CALL FOR
PAPERS
Paper Submission Deadline: March
22, 2016
The 12th International Conference on
Frontiers in Education:
Computer Science and Computer
Engineering
FECS'16
July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort,
Las Vegas, USA
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SCOPE: TOPICS OF
INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:
o ABET Accreditation and assessment
(experiences and methods)
o ABET data collection and best practices
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
o Software Engineering for Embedded Systems in
Education
INVITATION:
We anticipate
having between 1,800 and 2,000 participants in the federated
event that this
conference is part of. You are invited to submit a paper
for
consideration. All accepted papers will be published in PRINTED
conference
BOOKS/proceedings (with unique international ISBN number) and
will also be
made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in
science citation
databases that track citation frequency/data. In addition,
like prior
years, extended versions of selected papers (about 40%) will
appear in
journals and edited research books; publishers include, Springer,
Elsevier, BMC,
and others). See the web link below for a small subset of
such
publications: (some of these books and journal special issues have
already received
the top 25% downloads in their respective fields and/or
identified as
"Highly Accessed" by publishers and/or science citation
index trackers.)
Last year, the
federated event that this conference is part of had attracted
speakers/authors/participants
affiliated with over 178 different
universities
(including many from the top 50 ranked institutions), many
major IT
corporations (including, Microsoft, Google, SAP, Oracle, Amazon,
Yahoo, Samsung,
IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, HSBC, Apple, GlaxoSmithKline,
Philips,
Ericsson, BAE Systems, Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, Hitachi, NTT, ...),
government
research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, AirForce, ...), national
laboratories
(including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley
National Lab,
Los Alamos National Lab, ...), and a number of Venture
Capitalists as
well as speakers discussing Intellectual Property 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.
IMPORTANT DATES:
March 22,
2016: Submission of full papers (max 7
pages)
April 17,
2016: Notification of acceptance (+/-
two days)
May 10,
2016: Final papers + Copyright +
Registration
July 25-28,
2016: The 12th International Conference
on Frontiers
in Education: Computer
Science and Computer
Engineering (FECS'16: Las
Vegas, USA). All
affiliated federated
conferences will be held
simultaneously; same
location and dates.
SUBMISSION OF
PAPERS FOR EVALUATION: (
http://world-comp.org )
Prospective
authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them
to the
evaluation web site at:
http://world-comp.org . Submissions must
be uploaded by
the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and must be in either
MS doc or pdf
formats (7 pages for Regular Research Papers; 4 pages for
Short Research
Papers; 2 pages for Extended Abstract/Poster Papers - the
number of pages
include all figures, tables, and references). All
reasonable
typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of
accepted papers
will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to
prepare their
final papers for publication; these formatting instructions
appear at the
submission web site and they conform to the two-column IEEE
style format).
Papers must not have been previously published or currently
submitted for
publication elsewhere.
The first page
of the paper should include the followings:
- Title of the paper
- Name, affiliation, postal address, and
email address of each author
(identify the name of the Contact Author)
- Abstract (between 100 and 120 words)
- A maximum of 5 topical keywords that would
best represent the work
described in the paper
- Write the type of the submission as
"Regular Research Paper",
"Short Research Paper", or
"Extended Abstract/Poster Paper".
- The actual text of the paper can start
from the first page (space
permitting).
Submissions are to be uploaded to the
submission/evaluation web site
portal.
Type of
Submissions/Papers:
- Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 7
pages):
Regular Research Papers should provide
detail original research
contributions. They must report new
research results that represent
a contribution to the field; sufficient
details and support for
the results and conclusions should also be
provided. The work
presented in regular papers are expected to
be at a stage of maturity
that with some additional work can be
published as journal papers.
- Short Research Papers (maximum of 4 pages):
Short Research Papers report on ongoing
research projects. They should
provide overall research methodologies with
some results. The work
presented in short papers are expected to
be at a stage of maturity
that with some additional work can be
published as regular papers.
- Extended Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of
2 pages):
Poster papers report on ongoing research
projects that are still in
their infancy (i.e., at very early stages).
Such papers tend to provide
research methodologies without yet concrete
results.
