WORLDCOMP'10 First Call for Papers

CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                            and
             Call For Workshop/Session Proposals

                         WORLDCOMP'10
         The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science,
         Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
              July 12-15, 2010, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All
accepted papers will be published in the respective conference
proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will
also be accessible online). Those interested in proposing
workshops/sessions, should refer to the relevant sections that
appear below.

The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'10) is composed of the following
conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location and
dates: July 12-15, 2010, USA):

o BIOCOMP'10: International Conference on Bioinformatics and
 Computational Biology

o CDES'10: International Conference on Computer Design

o CGVR'10: International Conference on Computer Graphics and
 Virtual Reality

o CSC'10: International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'10: International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'10: International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
 Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'10: International Conference on Engineering of
 Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms

o ESA'10: International Conference on Embedded Systems and
 Applications

o FCS'10: International Conference on Foundations of Computer
 Science

o FECS'10: International Conference on Frontiers in Education:
 Computer Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'10: International Conference on Grid Computing and
 Applications

o GEM'10: International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary
 Methods

o ICAI'10: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'10: International Conference on Internet Computing

o ICWN'10: International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'10: International Conference on Information and Knowledge
 Engineering

o IPCV'10: International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
 Vision, and Pattern Recognition

o MSV'10: International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
 Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'10: International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
 Processing Techniques and Applications

o SAM'10: International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'10: International Conference on Software Engineering
 Research and Practice

o SWWS'10: International Conference on Semantic Web and Web
 Services

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at - currently under
construction: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org )

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:

  Currently being prepared - The sponsors will include a number
  of active research laboratories and centers that have helped
  to shape our field. The Academic sponsors of the last offering
  of WORLDCOMP included research labs and centers affiliated with
  United States Military Academy, Harvard University, MIT,
  Argonne National Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-
  Champaign, University of Minnesota, University of Texas at
  Austin, Georgia Institute of Technology, George Mason University,
  Vienna University of Technology, University of Siegen, Russian
  Academy of Sciences, University of Iowa, SECLAB (Italy),
  University of North Dakota, Texas A&M University, National
  Institute for Health Research, International Society of
  Intelligent Biological Medicine, Academy of Biomedical Sciences
  and Technologies, and European Commission. For 2010, we will
  also include The Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing/BISC of
  University of California, Berkeley (confirmed.) In recent offerings
  of WORLDCOMP, corporate sponsors included: Google, Intel, Salford
  Systems, Element CXI, Synplicity, NIIT, SuperMicro, HPCNano,
  Council on Medical and Care Compunetics, Scientific Technologies
  Corp., HoIP, GridToday.

WORLDCOMP 2010 Members of the Steering Committee:
  (Each conference has its own committee members - what appears
  below is a partial list of members of the steering committee
  of the federated event, ie, WORLDCOMP.)

  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
  Coordinator & General Co-Chair, WORLDCOMP 2010,
  Professor, Computer Science,
  Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
  Co-Editor/Board, Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier),
  Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing,
  The University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
  email: [email protected]

  Dr. Selim Aissi
  Chief Strategist - Security, Manageability and Virtualization,
  Ultra Mobile Group, Intel Corporation, USA

  Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
  Member, National Academy of Engineering,
  IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
  Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
  University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

  Prof. Hyunseung Choo
  ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication, Korea,
  Director, ITRC: Intelligent HCI Convergence Research Center, Korea,
  Director, Korea Information Processing Society,
  Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology,
  Assoc. Editor, Transactions on Computational Science, Springer-Verlag;
  Director, Korean Society for Internet Info. (KSII) + Society for Sim.;
  Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

  Prof. Andy Marsh
  Director HoIP (Healthcare over Internet Protocol),
  Secretary-General WABT (World Academy of Biomedical Science & Tech.),
  Vice-president ICET (Int'l Council for Engineering & Technology),
  Vice-president ICMCC (Int'l Council on Medical & Care Compunetics),
  Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK

  Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh
  Member, National Academy of Engineering,
  IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow,
  Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing,
  Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

  This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering
  of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and
  applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,000 or more
  attendees from over 85 countries participating at the Congress.
  A number of individual research tracks of WORLDCOMP have been
  held for many years; for example, PDPTA has been held annually
  since 1995 (PDPTA'10 is the 16th annual conference); ERSA has
  been held annually since 2001 (ERSA'10 is the 10th annual
  conference); ICAI has been held annually since 1999 (ICAI'10
  is the 12th annual conference); other tracks of WORLDCOMP
  Congress have similar records.

