CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper
Submission Deadline: March 22, 2016
The 12th
International Conference on Foundations of
Computer Science
(FCS'16)
July
25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/conferences/fcs2016
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SCOPE: TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED
TO, THE FOLLOWING:
o Quantum Computing
o Game Theory and Methods
o Combinatorial Pattern Matching
o Computational Number Theory
o Big Data Analytics
o Distributed and Parallel Computation Models
and Theory
o Logic in Computer Science
o Theory of Computing and Formal Systems
o Automata and Formal Languages
o Optimization Methods (including,
Combinatorial Optimization)
o Coding Theory
o Novel Data Structures
o Computational Learning Theory
o Complexity Theory (including, Circuit
Complexity)
o Graph Algorithms
o Deduction
o Combinatorics
o Algorithms
o Probabilistic and Randomized Methodologies
o Approximation Methods
o Parametrized Complexity (including,
Kolmogorov, ...)
o Non-Linear Dynamics and Chaos
o Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
o Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
o Cryptography
o Novel Compression Methods
o Database Theory
o Queuing Methods
o Pansystems
o Randomness in Computing
o Economics and Computation
o Satisfiability Testing
o Foundations of Computer Security
o Model Checking and Computer-Aided
Verification
o Models of Computation
o Computational Geometry
o Semantics, Concurrency and Type Theory
o Scheduling Methods
o Models of Internet Computing
o Theoretical aspects of other computer science
fields: computational
science,
databases, information retrieval, networking, privacy,
security, ...
o Other emerging topics
INVITATION:
We anticipate having between 1,800 and 2,000 participants
in the federated
event that this conference is part of. You are invited to
submit a paper
for consideration. All accepted papers will be published
in PRINTED
conference BOOKS/proceedings (with unique international
ISBN number) and
will also be made available online. The proceedings will
be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation
frequency/data. In addition,
like prior years, extended versions of selected papers
(about 40%) will
appear in journals and edited research books; publishers
include, Springer,
Elsevier, BMC, and others). See the web link below for a
small subset of
such publications: (some of these books and journal
special issues have
already received the top 25% downloads in their
respective fields and/or
identified as "Highly Accessed" by publishers
and/or science citation
index trackers.)
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/worldcomp-books-journal-special-issues
Last year, the federated event that this conference is
part of had attracted
speakers/authors/participants affiliated with over 178
different
universities (including many from the top 50 ranked
institutions), many
major IT corporations (including, Microsoft, Google, SAP,
Oracle, Amazon,
Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, HSBC, Apple,
GlaxoSmithKline,
Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai,
Hitachi, NTT, ...),
government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, AirForce,
...), national
laboratories (including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL,
Lawrence Berkeley
National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, ...), and a number
of Venture
Capitalists as well as speakers discussing Intellectual
Property issues.
The conference is composed of a number of tracks,
tutorials, sessions,
workshops, poster and panel discussions; all will be held
simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 25-28, 2016.
IMPORTANT DATES:
March 22, 2016:
Submission of full papers (max 7 pages)
April 17, 2016:
Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 10, 2016:
Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 25-28, 2016:
The 12th International Conference on Foundations of
Computer Science (FCS'16: Las Vegas, USA).
All affiliated federated conferences will be held
simultaneously; same location and dates.
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/conferences/fcs2016
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR EVALUATION: (
http://world-comp.org )
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them
to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org . Submissions must
be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and
must be in either
MS doc or pdf formats (7 pages for Regular Research
Papers; 4 pages for
Short Research Papers; 2 pages for Extended
Abstract/Poster Papers - the
number of pages include all figures, tables, and
references). All
reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the
authors of
accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular
typesetting format to
prepare their final papers for publication; these
formatting instructions
appear at the submission web site and they conform to the
two-column IEEE
style format). Papers must not have been previously
published or currently
submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include the
followings:
- Title of the
paper
- Name,
affiliation, postal address, and email address of each author
(identify the
name of the Contact Author)
- Abstract
(between 100 and 120 words)
- A maximum of 5
topical keywords that would best represent the work
described in
the paper
- Write the type
of the submission as "Regular Research Paper",
"Short
Research Paper", or "Extended Abstract/Poster Paper".
- The actual
text of the paper can start from the first page (space
permitting).
Submissions are
to be uploaded to the submission/evaluation web site
portal.
Type of Submissions/Papers:
- Full/Regular
Research Papers (maximum of 7 pages):
Regular
Research Papers should provide detail original research
contributions.
