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CALL FOR
PAPERS
&
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS
Paper Submission Deadline: March
15, 2014
ICWN'14
The 2014 International Conference on
Wireless Networks
July 21-24, 2014, Monte Carlo Resort,
Las Vegas, USA
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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 accepted papers of the federated
congress that
ICWN 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):
ICWN'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 Ad hoc networks
o Power management and control, low-power protocols
o Wireless applications, mobile e-commerce,
multimedia
o Satellite-based systems
o Broadcast networks
o High altitude platforms
o GPS, location-based service and mobile
devices
o Mobile agents
o Wireless and mobile applications
o Routing, multicasting, ...
o Resource management, wireless QoS
o Mobile internet
o Wireless network architectures
o Mobile computing
o Wireless security
o Modeling, simulation, ...
o Novel technologies that enhance wireless
systems and standards
o Personal area networks, body wireless
networks, Bluetooth
o Wireless sensor and actuator networks
o Error detection and correction in sensor
networks
o Mobile sensor networks
o Underwater sensor networks
o Imaging sensor networks
o Agent-based sensor networks
o Efficient and reliable MAC protocols for
sensor networks
o Node placement and topology control issues
o Coding and modulation
o Multi-user detection
o Mobile wireless QoS, radio resource
management
o Heterogeneous wireless networks, radio access
networks
o Software-defined radio, reconfigurable radio
networks
o Wireless IP networks, interworking
o Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation
o WAP, mobile e-commerce
o Disruption tolerant networks and applications
o Distributed algorithms for wireless networks
o Autonomous Mobile Sensor Networks
o Emerging technologies and related issues
o Pervasive Systems and Computing:
- Location-dependent/personalized
application
- Hardware support pervasive computing and
communicatio
- Software infrastructures for pervasive
system
- System architectures and platform
- Embedded computing with applications
- Low power, energy-aware pervasive
computing
- Smart devices, spaces and objects
- Service discovery mechanisms and protocols
- Middleware services and agent technologies
- Positioning and tracking technologies
- Integration of wired and wireless networks
- Personal area networks
- Intelligent devices and environments
- Context & location awareness, context
based & implicit computing
- Speech and language processing
- User interfaces and interaction models
- Wearable computers and technologies
- Resource management in pervasive platforms
- Security and privacy issues for pervasive
systems
- New products, standards, tools and best
practices
- Embodied agents
- Interactive workspace
- Ubiquitous computing
- Secure collaboration in uncertain
environments
- Biometric methods for pervasive computing
- Applications and case studies
- Emerging topics in pervasive systems
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 Wireless Networks
(ICWN'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., ICWN) 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 ICWN'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. The
proceedings/books
of ICWN for prior years have been evaluated for
inclusion into
major science citation index databases. We are happy to
report that the
evaluation board of science citation index databases have
approved the
indexing, integrating, and inclusion of ICWN proceedings
into relevant
indexing databases (indexing databases include, among
others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,
www.ei.org; and others).
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 ICWN, 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,
examples of
books/journals based on extended versions of accepted papers
of the federated
congress that ICWN 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:
ICWN 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., ICWN) 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 ICWN 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 ICWN 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., ICWN).
GENERAL
INFORMATION:
ICWN 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
