Saturday, January 23, 2016

Call For Papers and Sessions: The 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, July 25-28, 2016, Paper Submission Deadline: March 22, 2016


                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                                +
                    CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS

              Paper Submission Deadline: March 22, 2016

             The 2016 World Congress in Computer Science,
             Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

         July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
                  http://worldcomp.org/events/2016

You are invited to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted papers
will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (each with a
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 Congress had attracted speakers/authors/participants
affiliated with over 178 different universities (including many from the
top 50 ranked institutions), many major IT corporations (including,
Microsoft, Google, SAP, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE,
Siemens, HSBC, GlaxoSmithKline, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Airbus,
Boeing, Hyundai, Hitachi, NTT, ...), government research agencies (NSF,
NIH, DoE, AirForce, ...), national laboratories (including, NASA, ANL,
LLNL, Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Los Alamos National
Lab, ...), and a number of Venture Capitalists as well as speakers
discussing Intellectual Property issues.

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 25-28, 2016. For
the complete list of joint conferences, see below.


IMPORTANT DATES:

February 5, 2016:  Workshop / Session Proposals
March 22, 2016:    Submission of full papers (max 7 pages)
April 17, 2016:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 10, 2016:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 25-28, 2016:  The 2016 World Congress in Computer Science,
                   Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                   (including all affiliated federated conferences).


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR EVALUATION: ( http://world-comp.org )

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 this
congress have been evaluated and approved for inclusion into major
science citation index databases. In addition, all 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 this
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.
Some titles appear below (a small subset):

  o. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in Image Processing, Computer
     Vision and Pattern Recognition. (about 650 pages)
  o. Springer: Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems;
     Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Vol 696.
     780 pages (Awarded the top 25% downloads in the field.)
  o. Springer: Advances in Computational Biology; Series: Advances
     in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Vol 680. 700+ pages.
     (Awarded the top 25% downloads in the field.)
  o. Journal of BMC Systems Biology: Special Journal Issue
     "Bioinformatics and Computational Biology", (Vol. 5, Supp. 3);
     Impact Factor: 2.44. 200+ pages.
     (Many articles of this issue is marked as "Highly accessed".)
  o. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in ICT Security (Information and
     Communications Technology). 660 pages.
     (One of the most highly accessed books in the field.)
  o. Journal of BMC Medical Genomics: Special Journal Issue
     "Bioinformatics and Computational Biology", (Vol. 6, Supp. 1);
     Impact Factor: 2.87. 240+ pages.
     (Some articles of this issue is marked as "Highly accessed".)
  o. Springer: Transactions on Computational Science and
     Computational Intelligence (multiple volumes).
  o. Journal of BMC Genomics: Special Journal Issue "Bioinformatics
     and Computational Biology", (Vol. 9, Supp. 1); Impact
     Factor: 3.99. 250+ pages.
     (Some articles of this issue is marked as "Highly accessed".)
  o. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applied
     Computing (multiple volumes.)
  o. Journal of BMC Genomics: Special Journal Issue "Advances in
     Big Data Analytics", (Vol. 15, Supp. 11); Impact Factor: 3.99.
     100+ pages.
     (Some articles of this issue is marked as "Highly accessed".)
  o. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in Computational Biology,
     Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology - Algorithms and Software
     Tools. 600+ pages.
  o. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in Computational Biology,
     Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology - Systems and Applications.
     (In Press). 600+ pages.
  o. Springer: Resilient Computer System Design.
     300+ pages.
  o. Journal of BMC Bioinformatics: Special Journal Issue (Vol 15,
     Supp. 17); Impact Factor: 2.58. 140+ pages.
     (Some articles of this issue is marked as "Highly accessed".)
  o. Springer: The Journal of Supercomputing (multiple journal
     issues);
  o. Springer: Special Issue in Annals of Information Systems;
     Data Mining; Vol. 8; 400 pages.
  o. Springer: Real World Data Mining Applications; in Annals of
     Information Systems; Vol. 17; 420 pages.


PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:

Each conference (see below for the list) is composed of a number of tracks.
A track can be a session, a workshop, or a symposium. A session will have
at least 6 papers; a workshop at least 12 papers; and a symposium at least
18 papers. Track chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their tracks,
including: soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of track
chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and
on the cover of the printed books (and indexed in science databases as such).
Track chairs who attract a sufficient number of solid papers can propose
to edit books with a major publisher based on the extended versions of the
papers accepted in their tracks (the congress will facilitate and help such
track chairs to get the publisher's approval).

Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums) should
include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer,
his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the topic of
the track, the name of the conference the track is submitted for
consideration (i.e., PDPTA, IPCV, ...), 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 (see IMPORTANT DATES).


LIST OF CONFERENCES (in no particular order):

o ABDA'16:
  The 3rd International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics

o BIOCOMP'16:
  The 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational
  Biology

o BIOENG'16:
  The 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences

o CSC'16:
  The 14th International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'16:
  The 15th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
  Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ESCS'16:
  The 14th International Conference on Embedded Systems, Cyber-physical
  Systems, and Applications

o FCS'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science

o FECS'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering

o GCC'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Grid, Cloud, and Cluster
  Computing

o HIMS'16:
  The 2nd International Conference on Health Informatics and
  Medical Systems

o ICAI'16:
  The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'16:
  The 17th International Conference on Internet Computing and
  Internet of Things

o ICWN'16:
  The 15th International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'16:
  The 15th International Conference on Information & Knowledge
  Engineering

o IPCV'16:
  The 20th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
  Vision, & Pattern Recognition

o MSV'16:
  The 13th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'16:
  The 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
  Processing Techniques and Applications

o SAM'16:
  The 15th International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'16:
  The 14th International Conference on Software Engineering Research
  and Practice

July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA.

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


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of
the last offerings of the congress included: Dr. Selim Aissi,
(formerly: Chief Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation, USA) Vice
President, Global Information Security, Visa Inc., USA; Prof. Abbas
M. Al-Bakry, University President, University of IT and
Communications, Baghdad, Iraq; Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and
Department Chair, and Vice Chair of IEEE/SEM Computer Chapter,
University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Dr. Hamid Ali
Abed Alasadi, Head, Department of Computer Science, Basra University,
Iraq and Member of Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE,
Washington, USA; Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA
and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) and Elected
Fellow of Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM);
Prof. Michael Panayiotis Bekakos, Director of Laboratory of Digital
Systems and Head of Parallel Algorithms and architectures Research
Group, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; Prof. Juan Jose
Martinez Castillo, Director, The Acantelys Alan Turing Nikola Tesla
Research Group and GIPEB, Universidad Nacional Abierta, Venezuela;
Prof. Kevin Daimi, Director of Computer Science and Software
Engineering Programs, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan,
USA; Dr. Lamia Atma Djoudi, Synchrone Technologies, France; Prof.
Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, Professor of Engineering Practice,
University of Southern California, California, USA and Adjunct
Professor, EE, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA),
California, USA; Prof. George A. Gravvanis, Director, Physics Lab. &
Head of Advanced Scientific Computing, Applied Math & Applications
Research Group and Professor of Applied Mathematics and Numerical
Computing and Department of ECE, School of Engineering, Democritus
University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece (former President of the
Technical Commission, European Commission); Prof. Houcine Hassan,
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain; Prof. George Jandieri,
Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief Scientist,
The Institute of Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia;
Prof. Young-Sik Jeong, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Information
Processing Systems (JIPS), Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea;
Prof. Byung-Gyu Kim, Multimedia Processing Communications Lab.
(MPCL), Department of CSE, SunMoon University, South Korea; Prof.
Tai-hoon Kim, School of Information and Computing Science,
University of Tasmania, Australia; Prof. D. V. Kodavade, Head of
Computer Science and Engineering, DKTE Institute, India; Prof. Dr.
Guoming Lai, Computer Science and Technology, Sun Yat-Sen
University, Guangzhou, P. R. China; Prof. Victor Malyshkin, Head
of Supercomputer Software Department, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Russia; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor & Associate Director,
School of Computing and Information Science and Chair of Int'l
Advisory Board of IEEE IDAACS, University of Maine, Orono, USA;
Dr. Andrew Marsh, CEO, HoIP Telecom Ltd (Healthcare over Internet
Protocol), UK and Secretary General of World Academy of BioMedical
Sciences and Technologies (WABT), a UNESCO NGO, The United Nations;
Prof. G. N. Pandey, Vice-Chancellor, Arunachal University, India
and Adjunct Professor of Indian Institute of Information
Technology, Allahabad, India; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park,
Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DCSE),
SeoulTech, South Korea and President of FTRA, South Korea; Dr.
Akash Singh, IBM Corporation, Sacramento, California, USA and
Chartered Scientist, Science Council, UK and Fellow of British
Computer Society, USA; Ashu M. G. Solo (Publicity Chair), Fellow
of British Computer Society, Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D
Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies America Inc.;
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. Fernando G. Tinetti, School of
Computer Science, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata,
Argentina and Co-editor, Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCS&T);
Dr. Predrag Tosic, Microsoft, Washington, USA; Prof. Vladimir Volkov,
The Bonch-Bruevich State University of Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg,
Russia; Prof. Patrick S. P. Wang, Fellow of IAPR, ISIBM, WASE and
Professor of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern
University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Otto-von-Guericke
Distinguished Guest Professor, University Magdeburg, Germany;
Prof. Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Department of Information Management,
Central Police University, Taiwan and Program Chair, Security &
Forensics, Taiwan and Director of Information Crypto and
Construction Lab (ICCL) & ICCL-FROG; Prof. Mary Q. Yang,
Director of Mid-South Bioinformatics Center and Joint
Bioinformatics PhD Program, Medical Sciences and George W.
Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology,
University of Arkansas, USA; Prof. Jane You, Associate Head,
Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Kowloon, Hong Kong.