Each paper will
be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality,
significance,
clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory
recommendations,
a member of the conference program committee would be
charged to make
the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve
seeking help
from additional referees. Papers whose authors include a member
of the
conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-
blinded review
process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but
may be
considered for discussion/panels).
The proceedings
will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will
also be made available
online. The printed proceedings/books will be
available for
distribution on site at the conference. The proceedings will be
indexed in
science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for
each published
paper. The proceedings/books of the congress have been
evaluated and
approved for inclusion into major science citation index
databases. In
addition, the proceedings are approved for inclusion into
EBSCO, one of
the largest subject index systems. ACM Digital Library is also
including the titles
into its database as well as ProQuest indexing database
and others.
In addition to
the above, we have arranged two new book series (multiple
books in each
series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in
Computer Science
and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers
(Transactions of
Computational Science and Computational Intelligence).
After the
conference (the process may take 12 to 18 months), a significant
number of
authors of accepted papers of our congress, will be given the
opportunity to
submit the extended version of their papers for publication
consideration in
these books. We anticipate having between 10 and 15 books
a year in each
of these book series projects. Each book in each series will
be subject to
Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which
includes:
Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, EMBASE, and others).
For a recent and
a very small subset of the books (and journal special
issues) that
have been published mostly based on the extended versions of
the federated
congress papers, see the link and titles below:
Some of these
books and journal special issues have already received the
top 25% downloads
in their respective fields and/or identified as "Highly
Accessed"
by publishers and/or science citation index trackers. Some titles
appear below
(this is a small subset):
o. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in Image
Processing, Computer Vision
and Pattern Recognition. (about 650 pages)
o. Springer: Software Tools and Algorithms
for Biological Systems;
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine
and Biology, Vol 696.
780 pages (Awarded the top 25% downloads
in the field.)
o. Springer: Advances in Computational
Biology; Series: Advances in
Experimental Medicine and Biology, Vol
680. 700+ pages.
(Awarded the top 25% downloads in the
field.)
o. Journal of BMC Systems Biology: Special
Journal Issue "Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology", (Vol. 5,
Supp. 3); Impact Factor: 2.44.
200+ pages. (Many articles of this issue
is marked as "Highly
Accessed".)
o. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in ICT
Security (Information and
Communications Technology). 660 pages.
(One of the most highly
accessed books in the field.)
o. Journal of BMC Medical Genomics: Special
Journal Issue
"Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology", (Vol. 6, Supp. 1);
Impact Factor: 2.87. 240+ pages. (Some
articles of this issue is
marked as "Highly accessed".)
o. Springer: Transactions on Computational
Science and Computational
Intelligence (multiple volumes).
o. Journal of BMC Genomics: Special Journal
Issue "Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology", (Vol. 9, Supp.
1); Impact Factor: 3.99.
250+ pages. (Some articles of this issue
is marked as "Highly
Accessed".)
o. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in Computer
Science and Applied Computing
(multiple volumes.)
o. Journal of BMC Genomics: Special Journal
Issue "Advances in Big Data
Analytics", (Vol. 15, Supp. 11);
Impact Factor: 3.99. 100+ pages.
(Some articles of this issue is marked as
"Highly Accessed".)
o. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics,
and Systems Biology - Algorithms and
Software Tools. 600+ pages.
o. Elsevier/MK: Emerging Trends in
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics,
and Systems Biology - Systems and
Applications. (In Press). 600+ pages.
o. Springer: Resilient Computer System Design.
300+ pages.
o. Journal of BMC Bioinformatics: Special
Journal Issue (Vol 15, Supp.
17); Impact Factor: 2.58. 140+ pages.
(Some articles of this issue is
marked as "Highly accessed".)
o. Springer: The Journal of Supercomputing
(multiple journal issues);
o. Springer: Special Issue in Annals of
Information Systems; Data Mining;
Vol. 8; 400 pages.
o. Springer: Real World Data Mining
Applications; in Annals of
Information Systems; Vol. 17; 420 pages.
MEMBERS OF
PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
Currently being
finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of the
last offerings
of the federated congress included: Dr. Selim Aissi,
(formerly: Chief
Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation, USA) Vice
President,
Global Information Security, Visa Inc., USA; Prof. Abbas M.