They must report new research results that represent
a contribution
to the field; sufficient details and support for
the results and
conclusions should also be provided. The work
presented in
regular papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity
that with some additional work can be
published as journal papers.
- Short Research
Papers (maximum of 4 pages):
Short Research
Papers report on ongoing research projects. They should
provide overall
research methodologies with some results. The work
presented in
short papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity
that with some
additional work can be published as regular papers.
- Extended
Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 2 pages):
Poster papers
report on ongoing research projects that are still in
their infancy
(i.e., at very early stages). Such papers tend to provide
research
methodologies without yet concrete results.
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the
field for originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of
contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program
committee would be
charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
often, this would involve
seeking help from additional referees. Papers whose
authors include a member
of the conference program committee will be evaluated
using the double-
blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will
not be refereed but
may be considered for discussion/panels).
The proceedings will be published in printed conference
books (ISBN) and will
also be made available online. The printed
proceedings/books will be
available for distribution on site at the conference. The
proceedings will be
indexed in science citation databases that track citation
frequency/data for
each published paper. The proceedings/books of the
congress have been
evaluated and approved for inclusion into major science
citation index
databases. In addition, the proceedings are approved for
inclusion into
EBSCO, one of the largest subject index systems. ACM
Digital Library is also
including the titles into its database as well as
ProQuest indexing database
and others.
In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book
series (multiple
books in each series); one with Elsevier publishers
(Emerging Trends in
Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with
Springer publishers
(Transactions of Computational Science and Computational
Intelligence).
After the conference (the process may take 12 to 18
months), a significant
number of authors of accepted papers of our congress,
will be given the
opportunity to submit the extended version of their
papers for publication
consideration in these books. We anticipate having
between 10 and 15 books
a year in each of these book series projects. Each book
in each series will
be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing
products (which
includes: Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,
EMBASE, and others).
For a recent and a very small subset of the books (and
journal special
issues) that have been published mostly based on the
extended versions of
the federated congress papers, see the link and titles
below:
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/worldcomp-books-journal-special-issues
Some of these books and journal special issues have
already received the
top 25% downloads in their respective fields and/or
identified as "Highly
Accessed" by publishers and/or science citation
index trackers. Some titles
appear below (this is a small subset):
o. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Image Processing, Computer Vision
and Pattern
Recognition. (about 650 pages)
o. Springer:
Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems;
Series:
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Vol 696.
780 pages (Awarded the top 25% downloads in
the field.)
o. Springer:
Advances in Computational Biology; Series: Advances in
Experimental
Medicine and Biology, Vol 680. 700+ pages.
(Awarded the
top 25% downloads in the field.)
o. Journal of BMC
Systems Biology: Special Journal Issue "Bioinformatics
and
Computational Biology", (Vol. 5, Supp. 3); Impact Factor: 2.44.
200+ pages.
(Many articles of this issue is marked as "Highly
Accessed".)
o. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in ICT Security (Information and
Communications
Technology). 660 pages. (One of the most highly
accessed books
in the field.)
o. Journal of BMC
Medical Genomics: Special Journal Issue
"Bioinformatics and Computational Biology", (Vol. 6, Supp. 1);
Impact Factor:
2.87. 240+ pages. (Some articles of this issue is
marked as
"Highly accessed".)
o. Springer:
Transactions on Computational Science and Computational
Intelligence
(multiple volumes).
o. Journal of BMC
Genomics: Special Journal Issue "Bioinformatics and
Computational
Biology", (Vol. 9, Supp. 1); Impact Factor: 3.99.
250+ pages.
(Some articles of this issue is marked as "Highly
Accessed".)
o. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applied Computing
(multiple
volumes.)
o. Journal of BMC
Genomics: Special Journal Issue "Advances in Big Data
Analytics", (Vol. 15, Supp. 11); Impact Factor: 3.99. 100+ pages.
(Some articles
of this issue is marked as "Highly Accessed".)
o. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics,
and Systems
Biology - Algorithms and Software Tools. 600+ pages.
o. Elsevier/MK:
Emerging Trends in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics,
and Systems
Biology - Systems and Applications. (In Press). 600+ pages.
o. Springer:
Resilient Computer System Design.
300+ pages.
o. Journal of BMC
Bioinformatics: Special Journal Issue (Vol 15, Supp.
