CALL FOR PAPERS
CALL FOR LATE
BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS
Submission Deadline: June 4, 2014
FECS'14
The 2014
International Conference on Frontiers in
Education:
Computer Science and Computer Engineering
July 21-24, 2014, Las Vegas, USA
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the
opportunity to submit their
papers in response to earlier "Call For
Papers". Therefore, authors who have
already submitted papers in response to earlier
"Call For Papers" should
IGNORE this announcement. (Those who have been notified
that their papers have
been accepted, MUST still follow the instructions that
were emailed to them;
including meeting the deadlines mentioned in the
notifications that were sent
to them).
INVITATION:
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 (ISBN) and will
also be made available
online. Like prior years, extended versions of selected
papers (about 45%) 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 (Emerging
Trends in 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. Each book in each series
will be subject to
Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which
includes: Scopus,
Ei village, SCI, ...).
The FECS'14 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, many of the
proceedings of the federated congress that FECS is part
of were included in
these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the
proceedings for
indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier.
IMPORTANT DATES:
June 4, 2014:
Submission of papers for evaluation (the sooner, a submission
is received, the earlier, the notification will be sent out.)
June 14, 2014:
The notification of acceptance will be sent out typically one
week after the paper has been submitted.
June 26, 2014:
Registration
July 21-24, 2014:
The 2014 International Conference on Frontiers in Education:
Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'14)
August 20, 2014:
Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication
(Papers submitted and accepted in response to this announcement
will be published in the Final Edition of the proceedings which
will go to press soon after the conference; they will also be
indexed in science citation index databases.)
FECS'14 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, see:
The conference will be held July 21-24, 2014, 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
SUBMISSION OF LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS,
ABSTRACTS/POSTERS:
In response to this announcement, authors are given the
opportunity to submit
their papers for evaluation in one of the following three
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 "FECS: 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 "FECS: 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 discussion/poster 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
"FECS:
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
(see above for paper
categories) by uploading them to the evaluation web site
at:
Submissions must be uploaded by June 4, 2014 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.)
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.
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 FECS'14 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. 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, many of
the proceedings
of the federated congress that FECS is part of were
included in these
databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the
proceedings for
indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier.
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 whole process takes 12 months),
a significant
number of authors of accepted papers of FECS, 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,
Note that authors who submit papers in response to this
announcement, will
have their papers evaluated for publication consideration
in the Final Edition
of the conference proceedings which will go to press soon
after the conference
(the conference would then make the necessary
arrangements to ship the printed
proceedings/books to such authors). The Final Edition of
the conference
proceedings will be identical to earlier edition except
for a number of
sections/chapters appended to the proceedings/book.
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 2014 World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer
Engineering, and Applied Computing. 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/territories.
The 2014 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), Dr. Flavio Villanustre
(Vice-President, HPCC
Systems), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor,
Purdue University,
USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical
Sciences, Tel Aviv
University, 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);
and many other distinguished speakers. 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."
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.
TUTORIALS:
All tutorials are free to conference registrants, the
list of tutorials
that have been approved so far can be found at:
We plan to offer more tutorials (in addition to what is
already posted on
the web). As of the writing of this announcement, the
following tutorials
have been approved and they will be presented by
distinguished speakers:
O. Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology
(ABET)
accreditation of
Computer Science Program
O. Natural Language in Information Security and Privacy
O. Recommendation Systems for Big Data
O. Energy-Aware Resource Management for Computing Systems
O. Hacking with Kali Linux
O. Cryptography and Network Security
O. First Programming Language in CS Education - The
Argument For Scala
O. Fault Tolerance and Beyond
O. Agents at High Seas
O. Actor Parallelism and Akka/Scala
O. Cloud Computing for Big Data Challenges
(Cloud
Architectures and Big Data Tools)
O. The Use of ICT to Mitigate Income Inequality
Currently, we are evaluating 6 other proposals and they
are in the areas of
Big Data and Data Analytics (3 proposals);
Entrepreneurial Spirits;
Visualization and Datamining; and Computational Biology.
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USEFUL LINKS:
Conference web site:
Partial list of tutorials:
Partial list of keynotes:
Location of the conference:
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of December 14, 2013, papers published in the congress
proceedings that
FECS is part of, have received over 27,500 citations
(includes about 3,300
self-citations). Citation data obtained from Microsoft
Academic Search. This
citation data does not even include more than 15,000
other citations to
papers in tracks whose first offerings were initiated by
the congress. Based
on citation record and other relevant metrics, Microsoft
Academic has listed
FECS annual conferences in its list of Top Conferences:
FECS's citation record appears at:
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is
correct as of May 19,
2014.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org
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