Saturday, March 31, 2012

Call for Papers with Extended Deadline: The 8th International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012


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                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

         Extended Paper Submission Deadline: April 12, 2012

                             DMIN'12
           The 8th International Conference on Data Mining
                      http://www.dmin-2012.com

                            as part of
                           WORLDCOMP'12
            The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
             July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

             http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
          Location: See the above web site for venue/city

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in the DMIN conference proceedings. The
proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering
and Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography, and others.) All
accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings
(the proceedings will also be available on the web).

WORLDCOMP'12 is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences,
tutorials, workshops, and panel discussions); all will be held
simultaneously, same location and dates: July 16-19, 2012. For the complete
list of joint conferences, please visit the website.


IMPORTANT DATES (extended deadlines):

April 12, 2012     Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 26, 2012:    Notification of acceptance (+ possibly 7 days)
May 12, 2012:      Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012:  All tracks of the federated World Congress in Computer
                   Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

Those who have already submitted papers should not change/update their
submitted papers because they are already forwarded to reviewers.


CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC sponsors of the last offering of
WORLDCOMP (2011) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a
partial list): University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of Siegen; UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; Georgia
Institute of Technology; University of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences,
Russia; University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University of Naples
Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M
University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others.
CORPORATE Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list):
Intel Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; Pico Computing;
SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology
(HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Int'l Council on Medical
and Care Compunetics; UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform; Scientific Technologies Corporation; and HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; and others.


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
     - Others

   + 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
     - Business/Industrial
     - Engineering
     - Military/Security
     - Social science
     - Others

   + Data Mining Software
     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 stringer into consideration.

   + 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; 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; 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, ...).


SPECIAL SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS
All special sessions and workshops are part of DMIN'12 and
attendance is open to attendees of all conferences held at WORLDCOMP'12.

DMIN'12 will host the following special session:

- Real-World Data Mining Applications, Challenges, and Perspectives

see http://www.dmin-2012.com/special_sessions.htm for details


TUTORIALS AND INVITED TALKS
The following invited talks will be hosted by DMIN'12:
1)
Sofus A. Macskassy, Univ. of Southern California, USA
Mining Social Media: The Importance of Combining Network and Content

2)
Peter Geczy, AIST, Japan
Data Mining in Organizations, Quo Vadis?

3)
Haym Hirsh, Rutgers University, USA
Crowdsourcing, Human Computation, and Collective Intelligence



SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the DMIN online paper management system according to the instructions
provided at http://www.dmin-2012/submission (please do not upload your
DMIN draft paper to the general WORLDCOMP system).

Submissions must be uploaded in pdf format by April 12, 2012. 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. A 100 to 400-word abstract should be included on the first
page  as well. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers
(if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages including
all figures, tables etc.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts in the field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness (see
http://www.dmin-2012.com/review.htm). In cases of
contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee will be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees by using a
double-blinded review process. All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be
published and indexed in: Inspec / IET /
The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography, & others.

All conferences will be held simultaneously; ie, same location and dates.
A link to each of the conferences can be found at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org.

MEMBERS OF WORLDCOMP PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized:
The members of the Steering Committee of The 2011 congress included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA); Prof. Hamid
Arabnia (ISIBM elected Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia;
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing / Springer; Board member,
Journal of Computational Science / Elsevier; Advisory Board, IEEE TC on
Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member, National Academy of
Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University of California,
Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of
Information & Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information
Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology;
Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang
(IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Director, System-on-Chip Research Center);
Prof. Kun Chang Lee (Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity
Science, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director
of HoIP and Director of HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT;
Vice-President Int'l Council for Engineering and Technology, University of
Westminster, UK); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM
Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Professor, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
(Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS
Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director, BISC; Professor, University
of California, Berkeley, USA).
2012 Publicity Chair: Ashu M. G. Solo (Fellow of British Computer Society;
Principal/R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies
America Inc.; Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo Research Lab,
Crocels, Swansea University; Principal/Intelligent Systems Instructor,
Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.)

