Friday, April 22, 2016

Call for Late Breaking Papers with Submission Deadline of May 17, 2016: 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, USA, July 25-28, 2016


                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS
 CALL FOR LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS

                 Submission Deadline: May 17, 2016
                 11:59pm US Eastern Time zone (EDT)

            The 2016 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

        July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
                  http://worldcomp.org/events/2016

INVITATION:

We anticipate having between 1,200 and 1,800 participants. Last year,
the Congress and its affiliated tracks had attracted speakers, authors,
and participants from over 178 different universities (including many
from the top 50 ranked institutions), major IT corporations (including,
Microsoft, Google, Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung,
IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Hitachi,
NTT, ...), major corporations (including, Exxon Mobil, Johnson & Johnson,
JPMorgan Chase, Raytheon, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC, Airbus,
Boeing, Hyundai, ...), government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE,
US Air Force, NSA National Security Agency, ...), US National Labs
(including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National
Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, National Cancer Institute, NIST,  ...),
and a number of Venture Capitalists as well as distinguished speakers
discussing Intellectual Property issues.

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).

You are invited to submit a "LATE BREAKING PAPER", "POSITION PAPER", or
"ABSTRACT/POSTER 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. In
addition, like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about
40%) of the conference will appear in journals and edited research
books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others); some
of these books and journal special issues have already received the top
25% most downloads in their respective fields. See the link below for
a very small subset of the books published mostly based on extended
versions of the accepted papers of this congress:

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). The publications will be
indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data.
All publications 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 databases
and others.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:

In response to this announcement, authors are given the opportunity to
submit their papers for evaluation in one of the following three paper
categories:

   1. LATE BREAKING PAPERS: describe late-breaking/recent developments in
      the field. The maximum number of pages is 7. Please write the
      following on the first page of your submission "name of conference:
      LATE BREAKING PAPER". If accepted, The length of the final/Camera-
      Ready paper will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages and
      the author will be given the opportunity to present the paper in a
      formal session.

   2. POSITION PAPERS: enable discussions on emerging topics without the
      experimentation normally present in an academic paper. Commonly,
      such papers will substantiate the opinions or positions put forward
      with evidence from an extensive objective discussion of the topic.
      The maximum number of pages is 4. Please write the following on the
      first page of your submission "name of conference: POSITION PAPER".
      If accepted, The length of the final/Camera-Ready paper will be
      limited to 4 (two-column IEEE style) pages and the author will be
      given the opportunity to present the paper in a formal session.

   3. ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPERS: describe research roadmaps (similar to PhD
      plan or PhD prospectus). The maximum number of pages is 2. Please
      write the following on the first page of your submission "name of
      conference: ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPER". If accepted, The length of the
      final/Camera-Ready paper will be limited to 2 (two-column IEEE
      style) pages and the author will be given the opportunity to
      present the paper in a discussion/poster session.

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. All reasonable typesetting
formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be
asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final
papers for publication; these formatting instructions appear at:
http://world-comp.org  and they conform to the two-column IEEE style
format). The first page of the paper should include:
title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email
address for each author as well as a maximum of 5 topical keywords that
would best represent the content of the paper. The first page should also
identify the name of the Contact/Corresponding author together with
his/her professional email address and the category of the paper (see
above). A 100 to 150-word abstract should appear on the first page.
The actual text of the paper can start from the first page (space
permitting).

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).


IMPORTANT DATES:

May 17, 2016:      Submission of Late Breaking Papers (7 pages), Position
                   Papers (4 pages), Abstract/Poster Papers (2 pages) for
                   evaluation (the sooner, a submission is received, the
                   earlier, the notification will be sent out.)
                   Submission web site: http://world-comp.org
June 2, 2016:      Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
June 16, 2016:     Registration due
July 25-28, 2016:  The 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer
                   Engineering, and Applied Computing (including all
                   affiliated federated conferences).
                   http://worldcomp.org/events/2016

August 20, 2016:   Final (Camera-Ready) Late Breaking Papers, Position Papers,
                   Abstracts/Posters 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; they will also
                   be indexed in science citation index databases. The Final
                   Edition of the proceedings will be identical to the
                   Preliminary Edition except for the addition of the
                   accepted LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS,
                   ABSTRACTS/POSTERS at the end of the books. The conference
                   would make the necessary arrangements to ship the printed
                   proceedings/books to all authors.


KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:

There will be between 10 and 20 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks;
speakers include world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured
Keynote Speakers for year 2016 include:

     Title: Search for Extraterrestrial Life in Our Solar System
     Dr. Firouz Naderi
     Former Director of Solar System Exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion
     Laboratory (JPL) - Oversaw robotic spacecraft dispatched to all
     corners of the solar system. Prior position: NASA's Program Manager
     for Mars Exploration Recipient of NASA's outstanding Leadership
     Medal and NASA's Distinguished Service Medal (NASA's highest award).
     In appreciation of his contributions, The International Astronomical
     Union (IAU) and NASA/JPL has named an asteroid "Naderi" after his name.

     Title: Data Science for High Dimensional Datasets
     Prof. Alfred Inselberg
     Tel Aviv University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing
     Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel
     Coordinates which has significant utilities in Big Data (his work
     has been praised by Stephen Hawking among others.)

There will also be between 10 and 12 half-day tutorials and panel
discussions. A typical tutorial is half a day long (3 hours) and is free
to all registered conference attendees. Tutorial speakers are all
distinguished scientists, educators, and practitioners: including senior
scientists from IBM (USA), Raytheon (USA), and academia as well as
research funding agencies. Topical panel discussions will include,
security, ABET Accreditation, data mining, Data Science and Big Data,
IoT, and others. Featured tutorials and panel discussions include (more
are in the pipeline of evaluation):

     ABET Accreditation Process of Computer Science Program
     Prof. Gurdeep S. Hura
     University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Maryland and
     ABET National and International Program evaluator.

     Energy-Aware Resource Management for Computing Systems
     Prof. H. J. Siegel
     Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of ACM; Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished
     Professor of ECE and CS, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA;
     Founding Director of CSU Info. Science and Tech. Center (ISTeC).

     Becoming Successful Developing and Selling Mobile Apps and IoT
     Systems - Best Practices, Tools, Technologies and Processes for
     University Students and Professors
     Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
     Founder and CEO, EVx, USA; Received PhD from Massachusetts Institute of
     Technology (MIT) - his work in mobile computer systems was selected as
     one of the most important inventions in computing; his invention is
     preserved and showcased in a time capsule at the Museum of Science in
     Boston, Massachusetts.

     Visualization & Data Mining for High Dimensional Datasets
     Prof. Alfred Inselberg
     Tel Aviv University, Israel; University of California, Los Angeles
     (UCLA); University of Southern California (USC); Senior Fellow at
     the San Diego Supercomputing Center, California, USA; Prof.
     Inselberg's work is praised by Stephen Hawking among many others.

     Cyber Infrastructure for Emerging computing Technologies: A New
     Global Perspective
     Prof. Gurdeep S. Hura
     University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Maryland and
     ABET National and International Program evaluator.

     Steganography from Greece to Cyberspace
     Prof. Kathy J. Liszka
     The University of Akron, Computer Science, Akron, Ohio, USA

     A Deep Dive Into Hybrid Cloud Adoption
     Tamer Nassar and Nader Nassar
     IBM CIO Cloud Platforms & Integration, New York, USA


LIST OF CONFERENCES:

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 25-28, 2016. For
the complete list of joint conferences, see below.

o ABDA'16:
  The 3rd International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics

o BIOCOMP'16:
  The 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational
  Biology

o BIOENG'16:
  The 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences

o CSC'16:
  The 14th International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'16:
  The 15th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
  Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ESCS'16:
  The 14th International Conference on Embedded Systems, Cyber-physical
  Systems, and Applications

o FCS'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science

o FECS'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering

o GCC'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Grid, Cloud, and Cluster
  Computing

o HIMS'16:
  The 2nd International Conference on Health Informatics and
  Medical Systems

o ICAI'16:
  The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'16:
  The 17th International Conference on Internet Computing and
  Internet of Things

o ICWN'16:
  The 15th International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'16:
  The 15th International Conference on Information & Knowledge
  Engineering

o IPCV'16:
  The 20th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
  Vision, & Pattern Recognition

o MSV'16:
  The 13th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'16:
  The 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
  Processing Techniques and Applications

o SAM'16:
  The 15th International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'16:
  The 14th International Conference on Software Engineering Research
  and Practice

July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA.

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


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), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director
and Consultant), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic),
Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor,
Purdue University), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University and
former director of Division of Info. and Intelligent Systems, NSF, USA),
Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, 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 The US Air Force Research Lab.), 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 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 and
territories. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see
some delegates photos available at:

DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM AND DEMO SESSION (DCDS-16):
Contact Person: Dr. Lamia Atma Djoudi, Synchrone technologies, France

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of January 5, 2016, papers published in the conference proceedings
that have been held as part of this 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
April 16, 2016.

