C A L L F O R
P A P E R S
EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline:
April 20, 2013
FECS'13
The 2013 International Conference on
Frontiers in
Education: Computer Science and
Computer Engineering
July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas,
USA
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, ...). 58443
INDEXING:
The
proceedings/books of the congress that FECS is part of have been evaluated for
inclusion into science citation index / SCI databases. We are happy to report
that so far, the evaluation board of science citation index databases have
APPROVED the indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the following conference
tracks into relevant 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): BIOCOMP, DMIN, ERSA, GCA,
ICAI, ICOMP, ICWN, IKE, IPCV, PDPTA, and SAM ( http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/ ). In addition, all proceedings will be
indexed by a number of other science citation databases that track citation
frequency/data for each paper.
FECS'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 ABET Accreditation and assessment
(experiences and methods)
O Student recruitment and retention methods
O Promoting multi-disciplinary initiatives -
impact on curriculum
O Capstone research projects: examples and case
studies
O Distance learning; methods, technologies and
assessment
O Innovative degree programs and certificates
O Innovative uses of technology in the
classroom
O Collaborative learning
O Learning models and learning from mistakes
O Computer and web-based software for
instruction
O Ethics in computer science and engineering
O Incorporating writing into CS and CE
curriculum
O Preparing graduates for academia
O Preparing graduates for industry
O Partnerships with industry and government
O Team projects and case studies
O Undergraduate research experiences
O Student observation and mentoring strategies
O Advising methods
O Evaluation strategies (professors, students,
...)
O Transition to graduate studies
O Integrating gender and culture issues into
computer science and
engineering curriculum
O The balance between course-work and research
O Issues related to the choice of first
programming language
O Debugging tools and learning
O Projects, software engineering, programming
issues, and
laboratory practices
O Virtual laboratories
O Computer science and computer engineering
curriculum
O Active learning tools
O Undergraduates as teaching assistants
O Funding opportunities for curriculum
development and studies
O Pilot studies
O STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering &
Mathematics) initiatives
O Teaching methods
O Recruiting methods to attract graduate
students
O Proposed methods for ranking CS and CE
departments
O The role of visualization and animation in
education
O Academic dishonesty in a high-tech
environment
O Experiences in the formation of Department
Advisory Board
O Factors that lead to success in CS and CE
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 Frontiers in
Education: Computer Science
and Computer Engineering
(FECS'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 FECS 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: 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 (ie, FECS) 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. The
proceedings/books of the congress that FECS is part of have been evaluated for
inclusion into major science citation index databases.
We are happy to
report that so far, the evaluation board of science citation index databases
have APPROVED the indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the following
conference tracks into relevant 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): BIOCOMP, DMIN, ERSA, GCA,
ICAI, ICOMP, ICWN, IKE, IPCV, PDPTA, and SAM.
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, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others).
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.
GENERAL
INFORMATION:
FECS 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: sc@world-comp.org