CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing
July 21-24, 2014, Las Vegas, USA
www.world-academy-of-science.org/
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 (Emerging Trends in 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. Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes: Scopus, Ei village, SCI, ...). 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 offerings of the congress):
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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
http://store.elsevier.com/Emerging-Trends-in-ICT-Security/isbn-9780124114746/
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedgenomics/supplements/6/S1
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC3287490/
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC2709251/"
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC2999338/
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/S1/I1
http://www.springer.com/series/11769
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/5?issue=S3
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. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:
SUBMISSION OF LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS/POSTERS:
- 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 "name of conference: 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.
- 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 "name of conference: 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.
- 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 "name of conference: 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.
In response to this announcement, authors are given the opportunity to submit their papers for evaluation in one of the following three categories:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers (see above for paper categories) by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org . Submissions must be uploaded by June 5, 2014 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: 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, GCA, ICAI, ICOMP, ICWN, IKE, IPCV, PDPTA, and SAM; please see below for the full name of each of these conferences.
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.
LIST OF CONFERENCES (alphabetical order based on conference acronym)
- ABDA'14: The 1st International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics
- BIOCOMP'14: The 15th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
- CSC'14: The 12th International Conference on Scientific Computing
- DMIN'14: The 10th International Conference on Data Mining
- EEE'14: The 13th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government
- ESA'14: The 12th International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications
- FCS'14: The 10th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science
- FECS'14: The 10th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering
- GCA'14: The 10th International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and Applications
- GEM'14: The 11th International Conference on Genetic & Evolutionary Methods
- ICAI'14: The 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- ICOMP'14: The 15th International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data
- ICWN'14: The 13th International Conference on Wireless Networks
- IKE'14: The 13th International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering
- IPCV'14: The 18th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition
- MSV'14: The 11th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods
- PDPTA'14: The 20th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
- SAM'14: The 13th International Conference on Security and Management
- SERP'14: The 12th International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice
- SWWS'14: The 12th International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services
All conferences listed above will be held simultaneously; i.e., same location and dates.
IMPORTANT DATES:
| June 5, 2014: Submission of papers for evaluation (the sooner, a submission is received, the earlier, the notification will be sent out.) |
| June 14, 2014: The notification of acceptance will be sent out typically 10 days after the paper has been submitted. |
| June 26, 2014: Registration |
| July 21-24, 2014: The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (including all affiliated and federated conferences, tutorials, and workshops). http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ |
| August 20, 2014: 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.) |
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing serves researchers, scholars, professionals, students, and academicians who are looking to both foster working relationships and gain access to the latest research results. 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.
The 2014 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. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at: http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/
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.
TUTORIALS:
- Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation of Computer Science Program
- Natural Language in Information Security and Privacy
- Recommendation Systems for Big Data
- Energy-Aware Resource Management for Computing Systems
- Hacking with Kali Linux
- Cryptography and Network Security
- First Programming Language in CS Education - The Argument For Scala
- Fault Tolerance and Beyond
- Agents at High Seas
- Actor Parallelism and Akka/Scala
- Cloud Computing for Big Data Challenges (Cloud Architectures and Big Data Tools)
- The Use of ICT to Mitigate Income Inequality
All tutorials are free to conference registrants, the list of tutorials that have been approved so far can be found at: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp14/ws/tutorials We plan to offer more tutorials (in addition to what is already posted on the web). As of the writing of this announcement, the following tutorials have been approved and they will be presented by distinguished speakers:
Currently, we are evaluating 6 other proposals and they are in the areas of Big Data and Data Analytics (3 proposals); Entrepreneurial Spirits; Visualization and Datamining; and Computational Biology.
USEFUL LINKS:
Conference web site: www.world-academy-of-science.org
Partial list of tutorials: www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp14/ws/tutorials
Partial list of keynotes: www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp14/ws/keynotes
Location of the conference: www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp14/ws/location
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of December 14, 2013, papers published in the congress proceedings have received over 27,500 citations (includes about 3,300 self-citations). Citation data obtained from Microsoft Academic Search. This citation data does not even include more than 15,000 other citations to papers in tracks whose first offerings were initiated by the congress.
Based on citation record and other relevant metrics, Microsoft Academic has listed many of the joint conferences that are part of this congress in its list of Top Conferences (e.g., go to http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ ; select the tab "Conferences" and then type "PDPTA", or "FECS", or "IC-AI", or "ICOMP", ...)
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of May 19, 2014.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org