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Saturday, July 12, 2014

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


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                      Call For Participation

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

                July 21-24, 2014, Las Vegas, USA
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This is an invitation to attend The 2014 World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. The congress
is composed of 20 major tracks (15 tutorials, 145 sessions and workshops,
and 19 keynotes/invited lectures/panel discussions, ...); all will be
held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 21-24, 2014.
Attendees will have full access to all conferences' sessions, tracks,
and tutorials. Registration is required to attend. As of now, 62% of
registrants are from academia, 23% from industry; 14% from government
and funding agencies; and 1% unknown (correct as of July 1). About
half of the attendees are from outside USA; from 76 nations.

See below for:

A. General Information
B. Topical Scope
C. Registration Information (Deadline: July 18, 2014)
D. Congress Schedules/Programs
E. Location of congress
F. Planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes
G. Partial list of organized sessions
H. Misc Information

We look forward to seeing you during the 3rd week of July.
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A. GENERAL INFORMATION:


B. TOPICAL SCOPE:

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


C. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: (Deadline: July 18, 2014)

D. CONGRESS SCHEDULES/PROGRAMS:

E. LOCATION OF CONGRESS:

F. PLANNED TUTORIALS AND FEATURED KEYNOTES: (partial list)

   Tutorials are free to conference registrants - Tutorial titles include:
   (most tutorials are 3 hours long):

   -> Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation
      of Computer Science Program
   -> Natural Language in Information Security and Privacy
   -> Energy-Aware Resource Management for Computing Systems
   -> Cryptography and Network Security
   -> Multidimensional Detective - the Blessings of Dimensionality
   -> Agents at High Seas
   -> First Programming Language in CS Education - The Argument For Scala
   -> The Use of ICT to Mitigate Income Inequality
   -> Using Weka to Mine Temporal Work Patterns of Programming Students
   -> Recommendation Systems for Big Data
   -> Fault Tolerance and Beyond
   -> Actor Parallelism and Akka/Scala
   -> Hacking with Kali Linux
   -> Cloud Computing for Big Data Challenges (Cloud Architectures and
      Big Data Tools)
   -> Smartphone Sensor Mining Applications: Ubiquitous Possibilities

   Partial list of Keynotes/Invited Talks:

   -> Smart Data for you and me: Personalized and Actionable Physical
      Cyber Social Big Data
      Prof. Amit Sheth
      Fellow, IEEE; LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director,
      Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis),
      and Professor of Computer Science, Wright State University, Ohio, USA

   -> Visualization and Data Mining for High Dimensional Datasets
      Prof. Alfred Inselberg
      Tel Aviv University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing
      Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel
      Coordinates and author of textbook "Parallel Coordinates: VISUAL
      Multidimensional Geometry", (praised by Stephen Hawking among others.)

   -> Big Data Analytics Cognitive Algorithms
      Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky
      Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA; The US Air Force Research
      Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information Technology, USA; Chair, IEEE Task Force
      on The Mind and Brain; Recipient of John McLucas Award (the highest US
      Air Force Award for basic research).

   -> Panel Discussion: Thoughts, Language, and Memories for Humans vs.
      Artificially Intelligent Entities
      Panel Chair: Dr. James A. Crowder; Chief Engineer, Raytheon
      Intelligence, USA
      Panelists:
      Prof. Victor Raskin; Distinguished Professor & Associate Director &
      Charter Fellow, CERIAS; Purdue University, USA
      Dr. Julia M. Taylor; Fellow, CERIAS; Purdue University, USA
      Shelli Friess; Relevant Counseling, Colorado, USA
      Dr. John Carbone; Raytheon Intelligence, Colorado, USA

   -> A Primitive Artificial Prefrontal Cortex for Cognitive Self-Regulation
      in Artificial Life Forms
      Dr. James A. Crowder
      Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence, Colorado, USA; Chief Mentor
      Scientist of the Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
      Research Lab., Alexandria School of Innovation, Colorado, USA

   -> Big Data Issues for Mining Knowledge in Maintenance Information
      Systems
      Prof. Diego Galar
      Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering,
      Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden; Former Pro-Vice-
      Chancellor, Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A), Spain

