Sunday, January 13, 2013

Call for Papers & Workshop/Session Proposals: The 2013 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'13), USA, July 22-25, 2013


CALL FOR PAPERS
and
Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

DMIN'13
The 2013 International Conference on Data Mining


Date and Location: July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the 2013 DMIN conference proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will also be accessible online). Those interested in proposing a workshop, special session, or a tutorial should refer to the relevant sections that appear below.

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

Data Mining Tasks

  • Regression/Classification
  • Time series forecasting
  • Segmentation/Clustering/Association
  • Deviation and outlier detection
  • Explorative and visual data mining
  • Web mining
  • Mining text and semi-structured data
  • Temporal and spatial data mining
  • Multimedia mining (audio/video)
  • Others

Data Mining Algorithms

  • Artificial neural networks
  • Fuzzy logic and rough sets
  • Decision trees/rule learners
  • Support vector machines
  • Evolutionary computation/meta heuristics
  • Statistical methods
  • Collaborative filtering
  • Case based reasoning
  • Link and sequence analysis
  • Ensembles/committee approaches
  • Others
Data Mining Integration
  • Mining large scale data
  • Distributed and grid based data mining
  • Data and knowledge representation
  • Data warehousing and OLAP integration
  • Integration of prior/domain knowledge
  • Metadata and ontologies
  • Agent technologies for data mining
  • Legal and social aspects of data mining
Data Mining Process
  • Data cleaning and preparation
  • Feature selection and transformation
  • Attribute discretisation and encoding
  • Sampling and rebalancing
  • Missing value imputation
  • Model selection/assessment and comparison
  • Induction principles
  • Model interpretation
  • Others
Data Mining Applications
  • Bioinformatics
  • Medicine Data Mining
  • Business/Corporate/Industrial Data Mining
  • Credit Scoring
  • Direct Marketing
  • Database Marketing
  • Engineering Mining
  • Military Data Mining
  • Security Data Mining
  • Social Science Mining
  • Others
We particularly encourage submissions of industrial applications and case studies from practitioners. These will not be evaluated using solely theoretical research criteria, but will take general interest and presentation into consideration.

Data Mining Software

  • All aspects and modules
Alternative and additional examples of possible topics include:
  • Data Mining for Business Intelligence
  • Emerging technologies in data mining
  • Computational performance issues in data mining
  • Data mining in usability
  • Advanced prediction modelling using data mining
  • Data mining and national security
  • Data mining tools
  • Data analysis
  • Data preparation techniques (selection, transformation, and preprocessing)
  • Information extraction methodologies
  • Clustering algorithms used in data mining
  • Genetic algorithms and categorization techniques used in data mining
  • Data and information integration
  • Microarray design and analysis
  • Privacy-preserving data mining
  • Active data mining
  • Statistical methods used in data mining
  • Multidimensional data
  • Case studies and prototypes
  • Automatic data cleaning
  • Data visualization
  • Theory and practice - knowledge representation and discovery
  • Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD)
  • Uncertainty management
  • Data reduction methods
  • Data engineering
  • Content mining
  • Indexing schemes
  • Information retrieval
  • Metadata use and management
  • Multidimensional query languages and query optimization
  • Multimedia information systems
  • Search engine query processing
  • Pattern mining
  • Applications (examples: data mining in education, marketing, finance and financial services, business applications, medicine, bioinformatics, biological sciences, science and technology, industry and government, ...)
USEFUL WEB LINKS

To see the DBLP list of accepted papers in the last offering of DMIN, go to http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/dmin/dmin2009.html.

The main web site of DMIN'13 can be found at http://www.dmin-2013.com.

The web site of WORLDCOMP'13 can be found at http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/.


ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The sponsors will include a number of active research labs and centers that have helped to shape our field. The Academic sponsors of the last offering of DMIN & WORLDCOMP included research labs and centers affiliated with United States Military Academy, Harvard University, MIT, Argonne National Lab., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Minnesota, University of Texas at Austin, Georgia Institute of Technology, George Mason University, Vienna University of Technology, University of Siegen, Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Iowa, SECLAB (Italy), University of North Dakota, Texas A&M University, National Institute for Health Research, International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine, Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies, and European
Commission. For 2013, we will also include The Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing/BISC of University of California, Berkeley (confirmed.) In recent offerings of WORLDCOMP/DMIN, corporate sponsors included: Google, Intel, Salford Systems, Element CXI, Synplicity, NIIT, SuperMicro, HPCNano, Council on Medical & Care Compunetics, Scientific Tech. Corp., HoIP, GridToday.



