Monday, April 6, 2015

Call for Papers with Extended Deadline of Apr. 15, 2015: World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, U.S.A., July 27-30, 2015

Dear Colleagues:
Since the original deadline for submission of papers coincided with the Spring
break of many US and Far East institutions, the Steering Committee decided to
extend the deadlines in response to numerous requests. Those authors who met
the original deadlines, will receive the decision on their papers based on
the original dates; i.e., notifications will not be delayed for those authors.
We anticipate having between 1,800 and 2,000 participants in this event.
Thank you, Steering Committee

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                          CALL  FOR  PAPERS
         Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 15, 2015
                  11:59pm US Eastern Time zone (EDT)

              The 2015 World Congress in Computer Science,
              Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                             WORLDCOMP'15
          July 27-30, 2015, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA

              http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

INVITATION:

Last year, this congress had attracted speakers/authors affiliated with
over 180 different universities (including many from the top 50 ranked
institutions), many major IT corporations (including, Microsoft, Google,
SAP, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, and others),
government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, AirForce, ...), and national
laboratories (including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley
National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, ...) This year, we also plan to
have representatives of various Venture Capitalists as well as speakers
discussing Intellectual Property issues.

You are invited to submit a 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. In addition, like
prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 35%) of the
conference will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers
include: Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others); some of these books and
journal special issues have already received the top 25% downloads in
their respective fields. See the link below for a very small subset of
the books published mostly based on extended versions of the accepted
papers of this congress:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/publications
The titles of proceedings of the federated congress have been indexed into
the ACM Digital Library ( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes bibliographic
citations from major publishers in computing.

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 27-30, 2015. For the complete
list of joint conferences, see below.


SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org . Submissions must
be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and must be in either
MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and
references.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later,
the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular
typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication; these
formatting instructions appear at: http://world-comp.org and they conform
to the two-column IEEE style format). Papers must not have been previously
published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first
page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
postal address, and email address for each author as well as a maximum
of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper.
The first page should also identify the name of the Contact/Corresponding
author together with his/her professional email address. A 100 to
150-word abstract should appear on the first page. Authors are to
conform to the common CODE OF ETHICS FOR AUTHORS (The document for the
Code of Ethics is available on the submission web site.)

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of
contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. Papers
whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will
be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical
papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and
will also be made available online. The printed proceedings/books will
be available for distribution on site at the conference. The proceedings
will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation
frequency/data for each published paper. The proceedings/books of this
congress have been evaluated for inclusion into major science citation
index databases. We are happy to report that so far, the evaluation
board of science citation index databases have approved the indexing,
integrating, and inclusion of the following conference tracks into
relevant indexing databases (indexing databases include, among others:
Scopus, Engineering Village, EMBASE, and others): BIOCOMP, DMIN, GCA,
ICAI, ICOMP, ICWN, IKE, IPCV, PDPTA, and SAM.  All proceedings are also
approved for inclusion into EBSCO (www.ebsco.com), one of the largest
subject index systems. The titles of proceedings of the federated
congress have been indexed into the ACM Digital Library
( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes bibliographic citations from major
publishers in computing.

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series (multiple
books in each series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in
Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers
(Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence).
After the conference (the process may take 12 to 18 months), a significant
number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the
opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication
consideration in these books. We anticipate having between 10 and 20 books
a year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series
will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which
includes: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com ; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,
www.ei.org ; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com ; and others). For a recent and a
very small subset of the books (and journal special issues) that have
been published based on the extended versions of many of our congress
papers, see the link below:

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


SUBMISSION OF POSTER PAPERS:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same
instructions that appear above (see, SUBMISSION OF DRAFT PAPERS FOR
EVALUATION) except that 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
as such, if and only if the author of the accepted poster wishes to
do so.


LIST OF CONFERENCES (in no particular order):

o PDPTA'15:
  The 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing
  Techniques and Applications

o DMIN'15:
  The 11th International Conference on Data Mining

o IPCV'15:
  The 19th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision,
  & Pattern Recognition

o ICAI'15:
  The 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o SAM'15:
  The 14th International Conference on Security and Management

o FECS'15:
  The 11th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering

o BIOCOMP'15:
  The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational
  Biology

o ABDA'15:
  The 2nd International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics

o SERP'15:
  The 13th International Conference on Software Engineering Research and
  Practice

o EEE'15:
  The 14th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise
  Information Systems, and e-Government

o ICWN'15:
  The 14th International Conference on Wireless Networks

o ICOMP'15:
  The 16th International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data

o HIMS'15:
  International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems

o BIOENG'15:
  International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Science

o CSC'15:
  The 13th International Conference on Scientific Computing

o MSV'15:
  The 12th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods

o ESA'15:
  The 13th International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications

o FCS'15:
  The 11th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science

o IKE'15:
  The 14th International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering

o GCA'15:
  The 11th International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and
  Applications

July 27-30, 2015, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA.

