Thursday, April 18, 2013

FINAL Call for Papers (Indexed in Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, etc.) with Extended Deadline of Apr. 20, 2013: The 2013 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'13) at WORLDCOMP'13, USA, July 22-25, 2013



                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

          EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: April 20, 2013

                The 2013 International Conference on
     Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
                              IPCV'13

                  July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA
      Indexing: Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, ...


INDEXING:
The proceedings/books of this conference have been evaluated and approved for inclusion into science citation index / SCI databases. We are happy to report that the evaluation board of science citation index databases have APPROVED the indexing, integrating, and inclusion of the IPCV proceedings into relevant Elsevier indexing databases (Elsevier indexing databases include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others). In addition, the proceedings will also be indexed by a number of other science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper.

INVITATION:
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. 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, ...). 4042

IPCV'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  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  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


IMPORTANT DATES - EXTENDED:

April 20, 2013:    Submission of full/regular papers (about 7 pages)
May 11, 2013:      Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)*
May 25, 2013:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 22-25, 2013:  The 2013 International Conference on Image Processing,
                   Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'13)

*Authors who submitted their papers early, will receive their papers'
status report (notification) much sooner than May 11, 2013.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of March 14, 2013, papers published in Congress proceedings that IPCV 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 20, 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, IPCV) 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: relevant Elsevier indexing products (SCI Elsevier products include, among others: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others); 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.
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.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

IPCV 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


Thursday, April 11, 2013

FINAL Call for Papers (Indexed in Scopus, SCI Compendex, Engineering Village, etc.) with Extended Deadline of Apr. 20, 2013: The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'13), USA, July 22-25, 2013



                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

          Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 20, 2013

             The 2013 World Congress in Computer Science,
             Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                  July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA
                           WORLDCOMP'13

             http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

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). See the following links for a small subset of the publications based on this Congress:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedgenomics/supplements/6/S1
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-7045-9
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-5912-6
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/S1/I1
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/5?issue=S3
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC3287490/
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC2709251/
http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC2999338/

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, ...).

The Congress is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, sessions, workshops, poster and panel discussions); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 22-25, 2013. For the complete list of joint conferences, see below.


IMPORTANT DATES:

April 20, 2013:    Submission of full/regular papers (about 7 pages)
May 11, 2013:      Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)*
May 25, 2013:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 22-25, 2013:  The 2013 International Conference on Parallel & Distributed
                   Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'13)

*Authors who submitted their papers early, will receive their papers'
status report (notification) much sooner than May 11, 2013.

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The Academic Sponsors of the last offering of the congress (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; 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.


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 20, 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 that the paper is being submitted for consideration 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, & 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.

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.


LIST OF CONFERENCES (alphabetical order based on conference acronym)

o BIOCOMP'13:
  The 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational
  Biology
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/biocomp13

o CDES'13:
  The 13th International Conference on Computer Design
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/cdes13

o CGVR'13:
  The 17th International Conference on Computer Graphics & Virtual
  Reality
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/cgvr13

o CSC'13:
  The 10th International Conference on Scientific Computing
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/csc13

o DMIN'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Data Mining
  http://www.dmin-2013.com/

o EEE'13:
  The 12th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
  Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/eee13

o ERSA'13:
  The 13th International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
  Systems and Algorithms
  http://ersaconf.org/ersa-news/

o ESA'13:
  The 11th International Conference on Embedded Systems and
  Applications
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/esa13

o FCS'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/fcs13

o FECS'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/fecs13

o GCA'13:
  The 9th International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and
  Applications
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/gca13

o GEM'13:
  The 10th International Conference on Genetic & Evolutionary Methods
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/gem13

o ICAI'13:
  The 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/icai13

o ICOMP'13:
  The 14th International Conference on Internet Computing and Big Data
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/icomp13

o ICWN'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Wireless Networks
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/icwn13

o IKE'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Information & Knowledge Engineering
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/ike13

o IPCV'13:
  The 17th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision,
  & Pattern Recognition
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/ipcv13

o MSV'13:
  The 10th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/msv13

o PDPTA'13:
  The 19th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
  Processing Techniques and Applications
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/pdpta13

o SAM'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Security and Management
  http://sam.udmercy.edu/sam13/

o SERP'13:
  The 11th International Conference on Software Engineering Research
  and Practice
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/serp13

o SWWS'13:
  The 12th International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services
  http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/swws13

July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, USA.

All conferences listed above will be held simultaneously; ie, same location and dates.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

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.), 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 conferences' 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.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of March 14, 2013, papers published in the conference proceedings that are currently being held as part of WORLDCOMP, have received 27,591 citations (includes 3,342 self-citations). Citation data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ .


CONTACT:

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