DMIN'13 Conference Chairs:

Dr. Robert Stahlbock
University of Hamburg, Germany
conference-chair@dmin-2013.com
(General Conference Chair)

Dr. Sven F. Crone
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
s.crone@lancaster.ac.uk
(Program Chair)


Members of the Steering Committee of WORLDCOMP 2013:

(DMIN'13 is an important track of WORLDCOMP which is a federated event. What appears below is a partial list of members of the steering committee.)

Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
Coordinator & General Co-Chair, WORLDCOMP 2013,
Professor, Computer Science,
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
Co-Editor/Board, Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier),
Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing,
The University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
email: hra@cs.uga.edu

Dr. Selim Aissi
Chief Strategist - Security, Manageability and Virtualization,
Ultra Mobile Group, Intel Corporation, USA

Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Prof. Hyunseung Choo
ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication, Korea,
Director, ITRC: Intelligent HCI Convergence Research Center, Korea,
Director, Korea Information Processing Society,
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology,
Assoc. Editor, Transactions on Computational Science, Springer-Verlag;
Director, Korean Society for Internet Info. (KSII) + Society for Sim.;
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Prof. Andy Marsh
Director HoIP (Healthcare over Internet Protocol),
Secretary-General WABT (World Academy of Biomedical Science & Tech.),
Vice-president ICET (Int'l Council for Engineering & Technology),
Vice-president ICMCC (Int'l Council on Medical & Care Compunetics),
Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK

Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow,
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing,
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA


PURPOSE / HISTORY:

DMIN'13 Conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,000 or more attendees from over 85 countries participating at WORLDCOMP Congress. A number of individual research tracks of the Congress have been held for many years; for example, PDPTA has been held annually since 1995 (PDPTA'13 is the 16th annual conference); ERSA has been held annually since 2001 (ERSA'13 is the 10th annual conference); ICAI has been held annually since 1999 (ICAI'13 is the 12th annual conference); DMIN has been held annually since 2003 (DMIN'13 is the 8th annual conference; originally it was offered as part of IKE). Other tracks of WORLDCOMP Congress have similar records.

The motivation behind this federated congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact. The model used to form DMIN facilitates communication among researchers from all over the world in different fields of computer science, computer engineering, applied computing, information science, and computational biology. Both inward research (core areas) and outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during the conference. DMIN 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.

DMIN'13 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 (as part of the federated event):
Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/computer 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 (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Anousheh Ansari (CEO, Prodea Systems & first female private space explorer), and many other distinguished speakers.

Tutorial speakers for data mining oriented tutorials have included Prof. Eamonn Keogh (U. of California,Riverside), Ashu M.G. Solo (Principal of Maverick Technologies America Inc.), Mikhail Golovnya (Senior Scientist, Salford Systems), Prof. Nitesh V. Chawla (U. of Notre Dame, USA), Dr. Peter Geczy (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan), Prof. Asim Roy (Arizona State University), and Dr. Dan Steinberg (CEO of Salford Systems).

To get a feeling about the events' atmosphere, see the 2009 delegates photos available athttp://www.pixagogo.com/1672514104.
2008 delegates photos can be viewed at http://www.pixagogo.com/8658134154.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, PUBLICATION, INDEXING INFORMATION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the DMIN'13 online paper collection and review system. Submissions must be uploaded by March 1, 2013 and they must be in pdf format. Details (submission system, typesetting formats etc.) can be found on the DMIN'13 web site at http://www.dmin-2013.com/submission.htm
The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been
previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft 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.


Full papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by at least two experts in the field who are independent of the conference program committee. The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by one member of the program committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that the paper has been submitted to. The chair will make the final decision. Lastly, the final papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings (in both, printed book form as well as online). The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec/IET/The Institute for Engineering and Technology, DBLP/Computer Science Bibliography, and others.) The printed proceedings will be available for distribution on site at the conference.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a number of research books being proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer, Elsevier, IOS, ...) - these books would be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of sessions and workshops will be forming journal special issues to be published after the conference. For DMIN'13, it is planned to publish extended papers in a Special Issue in Annals of Information Systems focused on Web Mining.


PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SPECIAL SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops). The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

Proposals to organize sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her
biography, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, the relevance for DMIN), and a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). Please email your session/workshop proposal to the DMIN'13
Special Session Chair Gary M. Weiss via special-session-chair@dmin-2013.com.

We would like to receive the session proposals by January 30, 2013.


