Friday, February 28, 2014

Call for Papers & Sessions: The 2014 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'14), USA, July 21-24, 2014


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                          CALL  FOR  PAPERS
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                    CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS

              Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2014

                              FCS'14
           The 2014 International Conference on Foundations
                       of Computer Science

         July 21-24, 2014, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
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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 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). See the following links for a small
subset of the publications based on the accepted papers of the federated
congress that FCS is part of: (some of these books and journal special
issues have already received the top 25% downloads in their respective
fields - we also have a number of Elsevier and Springer books in the
pipeline based on the last offerings of the congress):


FCS'14 is composed of a number of tracks, including: tutorials,
sessions, workshops, posters, and panel discussions. The conference will
be held July 21-24, 2014, Las Vegas, USA.

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

o  Quantum Computing
o  Game theory and methods
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
o  Coding theory
o  Novel data structures
o  Languages
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  Cryptography
o  Novel compression methods
o  Database theory
o  Queuing methods
o  Pansystems
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  Other emerging topics


IMPORTANT DATES:

ASAP:              Workshop / Session Proposals (As Soon As Possible)
March 15, 2014:    Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 15, 2014:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 3, 2014:       Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 21-24, 2014:  The 2014 International Conference on Foundations of
                   Computer Science (FCS'14)


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 15, 2014 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 (i.e., FCS) 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 FCS'14 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. 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, many of the proceedings
of the federated congress that FCS is part of were included in these
databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for
indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier.

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 whole process takes 12 months), a significant
number of authors of accepted papers of FCS, will be given the
opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication
consideration in these books. We anticipate having between 10 to 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). See below for recent
examples of books/journals based on extended versions of accepted papers
of the federated congress that FCS is part of:



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.


PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:

FCS 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
(i.e., FCS) 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 February 25, 2014.


CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offerings of
the congress that FCS was held jointly with, included research labs
and centers affiliated with (each sponsored all or at least one track of
the congress):  Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA; George Mason
University, Virginia, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA;
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; and many 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; Aldebaran
Robotics Inc., USA; Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc., USA; NVIDIA
Corporation, USA; Pico Computing, Inc., USA; Solarflare Communications,
Inc., USA; Science Publications and many others.


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of the last
offerings of the congress that FCS was held jointly with, 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, Co-Director
of CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence &
organised Crime research), Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK;
Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and Chair, Vice Chair, 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. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science, Director of
Computer Science and Software Engineering Programs, University of Detroit
Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; 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. Kun Chang
Lee, Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Sungkyunkwan
University, Korea; 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; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park,
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea and President of
KITCS, President of FTRA, Editor-in-Chiefs: 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, Secretary-General of WABT, Vice-president of ICET, Visiting
Professor, University of Westminster, UK; Ashu M. G. Solo (Publicity Chair),
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; and others.

The 2014 Program Committee for FCS is currently being compiled. Many who
have already joined the committee are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers,
scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks.

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 (i.e., FCS).


GENERAL INFORMATION:

FCS is an international conference that serves researchers, scholars,
professionals, students, and academicians who are looking to both foster
working relationships and gain access to the latest research results. It is
being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research
conferences; namely, The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer
Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'14). 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.

The 2014 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);
and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the
conferences' atmosphere, see some 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 14, 2013, papers published in the conference proceedings
that have been held as part of the joint Congress, have received over
27,500 citations (includes about 3,300 self-citations). Citation data
obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ . The citation data
does not even include more than 15,000 other citations to papers in tracks
whose first offerings were initiated by this joint congress.

MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of
January 29, 2014

CONTACT:

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


Thursday, February 27, 2014

Proceedings for WORLDCOMP'13 Conferences

Below, you will find the links to the soft/online versions of the Proceedings of The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'13: July 22-25, 2013, USA). Conference web
site: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp13/ws

Please refer to the web links below for individual published books/proceedings of conferences held as part of The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing.

PROCEEDINGS:

The individual published books/proceedings of conferences held as part of the 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing appears at:

--> One hyperlink per conference book/proceedings (ie, one large PDF
--> file per
    book):

    http://world-comp.org/proc2013/

    (Please note that due to the large size of the files, the download process
    will take sometime - therefore, you should use a fast connection and you
    should be patient.)

