Saturday, March 26, 2016

Call for Papers with Extended Deadline of April 11, 2016: 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'16), Las Vegas, USA, July 25-28, 2016


                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS
        Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 11, 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

Registration: http://worldcomp.org/registration
Hotel: http://worldcomp.org/event_location
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

We anticipate having between 1,800 and 2,000 participants.
Last year, the Congress 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.


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 2016 World Congress in Computer Science,
                   Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                   (including all affiliated federated conferences).
                   http://worldcomp.org/events/2016


INVITATION & SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:

You are invited to submit a paper for consideration. All accepted papers
will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (each with a
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. All 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
databases and others.

In addition, like prior years, extended versions of selected papers
(about 40%) will appear in journals and 15 edited research books;
publishers include, Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others). 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). See the web link below for a small subset of such
publications: (some of these books and journal special issues have
already received the top 25% downloads in their respective fields and/or
identified as "Highly Accessed" by publishers and/or science citation
index trackers.)

http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/worldcomp-books-journal-special-issues

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).


LIST OF CONFERENCES (in no particular order):

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), 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 and
territories. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see
some delegates photos available at:
2015 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6981287
2014 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396
Last 10 years: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/

An important mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform
for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars,
researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress
makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with
diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations,
government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the
world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from
institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who
are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main
mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution
and geography diversity objectives."


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of January 5, 2016, papers published in the conference proceedings
that have been held as part of this 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 23, 2016.

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


Sunday, March 6, 2016

Call For Papers: The 2016 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'16), Las Vegas, U.S.A., July 25-28, 2016, Deadline: March 22, 2016


                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS
              Paper Submission Deadline: March 22, 2016

     The 15th International Conference on Security and Management
                             (SAM'16)
         July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
                   http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam16/

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.


INVITATION:

We anticipate having between 1,800 and 2,000 participants in the federated
event that this conference is part of. You are invited to submit a paper
for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in PRINTED
conference BOOKS/proceedings (with unique international ISBN number) and
will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in
science citation databases that track citation frequency/data. In addition,
like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 40%) will
appear in journals and edited research books; publishers include, Springer,
Elsevier, BMC, and others). See the web link below for a small subset of
such publications: (some of these books and journal special issues have
already received the top 25% downloads in their respective fields and/or
identified as "Highly Accessed" by publishers and/or science citation
index trackers.)
http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/worldcomp-books-journal-special-issues

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:

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
   - Control Systems/SCADA Security
   - 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
   - Change and Patch Management

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  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  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  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
   - Malware Analysis
   - Intrusion Detection

o  Security Education:
   - Computer Security Education
   - Network Security Education
   - Cyber Security Education
   - Cyber Security Body of Knowledge
   - Information Assurance Education


IMPORTANT DATES:

March 22, 2016:    Submission of full papers (max 7 pages)
                   Papers should be submitted to
                   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sam160 ;
                   refer to http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam16/index.html for
                   paper submission instructions.
April 17, 2016:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 10, 2016:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 25-28, 2016:  The 15th International Conference on Security and
                   Management (SAM'16: Las Vegas, USA). All affiliated
                   federated conferences will be held simultaneously;
                   same location and dates.
                   http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam16/


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:

Papers should be submitted to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sam160 ;
refer to http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam16/index.html for paper submission
instructions. 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 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 at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sam160

Type of Submissions/Papers:

  - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 7 pages):
    Regular Research Papers should provide detail original research
    contributions. They must report new research results that represent
    a contribution to the field; sufficient details and support for
    the results and conclusions should also be provided. The work
    presented in regular papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity
    that with some additional work can be published as journal papers.

  - Short Research Papers (maximum of 4 pages):
    Short Research Papers report on ongoing research projects. They should
    provide overall research methodologies with some results. The work
    presented in short papers are expected to be at a stage of maturity
    that with some additional work can be published as regular papers.

  - Extended Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 2 pages):
    Poster papers report on ongoing research projects that are still in
    their infancy (i.e., at very early stages). Such papers tend to provide
    research methodologies without yet concrete results.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality,
significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory
recommendations, a member of the conference program committee would be
charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve
seeking help from additional referees. Papers whose authors include a member
of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-
blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but
may be considered for discussion/panels).

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will
also be made available online. The printed proceedings/books will be
available for distribution on site at the conference. The proceedings will be
indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
each published paper. The proceedings/books of the congress have been
evaluated and approved for inclusion into major science citation index
databases. In addition, the proceedings are approved for inclusion into
EBSCO, one of the largest subject index systems. ACM Digital Library is also
including the titles into its database as well as ProQuest indexing database
and others.

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series (multiple
books in each series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in
Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers
(Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence).
After the conference (the process may take 12 to 18 months), a significant
number of authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the
opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication
consideration in these books. We anticipate having between 10 and 15 books
a year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series will
be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which
includes: Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, EMBASE, and others).
For a recent and a very small subset of the books (and journal special
issues) that have been published mostly based on the extended versions of
the federated congress papers, see the link and titles below:

http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/worldcomp-books-journal-special-issues

Some of these books and journal special issues have already received the
top 25% downloads in their respective fields and/or identified as "Highly
Accessed" by publishers and/or science citation index trackers.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

The federated congress ( http://www.worldcomp.org/events/2016 ) that
this conference is part of will be composed of research presentations,
keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel
speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer,
architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known
as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father
of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as
Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
(pioneer, VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding
member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer
of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of
Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of
Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and
Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program 2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA;
Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge
Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof.
Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford
(Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr.
Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer,
SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University;
formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former director of
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science
Foundation, USA), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue
University, USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical
Sciences, Tel Aviv U, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing
Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates
and author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair
Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU
Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State
University, Colorado, USA); Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of IEEE and
LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of
Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) and Professor of
Computer Science, Wright State University, Ohio, USA); Dr. Leonid I.
Perlovsky (Harvard University, USA and School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences and Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain Imaging
Center; and The US Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information
Technology, USA and Chair of IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain;
Recipient of John McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force Award for
basic research); Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon
Intelligence, Information, and Services; Aurora, Colorado, USA); Prof.
Yaroslav D. Sergeyev (Distinguished Professor, Head of Numerical
Calculus Laboratory University of Calabria, Rende, Italy and part-time
Professor of Lobachevsky State University, Russia); and many other
distinguished speakers. The Congress is among the top five largest
annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees
from about 85 countries. To get a feeling about the conferences'
atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:
2015 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6981287
2014 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396
Last 10 years: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/

An important mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform
for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars,
researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress
makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with
diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations,
government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the
world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from
institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who
are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main
mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution
and geography diversity objectives." 


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of January 5, 2016, papers published in the conference proceedings
that have been held as part of this federated congress, have received
28,380 citations (includes 3,346 self-citations). Citation data is
obtained from Microsoft Academic Search. The citation data does not
even include more than 17,000 other citations to papers in conferences
whose first offerings were initiated by this congress (such as: FUSION,
ICWS, ICMLA, and others).

MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of
January 5, 2016.

CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to SAM'16 Conference Chair:
Prof. Kevin Daimi ( daimikj@udmercy.edu )