C A L L F O R
P A P E R S
EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline:
April 6, 2013
FECS'13
The 2013 International Conference on
Frontiers in
Education: Computer Science and
Computer Engineering
July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas,
USA
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).
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, ...).
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:
April 6,
2013: Submission of full/regular
papers (about 7 pages)
April 27,
2013: Notification of acceptance (+/-
two days)*
May 14,
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 (between January 19th through March 19th), will receive their papers'
status report (notification) by April
18, 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 6, 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, and 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 - 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.
CO-SPONSORS:
Currently being
prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offering of FECS (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; P3P8PCTD58443 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.
MEMBERS OF
PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
Currently being
finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of The
2012 Congress
that FECS was (and will be) part of included: Dr. Selim Aissi, (formerly: Chief
Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation, USA) Senior Business Leader &
Chief Architect, Visa Corporation, USA; Prof.
Babak Akhgar,
PhD, FBCS, CITP, Professor of Informatics, Sheffield Hallam University,
Sheffield, UK; Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, Professor of Computer Science, Elected
Fellow of ISIBM, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
University of Georgia, USA; Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science,
Director of Computer Science and Software Engineering Programs, Department of
Mathematics, Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Detroit
Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Gerry Vernon Dozier, Professor of Computer
Science, Chair of Department of Computer Science and Director of Center for
Advanced Studies in Identity Sciences, Center for Cyber Defense, North Carolina
A&T State University, North Carolina, USA; Dr. Michael R.
Grimaila,
Associate Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology, Systems Engineering,
Fellow of ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM, Editorial Board of ISSA Journal, Air
Force Center of Cyberspace Research, Advisor to the Prince of Wales Fellows
& Prince Edward Fellows at MIT and Harvard Universities and PC member of
NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE); Prof. Kun Chang
Lee, Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Business School
and Department of Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea;
Prof., Dr., Dr.h. Victor Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software Department
(SSD), Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor and
Chair of Computer Science, Associate Director of School of Computing and
Information Science, Chair of International Advisory Board of IEEE IDAACS and
Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, Chair Bangor
Foreign Policy Forum, Cooperating Professor of Mathematics & Statistics
Department UMaine, Cooperating Professor of School of Policy &
International Affairs UMaine, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Prof.
Andy Marsh, Director of HoIP, Director of HoIP Telecom, UK, Secretary-General
of WABT, Vice- president of ICET, Visiting Professor, University of
Westminster, UK; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park, Professor of Computer Science
and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology
(SeoulTech), Korea, President of KITCS, Presidentof FTRA, Editor-in-Chiefs of
HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals; Ashu M. G. Solo (Publicity Chair), Fellow of
British Computer Society, Principal/Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and
Mathematician, Maverick Technologies America; 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 Lab
(ICEL), Texas A&M University, Com., Texas, USA; Prof. Layne T. Watson, IEEE
Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Virginia, USA
The 2013 Program
Committee for FECS conference is currently being finalized. 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.
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