17); Impact
Factor: 2.58. 140+ pages. (Some articles of this issue is
marked as
"Highly accessed".)
o. Springer: The
Journal of Supercomputing (multiple journal issues);
o. Springer:
Special Issue in Annals of Information Systems; Data Mining;
Vol. 8; 400
pages.
o. Springer: Real
World Data Mining Applications; in Annals of
Information
Systems; Vol. 17; 420 pages.
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering
Committee of the
last offerings of the federated congress included: Dr.
Selim Aissi,
(formerly: Chief Strategist - Security, Intel
Corporation, USA) Vice
President, Global Information Security, Visa Inc., USA;
Prof. Abbas M.
Al-Bakry, University President, University of IT and
Communications,
Baghdad, Iraq; Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and
Department Chair,
and Vice Chair of IEEE/SEM Computer Chapter, University
of Detroit
Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Dr. Hamid Ali Abed
Alasadi, Head,
Department of Computer Science, Basra University, Iraq
and Member of
Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE, Washington,
USA; Prof.
Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA and
Editor-in-Chief,
Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) and Elected Fellow
of Int'l
Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM); Prof.
Michael
Panayiotis Bekakos, Director of Laboratory of Digital
Systems and
Head of Parallel Algorithms and architectures Research
Group,
Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; Prof. Juan Jose
Martinez
Castillo, Director, The Acantelys Alan Turing Nikola
Tesla Research
Group and GIPEB, Universidad Nacional Abierta, Venezuela;
Prof. Kevin
Daimi, Director of Computer Science and Software
Engineering Programs,
University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Dr.
Lamia Atma
Djoudi, Synchrone Technologies, France; Prof. Mary
Mehrnoosh
Eshaghian-Wilner, Professor of Engineering Practice,
University of
Southern California, California, USA and Adjunct
Professor, EE,
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), California,
USA; Prof.
George A. Gravvanis, Director, Physics Lab. & Head of
Advanced
Scientific Computing, Applied Math & Applications
Research Group and
Professor of Applied Mathematics and Numerical Computing
and
Department of ECE, School of Engineering, Democritus
University of
Thrace, Xanthi, Greece (former President of the Technical
Commission,
European Commission); Prof. Houcine Hassan, Universitat
Politecnica
de Valencia, Spain; Prof. George Jandieri, Georgian
Technical
University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief Scientist, The
Institute of
Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia; Prof.
Young-Sik
Jeong, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Information
Processing Systems
(JIPS), Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea; Prof.
Byung-Gyu Kim,
Multimedia Processing Communications Lab. (MPCL), Department of CSE,
SunMoon University, South Korea; Prof. Tai-hoon Kim,
School of
Information and Computing Science, University of
Tasmania, Australia;
Prof. D. V. Kodavade, Head of Computer Science and
Engineering, DKTE
Institute, India; Prof. Dr. Guoming Lai, Computer Science
and
Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P. R.
China; Prof.
Victor Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software
Department, Russian
Academy of Sciences, Russia; Prof. George Markowsky,
Professor &
Associate Director, School of Computing and Information
Science and
Chair of Int'l Advisory Board of IEEE IDAACS, University
of Maine,
Orono, USA; Dr. Andrew Marsh, CEO, HoIP Telecom Ltd
(Healthcare over
Internet Protocol), UK and Secretary General of World
Academy of
BioMedical Sciences and Technologies (WABT), a UNESCO
NGO, The United
Nations; Prof. G. N. Pandey, Vice-Chancellor, Arunachal
University,
India and Adjunct Professor of Indian Institute of
Information Tech.,
Allahabad, India; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Head,
Department
of Computer Science and Engineering (DCSE), SeoulTech,
South Korea
and President of FTRA, South Korea; Dr. Akash Singh, IBM
Corporation,
Sacramento, California, USA and Chartered Scientist,
Science Council,
UK and Fellow of British Computer Society, USA; Ashu M.
G. Solo
(Publicity Chair), Fellow of British Computer Society,
Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and
Mathematician,
Maverick Technologies America Inc.; Prof. Sang C. Suh,
Head and Professor of Computer Science, Vice President,
of Society
for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Director of
Intelligent
Cyberspace Engineering (ICEL), Texas A&M University,
Com., Texas,
USA; Prof.
Fernando G. Tinetti, School of Computer Science, Univ.
Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina and Co-editor,
Journal of
Computer Science and Technology (JCS&T); Dr. Predrag
Tosic, Microsoft,
Washington, USA; Prof. Vladimir Volkov, The
Bonch-Bruevich State
University of Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg,
Russia; Prof.
