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

Monday, June 25, 2012

Call for Participation: The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'12), USA, July 16-19, 2012


                      Call For Participation

            The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

                 July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA


This is an invitation to attend The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. The congress is composed of 22 main tracks (9 tutorials, 188 sessions and workshops, and 39 keynotes/invited lectures/panel discussions, ...); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 16-19, 2012.
Attendees will have full access to all conferences' sessions, tracks, and tutorials. Registration is required to attend. We anticipate about 2,000 attendees: 62% from academia; 24% from industry; 11% from government agencies; and 3% unknown. About half of the attendees are from outside USA; from 88 different countries. Speakers are affiliated with 320 academic institutions, 89 major corporations, and multiple government agencies.

See below for:

A. General Information
B. Topical Scope
C. Registration Information
D. Financial Assistantship for full-Time Students E. List of Co-Sponsors F. Detailed Congress Schedules/Programs G. Location of congress H. Planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes

We look forward to seeing you in July.
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A. General Information:

B. Topical Scope:

   Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP); Computer Design (CDES);
   Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR); Scientific Computing (CSC);
   Data Mining (DMIN); e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
   and e-Government (EEE); Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms
   (ERSA); Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA); Foundations of Computer
   Science (FCS); Frontiers in Education in Computer Science & Computer
   Engineering (FECS); Grid Computing and Applications (GCA); Genetic and
   Evolutionary Methods (GEM); Artificial Intelligence (ICAI); Internet
   Computing (ICOMP); Wireless Networks (ICWN); Information and Knowledge
   Engineering (IKE); Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
   (IPCV); Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV); Parallel and
   Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA); Security and
   Management (SAM); Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP); and
   Semantic Web & Web Services (SWWS).

C. Registration Information:

D. Financial Assistantship for full-Time Students:

   The congress has finalized the financial assistantship decisions for students
   who are affiliated with non-USA institutions (decisions were communicated
   with the awardees in March and April 2012). Unfortunately, 26 of the awardees
   are not able to secure USA visa in a timely manner to attend the meeting. The
   congress is now providing these 26 slots to full-time graduate students who
   are enrolled in USA institutions. This financial assistantship is for
   attendance only (ie, excludes speakers and authors of papers). Sponsored
   students will receive the complete conference package (printed books/proceedings,
   CD, dinner reception, 4 breakfasts, 12 refreshments, access to all tracks and
   tutorials, ...), registration fee waiver, partial help with hotel accommodation,
   and/or possibly some help with airfare. In order to apply, send the following
   information for consideration to sc@world-comp.org as soon as possible
   (include as attachments in pdf only): a 2-page CV; a letter from your major
   professor or Department Head/Chair stating that you are a full-time graduate
   student in good standing; and a break-down of your itemized costs (airfare,
   hotel, ...). In the Subject Header of your email write "student sponsorship".
   Award decisions will be finalized within 24 hours of receipt of the requested
   information.

E. List of Co-Sponsors:
   Appears on the right-most column of Home Page at:

F. Detailed Congress Schedules/Programs:

G. Location of WORLDCOMP:

H. Planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes:

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

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Call for Post-Conference Proceedings Papers with EXTENDED Submission Deadline of May 25, 2012: World Congress in CS, CE, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP), USA, July 16-19, 2012


Dear friends and colleagues:
Please share the announcement below with individuals who may be interested.
We anticipate having about 2,000 attendees from 88 countries.
Kind regards, Steering Committee

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       CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline: May 25, 2012

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

     =======================================================

INVITATION:
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. Abstract submissions (one/two-page)
will be considered for poster presentations and one/two-page publication
in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be made available in
printed book as well as online. The proceedings will be indexed in science
citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper. The
proceedings of the congress enjoys a high number of citations; about
26,000 citations have been made (so far) to papers published in the
proceedings.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
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).

IMPORTANT DATES:

May 25, 2012:       Submission of papers for evaluation
June 6, 2012:       Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance
June 19, 2012:      Registration
July 16-19, 2012:   All tracks of the federated World Congress in Computer
                    Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                    (Las Vegas, USA)

July 30, 2012:      Camera-Ready Papers 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.)

SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS AND INDEXING INFORMATION:

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 May 25, 2012 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
be stated on the first page of the paper as well as a 100 to 150-word
abstract (for the list of joint conferences, see below). The length of the
final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column
IEEE style) pages.

Authors whose papers are ACCEPTED will be instructed to upload their papers
to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the
publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting.

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 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; this set of proceedings 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 were included in these databases. Therefore,
we will also be sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI
Compendex/Elsevier.

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.

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.

Submission of Poster Papers:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions
that appear above. 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 if the author of the accepted poster wishes to have his/her poster
published as a 2-page extended abstract.)


LIST OF CONFERENCES:
(all will be held simultaneously; ie, same location and dates)

o BIOCOMP'12 - Int'l. Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

o CDES'12 - Int'l Conference on Computer Design

o CGVR'12 - Int'l Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality

o CSC'12 - Int'l Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'12 - Int'l Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'12 - Int'l Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information
  Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'12 - Int'l Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and
  Algorithms

o ESA'12 - Int'l Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications

o FCS'12 - Int'l Conference on Foundations of Computer Science

o FECS'12 - Int'l Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science
  and Computer Engineering

o GCA'12 - Int'l Conference on Grid Computing and Applications

o GEM'12 - Int'l Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'12 - Int'l Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'12 - Int'l Conference on Internet Computing

o ICWN'12 - Int'l Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'12 - Int'l Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'12 - Int'l Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and
  Pattern Recognition

o MSV'12 - Int'l Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'12 - Int'l Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing
  Techniques and Applications

o SAM'12 - Int'l Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'12 - Int'l Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice

o SWWS'12 - Int'l Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services

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.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling
about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos

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. 4043
The list of co-sponsors of 2012 meeting is Currently being prepared;
for the 2011 list of sponsors, refer to:


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:

The congress proceedings enjoy 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):



USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. To see the caliber of the past offering of worldcomp, see the 2011 congress web site:
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CONTACT:

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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

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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

Part of The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org
July 16-19, 2012
Monte Carlo Resort
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

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