The 2016 Program Committee for individual conferences are currently
being compiled. Many who have already joined the committees are
renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
labs., fellows of various societies, heads/ chairs of departments,
program directors of research funding agencies, as well as deans
and provosts.

Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and
documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program
Committee should email editor@world-comp.org  the following information
for consideration: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing
address, email address, a one-page biography that includes research
expertise & the name of the conference(s) offering to help with.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

The Congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers
have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of
California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of
Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic
Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of
Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer,
VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member
of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of
X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of
Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of
Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and
Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT &
Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz
Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program 2000-2005 and Associate
Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof.
David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.:
ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick),
Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor,
Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief
Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh
(Dean, Cornell University - formerly at Rutgers University,
New Jersey, USA and former director of Division of Information and
Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA), 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 and
territories. 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 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
January 5, 2016.

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


Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Call For Participation: The 2015 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, U.S.A., July 27-30, 2015


                      Call For Participation

            The 2015 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

                July 27-30, 2015, Las Vegas, USA
             http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

This is an invitation to attend The 2015 World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. The congress
is composed of 20 major tracks composed of: 14 tutorials; 720 research
presentations divided into 141 sessions and workshops; and 16 keynotes,
invited lectures, and panel discussions, ... - all will be held
simultaneously, same location and dates: July 27-30, 2015. Attendees
will have full access to all conferences' sessions, tracks, and
tutorials. Registration is required to attend. As of now, 59% of
registrants are from academia, 23% from industry; 17% from government
and funding agencies; and 1% unknown (correct as of July 6). About
half of the attendees are from outside USA; from 77 nations. The
congress has participants, speakers, authors affiliated with over 170
different universities (including many from the top 50 ranked
institutions), many major IT corporations (including, Microsoft, Google,
Apple, SAP, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, and
others), government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, US Air Force, a
number of security agencies, and others), and national laboratories
(including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National
Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, ...) In addition, we will also have
speakers discussing Intellectual Property issues as well as other
related topics.

See below for:

A. General Information
B. Broad Topical Scopes
C. Registration Information (Deadline: July 22, 2015)
D. Congress Schedules/Programs
E. Location of congress (hotel)
F. Partial list of planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes
G. Partial list of organized sessions
H. Misc Information

We look forward to seeing you July 27-30, 2015.
-----------------------------cut here-----------------------------


A. GENERAL INFORMATION:
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/


B. BROAD TOPICAL SCOPES:
   Advances in Big Data Analytics (ABDA); Parallel and Distributed Processing
   Techniques and Applications (PDPTA); Health Informatics and Medical
   Systems (HIMS); Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP);
   Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (BIOENG); Image Processing, Computer
   Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV); Artificial Intelligence (ICAI);
   Security and Management (SAM); Software Engineering Research and Practice
   (SERP); e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and
   e-Government (EEE); Wireless Networks (ICWN); Data Mining (DMIN); Internet
   Computing and Big Data (ICOMP); Frontiers in Education in Computer Science
   and Computer Engineering (FECS); Scientific Computing (CSC); Modeling,
   Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV); Embedded Systems and
   Applications (ESA); Grid and Cloud Computing and Applications (GCA);
   Foundations of Computer Science (FCS); and Information & Knowledge
   Engineering (IKE).


C. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: (Deadline: July 22, 2015)
   http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/registration


D. CONGRESS SCHEDULES/PROGRAMS:
   The detailed schedule will be available in mid July (under the tab
   "Program") at:
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp15/ws


E. LOCATION OF CONGRESS:
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp15/ws/location
   Attendees are to reserve their hotel rooms as soon as possible. A limited
   number of rooms are available at the reduced negotiated rate -
   reservations will be honored on the first-come first-served basis.


F. PLANNED TUTORIALS AND FEATURED KEYNOTES: (partial list)
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp15/ws/tutorials
   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp15/ws/keynotes
   In addition to the above, there are a number of focused invited talks
   and lectures in individual tracks (these are not listed in the above
   links but will be listed in the individual schedules for each conference
   track.)

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

   -> Cyberwarfare, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
   -> Energy-Aware Resource Management for Computing Systems
   -> Best Practices for Developing Real-World Mobile Apps, Software as a
      Service (SaaS) and Web Services
   -> Building Dependable Distributed Systems
   -> What Should We Know About Computational Humor
   -> Introduction to Cryptography and Network Security
   -> JavaFX Quickstart - Moving Beyond Swing for Rich User Interfaces
   -> Human Motion Tracking and Recognition with Microsoft Kinect
   -> eMaintenance: Knowledge Discovery in Asset Data by the Means of
      Data Mining
   -> Application of MATLAB in Science and Engineering
   -> Analyzing and Protecting RFID and Card Access Systems
   -> Data Privacy for Emerging Mobile Cloud Apps
   -> Integrative Big-Data Analysis for Translational Genomics Research

   Partial/featured list of Keynotes/Invited Talks:

   -> Computing the Context at the End of the Non-Semantic Era
      Prof. Victor Raskin
      Distinguished Professor of English and Linguistics and Professor of
      Computer Science and of Computer and Information Technology (Courtesy);
      Co-Founder, Associate Director, and Charter Fellow of Center for
      Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS);
      Purdue University, Indiana, USA

   -> Lessons from Commercializing Ideas from Colleges Around the World:
      What College Students, Faculty and Researchers Must Do to be Successful
      Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
      EVx Global (www.evxglobal.com); Named Young Global Leader by the World
      Economic Forum for his professional accomplishments, commitment to
      society and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world.

   -> Artificial Neurogenesis
      Dr. James A. Crowder
      Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services;
      Aurora, Colorado, USA; Chief Mentor/Scientist of the Automation,
      Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Research Lab - Alexandria School
      of Innovation, Douglas County, Colorado, USA

   -> The Infinity Computer and Numerical Computations with Infinities and
      Infinitesimals
      Prof. Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, Ph.D., D.Sc., D.H.C.
      Inventor of the Infinity Computer; Distinguished Professor, Head of
      Numerical Calculus Laboratory, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy;
      and Professor (part-time), Lobachevsky State University, Nizhni
      Novgorod, Russia

   -> Data Science: The Road Ahead
      Dr. Peter Geczy
      National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
      (AIST), Japan

   -> Evolving Systems: Theory, Implementation, Application
      Prof. Igor Schagaev
      London Metropolitan University, London, UK; Research Advisor of
      ITACS Ltd, UK

   -> Funding Enabling Technologies
      Dr. Steve Richfield
      Founder of Savant AI Holdings, USA

   -> Systems Genomics Approaches for Streamlined Big-Data Integrative
      Genomics Analysis
      Dr. Mary Yang
      Director of MidSouth Bioinformatics Center; Director of the Joint
      Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program of University of Arkansas Little Rock
      Donaghey College of Engineering & Information Technology and
      University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas, USA

   -> Data Mining for RUL Estimation of Complex Assets
      Prof. Diego Galar
      Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering, Lulea University
      of Technology, Lulea, Sweden