Patrick S. P. Wang, Fellow of IAPR, ISIBM, WASE and
Professor of
Computer and Information Science, Northeastern
University, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA and Otto-von-Guericke Distinguished
Guest Prof.,
University Magdeburg, Germany; Prof. Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Department
of
Information Management, Central Police University, Taiwan
and
Program Chair, Security & Forensics, Taiwan and
Director of Info.
Crypto and Construction Lab (ICCL) & ICCL-FROG; Prof.
Mary Q. Yang,
Director of Mid-South Bioinformatics Center and Joint
Bioinformatics
PhD Program, Medical Sciences and George W. Donaghey
College of Eng.
and Information Technology, University of Arkansas, USA;
Prof. Jane
You, Associate Head, Department of Computing, The Hong
Kong
Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
The 2016 Program Committee for the conference is
currently being
compiled. Many who have already joined the committees are
renowned
leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
practitioners of the
highest ranks; many are directors of research labs.,
fellows of
various societies, heads/ chairs of departments, program
directors
of research funding agencies, as well as deans and
provosts.
Program Committee members are expected to have
established a strong
and documented research track record. Those interested in
joining the
Program Committee should email editor@world-comp.org the following
information for consideration: Name, affiliation and
position,
complete mailing address, email address, a one-page
biography that
includes research expertise & the name of the
conference(s) offering
to help with.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The federated congress (
http://www.worldcomp.org/events/2016 ) that
this conference is part of will be composed of research
presentations,
keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel
discussions,
and poster presentations. In recent past,
keynote/tutorial/panel
speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson
(pioneer,
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric
Drexler (known
as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland
(known as Father
of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster
(known as
Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof.
Ruzena Bajcsy
(pioneer, VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry
Vercoe (Founding
member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as
X-man, developer
of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known
as Father of
Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey
(NIH Program
Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna
(pioneer, U. of
Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program
Director and
Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of
MIT & Harvard
U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr.
Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program 2000-2005 and
Associate Director,
Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA;
Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof.
David Lorge
Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH
Zurich, Prof.
Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene
H. Spafford
(Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue
University), Dr.
Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology
Officer,
SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean,
Cornell University;
formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and
former director of
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National
Science
Foundation, USA), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished
Professor, Purdue
University, USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of
Mathematical
Sciences, Tel Aviv U, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego
Supercomputing
Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of
Parallel Coordinates
and author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell
Endowed Chair
Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS;
Director, CSU
Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC),
Colorado State
University, Colorado, USA); Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of
IEEE and
LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director,
Ohio Center of
Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) and
Professor of
Computer Science, Wright State University, Ohio, USA);
Dr. Leonid I.
Perlovsky (Harvard University, USA and School of
Engineering and
Applied Sciences and Medical School Athinoula Martinos
Brain Imaging
Center; and The US Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP
Information
Technology, USA and Chair of IEEE Task Force on The Mind
and Brain;
Recipient of John McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force
Award for
basic research); Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer,
Raytheon
Intelligence, Information, and Services; Aurora,
Colorado, USA); Prof.
Yaroslav D. Sergeyev (Distinguished Professor, Head of
Numerical
Calculus Laboratory University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
and part-time
Professor of Lobachevsky State University, Russia); and
many other
distinguished speakers. The Congress is among the top
five largest
annual gathering of researchers in computer science,
computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have
attendees
from about 85 countries. To get a feeling about the
conferences'
atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:
2015 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6981287
2014 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396
Last 10 years: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/
An important mission of The Congress is "Providing a
unique platform
for a diverse community of constituents composed of
scholars,
researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners.
The Congress
makes concerted effort to reach out to participants
affiliated with
diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions,
corporations,
government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all
over the
world. The congress also attempts to connect participants
from
institutions that have teaching as their main mission
with those who
are affiliated with institutions that have research as
their main
mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its
institution
and geography diversity objectives."
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of January 5, 2016, papers published in the conference
proceedings
that have been held as part of this federated congress,
have received
28,380 citations (includes 3,346 self-citations).
Citation data is
obtained from Microsoft Academic Search. The citation
data does not
even include more than 17,000 other citations to papers
in conferences
whose first offerings were initiated by this congress
(such as: FUSION,
ICWS, ICMLA, and others).
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is
correct as of
January 5, 2016.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org
