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Friday, July 11, 2014

Call For Participation: The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'14), Las Vegas, U.S.A., July 21-24, 2014


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                      Call For Participation

            The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

                July 21-24, 2014, Las Vegas, USA
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This is an invitation to attend The 2014 World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. The congress
is composed of 20 major tracks (15 tutorials, 145 sessions and workshops,
and 19 keynotes/invited lectures/panel discussions, ...); all will be
held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 21-24, 2014.
Attendees will have full access to all conferences' sessions, tracks,
and tutorials. Registration is required to attend. As of now, 62% of
registrants are from academia, 23% from industry; 14% from government
and funding agencies; and 1% unknown (correct as of July 1). About
half of the attendees are from outside USA; from 76 nations.

See below for:

A. General Information
B. Topical Scope
C. Registration Information (Deadline: July 18, 2014)
D. Congress Schedules/Programs
E. Location of congress
F. Planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes
G. Partial list of organized sessions
H. Misc Information

We look forward to seeing you during the 3rd week of July.
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A. GENERAL INFORMATION:


B. TOPICAL SCOPE:

   Advances in Big Data Analytics (ABDA); Bioinformatics & Computational
   Biology (BIOCOMP); Scientific Computing (CSC); Data Mining (DMIN);
   e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and
   e-Government (EEE); Reconfigurable Systems (RSA); Embedded Systems
   and Applications (ESA); Foundations of Computer Science (FCS); Frontiers
   in Computer Science and Computer Engineering Education (FECS); Grid &
   Cloud Computing and Applications (GCA); Genetic & Evolutionary Methods
   (GEM); Artificial Intelligence (ICAI); Internet Computing and Big Data
   (ICOMP); Wireless Networks (ICWN); Information & Knowledge Engineering
   (IKE); Image Processing, Computer Vision, & 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 and Web Services (SWWS).


C. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: (Deadline: July 18, 2014)

D. CONGRESS SCHEDULES/PROGRAMS:

E. LOCATION OF CONGRESS:

F. PLANNED TUTORIALS AND FEATURED KEYNOTES: (partial list)

   Tutorials are free to conference registrants - Tutorial titles include:
   (most tutorials are 3 hours long):

   -> Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation
      of Computer Science Program
   -> Natural Language in Information Security and Privacy
   -> Energy-Aware Resource Management for Computing Systems
   -> Cryptography and Network Security
   -> Multidimensional Detective - the Blessings of Dimensionality
   -> Agents at High Seas
   -> First Programming Language in CS Education - The Argument For Scala
   -> The Use of ICT to Mitigate Income Inequality
   -> Using Weka to Mine Temporal Work Patterns of Programming Students
   -> Recommendation Systems for Big Data
   -> Fault Tolerance and Beyond
   -> Actor Parallelism and Akka/Scala
   -> Hacking with Kali Linux
   -> Cloud Computing for Big Data Challenges (Cloud Architectures and
      Big Data Tools)
   -> Smartphone Sensor Mining Applications: Ubiquitous Possibilities

   Partial list of Keynotes/Invited Talks:

   -> Smart Data for you and me: Personalized and Actionable Physical
      Cyber Social Big Data
      Prof. Amit Sheth
      Fellow, IEEE; 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

   -> Visualization and Data Mining for High Dimensional Datasets
      Prof. Alfred Inselberg
      Tel Aviv University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing
      Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel
      Coordinates and author of textbook "Parallel Coordinates: VISUAL
      Multidimensional Geometry", (praised by Stephen Hawking among others.)

   -> Big Data Analytics Cognitive Algorithms
      Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky
      Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA; The US Air Force Research
      Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information Technology, USA; Chair, IEEE Task Force
      on The Mind and Brain; Recipient of John McLucas Award (the highest US
      Air Force Award for basic research).