   -> Data Science Emergence
      Dr. Peter Geczy
      National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
      (AIST), Japan; Institute of Physical & Chemical Research (RIKEN)

   -> Integrative Systems Biology Approaches to Identify Disrupted Pathways
      in Disease Development
      Dr. Mary Qu Yang
      Director, Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program of University of
      Arkansas Little Rock College of Engineering & Information Technology,
      University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas, USA


G. 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 (correct
   as of July 1, 2014)

   -> Algorithms for Big Data
   -> Cloud Computing + System Infrastructures & Enhanced Cache Methods
   -> Cloud Computing & GRID
   -> Security & Privacy in the Era of Big Data & Risk Analysis
   -> Applications of Big Data & Software Tools
   -> Communication Systems & Topologies
   -> Social Networks
   -> Pervasive Computing
   -> Big Data Management & Frameworks + Big Data Programming
   -> Big Data Search & Mining Methods
   -> BIG DATA, STORAGE, & Privacy
   -> Mobile Computing + Big Data & Data Management & Storage
   -> Graph Algorithms, Ontology Methods
   -> BIG Data Architectures
   -> Education Infrastructures
   -> Gene Expression & Representation, Microarray, Sequencing, Alignment
   -> Computational Biology & Medical Applications
   -> Health Informatics, Data mining
   -> Protein Folding
   -> Health Care & Medical Applications
   -> Protein Classification & Structure Prediction, Folding
   -> Computational Structural Biology + Drug Design
   -> Medical Science, Visualization, HPC
   -> Bioinformatics
   -> Web, Text, Multimedia Mining
   -> Regression, Classification, Clustering, Association
   -> Real-World Data Mining Applications, Challenges & Perspectives
   -> Evolving systems
   -> Embedded Systems + HPC + Sensory Devices
   -> Network On Chip Systems
   -> Computational Science, Object Oriented Methods
   -> Finite Element Methods and Analysis
   -> Simulation, Numerical Methods & APPLICATIONS
   -> Visualization, Graphics, Tools & Techniques
   -> Automated Testing + Scheduling Systems
   -> Formal Modeling + Analysis & Optimization
   -> Micro-Controller Design
   -> ODE + Kalman Filter + Elasticity Theory
   -> Micro-Controllers, Micro-Processors
   -> State Machine Language & Optimization Methods
   -> Modeling and Applications
   -> Computational Science, Systems, HPC, Scientific &
      Engineering Algorithms
   -> Simulation Methods and Computational Modeling
   -> Accreditation & Academic Reviews + Evaluation
   -> Teaching Programming + Software Engineering
   -> Performance Enhancement Methods + Integrated Learning
   -> Class Management Systems, Learning Models + Distance Learning,
      Social Networks
   -> Programming Languages, Studies and Related Issues
   -> Learning Models, Methodologies, Tools and Case Studies
   -> Agile Methodologies + Pair Programming and Team Teaching Methods
   -> Semantic Web
   -> Web Services and Applications
   -> Recruitment, Retention & Mentoring + Enrollment Studies & Management
   -> Teaching Support Systems and Tools
   -> Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms
   -> Computational Intelligence
   -> Intelligent Linguistic Technologies
   -> Machine Learning, Agent Technologies, Swarm Optimization, HMM
   -> Knowledge Discovery and Learning
   -> Natural Language Processing, Topic Detection, Human-Machine Interaction
   -> Robotics and Applications, BCI
   -> Pattern Recognition and Dimensionality Reduction Methods