Al-Bakry,
University President, University of IT and Communications,
Baghdad, Iraq;
Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and Department Chair,
and Vice Chair
of IEEE/SEM Computer Chapter, University of Detroit
Mercy, Detroit,
Michigan, USA; Dr. Hamid Ali Abed Alasadi, Head,
Department of
Computer Science, Basra University, Iraq and Member of
Optical Society
of America (OSA) and SPIE, Washington, USA; Prof.
Hamid R.
Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA and Editor-in-Chief,
Journal of
Supercomputing (Springer) and Elected Fellow of Int'l
Society of
Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM); Prof. Michael
Panayiotis
Bekakos, Director of Laboratory of Digital Systems and
Head of Parallel
Algorithms and architectures Research Group,
Democritus
University of Thrace, Greece; Prof. Juan Jose Martinez
Castillo,
Director, The Acantelys Alan Turing Nikola Tesla Research
Group and GIPEB,
Universidad Nacional Abierta, Venezuela; Prof. Kevin
Daimi, Director
of Computer Science and Software Engineering Programs,
University of
Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Dr. Lamia Atma
Djoudi,
Synchrone Technologies, France; Prof. Mary Mehrnoosh
Eshaghian-Wilner,
Professor of Engineering Practice, University of
Southern
California, California, USA and Adjunct Professor, EE,
University of
California Los Angeles (UCLA), California, USA; Prof.
George A.
Gravvanis, Director, Physics Lab. & Head of Advanced
Scientific
Computing, Applied Math & Applications Research Group and
Professor of
Applied Mathematics and Numerical Computing and
Department of
ECE, School of Engineering, Democritus University of
Thrace, Xanthi,
Greece (former President of the Technical Commission,
European
Commission); Prof. Houcine Hassan, Universitat Politecnica
de Valencia,
Spain; Prof. George Jandieri, Georgian Technical
University,
Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief Scientist, The Institute of
Cybernetics,
Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia; Prof. Young-Sik
Jeong,
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Information Processing Systems
(JIPS), Dongguk
University, Seoul, South Korea; Prof. Byung-Gyu Kim,
Multimedia
Processing Communications Lab. (MPCL),
Department of CSE,
SunMoon
University, South Korea; Prof. Tai-hoon Kim, School of
Information and
Computing Science, University of Tasmania, Australia;
Prof. D. V.
Kodavade, Head of Computer Science and Engineering, DKTE
Institute,
India; Prof. Dr. Guoming Lai, Computer Science and
Technology, Sun
Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P. R. China; Prof.
Victor
Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software Department, Russian
Academy of
Sciences, Russia; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor &
Associate
Director, School of Computing and Information Science and
Chair of Int'l
Advisory Board of IEEE IDAACS, University of Maine,
Orono, USA; Dr.
Andrew Marsh, CEO, HoIP Telecom Ltd (Healthcare over
Internet
Protocol), UK and Secretary General of World Academy of
BioMedical
Sciences and Technologies (WABT), a UNESCO NGO, The United
Nations; Prof.
G. N. Pandey, Vice-Chancellor, Arunachal University,
India and
Adjunct Professor of Indian Institute of Information Tech.,
Allahabad,
India; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Head, Department
of Computer
Science and Engineering (DCSE), SeoulTech, South Korea
and President of
FTRA, South Korea; Dr. Akash Singh, IBM Corporation,
Sacramento,
California, USA and Chartered Scientist, Science Council,
UK and Fellow of
British Computer Society, USA; Ashu M. G. Solo
(Publicity
Chair), Fellow of British Computer Society,
Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician,
Maverick
Technologies America Inc.; Prof. Sang C. Suh,
Head and
Professor of Computer Science, Vice President, of Society
for Design and
Process Science (SDPS), Director of Intelligent
Cyberspace
Engineering (ICEL), Texas A&M University, Com., Texas,
USA; Prof. Fernando G. Tinetti, School of Computer
Science, Univ.
Nacional de La
Plata, La Plata, Argentina and Co-editor, Journal of
Computer Science
and Technology (JCS&T); Dr. Predrag Tosic, Microsoft,
Washington, USA;
Prof. Vladimir Volkov, The Bonch-Bruevich State
University of
Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Prof.