IMPORTANT DATES:

January 31, 2013:Proposals for organizing sessions/workshops
March 18, 2013:Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 18, 2013:Notification of acceptance
May 05, 2013:Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 22-25, 2013:The 2013 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'13)



MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI; imaging science; databases; simulation;software eng.; embedded systems; internet & web technologies; communications; computer security; & bioinformatics.) The Program Committee for DMIN'13 conference is currently being formed. Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks 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, deans and provosts. You can view the list of program committee of the last offering of DMIN at: http://www.dmin--2009.com/committees.htm  Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email to the Program Chair (programme-chair@dmin-2013.com), the following information for consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, and a one-page biography that includes research expertise.


LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

DMIN'13 will be held at Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). This is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and from the airport. This hotel has many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool, nightly shows, many restaurants, ... The hotel is adjacent to CityCenter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityCenter) which is the largest private development in the United States' history (costing over $11 Billion); this offers access to additional recreational and entertainment attractions. The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Call For Papers: The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'13), July 22-25, 2013, USA, Paper Submission Deadline: March 18, 2013

                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                                and
                    CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS

              Paper Submission Deadline:  March 18, 2013

                            WORLDCOMP'13
             The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science,
             Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                  July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA


You are invited to submit a full 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). 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 22-25, 2013. For the complete list of joint conferences, see below.


IMPORTANT DATES:

January 31, 2013:  Workshop / Session Proposals
March 18, 2013:    Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 18, 2013:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 5, 2013:       Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 22-25, 2013:  The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science,
                   Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                   (including all affiliated conferences).

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offering of the congress (2012) included research labs and centers affiliated with:
Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, USA; Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA; George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Center for Cyber Defense, NCAT, North Carolina, USA; Center for Advanced Studies in Identity Sciences (CASIS:  C A&T, Carnegie Mellon, Clemson, UNC Wilmington), USA; Knowledge Management & Intelligent System Center (KMIS) of University of Siegen, Germany; 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; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing and Communications Laboratory, USA; Medical Image HPC and Informatics Lab, Iowa, USA; and 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; Science Publications and others.


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 18, 2013 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 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 proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each published paper. Science citation databases include: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, & STN International); and others. Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings; in the past, the proceedings were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/ Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site at the conference.


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.


LIST OF CONFERENCES (alphabetical order based on conference acronym)

o BIOCOMP'13:
  The 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

o CDES'13:
  The 13th International Conference on Computer Design

o CGVR'13:
  The 17th International Conference on Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality

o CSC'13:
  The 10th International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'13:
  The 12th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise
  Information Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'13:
  The 13th International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
  Systems and Algorithms

o ESA'13:
  The 11th International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications

o FCS'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science

o FECS'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and
  Applications

o GEM'13:
  The 10th International Conference on Genetic & Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'13:
  The 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'13:
  The 14th International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data

o ICWN'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'13:
  The 17th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision,
  & Pattern Recognition

o MSV'13:
  The 10th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'13:
  The 19th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing
  Techniques and Applications

o SAM'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'13:
  The 11th International Conference on Software Engineering Research
  and Practice

o SWWS'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services

All conferences listed above will be held simultaneously; ie, same location and dates. A link to each of the conferences can be found at:


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of The 2012 congress 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, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK; 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, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Gerry Vernon Dozier, Professor of Computer Science, Chair of Department of Computer Science and Director of Center for Advanced Studies in Identity Sciences, Center for Cyber Defense, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina, USA; Prof. Madjid Fathi, Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Director of Knowledge Management and Intelligent Systems Center, University of Siegen, Germany; Dr. Michael R. Grimaila, Associate Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology, Systems Engineering, Fellow of ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM, Editorial Board of ISSA Journal, 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. Kun Chang Lee, Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Business School and Department of Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea; Prof., Dr., Dr.h. Victor Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software Department (SSD), Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Associate Director of School of Computing and Information Science, Chair of International Advisory Board of IEEE IDAACS and Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, Chair Bangor Foreign Policy Forum, Cooperating Professor of Mathematics & Statistics Department UMaine, Cooperating Professor of School of Policy & International Affairs UMaine, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; 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; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea, President of KITCS, Presidentof FTRA, Editor-in-Chiefs of HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals; Dr. Hassan Reza, Associate Professor of Computer Science, UND Aerospace, University of North Dakota, 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 Lab (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.

The 2013 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.  4042

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/evaluation: 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.


PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:

Each conference 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 consideration (ie, BIOCOMP, CDES, ...), 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 January 31, 2013.


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 (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), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2012 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 2012, papers published in the conference proceedings that are currently being held as part of WORLDCOMP, have received over 27,000 citations (includes about 2,000 self-citations). Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ .

CONTACT:

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