CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper
Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 11, 2016
11:59pm US Eastern Time zone (EDT)
The 15th
International Conference on Wireless Networks
(ICWN'16)
July 25-28,
2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/conferences/icwn2016
Registration: http://worldcomp.org/registration
Hotel: http://worldcomp.org/event_location
INVITATION:
We anticipate having between 1,800 and 2,000 participants
in the federated
event that this conference is part of. You are invited to
submit a paper
for consideration. All accepted papers will be published
in PRINTED
conference BOOKS/proceedings (with unique international
ISBN number) and
will also be made available online. The proceedings will
be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation
frequency/data. In addition,
like prior years, extended versions of selected papers
(about 40%) will
appear in journals and edited research books; publishers
include, Springer,
Elsevier, BMC, and others). See the web link below for a
small subset of
such publications: (some of these books and journal
special issues have
already received the top 25% downloads in their
respective fields and/or
identified as "Highly Accessed" by publishers
and/or science citation
index trackers.)
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/worldcomp-books-journal-special-issues
Last year, the federated event that this conference is
part of had attracted
speakers/authors/participants affiliated with over 178
different
universities (including many from the top 50 ranked
institutions), major
IT corporations (including, Microsoft, Google, Apple,
SAP, Facebook, Oracle,
Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, Philips,
Ericsson, BAE
Systems, Hitachi, NTT, ...), major corporations
(including, Exxon Mobil,
Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, PetroChina,
GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC,
Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, ...), government research
agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE,
AirForce, NSA National Security Agency, ...), US national
laboratories
(including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence
Berkeley National
Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, National Cancer Institute,
NIST, ...), and
a number of Venture Capitalists as well as speakers
discussing Intellectual
Property issues.
KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:
There will be between 10 and 20 Keynote lectures and
Invited Talks;
speakers include world-renowned scientists and educators.
Featured
Keynote Speakers for year 2016 include:
Dr. Firouz
Naderi
Former
Director of Solar System Exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
(JPL) - Oversaw robotic spacecraft dispatched to all
corners of the
solar system. Prior position: NASA's Program Manager
for Mars
Exploration Recipient of NASA's outstanding Leadership
Medal and
NASA's Distinguished Service Medal (NASA's highest award).
Prof. Alfred
Inselberg
Tel Aviv
University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing
Center;
Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel
Coordinates
which has significant utilities in Big Data (his work
has been
praised by Stephen Hawking among others.)
The conference is composed of a number of tracks,
tutorials, sessions,
workshops, poster and panel discussions; all will be held
simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 25-28, 2016.
SCOPE: TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED
TO, THE FOLLOWING:
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 Personal Area
Networks, Body Wireless Networks, Bluetooth
o Wireless Sensor
and Actuator 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 Disruption
Tolerant Networks and Applications
o Distributed
Algorithms for Wireless Networks
o Autonomous
Mobile Sensor Networks
o Emerging
technologies and Related Issues
o SENSOR NETWORKS
+ AD HOC NETWORKS:
- Wireless
Information Networks:
Power
Management, Remote Sensing and Telemetry, WiFi, ZigBee,
WiMax,
Bluetooth, Wireless Network Protocols, Routing Techniques,
Network
Architecture, Ad Hoc Networks, Hierarchical Networks,
Ubiquitous
Computing.
- Data
Manipulation:
Noise
Reduction, Data Quality and Integrity, Sensor Data Fusion,
Data
Visualization, Aggregation, Classification and Tracking,
Pattern
Recognition, Reasoning on Sensor Data.
- Sensor
Networks Software:
Interoperability, Scheduling, Tasking and Control, Internet of
Things,
Connectivity and Communication, Agent-based Simulation,
Programming
and Middleware.
- Hardware and
Systems:
Hardware
Design, Packaging, Testing and Reliability, Electronic
Interfaces,
RFID Readers and Tags, MEMS, Swarm Sensors, Sensor
Types for
Chemical and Biomedical Applications.
- Signal
Processing:
Distributed
and Collaborative Signal Processing, Multimedia Signal
Processing,
Fault Detection, Sparse Signal Processing, Statistical
Signal
Processing, Coding, and Compression, Neural Networks,
Information
Mining.
- Sensor
Networks and Challenges:
Infrastructure
Reliability, Energy Efficiency, Self-healing, Data
Overload,
Security and Vulnerability, Authentication, Fault
Tolerance and
Diagnosis, Environmental Impact Reduction.
- Sensor Network
Applications:
Healthcare,
Medical Imaging, Environment Monitoring, Industrial
and Structural
Monitoring, Smart Grids and Energy Control
Systems, Smart
Buildings and Smart Cities, Home Monitoring and
Assisted
Living Applications, Wireless Surveillance, Smart Fabrics
and Wearables,
Defense and Security, Vehicular Networks, and novel
applications.
