Thursday, April 18, 2013

Final Call for Papers with Extended Deadline of Apr. 20, 2013: The 2013 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'13), USA, July 22-25, 2013



                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

       EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: end of April 20, 2013
 
     The 2013 International Conference on Security and Management
                              SAM'13

                  July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA
      Indexing: Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, ...

                   http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam13/

INDEXING:
The proceedings/books of this conference have been evaluated and approved for inclusion into science citation index / SCI databases. We are happy to report that the evaluation board of science citation index databases have APPROVED the indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the SAM proceedings into relevant Elsevier indexing databases (Elsevier indexing databases include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others). In addition, the proceedings will also be indexed by a number of other science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper.

INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN) and will also be made available online. 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).
In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, 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. The web sites for the two book series will be made available after the logistics are finalized between our committee and the publishers (both book series projects have been approved.) 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, Ei village, SCI, ...). 4043


SAM'13 is composed of a number of tracks, including: tutorials, sessions, workshops, posters, and panel discussions. All tutorials are free to registered conference attendees - for a partial list of approved tutorials,
The conference will be held July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA.

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

O  Network Security
   -Security Algorithms
   -Mobile Network Security
   -Security in CDN (Contents Distribution Networks)
   -Virtual Private Network (VPN)
   -Tracing Techniques in Internet
   -Active Networks
   -Security in Grid
   -Web Monitoring
   -Network Security Engineering
   -Transport-Level Security
   -Wireless Network Security
   -IP Security
   -Electronic Mail security

O  Cryptographic Technologies
   -Security Protocols
   -Key Management Techniques
   -Cryptographic Technologies
   -Applications of Block and Stream Ciphers
   -Applications of Public Key Cryptology
   -Message Authentication and Hash Functions
   -Anonymity
   -Digital Signature Schemes
   -Secret Sharing
   -Cryptanalysis

O  Security Management
   -Surveillance Technologies
   -Security Policies
   -Security for Protocol Management
   -Location Management
   -QoS Management
   -Resource Management
   -Channel Management
   -Mobility Management
   -Digital Contents Copyright Protection
   -System Security Management
   -Network Security Management
   -Management in Network Equipment
   -Storage Area Networks (SAN) Management
   -Information Security Management
   -Government Security Policy
   -Web Penetration Testing
   -Security Operations
   -Vulnerabilities Management

O  Security Education
   -Computer Security Education
   -Network Security Education
   -Cyber Security Education
   -Cyber Security Body of Knowledge
   -Information Assurance Education

O  Information Assurance
   -Mission Assurance
   -Risk Assessment and Risk Management
   -Continuity of Operations and Business Impact Analysis
   -Cyber Security Compliance
   -Security Auditing
   -Security-Savvy Software Development
   -Disaster Recovery
   -Business Continuity Analysis
   -Access Control
   -Secure Use of Software
   -Secure Performance

O  Biometrics and Forensics
   -Novel Biometric Methods
   -Forensics
   -Biological Security Technologies
   -Face Recognition Systems
   -Signature Recognition Systems
   -Cyber Forensics
   -Forensic Analysis
   -Biometric Technologies for Security
   -Feature Extraction and Matching Algorithms

O  Hardware Security
   -Embedded Systems Security
   -Cryptographic Processors and Co-Processors
   -Security Architectures
   -True and Pseudorandom Number Generators
   -Side Channel Attacks
   -Fault Attacks
   -Hardware Tamper Resistance
   -Smart Card Processors
   -Secure Storage Devices

O  Security Applications
   -Security in E-Commerce and M-Commerce
   -Secure OS
   -Watermarking
   -High-Tech Systems at Airports
   -Emerging Technologies and Applications
   -Cloud Computing Security
   -Database Security
   -Data Mining Security
   -Cyber Security Automation

O  Computer Security
   -Firewall Systems
   -Hacking Techniques and Related Issues
   -Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
   -Honeypot
   -Virus Issues (Detection, Prevention ...)
   -Trusted Computing
   -Alert Correlation
   -Attack Graphs
   -Incident Responding
   -Malware Analysis
   -Incident Responding


IMPORTANT DATES - EXTENDED:

April 20, 2013:    Submission of full/regular papers (about 7 pages)
May 11, 2013:      Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)*
May 25, 2013:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 22-25, 2013:  The 2013 International Conference on Security
                   and Management (SAM'13)

*Authors who submitted their papers early, will receive their papers'
status report (notification) much sooner than May 11, 2013.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of March 14, 2013, papers published in Congress proceedings that SAM is part of, have received 27,591 citations (includes 3,342 self-citations). Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ .


SUBMISSION OF REGULAR PAPERS:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at:
Submissions must be uploaded by end of April 20, 2013 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 track title 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 proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each published paper. Science citation databases include: relevant Elsevier indexing products (SCI Elsevier products include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others); 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, and STN International); and others.
The printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site at the conference - online/soft versions will also be made available world-wide.

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, 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, Ei village, SCI, ...).

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.  please email your poster papers to the poster co-chairs: Hanen Idoudi ( Hanen.Idoudi@ensi.rnu.tn ), or Esmiralda Moradian ( moradian@kth.se ).


GENERAL INFORMATION:

SAM 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 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP). The Congress is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,100 or more attendees from over 85 countries.

The 2013 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 (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), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the Congress's atmosphere, see the 2012 delegates photos available at: http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp

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.


CONTACT:

Inquiries should be sent to: daimikj@udmercy.edu


Thursday, April 11, 2013

FINAL Call for Papers (Indexed in Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, etc.) with Extended Deadline of Apr. 20, 2013: The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'13), USA, July 22-25, 2013



                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

          Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 20, 2013

             The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science,
             Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                  July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA
                           WORLDCOMP'13

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

You are invited to submit a full 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. 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 this Congress:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedgenomics/supplements/6/S1
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-7045-9
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-5912-6
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/S1/I1
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/5?issue=S3
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC3287490/
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC2709251/
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC2999338/

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, 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. The web sites for the two book series will be made available after the logistics are finalized between our committee and the publishers (both book series projects have been approved.) 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, Ei village, SCI, ...).

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 22-25, 2013. For the complete list of joint conferences, see below.


IMPORTANT DATES:

April 20, 2013:    Submission of full/regular papers (about 7 pages)
May 11, 2013:      Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)*
May 25, 2013:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 22-25, 2013:  The 2013 International Conference on Parallel & Distributed
                   Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'13)

*Authors who submitted their papers early, will receive their papers'
status report (notification) much sooner than May 11, 2013.

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offering of the congress (2012) included research labs and centers affiliated with:
University of Minnesota, USA; Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA; George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; North Carolina A & T State University, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 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; Medical Image HPC and Informatics Lab, 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; Science Publications and others.


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 April 20, 2013 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. (Papers deemed to be philosophical, essay type, or about controversial topics/applications will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels/presentation).

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 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, the proceedings were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/ Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books will be available for distribution on site at the conference.

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series; one with Elsevier publishers (Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers (Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence). After the conference, 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, Ei village, SCI, ...).

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.


LIST OF CONFERENCES (alphabetical order based on conference acronym)

o BIOCOMP'13:
  The 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational
  Biology
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/biocomp13

o CDES'13:
  The 13th International Conference on Computer Design
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/cdes13

o CGVR'13:
  The 17th International Conference on Computer Graphics & Virtual
  Reality
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/cgvr13

o CSC'13:
  The 10th International Conference on Scientific Computing
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/csc13

o DMIN'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Data Mining
  http://www.dmin-2013.com/

o EEE'13:
  The 12th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
  Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/eee13

o ERSA'13:
  The 13th International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
  Systems and Algorithms
  http://ersaconf.org/ersa-news/

o ESA'13:
  The 11th International Conference on Embedded Systems and
  Applications
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/esa13

o FCS'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/fcs13

o FECS'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/fecs13

o GCA'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and
  Applications
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/gca13

o GEM'13:
  The 10th International Conference on Genetic & Evolutionary Methods
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/gem13

o ICAI'13:
  The 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/icai13

o ICOMP'13:
  The 14th International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/icomp13

o ICWN'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Wireless Networks
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/icwn13

o IKE'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/ike13

o IPCV'13:
  The 17th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision,
  & Pattern Recognition
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/ipcv13

o MSV'13:
  The 10th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/msv13

o PDPTA'13:
  The 19th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
  Processing Techniques and Applications
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/pdpta13

o SAM'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Security and Management
  http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam13/

o SERP'13:
  The 11th International Conference on Software Engineering Research
  and Practice
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/serp13

o SWWS'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/swws13

July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA.

All conferences listed above will be held simultaneously; ie, 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), 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 (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), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2012 delegates photos available at:
http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp

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 March 14, 2013, papers published in the conference proceedings that are currently being held as part of WORLDCOMP, have received 27,591 citations (includes 3,342 self-citations). Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ .


CONTACT:

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