   -> Panel: Virtual Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence: The Good,
      The Bad, and the Ugly
      PANEL CHAIR/Moderator: Dr. James A. Crowder, Chief Engineer,
      Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, Colorado, USA;
      PANELISTS:
      Prof. Victor Raskin*, Dr. Julia Taylor**, Dr. John N. Carbone***
      *Distinguished Professor of English and Linguistics and Professor of
      Computer Science and of Computer and Information Technology (Courtesy);
      Co-Founder, Associate Director, and Charter Fellow of Center for
      Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS);
      Purdue University, Indiana, USA
      **Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Technology; Fellow of
      Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and
      Security (CERIAS), Purdue University, Indiana, USA
      ***Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services,
      Aurora, Colorado, USA

   -> Panel: Security Challenges
      PANEL CHAIR/Moderator: 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; Cooperating Prof. School
      of Policy & Int'l Affairs UMaine; University of Maine, Orono, 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 6, 2015)

   -> High Performance Computing, Distributed and Parallel Processing,
      Databases
   -> Big Data, Data Centers and Cloud Computing
   -> Big Data Search, Mining Methods, Clustering, Knowledge Extraction
      and Engineering
   -> Applications of Big Data + Software Tools
   -> Big Data Analytics and Related Issues
   -> Bioinformatics
   -> Protein Classification and Structure Prediction, and Folding
   -> Computational Structural Biology and Drug Design
   -> Gene Expression, Regulatory Networks, and Sequencing
   -> Signal Processing and Imaging Science
   -> Computational Biology
   -> Medical Devices and Supporting Systems
   -> Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science
   -> Computational Science and Optimization Methods
   -> Modeling and Simulation Frameworks
   -> Fuzzy Logic and Systems + Data Science
   -> Semantic Web and Web Services
   -> Simulation and Computational Modeling Methods
   -> Finite Element Methods and Finite Difference Methods
   -> Cellular Automata
   -> Scientific Computing, Algorithms and Applications
   -> Real-World Data Mining Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives
   -> Regression, Classification, Clustering, Association
   -> Segmentation, Clustering, Association + Multimedia Mining
   -> Management Issues, Web Tools + Prediction and Forcasting Methods
   -> e-Business, e-Commerce, Enterprise Information Systems
   -> e-Learning + Educational Concepts and Tools, and Academia Related
      Issues
   -> Embedded Systems and Novel Application
   -> Embedded Microcontollers + Optimizations
   -> HPC + Virtual Machines + Fault Tolerant Devices
   -> Resource Constrained Devices
   -> Power Aware Computing and Energy Minimization
   -> Graph and Network Based Algorithms + Formal Methods
   -> Optimization Methods + Search and Indexing Algorithms
   -> Foundation of Computer Science + Education
   -> Use of Robots, Gamification, and Other Technologies in Education
   -> Teaching Methodologies, Curriculum and Course Development
   -> Adaptive Learning Systems + Experiential Learning
   -> Online and Massive Open Online Courses
   -> Assessment Strategies + Student Outcomes + and Accreditation
   -> Case Studies, Capstone Projects to Enhance Learning
   -> Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics - STEM Education
   -> Flipping the Classroom
   -> Recruiting Students to Computer Science, Retention Methods and
      Strategies + Addressing Diversity Issues
   -> Teaching and Testing Tools and Methods, e-Textbooks
   -> Cloud Computing, Cloud Services and Security + Mobile Computing
   -> Scalable Computing + Data Centers
   -> Novel Methods and Systems to Enhance Diagnosis + Tools for
      Hospital Emergency Rooms
   -> Elderly Care: Systems, Methods, and Novel Practices + Assistive
      Technologies
   -> Healthcare and Medical Information Systems, Monitoring Systems
   -> Healthcare and Cloud Infrastructure + Mobile Systems + Wearables
   -> Computer Algorithms and Systems + Surgery Planning + Drug Discovery
      and New Frameworks for Prediction and Early Detection of Diseases
   -> Informatics for Education and Research in Health and Medicine
   -> Robotics and Applications - hardware and software
   -> Genetic Algorithms + Evolutionary Strategies
   -> Fuzzy Logic and Sets, Fuzzy Control and Applications
   -> Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning
   -> Knowledge Base Systems, Representation, Discovery + Information
      Engineering Methods and Related Issues
   -> Intelligent Linguistic Technologies
   -> Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing
   -> Artificial Intelligence: Theory, Algorithms and Applications +
      Cognitive Science
   -> Pattern Recognition and Supporting Algorithms
   -> Neural Networks
   -> Internet and Web Computing, Infrastructures + Security and Privacy
   -> Mobility: Mobile Computing and Applications
   -> Wireless Sensor Networks
   -> Security, Privacy, and Related Systems and Algorithms
   -> Ad-Hoc Networks, MANET
   -> Green Networks and Energy Efficient Systems
   -> Information and Knowledge Extraction, Representation and Sharing
   -> Big Data Analytics + Data Warehouse Design + Social Media +
      Business Intelligence and Recommender Systems
   -> Knowledge Engineering and Information Fusion + Knowledge Discovery
      and Semantic Web
   -> Information Retrieval AND Ontology Based Methods
   -> Legislation and Intellectual Property Issues
   -> Identity Management Methods
   -> Recognition and Detection Methods: Face, Gesture, Object, Character
   -> Image Segmentation Methods
   -> Wavelet Transformation, Analysis, Applications + Watermarking
      Methods, Security, Privacy, and Encryption Methods
   -> Motion Segmentation, Tracking Algorithms + Video Processing,
      Analysis and Applications
   -> Pattern Recognition and Feature Detection, Extraction and
      Classification
   -> Imaging Science Algorithms for 2D and 3D
   -> Computer Vision + Medical Imaging + Assistive Technologies
   -> Soft Computing in Image Processing and Computer Vision
   -> Modeling, Visualization, and Virtual Environments
   -> Simulation, Numerical Methods, and Applications
   -> Resource Management, Resource Allocation, Scheduling, and Data
      Management
   -> Distributed Processing, and Applications
   -> Communication Topologies and Interconnection Networks
   -> Software Tools and Systems and Parallelizing Compilers
   -> Mathematical Modeling and Problem Solving
   -> Parallel Processing Algorithms, Systems, and Applications
   -> Cloud Computing and Next Generation
   -> Mobile Computing, Ad Hoc Networks, and Wireless Sensor Networks
   -> Hardware and Software Reconfigurability
   -> Network on Chip (NOC) and Embedded Systems
   -> HPC for Complex Systems
   -> Biometrics + Forensics + Security Education
   -> Cybersecurity Education
   -> Computer Security + Security Applications
   -> Cryptographic Technologies and Hardware Security
   -> Security Management
   -> Network Security + Cybersecurity Education
   -> Embedded Wearable Security + Covert Communication and Information
      Assurance
   -> Security Applications + Cryptology + Biometrics
   -> Formal Methods + Process and Product Line Improvement + Agile
      Development + Workflow Management + Project Management
   -> Testing, Verification, Validation Methods + Security Analysis,
      and Software Quality Issues
   -> Software Engineering and Software Scalability
   -> Modeling Languages, UML + Petri Nets, SOA and Applications +
      Portability + Requirements Engineering and Aspect Oriented
      Software Engineering
   -> Software Architecture and Frameworks + Enterprise Architecture