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


Sunday, April 3, 2016

Call for Papers with Extended Deadline of April 11, 2016: The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'16), Las Vegas, U.S.A., July 25-28, 2016


                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

        Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 11, 2016
                 11:59pm US Eastern Time zone (EDT)

    The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                             (ICAI'16)

        July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA


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.)

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), major
IT corporations (including, Microsoft, Google, Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle,
Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE
Systems, Hitachi, NTT, ...), major corporations (including, Exxon Mobil,
Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC,
Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, ...), government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE,
AirForce, NSA National Security Agency, ...), US national laboratories
(including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National
Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, National Cancer Institute, NIST,  ...), and
a number of Venture Capitalists as well as speakers discussing Intellectual
Property issues.

KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:

There will be between 10 and 20 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks;
speakers include world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured
Keynote Speakers for year 2016 include:

     Dr. Firouz Naderi
     Former Director of Solar System Exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion
     Laboratory (JPL) - Oversaw robotic spacecraft dispatched to all
     corners of the solar system. Prior position: NASA's Program Manager
     for Mars Exploration Recipient of NASA's outstanding Leadership
     Medal and NASA's Distinguished Service Medal (NASA's highest award).

     Prof. Alfred Inselberg
     Tel Aviv University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing
     Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel
     Coordinates which has significant utilities in Big Data (his work
     has been praised by Stephen Hawking among others.)

There will also be between 10 and 12 half-day tutorials and panel
discussions. Tutorial speakers are all distinguished scientists and
practitioners: including senior scientists from IBM (USA), NIH, and
academia. Topical panel discussions will include, security, ABET
Accreditation issues, data mining, and others.

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.


SCOPE: TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:

   PROLOGUE: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science and engineering
   of making intelligent machines and systems. This is an important
   multi-disciplinary field which is now an essential part of technology
   industry, providing the heavy lifting for many of the most challenging
   problems in computer science. Since Machine Learning has strong ties
   with AI, the conference also covers the field of Machine Learning. The
   list of topics below is by no means meant to be exhaustive.

o  Artificial Intelligence:
   - Brain models, Brain mapping, Cognitive science
   - Natural language processing
   - Fuzzy logic and soft computing
   - Software tools for AI
   - Expert systems
   - Decision support systems
   - Automated problem solving
   - Knowledge discovery
   - Knowledge representation
   - Knowledge acquisition
   - Knowledge-intensive problem solving techniques
   - Knowledge networks and management
   - Intelligent information systems
   - Intelligent data mining and farming
   - Intelligent web-based business
   - Intelligent agents
   - Intelligent networks
   - Intelligent databases
   - Intelligent user interface
   - AI and evolutionary algorithms
   - Intelligent tutoring systems
   - Reasoning strategies
   - Distributed AI algorithms and techniques
   - Distributed AI systems and architectures
   - Neural networks and applications
   - Heuristic searching methods
   - Languages and programming techniques for AI
   - Constraint-based reasoning and constraint programming
   - Intelligent information fusion
   - Learning and adaptive sensor fusion
   - Search and meta-heuristics
   - Multisensor data fusion using neural and fuzzy techniques
   - Integration of AI with other technologies
   - Evaluation of AI tools
   - Social intelligence (markets and computational societies)
   - Social impact of AI
   - Emerging technologies
   - 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  Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications:
   - Statistical learning theory
   - Unsupervised and Supervised Learning
   - Multivariate analysis
   - Hierarchical learning models
   - Relational learning models
   - Bayesian methods
   - Meta learning
   - Stochastic optimization
   - 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
   - Bayesian networks
   - Particle filter
   - Cross-Entropy method
   - Ant colony optimization
   - Time series prediction
   - Fuzzy logic and learning
   - Inductive learning and applications
   - Grammatical inference
   - 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
   - Information-theoretical approaches to graphs
   - Motif search
   - Network inference
   - Aspects of knowledge structures
   - Computational Intelligence
   - Knowledge acquisition and discovery techniques
   - Induction of document grammars
   - 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
   - Biostatistics
   - High-throughput data analysis
   - Computational Neuroscience
   - Computational Statistics


IMPORTANT DATES:

April 11, 2016:    Submission of full papers (max 7 pages)
                   (Authors who have already submitted papers before March 22,
                   will receive decisions and status reports by April 17.)
April 25, 2016:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 10, 2016:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 25-28, 2016:  The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
                   (ICAI'16: Las Vegas, USA). All affiliated federated
                   conferences will be held simultaneously; same location & dates.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the evaluation web site at:  http://world-comp.org . Submissions must
be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and must be in either
MS doc or pdf formats (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:


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.


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:

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
March 31, 2016.

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