   -> Computational Intelligence, Data Fusion, AI, Novel Applications
   -> Fuzzy Logic & Systems and Applications + ANN Information Retrieval
      & Search Methods
   -> Decision Support Systems + Medical Applications, Assistive Living
      and Healthcare
   -> Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Based Systems
   -> AI, Algorithms & Applications
   -> Neural Networks + Data Mining + Machine Learning
   -> Evolutionary Strategies, Genetic Algorithms and Novel Applications
   -> Applications of Advanced AI Techniques to Information Management
   -> Ad-Hoc Networks, VANET, Protocols and Related Technologies
   -> Wireless Networks and Security Issues
   -> Internet of Things + Broadcasting and Tele-Control Systems
   -> Computer and Hardware Security
   -> Internet of Things and SCADA Cybersecurity Education
   -> Energy Efficiency Issues
   -> Security Management
   -> Optimization Methods
   -> Context Aware Networking
   -> Data & Information Mining + Forecasting Methods
   -> Crowd-Sourcing and Mining
   -> Stochastic Methods & Visualization
   -> Genetic Algorithms & Applications
   -> Genetic Programming
   -> Simulated Annealing, Swarm Optimization Algorithms
   -> Agent-Based Algorithms
   -> Feature Extraction and Artificial Intelligence
   -> Computer Vision and Applications
   -> Biometrics + Face Recognition, Expression Detection, Human Detection
   -> Vision, Pattern Matching
   -> Noise Reduction
   -> Imaging Science and Medical Applications
   -> Image and Signal Processing Applications & Novel Algorithms
   -> Pattern Recognition
   -> Image Retrieval Methods, Image Feature Extraction
   -> Image Segmentation
   -> Image Quality Assessment
   -> Stereo, 3D Imaging, Depth Algorithms
   -> Video Processing, Analysis and Applications
   -> Object Detection, Recognition & Classification
   -> Compression Methods & Technologies
   -> Mathematical Modeling and Problem Solving
   -> Energy Efficient Networking Systems
   -> Parallel Computing and Algorithms + Multi-Core and Energy-Aware
      Computing
   -> Parallel Programming + Novel Frameworks
   -> Big Data and Data Analytics + Related Technologies and Methods
   -> High-Performance Computing + Distributed Algorithms & Applications
   -> Systems Software + Parallel Programming Models + Petri Nets
   -> Cache Coherence + Multi-Core and Applications
   -> Scientific Computing, FFT, Matrix Problems, Linear Systems, Finite
      Element Methods
   -> Complex Systems, Theory and Applications
   -> Parallel Architectures and Systems
   -> Communication Systems & Input Output Systems + Interconnection
      Networks & Topologies
   -> Routing Methods
   -> Security Education
   -> Wireless Networks Security + Modeling of Information Security
   -> Information Assurance
   -> Biometrics & Forensics
   -> Cryptographic Technologies
   -> Software Engineering & Applications + Education & Training
   -> E-Government & Issues of Interest to Government, and
      Public Administration
   -> Software Engineering & Web Based Systems + Open Source Software
   -> Enterprise Architectures
   -> Game Design + GUI
   -> Energy Efficient Software Design, Requirements Engineering,
      Cost Estimation
   -> Software Engineering & Safety, Software Quality, Error Checking
   -> Software Development Strategies, Agile Technology, Business
      Models, Reuse
   -> Learning & Teaching Methods, E-Learning + Educational Tools
   -> E-Business, E-Commerce, E-Banking, Enterprise Information Systems
   -> Diversity Issues
   -> Software Architecture & Design Patterns + Specification Methods
   -> Process Mining + Autonomic Computing