H. MISC INFORMATION:
   To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see some
   delegates photos available at:
   http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/
   http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396 (to see a slide show, click on
   "Start SlideShow" tab at the url above.)

   Publication: Measurable Scientific Impact of Congress:
   As of December 14, 2014, papers published in the conference proceedings
   that have been held as part of this congress, have received over
   27,914 citations (includes 3,346 self-citations). Citation data is
   obtained from Microsoft Academic Search. The citation data does not
   even include more than 15,000 other citations to papers in conferences
   whose first offerings were initiated by this congress.


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


Thursday, May 14, 2015

Call for Late Breaking Papers with Submission Deadline of May 31, 2015: Int'l. Conf. on Wireless Networks (ICWN'15), U.S.A., July 27-30, 2015


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

                 Submission Deadline: May 31, 2015
                 11:59pm US Eastern Time zone (EDT)

       The 2015 International Conference on Wireless Networks
                              ICWN'15

         July 27-30, 2015, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/conferences/icwn15
========================================================================

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  GPS, Location-based Service and Mobile Devices
o  Wireless and Mobile Applications
o  Routing, Multicasting, ...
o  Resource Management, Wireless QoS
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  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:
   - Software Infrastructures for Pervasive System
   - System Architectures and Platforms
   - Embedded Computing with Applications
   - Low Power, Energy-Aware Pervasive Computing
   - Middleware Services and Agent Technologies
   - Positioning and Tracking Technologies
   - Personal Area Networks
   - Intelligent Devices and Environments
   - Context & Location Awareness, Context Based & Implicit Computing
   - Wearable Computers and Technologies
   - Resource Management in Pervasive Platforms
   - Security and Privacy Issues for Pervasive Systems
   - Interactive Workspace
   - Ubiquitous Computing
   - Secure Collaboration in Uncertain Environments
   - Biometric Methods for Pervasive Computing
   - Applications and Case Studies
   - Emerging Topics in Pervasive Systems

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 27-30, 2015.