   -> Panel Discussion: Thoughts, Language, and Memories for Humans vs.
      Artificially Intelligent Entities
      Panel Chair: Dr. James A. Crowder; Chief Engineer, Raytheon
      Intelligence, USA
      Panelists:
      Prof. Victor Raskin; Distinguished Professor & Associate Director &
      Charter Fellow, CERIAS; Purdue University, USA
      Dr. Julia M. Taylor; Fellow, CERIAS; Purdue University, USA
      Shelli Friess; Relevant Counseling, Colorado, USA
      Dr. John Carbone; Raytheon Intelligence, Colorado, USA

   -> A Primitive Artificial Prefrontal Cortex for Cognitive Self-Regulation
      in Artificial Life Forms
      Dr. James A. Crowder
      Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence, Colorado, USA; Chief Mentor
      Scientist of the Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
      Research Lab., Alexandria School of Innovation, Colorado, USA

   -> Big Data Issues for Mining Knowledge in Maintenance Information
      Systems
      Prof. Diego Galar
      Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering,
      Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden; Former Pro-Vice-
      Chancellor, Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A), Spain

   -> Data Science Emergence
      Dr. Peter Geczy
      National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
      (AIST), Japan; Institute of Physical & Chemical Research (RIKEN)

   -> Integrative Systems Biology Approaches to Identify Disrupted Pathways
      in Disease Development
      Dr. Mary Qu Yang
      Director, Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program of University of
      Arkansas Little Rock College of Engineering & Information Technology,
      University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas, USA


G. PARTIAL LIST OF ORGANIZED SESSIONS (multiple speakers per session):
   Some of these sessions are further divided into more focused sessions
   and many have topics that overlap the topics of other sessions (correct
   as of July 1, 2014)