--> One hyperlink per paper + per conference book:

    http://world-comp.org/p2013/

--> Mirror sites for the 2013 set of conference proceedings (2013):

    http://weblidi.info.unlp.edu.ar/WorldComp2013-Mirror/p2013/
    http://weblidi.info.unlp.edu.ar/WorldComp2013-Mirror/proc2013/


THE FULL REFERENCE TO EACH BOOK APPEARS BELOW:

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BIOCOMP'13: 540 pages (76 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-234-8

Title on the covers:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
BIOCOMP'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Quoc-Nam Tran

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
George Jandieri
Ashu M. G. Solo
Fernando G. Tinetti

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CDES'13: 96 pages (13 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-236-4

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Design
CDES'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Leonidas Deligiannidis
Ashu M. G. Solo
Fernando G. Tinetti

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CGVR'13: 72 pages (10 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-237-2

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
CGVR'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Leonidas Deligiannidis
Ashu M. G. Solo

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CSC'13: 250 pages (37 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-238-0

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Computing
CSC'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
George A. Gravvanis
George Jandieri
Ashu M. G. Solo
Fernando G. Tinetti

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DMIN'13: 285 pages (41 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-239-9

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Mining
DMIN'13

EDITORS:
Robert Stahlbock
Gary M. Weiss

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Mahmoud Abou-Nasr
Hamid R. Arabnia

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EEE'13: 405 pages (64 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-240-2

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government
EEE'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Azita Bahrami
Fernando G. Tinetti

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Leonidas Deligiannidis
George Jandieri
Ashu M. G. Solo

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ERSA'13: 88 pages (12 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-262-3

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms
ERSA'13

EDITOR:
Toomas P. Plaks

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ESA'13: 147 pages (21 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-241-0

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications
ESA'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Leonidas Deligiannidis
George Jandieri
Ashu M. G. Solo
Fernando G. Tinetti

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FCS'13: 214 pages (29 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-242-9

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science
FCS'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
George A. Gravvanis
George Jandieri
Ashu M. G. Solo
Fernando G. Tinetti

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FECS'13: 530 pages (85 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-243-7

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering
FECS'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Azita Bahrami
Victor A. Clincy
Leonidas Deligiannidis
George Jandieri

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Ashu M. G. Solo
Fernando G. Tinetti

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GCA'13: 135 pages (18 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-244-5

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and Applications
GCA'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
George A. Gravvanis
Ashu M. G. Solo

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GEM'13: 160 pages (20 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-245-3

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods
GEM'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Ray R. Hashemi
George Jandieri
Ashu M. G. Solo
Fernando G. Tinetti

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ICAI'13 (2 volumes): 955 pages (141 papers); Vol I: 470 pages + Vol II: 485 pages ===================

ICAI'13 Vol I -   ISBN #:  1-60132-246-1
ICAI'13 Vol II -  ISBN #:  1-60132-248-8
ICAI'13 Set -     ISBN #:  1-60132-247-X

Title on the covers:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
ICAI'13

Volume I/II

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
David de la Fuente
Elena B. Kozerenko
Peter M. LaMonica
Raymond A. Liuzzi
Jose A. Olivas
Todd Waskiewicz

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
George Jandieri
Ashu M. G. Solo
Ivan Nunes da Silva
Fernando G. Tinetti
Fadi Thabtah

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ICOMP'13: 255 pages (36 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-249-6

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data
ICOMP'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Victor A. Clincy
Leonidas Deligiannidis
Ashu M. G. Solo
Fernando G. Tinetti

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ICWN'13: 455 pages (72 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-250-X

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks
ICWN'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Victor A. Clincy
Leonidas Deligiannidis
George Jandieri
Ashu M. G. Solo
Fernando G. Tinetti

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IKE'13: 305 pages (43 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-251-8

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering
IKE'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Leonidas Deligiannidis
Ray Hashemi
Joan Lu

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
George Jandieri
Ashu M. G. Solo
Fernando G. Tinetti

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IPCV'13 (2 volumes): 1030 pages (158 papers); Vol I: 520 pages + Vol II: 510 pages ===================

IPCV'13 Vol I -  ISBN #:  1-60132-252-6
IPCV'13 Vol II - ISBN #:  1-60132-253-4
IPCV'13 Set -    ISBN #:  1-60132-254-2

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
IPCV'13

Volume I/II

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Leonidas Deligiannidis
Joan Lu
Fernando G. Tinetti
Jane You

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
George Jandieri
Gerald Schaefer
Ashu M. G. Solo
Vladimir Volkov

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MSV'13: 215 pages (31 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-255-0

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods
MSV'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Leonidas Deligiannidis

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
George Jandieri
Ashu M. G. Solo
Fernando G. Tinetti

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PDPTA'13 (2 volumes): 785 pages (118 papers); Vol I: 392 pages + Vol II: 393 pages ====================

PDPTA'13 Vol I -  ISBN #:  1-60132-256-9
PDPTA'13 Vol II - ISBN #:  1-60132-257-7
PDPTA'13 Set -    ISBN #:  1-60132-258-5