INVITATION:

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).

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. In addition, like prior years, extended
versions of selected papers (about 35%) of the conference will appear
in journals and edited research books (publishers include: Springer,
Elsevier, BMC, and others); some of these books and journal special
issues have already received the top 25% downloads in their respective
fields. See the link below for a very small subset of the books published
mostly based on extended versions of the accepted papers of this congress:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/publications . The
titles of proceedings of this congress have been indexed into the ACM
Digital Library ( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes bibliographic
citations from major publishers in computing. To get a feeling about
the conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:
http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/


IMPORTANT DATES:

May 31, 2015:     Submission of LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS,
                  ABSTRACTS/POSTERS for evaluation (the sooner, a submission
                  is received, the earlier, the notification will be sent out.)
                  Submission web site: http://world-comp.org
June 14, 2015:    The notification of acceptance will be sent out typically 10
                  days after the paper has been submitted but by no later than
                  June 14.
June 24, 2015:    Registration due
July 27-30, 2015: The 2015 International Conference on Wireless Networks
                  (ICWN'15)
August 20, 2015:  Camera-Ready LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS/
                  POSTERS 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. The Final Edition of the proceedings will be
                  identical to the Preliminary Edition except for the addition
                  of the accepted LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS,
                  ABSTRACTS/POSTERS at the end of the books. The conference
                  would make the necessary arrangements to ship the printed
                  proceedings/books to such authors.


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 paper
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 5. 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 formal 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 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. 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:
http://world-comp.org  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: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email
address for each author as well as a maximum of 5 topical keywords that
would best represent the content of the paper. The first page should also
identify the name of the Contact/Corresponding author together with
his/her professional email address. A 100 to 150-word abstract should
appear on the first page. Authors are to conform to the common CODE OF
ETHICS FOR AUTHORS (The document for the Code of Ethics is available on
the submission web site.)

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 proceedings will be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each
published paper. All proceedings are also approved for inclusion into
EBSCO ( www.ebsco.com ), one of the largest subject index systems. The
titles of proceedings of the federated congress have been indexed into
the ACM Digital Library ( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes
bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing.

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 20 books a year in each of these
book series projects. Each book in each series will be subject to
Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which includes:
Scopus, www.info.scopus.com ; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,
www.ei.org ; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com ; and others). For a recent
and a very small subset of the books (and journal special issues) that
have been published based on the extended versions of many of our
congress papers, see the link below:

http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/books_journals

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.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

The federated Congress that this conference is part of is 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);
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,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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);
and many other distinguished speakers. The Congress is among the top five
largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from
about 85 countries/territories.

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;
i.e., 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: (Under Construction)
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/tutorials .
We plan to offer about 12 tutorials and panel discussions. As of the
writing of this announcement, the following tutorials are in the
pipeline of approval and final review; tutorials will be presented by
distinguished experts in their respective fields.

O. Building Dependable Distributed Systems
O. Introduction to Cryptography and Network Security
O. Motion Tracking and Recognition with Microsoft Kinect
O. Application of MATLAB in Science and Engineering
O. Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET)
O. Natural Language in Information Security and Privacy
O. Recommendation Systems for Big Data
O. Fault Tolerance and Beyond
O. Cloud Computing for Big Data Challenges
O. Big Data and Data Analytics (multiple proposals received)
O. Data Center and related issues
O. Visualization and datamining in the context of Big Data
O. Power-aware systems and efficient consumption issues for HPC
O. Big Data Analytics


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of December 14, 2014, papers published in the conference proceedings
that have been held as part of this congress, have received over
27,914 citations (includes 3,346 self-citations). Citation data is
obtained from Microsoft Academic Search. The citation data does not
even include more than 15,000 other citations to papers in conferences
whose first offerings were initiated by this congress. Individual
proceedings/books (2013 & 2014) of the federated congress can be
purchased from major science book distributors: (such as: EBSCO and
others):
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp14/ws/proceedings
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/proceedings


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