The 2012 Program Committee for DMIN is currently being
compiled. Many who have already joined the committees are renowned leaders,
scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of high ranks;
many are directors of research labs., members of National Academy of
Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments,
program directors of research funding agencies, as well as deans and
provosts. Program Committee members have established a strong and
documented research track record.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

WORLDCOMP 2012 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.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates photos
available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789.
Photos of the 2011 WORLDCOMP congress are available via
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606.

An important mission of WORLDCOMP 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.


REMARK
regarding the ongoing defamatory campaign against WORLDCOMP conferences:
As you might have noticed, there is a campaign running against WORLDCOMP
conferences. DMIN is not mentioned explicitly, but since it is part of
the congress, DMIN can be regarded as object of the statements '
('fake conference', 'no reviews', 'plagiarism', etc.), too. However,
the background of the campaign is not clear yet. The person who has
been sending out harrassing emails for slandering WORLDCOMP conferences
is using fake names. We can assure that there is a well
documented review process. We can proof all reviews of past DMIN
conferences and all decisions on the submitted papers. Reviewers have
to document their qualifications (publications, reviewing for
journals/conferences etc.). Furthermore, we provide a guideline for
reviews and an evaluation scheme. We never heard of complaints regarding
the DMIN reviews. All papers are assigned to 2-4 (sometimes even more)
reviewers, and most of the papers were actually reviewed by 3 reviewers.
This is well documented. If you have any questions on that subject,
please contact the DMIN conference chair via conference-chair@dmin-2012.com.
In response to allegations made against Professor Hamid Arabnia
and WORLDCOMP, news are posted at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/news2


CONTACT:

For DMIN, please have a look a the DMIN website http://www.dmin-2012.com or
contact conference-chair@dmin-2012.com.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

As of February 5, 2012, papers published in WORLDCOMP set of proceedings
have received 20,405 citations. In recent months (November 23, 2011 to
February 5, 2012; ie, in about 75 days), there had been 4,545 citations
to WORLDCOMP papers (about 1,800 citations per month). The above record
is significant (thanks to the authors). As the result of high impact
(based on citations) of WORLDCOMP papers, "Microsoft Academic Search"
has listed each individual track of the congress among its compiled list
of "Top Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set of proceedings
is in fact higher than the citation data of many reputable journals in
computer science and computer engineering. Citation data was obtained
obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/).
The web link to live citation data for DMIN is
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1920/dmin-int-conf-on-data-mining/.

Detailed information about citations to WORLDCOMP proceedings can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/news.

We look forward to receiving your submission of your draft paper.

The DMIN 2012 Organizing Committee

---

Dr. Robert Stahlbock

General Conference Chair
The 2012 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'12)
http://www.dmin-2012.com
E-Mail: conference-chair@dmin-2012.com

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The 2012 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'12) at WORLDCOMP'12

The 2012 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'12) at WORLDCOMP'12

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Call for Papers: The 2012 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012

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CALL FOR PAPERS

EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: March 27, 2012

DMIN'12
International Conference on Data Mining
July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA

http://www.dmin-2012.com/
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

**************************************************

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. The proceedings of WORLDCOMP congress that DMIN is part
of, enjoys a high number of citations; over 25,000 citations so far.


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

O. 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

O. 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

O. 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

O. 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

O. 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
- Data Mining in Logistics
- 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.

O. Data Mining Software:
- All aspects and modules

O. 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, ...)


SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by referring to the
following web site: http://www.dmin-2012.com/submission.htm 

Proceedings of DMIN 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 such as: Inspec / IET / The
Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for
Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core scientific
literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals; only about 9%
are proceedings; worldcomp tracks are selected to be among the 9% - accessable
from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN
International); and others. Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings
will also be included in EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the
proceedings in which DMIN was part of (PDPTA and WORLDCOMP) was included in
these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for
indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books
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 contracted with various publishers - these books will
be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will be forming
journal special issues to be published after the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 27, 2012: Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 26, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+/- 2 days)
May 12, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'12)


DMIN'12 CONFERENCE CHAIR:

Dr. Robert Stahlbock, University of Hamburg, Germany
email: conference-chair@dmin-2012.com


GENERAL INFORMATION:

DMIN 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 2,100 or more attendees from over 80 countries.
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.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos
available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606

An important mission of WORLDCOMP 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 WORLDCOMP 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.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES OF WORLDCOMP:

Currently being finalized:
The members of the Steering Committee of The 2011 WORLDCOMP included (last year's):
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia
(ISIBM elected Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia; Editor-in-Chief, The
Journal of Supercomputing; Board member, Journal of Computational Science;
Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (Member,
National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Professor; University
of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of
Information & Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information
Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology;
Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang
(IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Director, System-on-Chip Research Center);
Prof. Kun Chang Lee (Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity
Science, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director
of HoIP and Director of HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT;
Vice-President Int'l Council for Engineering and Technology, University of
Westminster, UK); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM
Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Professor, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
(Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS
Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director, BISC; Professor, University
of California, Berkeley, USA).

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC co-sponsors of the last offering of
the congress (WORLDCOMP 2011) included research labs and centers affiliated
with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of Siegen; UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; University
of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; University of Naples
Federico II, Italy; University of Naples Parthenope, Italy; Second
University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M University Com.; University
of North Dakota; and others. CORPORATE Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large
included (a partial list): Intel Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera
Corporation; Pico Computing; SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High
Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano); International Society
of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences
and Technologies; Int'l Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; UK
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Scientific
Technologies Corporation; and HoIP - Health without Boundaries; and others.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:

The proceedings of the WORLDCOMP enjoys a high number of citations. As of
March 2012, papers published in each track of the proceedings have
received the following number of citations: 252 citations to BIOCOMP
papers; 116 to CDES papers; 65 to CGVR papers; 55 to CSC papers; 271 to
DMIN papers; 69 to EEE papers; 1,286 to ERSA papers; 504 to ESA papers;
176 to FCS papers; 9,408 to FECS papers; 157 to GCA papers; 75 to GEM
papers; 2,172 to ICAI papers; 1,529 to ICOMP papers; 1,247 to ICWN papers;
571 to IKE papers; 255 to IPCV papers; 137 to MSV papers; 5,239 to PDPTA
papers; 496 to SAM papers; 1,390 to SERP papers; and 177 to SWWS papers.
In total, over 25,600 citations have been made (so far) to papers
published in the proceedings of this federated joint conferences. Refer
to the URLs below to see the actual citation numbers (each is a link to
a live search and so it may take a few seconds for the data to pull up):

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1816/biocomp-bioinformatics-&-computational-biology
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1845/cdes-international-conference-on-computer-design/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1852/cgvr-international-conference-on-computer-graphics-and-virtual-reality/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1887/csc-international-conference-on-scientific-computing/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1920/dmin-int-conf-on-data-mining/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1891/csreaeee-international-conference-on-e-business-enterprise-information-systems-e-government/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/679/ersa-engineering-of-reconfigurable-systems-and-algorithms/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/681/esa-embedded-systems-and-applications/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1981/fcs-international-conference-on-foundations-of-computer-science/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1983/fecs-conference-on-frontiers-in-education/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1998/gca-international-conference-on-grid-computing-and-applications/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2467/gem-international-conference-on-genetic-and-evolutionary-methods/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/7/ic-ai-international-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/5/icomp-international-conference-on-internet-computing/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/48/icwn-international-conference-on-wireless-networks/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/65/ike-information-and-knowledge-engineering/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2114/ipcv-international-conference-on-image-processing-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2209/msv-int-conf-on-modeling-simulation-&-visualization-methods/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/214/pdpta-parallel-and-distributed-processing-techniques-and-applications/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/332/sam-security-and-management/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/361/serp-software-engineering-research-and-practice/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2308/swws-conference-on-semantic-web-and-web-services/


USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. Web site of DMIN'12:
http://www.dmin-2012.com/
2. The 2011 congress delegates photos are available at:
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606
3. This announcement contains updated and current information (correct
as of the date of this message). The information that appears in this
announcement supersedes earlier ones.