Monday, June 25, 2012

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


                      Call For Participation

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

                 July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA


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

See below for:

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

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

B. Topical Scope:

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

C. Registration Information:

D. Financial Assistantship for full-Time Students:

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

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

F. Detailed Congress Schedules/Programs:

G. Location of WORLDCOMP:

H. Planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes:

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

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Call for Post-Conference Proceedings Papers with Extended Deadline of June 2, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012


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           CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline: June 2, 2012

      The 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                               ICAI'12

                   July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
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INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a full paper (max of 7 pages) for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings
(ISBN) and will also be made available online. Abstract submissions (1 to 2
pages) will be considered for poster presentations. The conference proceedings
will be made available in printed book as well as online. The proceedings
will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/
data for each paper. The proceedings of the congress that ICAI is part of
enjoys a high number of citations; about 26,000 citations have been made (so
far) to papers published in the proceedings. The conference is co-sponsored
by various associations and groups as well as centers, large labs, and
institutes affiliated with University of Iowa, George Mason University,
Texas A&M University, Harvard University and MIT, University of Minnesota,
US national labs, and many others. Corporate sponsors include, Intel
Corporation, Super Micro Computer, Inc., and others.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the opportunity to submit
their papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers". Therefore, authors
who have already submitted papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers"
should IGNORE this announcement. (Those who have been notified that their
papers have been accepted, MUST still follow the instructions that were
emailed to them; including meeting the deadlines mentioned in the
notifications that were sent to them).

IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES:
Please note that the conference web site refers to different deadlines; those
who receive this announcement should ignore the deadlines mentioned on the
web (we are not updating the deadlines on the conference web site because we
would like to control the number of submissions - we can only manage a limited
number of additional submissions at this late date). What appears below are
the current deadlines.

June 2, 2012:       Submission of papers for evaluation
                    Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
                    uploading them to the following general evaluation web site:
                    http://world-comp.org
June 14, 2012:      Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance
June 22, 2012:      Registration
July 16-19, 2012:   The 2012 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                    (ICAI'12)

July 30, 2012:      Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication
                    (papers submitted and accepted in response to this announcement
                    will be published in the Final Edition of the proceedings which
                    will go to press soon after the conference.)

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

O  Brain models / cognitive science
O  Natural language processing
O  Fuzzy logic and soft computing
O  Software tools for AI
O  Expert systems
O  Decision support systems
O  Automated problem solving
O  Knowledge discovery
O  Knowledge representation
O  Knowledge acquisition
O  Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques
O  Knowledge networks and management
O  Intelligent information systems
O  Intelligent data mining and farming
O  Intelligent web-based business
O  Intelligent agents
O  Intelligent networks
O  Intelligent databases
O  Intelligent user interface
O  AI and evolutionary algorithms
O  Intelligent tutoring systems
O  Reasoning strategies
O  Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
O  Distributed AI systems and architectures
O  Neural networks and applications
O  Heuristic searching methods
O  Languages and programming techniques for AI
O  Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
O  Intelligent information fusion
O  Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
O  Search and meta-heuristics
O  Swarm Optimization
O  Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
O  Integration of AI with other technologies
O  Evaluation of AI tools
O  Social intelligence (markets and computational societies)
O  Social impact of AI
O  Emerging technologies
O  Topics on satisfiability
O  Applications (including: computer vision, signal processing,
   military, surveillance, robotics, medicine, pattern recognition,
   face recognition, finger print recognition, finance and
   marketing, stock market, education, emerging applications, ...)

O  Workshop on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications:

   - General Machine Learning Theory
     . Statistical learning theory
     . Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
     . Multivariate analysis
     . Hierarchical learning models
     . Relational learning models
     . Bayesian methods
     . Meta learning
     . Stochastic optimization
     . Topics on satisfiability
     . Simulated annealing
     . Heuristic optimization techniques
     . Neural networks
     . Reinforcement learning
     . Multi-criteria reinforcement learning
     . General Learning models
     . Multiple hypothesis testing
     . Decision making
     . Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods
     . Non-parametric methods
     . Graphical models
     . Gaussian graphical models
     . Particle filter
     . Cross-Entropy method
     . Ant colony optimization
     . Time series prediction
     . Fuzzy logic and learning
     . Inductive learning and applications
     . Grammatical inference

   - General Graph-based Machine Learning Techniques
     . Graph kernel and graph distance methods
     . Graph-based semi-supervised learning
     . Graph clustering
     . Graph learning based on graph transformations
     . Graph learning based on graph grammars
     . Graph learning based on graph matching
     . General theoretical aspects of graph learning
     . Statistical modeling of graphs
     . Information-theoretical approaches to graphs
     . Motif search
     . Network inference
     . General issues in graph and tree mining

   - Machine Learning Applications
     . Aspects of knowledge structures
     . Computational Finance
     . Computational Intelligence
     . Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques
     . Induction of document grammars
     . Supervised and unsupervised classification of web data
     . General Structure-based approaches in information retrieval,
       web authoring, information extraction, and web content mining
     . Latent semantic analysis
     . Aspects of natural language processing
     . Intelligent linguistic
     . Aspects of text technology
     . Computational vision
     . Bioinformatics and computational biology
     . Biostatistics
     . High-throughput data analysis
     . Biological network analysis:
       protein-protein networks, signaling networks, metabolic networks,
       transcriptional regulatory networks
     . Graph-based models in biostatistics
     . Computational Neuroscience
     . Computational Chemistry
     . Computational Statistics
     . Systems Biology
     . Algebraic Biology


SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS AND INDEXING INFORMATION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org
Submissions must be uploaded by June 2, 2012 and must be in either
MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and
references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable
typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers
will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their
final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously
published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first
page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should
also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical
keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. The name of
the conference that the paper is being submitted for consideration must
be stated on the first page of the paper (ie, ICAI) 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.
Authors whose papers are ACCEPTED will be instructed to upload their papers
to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the
publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting.

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and
will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each
published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET / The
Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for
Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core
scientific literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals;
only about 9% are proceedings; the set of proceedings that ICAI is part
of has been selected to be among the 9% - accessable from INIST, Datastar,
Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others.
Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in
EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the proceedings that ICAI
was part of were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be
sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier.

In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected authors will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a
number of research books contracted with various publishers. These books
will be composed after the conference. Also, many chairs of tracks will be
forming journal special issues to be published after the conference.

Note that authors who submit papers in response to this announcement, will
have their papers evaluated for publication consideration in the Final
Edition of the conference proceedings which will go to press soon after the
conference (the conference would then make the necessary arrangements to ship
the printed proceedings/books to such authors). The Final Edition of the
conference proceedings will be identical to earlier edition except for a
number of sections/chapters appended to the proceedings/book. 4042

Submission of Poster Papers:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions
that appear above. On the first page, the author should state that "This paper
is being submitted as a poster for ICAI". Poster papers (if accepted) will
be published if and only if the author of the accepted poster wishes to have
his/her poster published as a 2-page extended abstract.)

GENERAL INFORMATION:

ICAI conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a
number of other federated research conferences (World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing). This federated congress
is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. 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), Broad Institute of MIT
and Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL
Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC,
CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick),
Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue
University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer,
SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos available

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

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:

The congress proceedings enjoy a high number of citations. In total, about
26,000 citations have been made (so far) to papers published in the proceedings
of the federated congress. The link below contains the url's to the citation
data for each track (each link is a live search and so it may take a few
seconds for the data to pull up):


USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. ICAI 2012 web site:
2. To see the caliber of the past offering of worldcomp, see the 2011 congress web site:
3. The 2011 delegates photos are available at:

CONTACT:

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