- Ad Hoc
Networks:
Vehicular
Networks, Underwater Networks, Underground Networks,
Network
Scalability and Capacity, Service Discovery, Middleware
for Ad Hoc
Networks, Body Area Networks, Personal Area Networks,
Protocol
Design, MAC and Transport Protocols, Network Control and
Management,
Quality of Service Provisioning, OFDM, Distributed
MIMO, Node
Localization, Synchronization, Reliability and Fault
Tolerance,
Security and Privacy, Performance Modeling and Analysis,
Networks for
the Smart Grid, and Applications of Ad Hoc Networks.
o Pervasive
Systems and Computing:
-
Location-dependent/personalized Application
- Hardware
Support Pervasive Computing and Communication
- Software
Infrastructures for Pervasive System
- System Architectures
and Platforms
- 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
- User
Interfaces and Interaction Models
- Wearable
Computers and Technologies
- Resource
Management in Pervasive Platforms
- Security and
Privacy Issues for Pervasive Systems
- New Products,
Standards, and Tools
- 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:
April 11, 2016:
Submission of full papers (max 7 pages)
(Authors who have already submitted papers before March 22,
will receive decisions and status reports by April 17.)
April 25, 2016:
Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 10, 2016: Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 25-28, 2016:
The 15th International Conference on Wireless Networks
(ICWN'16: Las Vegas, USA).
All affiliated federated conferences will be held
simultaneously; same location and dates.
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/conferences/icwn2016
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:
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 the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and
must be in either
MS doc or pdf formats (7 pages for Regular Research
Papers; 4 pages for
Short Research Papers; 2 pages for Extended
Abstract/Poster Papers - the
number of pages include all figures, tables, and
references). 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; these
formatting instructions
appear at the submission web site and they conform to the
two-column IEEE
style format). Papers must not have been previously
published or currently
submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include the
followings:
- Title of the
paper
- Name,
affiliation, postal address, and email address of each author
(identify the
name of the Contact Author)
- Abstract
(between 100 and 120 words)
- A maximum of 5
topical keywords that would best represent the work
described in
the paper
- Write the type
of the submission as "Regular Research Paper",
"Short
Research Paper", or "Extended Abstract/Poster Paper".
- The actual
text of the paper can start from the first page (space
permitting).
Submissions are
to be uploaded to the submission/evaluation web site
portal.
Type of Submissions/Papers:
- Full/Regular
Research Papers (maximum of 7 pages):
Regular
Research Papers should provide detail original research
contributions.
They must report new research results that represent
a contribution
to the field; sufficient details and support for
the results and
conclusions should also be provided. The work
presented in
regular papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity
that with some
additional work can be published as journal papers.
- Short Research
Papers (maximum of 4 pages):
Short Research
Papers report on ongoing research projects. They should
provide overall
research methodologies with some results. The work
presented in
short papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity
that with some
additional work can be published as regular papers.
- Extended
Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 2 pages):
Poster papers
report on ongoing research projects that are still in
their infancy
(i.e., at very early stages). Such papers tend to provide
research
methodologies without yet concrete results.
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. The proceedings/books of the
congress have been
evaluated and approved for inclusion into major science
citation index
databases. In addition, the proceedings are approved for
inclusion into
EBSCO, one of the largest subject index systems. ACM
Digital Library is also
including the titles into its database as well as
ProQuest indexing database
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 process may take 12 to 18
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 and 15 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, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,
EMBASE, and others).
For a recent and a very small subset of the books (and
journal special
issues) that have been published mostly based on the
extended versions of
the federated congress papers, see the link and titles
below:
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/worldcomp-books-journal-special-issues
Some of these books and journal special issues have
already received the
top 25% downloads in their respective fields and/or
identified as "Highly
Accessed" by publishers and/or science citation
index trackers.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The federated congress (
http://www.worldcomp.org/events/2016 ) that
this conference is part of 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), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished
Professor, Purdue
University, USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of
Mathematical
Sciences, Tel Aviv U, 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); Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of
IEEE and
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);
Dr. Leonid I.
Perlovsky (Harvard University, USA and School of
Engineering and
Applied Sciences and Medical School Athinoula Martinos
Brain Imaging
Center; and The US Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP
Information
Technology, USA and Chair of IEEE Task Force on The Mind
and Brain;
Recipient of John McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force
Award for
basic research); Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer,
Raytheon
Intelligence, Information, and Services; Aurora,
Colorado, USA); Prof.
Yaroslav D. Sergeyev (Distinguished Professor, Head of
Numerical
Calculus Laboratory University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
and part-time
Professor of Lobachevsky State University, Russia); 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. To get a feeling about the
conferences'
atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:
2015 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6981287
2014 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396
Last 10 years: 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."
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of January 5, 2016, papers published in the conference
proceedings
that have been held as part of this federated congress,
have received
28,380 citations (includes 3,346 self-citations).
Citation data is
obtained from Microsoft Academic Search. The citation
data does not
even include more than 17,000 other citations to papers
in conferences
whose first offerings were initiated by this congress
(such as: FUSION,
ICWS, ICMLA, and others).
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is
correct as of
March 31, 2016.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org