Patrick S. P.
Wang, Fellow of IAPR, ISIBM, WASE and Professor of
Computer and
Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston,
Massachusetts,
USA and Otto-von-Guericke Distinguished Guest Prof.,
University
Magdeburg, Germany; Prof. Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Department of
Information
Management, Central Police University, Taiwan and
Program Chair,
Security & Forensics, Taiwan and Director of Info.
Crypto and
Construction Lab (ICCL) & ICCL-FROG; Prof. Mary Q. Yang,
Director of
Mid-South Bioinformatics Center and Joint Bioinformatics
PhD Program,
Medical Sciences and George W. Donaghey College of Eng.
and Information
Technology, University of Arkansas, USA; Prof. Jane
You, Associate
Head, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong
Polytechnic
University, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
The 2016 Program
Committee for the conference is currently being
compiled. Many
who have already joined the committees are renowned
leaders,
scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the
highest ranks;
many are directors of research labs., fellows of
various
societies, heads/ chairs of departments, program directors
of research
funding agencies, as well as deans and provosts.
Program
Committee members are expected to have established a strong
and documented
research track record. Those interested in joining the
Program
Committee should email
editor@world-comp.org the
following
information for
consideration: Name, affiliation and position,
complete mailing
address, email address, a one-page biography that
includes
research expertise & the name of the conference(s) offering
to help with.
GENERAL
INFORMATION:
this conference
is part of will be composed of research presentations,
keynote
lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,
and poster
presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel
speakers have
included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer,
architecture, U.
of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known
as Father of
Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father
of Genetic
Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as
Father of Grid
Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
(pioneer, VR, U.
of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding
member of MIT
Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer
of X Window
System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of
Genetic Programming,
Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program
Director, U. of
Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of
Southern
California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and
Consultant),
Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
U.), Prof. Lotfi
A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars
Exploration Program 2000-2005 and Associate Director,
Project
Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA;
Director, NASA's
JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge
Parnas (Fellow
of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof.
Emeritus,
McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford
(Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr.
Sandeep
Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer,
SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University;
formerly at
Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former director of
Division of
Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science
Foundation,
USA), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue
University,
USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical
Sciences, Tel
Aviv U, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing
Center; Inventor
of the multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates
and author of
textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair
Distinguished
Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU
Information
Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State
University,
Colorado, USA); Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of IEEE and
LexisNexis
Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of
Excellence in
Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) and Professor of
Computer
Science, Wright State University, Ohio, USA); Dr. Leonid I.
Perlovsky
(Harvard University, USA and School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences
and Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain Imaging
Center; and The
US Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information
Technology, USA
and Chair of IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain;
Recipient of
John McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force Award for
basic research);
Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon
Intelligence,
Information, and Services; Aurora, Colorado, USA); Prof.
Yaroslav D.
Sergeyev (Distinguished Professor, Head of Numerical
Calculus
Laboratory University of Calabria, Rende, Italy and part-time
Professor of
Lobachevsky State University, Russia); and many other
distinguished
speakers. The Congress is among the top five largest
annual gathering
of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and
applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees
from about 85
countries. To get a feeling about the conferences'
atmosphere, see
some delegates photos available at:
An important
mission of The Congress is "Providing a unique platform
for a diverse
community of constituents composed of scholars,
researchers,
developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress
makes concerted
effort to reach out to participants affiliated with
diverse entities
(such as: universities, institutions, corporations,
government
agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the
world. The
congress also attempts to connect participants from
institutions
that have teaching as their main mission with those who
are affiliated
with institutions that have research as their main
mission. The
congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution
and geography
diversity objectives."
MEASURABLE
SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of January 5,
2016, papers published in the conference proceedings
that have been
held as part of this federated congress, have received
28,380 citations
(includes 3,346 self-citations). Citation data is
obtained from
Microsoft Academic Search. The citation data does not
even include
more than 17,000 other citations to papers in conferences
whose first
offerings were initiated by this congress (such as: FUSION,
ICWS, ICMLA, and
others).
MISCELLANEOUS:
The information
that appears in this announcement is correct as of
January 5, 2016.
CONTACT:
Inquiries should
be sent to:
sc@world-comp.org