Title on the covers:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
PDPTA'13

Volume I/II

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Hiroshi Ishii
Minoru Ito
Kazuki Joe
Hiroaki Nishikawa
Fernando G. Tinetti

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
George A. Gravvanis
George Jandieri
Ashu M. G. Solo

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SAM'13: 532 pages (75 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-259-3

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Management
SAM'13

EDITORS:
Kevin Daimi
Hamid R. Arabnia

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Michael R. Grimaila
Kathy Liszka
George Markowsky
Ashu M.G. Solo

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SERP'13: 556 pages (83 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-260-7

Title on the covers:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice
SERP'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Leonidas Deligiannidis
George Jandieri

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Vince Schmidt
Ashu M. G. Solo
Fernando G. Tinetti

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SWWS'13: 80 pages (12 papers)
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ISBN #:  1-60132-261-5

Title on the cover:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services
SWWS'13

EDITORS:
Hamid R. Arabnia
Leonidas Deligiannidis
Ashu M. G. Solo
Fernando G. Tinetti


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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Call For Papers and Sessions: The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'14), U.S.A., July 21-24, 2014

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                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                                &
                    CALL FOR WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS

              Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2014

             The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science,
             Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

         July 21-24, 2014, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
                            WORLDCOMP'14
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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 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). See the following links for a small subset of the publications based on the Congress: (some of these books and special issues have already received the top 25% downloads in their respective fields - we also have a number of Elsevier and Springer books in the pipeline based on the last offering of the congress):


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 21-24, 2014. For the complete list of joint conferences, see below.


IMPORTANT DATES:

January 21, 2014:  Workshop / Session Proposals
March 15, 2014:    Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 15, 2014:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 3, 2014:       Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 21-24, 2014:  The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer
                   Engineering, and Applied Computing
                   (including all affiliated conferences).


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 15, 2014 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 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. 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. 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, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others): BIOCOMP, DMIN, ERSA, GCA, ICAI, ICOMP, ICWN, IKE, IPCV, PDPTA, and SAM; please see above for the full name of each of these conferences.

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 whole process takes 12 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 to 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 that have been published based on the extended versions of accepted papers for this congress, see:



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.


PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:

Each conference (see below for the list) 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, CSC, ...), 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 21, 2014.


LIST OF CONFERENCES (alphabetical order based on conference acronym)

o BIOCOMP'14:
  The 15th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational
  Biology

o CSC'14:
  The 12th International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'14:
  The 10th International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'14:
  The 13th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise
  Information Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'14:
  The 14th International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
  Systems and Algorithms

o ESA'14:
  The 12th International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications

o FCS'14:
  The 10th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science

o FECS'14:
  The 10th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'14:
  The 10th International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and
  Applications

o GEM'14:
  The 11th International Conference on Genetic & Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'14:
  The 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'14:
  The 15th International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data

o ICWN'14:
  The 13th International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'14:
  The 13th International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'14:
  The 18th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision,
  & Pattern Recognition

o MSV'14:
  The 11th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'14:
  The 20th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing
  Techniques and Applications

o SAM'14:
  The 13th International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'14:
  The 12th International Conference on Software Engineering Research and
  Practice

o SWWS'14:
  The 12th International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services

July 21-24, 2014, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA.

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


CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offerings of the congress included research labs and centers affiliated with (each sponsored all or at least one track of the congress):
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:  NC A&T, Carnegie Mellon, Clemson, UNC Wilmington), USA; 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; and many 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; Aldebaran Robotics Inc., USA; Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc., USA; NVIDIA Corporation, USA; Pico Computing, Inc., USA; Solarflare Communications, Inc., USA; Science Publications and many others.


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) Senior Business Leader & Chief Architect, Visa Corporation, USA; Prof. Babak Akhgar, PhD, FBCS, CITP, Professor of Informatics, Co-Director of CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & organised Crime research), Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK; Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and Chair, Vice Chair, 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. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science, Director of Computer Science and Software Engineering Programs, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; 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. Kun Chang Lee, Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea; 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; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea and President of KITCS, President of FTRA, Editor-in-Chiefs: 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, Secretary-General of WABT, Vice-president of ICET, Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK; Ashu M. G. Solo (Publicity Chair), 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; and others.

The 2014 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.

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 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); 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:

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 14, 2013, papers published in the conference proceedings that have been held as part of this congress, have received over 27,500 citations (includes about 3,300 self-citations). Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/. The citation data does not even include more than 15,000 other citations to papers in conferences whose first offerings were initiated by worldcomp.


CONTACT:

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