  The motivation behind this federated conference is to assemble
  a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated
  research meeting held in a common place at a common time. The
  main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a
  number of research areas that interact. The model used to form
  these annual conferences facilitates communication among
  researchers from all over the world in different fields of
  computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.
  Both inward research (core areas of computer science and
  engineering) and outward research (multi-disciplinary,
  inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during
  the conferences. 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.

  WORLDCOMP'10 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/computer
  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 (Broad Institute of
  MIT & Harvard U.), Anousheh Ansari (CEO, Prodea Systems & first
  female private space explorer), and many other distinguished
  speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere,
  see the 2009 delegates photos available at:
  http://www.pixagogo.com/1672514104
  2008 delegates photos can be viewed at:
  http://www.pixagogo.com/8658134154

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, PUBLICATION, INDEXING INFORMATION:

  Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
  uploading them to the evaluation web site at:
  http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/
  Submissions must be uploaded by March 1, 2010 and they must
  be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5
  to 7 pages - 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.)

  The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
  limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been
  previously published or currently submitted for publication
  elsewhere. The first page of the draft 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. Finally, the name of the conference that the paper
  is being submitted to must be stated on the first page.

  Full papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
  clarity, impact, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed
  by two experts in the field who are independent of the
  conference program committee. The referees' evaluations will
  then be reviewed by one member of the program committee who
  will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that
  the paper has been submitted to. The chair will make the
  final decision. Lastly, the final papers will be reviewed
  by one member of the program committee.

  All accepted papers will be published in the respective
  conference proceedings (in both, printed book form as well as
  online). The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET /
  The Institute for Engineering and Technology, DBLP / Computer
  Science Bibliography, and others.) The printed proceedings
  will be available for distribution on site at the conference.

  In addition to the publication of the proceedings, selected
  authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
  papers for publication in a number of research books being
  proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer,
  Elsevier, IOS, ...) - these books would be composed after the
  conference. Also, many chairs of sessions and workshops will
  be forming journal special issues to be published after the
  conference.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

  Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
  different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops). The
  session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
  sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
  The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors
  in the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

  Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
  information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, his/her
  biography, title of session, a 100-word description of the
  topic of the session, the name of the conference the session
  is submitted for consideration, and a short description on
  how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session
  proposers solicit papers from colleagues and researchers
  whose work is known to the session proposer). email your
  session proposal to H. R. Arabnia ( [email protected] ). We would
  like to receive the session proposals by January 16, 2010.

IMPORTANT DATES:

  Jan. 16, 2010:    Proposals for organizing sessions/workshops
  March 1, 2010:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
  March 25, 2010:   Notification of acceptance
  April 22, 2010:   Final papers + Copyright + Registration
  July 12-15, 2010: The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science,
                    Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                    (WORLDCOMP'10 - 22 joint conferences)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

  The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World
  Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific
  computing; AI; imaging science; databases; simulation;
  software eng.; embedded systems; internet & web technologies;
  communications; computer security; & bioinformatics.) The
  Program Committee for individual conferences is currently
  being formed. Many who have already joined the committees
  of individual tracks 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, 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
  H. R. Arabnia ([email protected] ) the following information for
  consideration/evaluation: Name, affiliation and position,
  complete mailing address, email address, a one-page biography
  that includes research expertise and the name of the
  conference offering to help with.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

  The conferences will be held at Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas,
  Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).
  This is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and
  over 3,000 rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
  shuttle service to and from the airport. This hotel has many
  recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools,
  sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool, nightly shows, many
  restaurants, ... The negotiated room rate for conference
  attendees is very reasonable. The hotel is adjacent to
  CityCenter ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityCenter ) which
  is the largest private development in the United States' history
  (costing over $11 Billion) with access to additional recreational
  and entertainment attractions.