   -> Algorithms for Big Data
   -> Cloud Computing + System Infrastructures & Enhanced Cache Methods
   -> Cloud Computing & GRID
   -> Security & Privacy in the Era of Big Data & Risk Analysis
   -> Applications of Big Data & Software Tools
   -> Communication Systems & Topologies
   -> Social Networks
   -> Pervasive Computing
   -> Big Data Management & Frameworks + Big Data Programming
   -> Big Data Search & Mining Methods
   -> BIG DATA, STORAGE, & Privacy
   -> Mobile Computing + Big Data & Data Management & Storage
   -> Graph Algorithms, Ontology Methods
   -> BIG Data Architectures
   -> Education Infrastructures
   -> Gene Expression & Representation, Microarray, Sequencing, Alignment
   -> Computational Biology & Medical Applications
   -> Health Informatics, Data mining
   -> Protein Folding
   -> Health Care & Medical Applications
   -> Protein Classification & Structure Prediction, Folding
   -> Computational Structural Biology + Drug Design
   -> Medical Science, Visualization, HPC
   -> Bioinformatics
   -> Web, Text, Multimedia Mining
   -> Regression, Classification, Clustering, Association
   -> Real-World Data Mining Applications, Challenges & Perspectives
   -> Evolving systems
   -> Embedded Systems + HPC + Sensory Devices
   -> Network On Chip Systems
   -> Computational Science, Object Oriented Methods
   -> Finite Element Methods and Analysis
   -> Simulation, Numerical Methods & APPLICATIONS
   -> Visualization, Graphics, Tools & Techniques
   -> Automated Testing + Scheduling Systems
   -> Formal Modeling + Analysis & Optimization
   -> Micro-Controller Design
   -> ODE + Kalman Filter + Elasticity Theory
   -> Micro-Controllers, Micro-Processors
   -> State Machine Language & Optimization Methods
   -> Modeling and Applications
   -> Computational Science, Systems, HPC, Scientific &
      Engineering Algorithms
   -> Simulation Methods and Computational Modeling
   -> Accreditation & Academic Reviews + Evaluation
   -> Teaching Programming + Software Engineering
   -> Performance Enhancement Methods + Integrated Learning
   -> Class Management Systems, Learning Models + Distance Learning,
      Social Networks
   -> Programming Languages, Studies and Related Issues
   -> Learning Models, Methodologies, Tools and Case Studies
   -> Agile Methodologies + Pair Programming and Team Teaching Methods
   -> Semantic Web
   -> Web Services and Applications
   -> Recruitment, Retention & Mentoring + Enrollment Studies & Management
   -> Teaching Support Systems and Tools
   -> Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms
   -> Computational Intelligence
   -> Intelligent Linguistic Technologies
   -> Machine Learning, Agent Technologies, Swarm Optimization, HMM
   -> Knowledge Discovery and Learning
   -> Natural Language Processing, Topic Detection, Human-Machine Interaction
   -> Robotics and Applications, BCI
   -> Pattern Recognition and Dimensionality Reduction Methods
   -> Computational Intelligence, Data Fusion, AI, Novel Applications
   -> Fuzzy Logic & Systems and Applications + ANN Information Retrieval
      & Search Methods
   -> Decision Support Systems + Medical Applications, Assistive Living
      and Healthcare
   -> Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Based Systems
   -> AI, Algorithms & Applications
   -> Neural Networks + Data Mining + Machine Learning
   -> Evolutionary Strategies, Genetic Algorithms and Novel Applications
   -> Applications of Advanced AI Techniques to Information Management
   -> Ad-Hoc Networks, VANET, Protocols and Related Technologies
   -> Wireless Networks and Security Issues
   -> Internet of Things + Broadcasting and Tele-Control Systems
   -> Computer and Hardware Security
   -> Internet of Things and SCADA Cybersecurity Education
   -> Energy Efficiency Issues
   -> Security Management
   -> Optimization Methods
   -> Context Aware Networking
   -> Data & Information Mining + Forecasting Methods
   -> Crowd-Sourcing and Mining
   -> Stochastic Methods & Visualization
   -> Genetic Algorithms & Applications
   -> Genetic Programming
   -> Simulated Annealing, Swarm Optimization Algorithms
   -> Agent-Based Algorithms
   -> Feature Extraction and Artificial Intelligence
   -> Computer Vision and Applications
   -> Biometrics + Face Recognition, Expression Detection, Human Detection
   -> Vision, Pattern Matching
   -> Noise Reduction
   -> Imaging Science and Medical Applications
   -> Image and Signal Processing Applications & Novel Algorithms
   -> Pattern Recognition
   -> Image Retrieval Methods, Image Feature Extraction
   -> Image Segmentation
   -> Image Quality Assessment
   -> Stereo, 3D Imaging, Depth Algorithms
   -> Video Processing, Analysis and Applications
   -> Object Detection, Recognition & Classification
   -> Compression Methods & Technologies
   -> Mathematical Modeling and Problem Solving
   -> Energy Efficient Networking Systems
   -> Parallel Computing and Algorithms + Multi-Core and Energy-Aware
      Computing
   -> Parallel Programming + Novel Frameworks
   -> Big Data and Data Analytics + Related Technologies and Methods
   -> High-Performance Computing + Distributed Algorithms & Applications
   -> Systems Software + Parallel Programming Models + Petri Nets
   -> Cache Coherence + Multi-Core and Applications
   -> Scientific Computing, FFT, Matrix Problems, Linear Systems, Finite
      Element Methods
   -> Complex Systems, Theory and Applications
   -> Parallel Architectures and Systems
   -> Communication Systems & Input Output Systems + Interconnection
      Networks & Topologies
   -> Routing Methods
   -> Security Education
   -> Wireless Networks Security + Modeling of Information Security
   -> Information Assurance
   -> Biometrics & Forensics
   -> Cryptographic Technologies
   -> Software Engineering & Applications + Education & Training
   -> E-Government & Issues of Interest to Government, and
      Public Administration
   -> Software Engineering & Web Based Systems + Open Source Software
   -> Enterprise Architectures
   -> Game Design + GUI
   -> Energy Efficient Software Design, Requirements Engineering,
      Cost Estimation
   -> Software Engineering & Safety, Software Quality, Error Checking
   -> Software Development Strategies, Agile Technology, Business
      Models, Reuse
   -> Learning & Teaching Methods, E-Learning + Educational Tools
   -> E-Business, E-Commerce, E-Banking, Enterprise Information Systems
   -> Diversity Issues
   -> Software Architecture & Design Patterns + Specification Methods
   -> Process Mining + Autonomic Computing

H. MISC INFORMATION:
   To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2013
   delegates photos available at: There are over 1,000 photos (click
   on any photo for the album to pop up.)
  
   and earlier year's: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/

   Publication: Measurable Scientific Impact of Congress:

   As of December 14, 2013, papers published in the conference proceedings
   that have been held as part of the federated Congress, have received
   over 27,500 citations (includes about 3,300 self-citations). Citation
   data obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ . The
   citation data does not even include more than 15,000 other citations
   to papers in tracks whose first offerings were initiated by the joint
   congress.


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


Sunday, May 27, 2012

Call for Post-Conference Proceedings Papers with Deadline of May 29, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012



          CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline: May 29, 2012

                 The 2012 International Conference on
                   Genetic and Evolutionary Methods
                               GEM'12

                  July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA

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. Abstract submissions (one/two-page)
will be considered for poster presentations and one/two-page publication
in the proceedings. 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 GEM 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).

