Monday, June 25, 2012

Call for Participation: The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'12), USA, July 16-19, 2012


                      Call For Participation

            The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

                 July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA


This is an invitation to attend The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. The congress is composed of 22 main tracks (9 tutorials, 188 sessions and workshops, and 39 keynotes/invited lectures/panel discussions, ...); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 16-19, 2012.
Attendees will have full access to all conferences' sessions, tracks, and tutorials. Registration is required to attend. We anticipate about 2,000 attendees: 62% from academia; 24% from industry; 11% from government agencies; and 3% unknown. About half of the attendees are from outside USA; from 88 different countries. Speakers are affiliated with 320 academic institutions, 89 major corporations, and multiple government agencies.

See below for:

A. General Information
B. Topical Scope
C. Registration Information
D. Financial Assistantship for full-Time Students E. List of Co-Sponsors F. Detailed Congress Schedules/Programs G. Location of congress H. Planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes

We look forward to seeing you in July.
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A. General Information:

B. Topical Scope:

   Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP); Computer Design (CDES);
   Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR); Scientific Computing (CSC);
   Data Mining (DMIN); e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems,
   and e-Government (EEE); Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms
   (ERSA); Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA); Foundations of Computer
   Science (FCS); Frontiers in Education in Computer Science & Computer
   Engineering (FECS); Grid Computing and Applications (GCA); Genetic and
   Evolutionary Methods (GEM); Artificial Intelligence (ICAI); Internet
   Computing (ICOMP); Wireless Networks (ICWN); Information and Knowledge
   Engineering (IKE); Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
   (IPCV); Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV); Parallel and
   Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA); Security and
   Management (SAM); Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP); and
   Semantic Web & Web Services (SWWS).

C. Registration Information:

D. Financial Assistantship for full-Time Students:

   The congress has finalized the financial assistantship decisions for students
   who are affiliated with non-USA institutions (decisions were communicated
   with the awardees in March and April 2012). Unfortunately, 26 of the awardees
   are not able to secure USA visa in a timely manner to attend the meeting. The
   congress is now providing these 26 slots to full-time graduate students who
   are enrolled in USA institutions. This financial assistantship is for
   attendance only (ie, excludes speakers and authors of papers). Sponsored
   students will receive the complete conference package (printed books/proceedings,
   CD, dinner reception, 4 breakfasts, 12 refreshments, access to all tracks and
   tutorials, ...), registration fee waiver, partial help with hotel accommodation,
   and/or possibly some help with airfare. In order to apply, send the following
   information for consideration to sc@world-comp.org as soon as possible
   (include as attachments in pdf only): a 2-page CV; a letter from your major
   professor or Department Head/Chair stating that you are a full-time graduate
   student in good standing; and a break-down of your itemized costs (airfare,
   hotel, ...). In the Subject Header of your email write "student sponsorship".
   Award decisions will be finalized within 24 hours of receipt of the requested
   information.

E. List of Co-Sponsors:
   Appears on the right-most column of Home Page at:

F. Detailed Congress Schedules/Programs:

G. Location of WORLDCOMP:

H. Planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes:

CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Call for Post-Conference Proceedings Papers with Extended Deadline of June 14, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012


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          CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline: June 14, 2012

                 The 2012 International Conference on
      Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
                               IPCV'12

                   July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
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Because of the recent good news about science indexing (see below), we decided to give one more opportunity to authors who wish to submit papers for consideration (we already have lined up over 200 presentations).

INDEXING:
We are now notified (and it is now confirmed) that the proceedings of IPCV will be included in Elsevier product(s); Elsevier product(s) include among others, Scopus (www.info.scopus.com), EMBASE (www.info.embase.com), Engineering Village (www.ei.org) and Reaxys (www.info.reaxys.com). IPCV proceedings is also included in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core scientific literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals; only about 9% are proceedings; the set of proceedings that IPCV is part of has been selected to be among the 9% - accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others.

INVITATION:
You are invited to submit a full paper (max of 7 pages) for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings
(ISBN) and will also be made available online. Abstract submissions (1 to 2
pages) will be considered for poster presentations. The conference proceedings will be made available in printed book as well as online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/ data for each paper. The proceedings of the congress that IPCV is part of enjoys a high number of citations; about 26,000 citations have been made (so
far) to papers published in the proceedings. The conference is co-sponsored by various associations and groups as well as centers, large labs, and institutes affiliated with University of Iowa, George Mason University, Texas A&M University, Harvard University and MIT, University of Minnesota, US national labs, and many others. Corporate sponsors include, Intel Corporation, Super Micro Computer, Inc., and others.

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). 4042

IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES:
Please note that the conference web site refers to different deadlines; those who receive this announcement should ignore the deadlines mentioned on the web (we are not updating the deadlines on the conference web site because we would like to control the number of submissions - we can only manage a limited number of additional submissions at this late date). What appears below are the current deadlines.

