracking
   -> Texture Analysis
   -> Signal Processing and Applications - Including, Voice, Music
   -> Visualization, Graphical User Interface, Tools and Techniques
   -> Resource Allocation, Scheduling, Load-Balancing + Fault-tolerant Systems
   -> Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and Applications
   -> Mathematical Modeling and Problem Solving - MPS
   -> Grid + Cloud Computing and Supporting Tools + Applications
   -> Systems Software + Threads + Caching + Testing and Monitoring Methods
   -> Performance Evaluation, Estimation
   -> Communication Systems + Networks + P2P + AD-HOC Networks + Sensor Networks
   -> Cluster Computing + Multi-Core, GPU, FPGA Processing and Applications
   -> Data-Driven Networking Systems with High Tolerance for Disaster, Fault and Congestion
   -> Security Management, Security Education, and Hardware Security
   -> Biometric and Forensics
   -> Computer Security
   -> Information Assurance
   -> Cryptographic Technologies
   -> Systems Engineering and Security
   -> Security Applications
   -> Network Security
   -> Cybersecurity Education
   -> Intellectual Property Issues
   -> Software Systems, Requirements + Middle-Ware + Architecture Description Languages
   -> Software Architecture + Design Patterns
   -> Unified Modeling Language, Object Oriented Methods, and Case Studies
   -> Usability Studies + Cost Estimation and Management + Software Testing, Analysis, Validation
   -> Software Engineering and Management + Code Reuse + Software Productivity & Quality
   -> Agile Software Methods
   -> Software Engineering and Embedded Systems
   -> Web Services and Applications
   -> Semantic Web
   -> Ontologies

   The above information is correct as of June 15, 2013.

I. Misc and Poster Submission:
   To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2012 delegates photos
   and earlier year's: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/

   If you wish to submit a Poster Paper for consideration, then email sc@world-comp.org
   a 2-page poster/abstract. Write the following on the first page of your submission
   "ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPER". If accepted, The length of the final/Camera-Ready poster
   paper will be limited to 2 (two-column IEEE style) pages and the author will be
   given the opportunity to present the paper in a poster session.

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



Friday, May 24, 2013

Call for Late Breaking Papers, Position Papers, Extended Abstracts, Poster Papers with Deadline of June 2, 2013: The 2013 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'13), USA, July 22-25, 2013



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                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS
   CALL FOR LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS

                 Submission Deadline: June 2, 2013

                             BIOCOMP'13
         The 2013 International Conference on Bioinformatics
                     and Computational Biology
                  July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA

      Indexing: Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, ...
              http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
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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).


INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a "Late Breaking Paper", "Position Paper", or "Abstract/Poster Paper" for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will also be made available online. 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). 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 by 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:
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INDEXING OF BIOCOMP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
The proceedings/books of this conference have been evaluated and approved for inclusion into science citation index / SCI databases. We are happy to report that the evaluation board of science citation index databases have APPROVED the indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the BIOCOMP proceedings into relevant Elsevier indexing databases (Elsevier indexing databases include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others).
In addition, the proceedings will also be indexed by a number of other science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper.


IMPORTANT DATES:

June 2, 2013:       Submission of papers for evaluation
June 12, 2013:      Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance
June 20, 2013:      Registration
July 22-25, 2013:   The 2013 International Conference on Bioinformatics and
                    Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'13)
August 10, 2013:    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; they will also be
                    indexed in science citation index databases.)


BIOCOMP'13 is composed of a number of tracks, including: tutorials, sessions, workshops, posters, and panel discussions. All tutorials are free to registered conference attendees - for a partial list of approved tutorials,
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.


SUBMISSION OF LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS/POSTERS:

In response to this announcement, authors are given the opportunity to submit their papers for evaluation in one of the following three categories:

   1. Late Breaking Papers: describe late-breaking/recent developments in
      the field. The maximum number of pages is 7. Please write the following
      on the first page of your submission "BIOCOMP: LATE BREAKING PAPER".
      If accepted, The length of the final/Camera-Ready paper will be limited
      to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages and the author will be given the
      opportunity to present the paper in a formal session.

   2. Position Papers: enable discussions on emerging topics without the
      experimentation normally present in an academic paper. Commonly,
      such papers will substantiate the opinions or positions put forward
      with evidence from an extensive objective discussion of the topic.
      The maximum number of pages is 4. Please write the following on the
      first page of your submission "BIOCOMP: POSITION PAPER".
      If accepted, The length of the final/Camera-Ready paper will be limited
      to 4 (two-column IEEE style) pages and the author will be given the
      opportunity to present the paper in a discussion/poster session.

   3. Abstract/Poster Papers: describe research roadmaps (similar to PhD
      plan or PhD prospectus). The maximum number of pages is 2. Please
      write the following on the first page of your submission
      "BIOCOMP: ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPER".
      If accepted, The length of the final/Camera-Ready paper will be limited
      to 2 (two-column IEEE style) pages and the author will be given the
      opportunity to present the paper in a discussion/poster session.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers (see above for paper categories) by uploading them to the evaluation web site at:
Submissions must be uploaded by June 2, 2013 and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats. 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.

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. (Papers deemed to be philosophical, essay type, or about controversial topics/applications will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels/presentation).

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: relevant Elsevier indexing products (SCI Elsevier products include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others); 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.

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.

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, ...).


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. 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.

USEFUL LINKS:

Partial list of tutorials:

Partial list of keynotes:

Location of the conference:


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of March 14, 2013, papers published in the congress proceedings that BIOCOMP is part of, have received 27,591 citations (includes 3,342 self-citations). Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ .


CONTACT:

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