H. MISC INFORMATION:
   To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2013
   delegates photos available at: There are over 1,000 photos (click
   on any photo for the album to pop up.)
  
   and earlier year's: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/

   Publication: Measurable Scientific Impact of Congress:

   As of December 14, 2013, papers published in the conference proceedings
   that have been held as part of the federated 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 tracks whose first offerings were initiated by the joint
   congress.


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


Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Call for Late Breaking Papers with Deadline of June 5, 2014: The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'14), USA, July 21-24, 2014


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

                 Submission Deadline: June 5, 2014

  The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
                      and Applied Computing
                  July 21-24, 2014, Las Vegas, USA
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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 (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):


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:

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 "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.

   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 "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.

   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 "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.

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 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)

o ABDA'14:
  The 1st International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics
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 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; 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:

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:

All tutorials are free to conference registrants, the list of tutorials
that have been approved so far can be found at:
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:

O. Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)
   accreditation of Computer Science Program
O. Natural Language in Information Security and Privacy
O. Recommendation Systems for Big Data
O. Energy-Aware Resource Management for Computing Systems
O. Hacking with Kali Linux
O. Cryptography and Network Security
O. First Programming Language in CS Education - The Argument For Scala
O. Fault Tolerance and Beyond
O. Agents at High Seas
O. Actor Parallelism and Akka/Scala
O. Cloud Computing for Big Data Challenges
   (Cloud Architectures and Big Data Tools)
O. The Use of ICT to Mitigate Income Inequality

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:

Partial list of tutorials:

Partial list of keynotes:

Location of the conference:


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


Saturday, March 1, 2014

Call for Papers & Sessions: The 2014 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'14), USA, July 21-24, 2014


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                          CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                                 &
                    CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS

              Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2014

                              SWWS'14
          The 2014 International Conference on Semantic Web
                         and Web Services

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

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 accepted papers of the federated
congress that SWWS is part of: (some of these books and journal 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 offerings of the congress):


SWWS'14 is composed of a number of tracks, including: tutorials,
sessions, workshops, posters, and panel discussions. The conference will
be held July 21-24, 2014, Las Vegas, USA.

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

o  Semantic Web:
   - Machine learning approaches for semantic web
   - Semantic web for e-Business and e-Learning
   - Trust networks on semantic web
   - Database technologies for semantic web
   - Semantic knowledge portals
   - Semantic web mining
   - Semantic web inference methodologies
   - Metadata generation
   - Semantic web services
   - Semantic web trust, privacy, and security
   - Tools, languages, and techniques for semantic annotation of web data
   - Semantic intellectual property rights
   - Semantic searching
   - Reasoning in the semantic web
   - Semantic brokering
   - Visualization and modeling
   - Hypermedia and semantic web
   - Software agents for semantic web
   - Community web portals
   - Semantic web and enterprises
   - Trust management for semantic web
   - Semantic interoperability
   - Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation
   - Semantic web mining
   - Semantic web-based knowledge management
   - Ontology languages for semantic web
   - Autonomous semantic web services
   - Service discovery, description, composition and invocation
   - Data semantics
   - Semantic verification of web sites
   - Intersection of Big Data and semantic web
   - Case studies

o  Web Services:
   - Web Service Technologies and Research Directions:
     Enhancements to the basic web services platform such as SOAP,
     WSDL, UDDI, ...; advanced web service technologies including
     security, workflow and process management, transactions, mobile
     and wireless, portals, services management, quality-of-service
     (QoS); novel web service architectures; development and modeling
     frameworks for web service applications; composite web services,
     enabling technologies and support infrastructure; data
     structures and models.
   - Practices for Developing Enterprise-class Web Services and Applications:
     Design patterns; architecting for customization, maintenance,
     and management; architecting for easy integration or service
     "consumption"; fault-tolerant architectures; service mediation
     systems and architectures.
   - Case Studies of Web Service Development and Deployment:
     e-Commerce applications using web services; Business-to-Business
     (B2B) applications using web services; mobile and wireless
     applications using web services; utility and on-demand computing
     using web services; government applications using web services;
     applications of web services in developing countries.
   - Multimedia applications using web services
   - Communication applications using web services
   - Interactive TV applications using web services
   - Big Data:
     Scalable web services for Big Data; services for data integration;
     web services for mapping data to information and to knowledge.
   - Novel applications, case studies, and emerging technologies


IMPORTANT DATES:

ASAP:              Workshop / Session Proposals (As Soon As Possible)
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 International Conference on Semantic Web
                   and Web Services (SWWS'14)


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 (i.e., SWWS) 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 SWWS'14 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. Though,
there is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in
SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings; in the past, many of the proceedings
of the federated congress that SWWS is part of were included in these
databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for
indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier.

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 SWWS, 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). See below for recent
examples of books/journals based on extended versions of accepted papers
of the federated congress that SWWS is part of:



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:

SWWS 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
(i.e., SWWS) 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 February 25, 2014.


CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offerings of
the congress that SWWS was held jointly with, included research labs
and centers affiliated with (each sponsored all or at least one track of
the congress):  Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA; George Mason
University, Virginia, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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; 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 that SWWS was held jointly with, 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 SWWS is currently being compiled. Many who
have already joined the committee are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers,
scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks.

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 (i.e., SWWS).


GENERAL INFORMATION:

SWWS 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 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer
Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'14). 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:

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 the joint 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 tracks
whose first offerings were initiated by this joint congress.

MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of
January 29, 2014

CONTACT:

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