June 14, 2012:      Submission of papers for evaluation
                    Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
                    uploading them to the following general evaluation web site:
                    http://world-comp.org
June 25, 2012:      Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance
July 5, 2012:       Registration
July 16-19, 2012:   The 2012 International Conference on Image Processing,
                    Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'12)

July 30, 2012:      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.)

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

O  Software tools for imaging
O  Image-based modeling and algorithms
O  Illumination and reflectance modeling O  Motion and tracking algorithms + orientation estimation O  Biometric authentication O  Event recognition techniques in image sequences O  Medical image processing and analysis O  Image geometry and multi-view geometry O  Segmentation techniques O  Geometric modeling and fractals O  Scene and object modeling O  Image data structures and databases O  Image compression, coding, and encryption O  Image display techniques O  Digital imaging for film and television O  Image formation techniques O  Image generation, acquisition, and processing O  Image feature extraction O  Novel document image understanding techniques + OCR O  Enhancement techniques O  Novel noise reduction algorithms O  Mathematical morphology O  3D imaging O  Watermarking methods and protection O  Wavelet methods O  Wavelets, data hiding, image copyright and related issues O  Mosaic, image registration and fusion methods O  Color and texture O  AI, machine learning, SVT with applications in imaging science O  Image restoration O  Printing technologies O  Interpolation techniques O  Shape representation O  Video analysis O  Indexing and retrieval of images (image databases) O  Signal and speech processing
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O  Object recognition
O  Multi-resolution vision techniques
O  Face recognition, face detection, and gesture recognition O  Stereo vision O  Soft computing methods in image processing and vision O  Machine learning technologies for vision O  Performance analysis and evaluation (real-time vision) O  Camera networks and vision O  Sensors and early vision O  Active and robot vision O  Cognitive and biologically inspired vision O  Fuzzy and neural techniques in vision O  Graph theory in image processing and vision O  Special-purpose machine architectures for vision
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O  Dimensionality reduction methods in pattern recognition O  Classification and clustering techniques O  Symbolic learning O  Statistical pattern recognition O  Invariance in pattern recognition O  Knowledge-based recognition O  Structural and syntactic pattern recognition O  Applications including: security, medicine, robotic, GIS,
   remote sensing, industrial inspection, nondestructive
   evaluation (or NDE), ...
O  Case studies
O  Emerging technologies
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O  Workshop on Multimedia Systems and Applications:
   - Media blending technologies
   - Multimedia retrieval methods
   - Multimedia documents and authoring
   - Coding and compression techniques
   - Annotation and visualization
   - Multimedia databases and archival systems
   - Video surveillance and sensor networks
   - Content analysis and data mining
   - User interface challenges
   - Operating system support for multimedia systems
   - Network architectures and protocols
   - Content protection methods
   - Synchronization (inter-media and intra-media) technologies
   - Security and privacy
   - Capture and sensor systems (embedded, multi-sensors, ...)
   - Multimedia processing techniques (audio, image, video, ...)
   - Data storage and management
   - Server design issues for multimedia systems
   - Distributed multimedia
   - Multimedia programming
   - Multimedia interface design
   - Multimedia computing
   - Interactive multimedia applications
   - Benchmarking systems
   - Interactive television (video-on-demand, home shopping, voting, and games)
   - Hypermedia systems
   - Video conferencing and groupware
   - Fundamentals of human perception
   - Audio and music processing for multimedia
   - Multimedia tools
   - Multimedia and education
   - Real world applications and emerging technologies


SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS AND INDEXING INFORMATION:

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 June 14, 2012 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 that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of the paper (ie, IPCV) 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.
Authors whose papers are ACCEPTED will be instructed to upload their papers to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting.

The proceedings will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made available online. 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 contracted with various publishers. These books will be composed after the conference.
Also, many chairs of tracks will be forming journal special issues to be published after the conference.

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.

Submission of Poster Papers:

Poster papers can be 2 pages long. Authors are to follow the same instructions that appear above. On the first page, the author should state that "This paper is being submitted as a poster for IPCV". Poster papers (if accepted) will be published if and only if the author of the accepted poster wishes to have his/her poster published as a 2-page extended abstract.)

GENERAL INFORMATION:

IPCV conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other federated research conferences (World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing). This federated congress is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. The 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.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences'
atmosphere, see the 2011 delegates photos available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606

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.
The list of co-sponsors of 2012 meeting is Currently being prepared; for the 2011 list of sponsors, refer to:

USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. IPCV 2012 web site:
2. To see the caliber of the past offering of worldcomp, see the 2011 congress web site:

CONTACT:

Any inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org