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


IMPORTANT DATES (EXTENDED):

April 15, 2015:    Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
                   11:59pm US Eastern Time zone (EDT)
April 30, 2015:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 15, 2015:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 27-30, 2015:  The 2015 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer
                   Engineering, and Applied Computing
                   (including all affiliated federated conferences).
                   http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The Congress will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures,
invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster
presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have
included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California,
Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology),
Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of
Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of
Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California,
Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT),
Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost;
OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford
U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan),
Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose
L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer,
Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of
Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/
2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet
Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System
Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI;
Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick),
Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue
University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology
Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell
University - formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former
director of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National
Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice-President, HPCC
Systems), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue University,
USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv
University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing Center;
Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates and
author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished
Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science
and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA);
Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of IEEE and LexisNexis Eminent Scholar;
Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled
Computing (Kno.e.sis) and Professor of Computer Science, Wright State
University, Ohio, USA); Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences and Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain Imaging Center; and
The US Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information Technology, USA
and Chair of IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain; Recipient of John
McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force Award for basic research);
and many other distinguished speakers. The Congress is among the top five
largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from
about 85 countries/territories. To get a feeling about the conferences'
atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:

http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396 (to see a slide show, click on
"Start SlideShow" tab at the url above.)

An important mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform for
a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers,
developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted
effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies,
and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also
attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as
their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that
have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to
achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated
research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model
facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer
science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also
encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives;
i.e., facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of the
last offerings of the congress included: Dr. Selim Aissi, (formerly: Chief
Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation, USA) Vice President, Global
Information Security, Visa Inc., USA; Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and
Department Chair, and Vice Chair of IEEE/SEM-Computer Chapter, University
of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; 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. Mary
Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, Professor of Engineering Practice, University
of Southern California, USA (and Adjunct Professor, University of
California Los Angeles, UCLA, USA); Prof. Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Department of
Information Management, Central Police University, Taiwan and Program
Chair, Security & Forensics, Taiwan and Director, Information Crypto
and Construction Lab (ICCL) & ICCL-FROG; Prof. Michael Panayiotis Bekakos,
Professor of Computer Systems and Director of Laboratory of Digital
Systems and Head of Parallel Algorithms and architectures Research Group,
Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of
Computer Science and Director of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Programs, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof.
Patrick S. P. Wang, Fellow of IAPR, ISIBM, WASE and Professor of Computer
and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts,
USA and Otto-von-Guericke Distinguished Guest Professor, University
Magdeburg, Germany; Prof. George Jandieri, Georgian Technical University,
Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief Scientist at The Institute of Cybernetics,
Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia; Prof. D. V. Kodavade, Head of
Computer Science and Engineering, DKTE Institute, India; Prof. George
Markowsky, Professor and Associate Director, School of Computing and
Information Science, Chair Int'l Advisory Board of IEEE IDAACS, Director
2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, University of Maine,
Orono, Maine, USA; Prof. G. N. Pandey, Vice-Chancellor, Arunachal
University of Studies, India (and Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of
Information Technology, India); Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor
of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea and President of KITCS,
President of FTRA, Editor-in-Chief of HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals;
Prof. Fernando G. Tinetti, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina,
Co-editor, Journal of CS and Technology (JCS&T); Dr. Predrag Tosic,
Microsoft, Washington, USA; Prof. Vladimir Volkov, The Bonch-Bruevich
State University of Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia;
Dr. Michael R. Grimaila, Air Force Institute of Technology, Fellow of
ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM, 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. Victor Malyshkin, Head of
Supercomputer Software Department, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia;
Prof. Andy Marsh, Director of HoIP, Director of HoIP Telecom, UK, and
Secretary-General of WABT and Vice-president of ICET, Visiting Professor,
University of Westminster, UK; Ashu M. G. Solo, Fellow of British Computer
Society, Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician,
Maverick Technologies America; Prof. Sang C. Suh, Head and Professor of
Computer Science,Vice President, of Society for Design and Process Science
(SDPS), Director of Intelligent Cyberspace Engineering (ICEL), Texas A&M
University, Com., Texas, USA; Prof. Layne T. Watson, IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow,
ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute & State University, Virginia, USA; Prof. Mary Q.
Yang, Director, Mid-South Bioinformatics Center and Joint Bioinformatics
Ph.D. Program, University of Arkansas, USA; Prof. Byung-Gyu Kim, Multimedia
Processing Communications Lab.(MPCL), SunMoon University, South Korea;
Prof. Young-Sik Jeong, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Information Processing
Systems (JIPS), Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea; and others.

The 2015 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.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

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

MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of
January 1, 2015.

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