IMPORTANT DATES:

May 29, 2012:       Submission of papers for evaluation
June 11, 2012:      Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance
June 20, 2012:      Registration
July 16-19, 2012:   The 2012 International Conference on Genetic and
                    Evolutionary Methods (GEM'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  Genetic programming
O  Genetic algorithms
O  Hybrid genetic / memetic algorithms
O  Artificial life
O  Genetic benchmarks and software packages
O  Optimization methodologies
O  Swarm intelligence and optimization
O  Artificial immune systems
O  Evolutionary programming
O  Genetics-based machine learning
O  Adaptive behavior-based systems
O  Fuzzy systems and evolutionary computing
O  Biologically inspired systems
O  Evolutionary strategies
O  Combinatorial optimization problems
O  Ant colony optimization
O  Learning classifiers
O  Agent technologies
O  Parallel/distributed evolutionary algorithms
O  Evolvable hardware
O  Evolutionary scheduling
O  Search based strategies
O  Hyper heuristics
O  Evolutionary multi-objective optimization
O  Prediction methods
O  Co-evolution
O  Novel methodologies
O  Robotics
O  Biological methods
O  Applications


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 May 29, 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, GEM) 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. The proceedings will be indexed 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 GEM 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.
Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in
EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the proceedings that GEM
was part of were included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be
sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier.

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. 4043

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 GEM". 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:

GEM 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

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:

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:

The congress proceedings enjoy a high number of citations. In total, over
25,600 citations have been made (so far) to papers published in the proceedings
of the federated congress. The link below contains the url's to the citation
data for each track (each link is a live search and so it may take a few
seconds for the data to pull up):


USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. GEM 2012 web site:
2. To see the caliber of the past offering of worldcomp, see the 2011 congress web site:
3. The 2011 delegates photos are available at:

CONTACT:

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

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Call for Papers with Extended Deadline: The 2012 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'12) at WORLDCOMP'12, USA, July 16-19, 2012


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CALL FOR PAPERS

EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline:  April 12, 2012

GEM'12
The 2012 International Conference on
Genetic and Evolutionary Methods

July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
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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. The proceedings of WORLDCOMP congress that GEM is part
of, enjoys a high number of citations; over 25,000 citations so far.




IMPORTANT DATES:

April 12, 2012 Submission of full papers (about 7 pages) and/or posters (2 pages)
April 26, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+ possibly 7 days)
May 12, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Image Processing,
Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'12)

Those who have submitted papers during the months of January, February, and
March will receive decisions on their papers by the earlier announced dates.


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

O Genetic programming
O Genetic algorithms
O Hybrid genetic / memetic algorithms
O Artificial life
O Genetic benchmarks and software packages
O Optimization methodologies
O Swarm intelligence and optimization
O Artificial immune systems
O Evolutionary programming
O Genetics-based machine learning
O Adaptive behavior-based systems
O Fuzzy systems and evolutionary computing
O Biologically inspired systems
O Evolutionary strategies
O Combinatorial optimization problems
O Ant colony optimization
O Learning classifiers
O Agent technologies
O Parallel/distributed evolutionary algorithms
O Evolvable hardware
O Evolutionary scheduling
O Search based strategies
O Hyper heuristics
O Evolutionary multi-objective optimization
O Prediction methods
O Co-evolution
O Novel methodologies
O Robotics
O Biological methods
O Applications


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 March 27, 2012 and they 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, GEM) that the paper is
being submitted for consideration must 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 will be
charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve
seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review
process. In addition, all 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).

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. At this
point, authors will be required to attest to the originality of their work
(ie, declaring that no part of the work is plagiarized and the paper does not
suffer from any acts of plagiarism.)

Proceedings of GEM 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 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; worldcomp tracks are selected to be among the 9% - 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 EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the
proceedings in which GEM was part of (PDPTA and WORLDCOMP) was included in
these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for
indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier. The printed proceedings/books
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 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.

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:

GEM conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a
number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP).
WORLDCOMP 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 80 countries.
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 WORLDCOMP 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 WORLDCOMP 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 PROCEEDINGS:

The proceedings of the WORLDCOMP enjoys a high number of citations. As of
March 2012, papers published in each track of the proceedings have
received the following number of citations: 252 citations to BIOCOMP
papers; 116 to CDES papers; 65 to CGVR papers; 55 to CSC papers; 271 to
DMIN papers; 69 to EEE papers; 1,286 to ERSA papers; 504 to ESA papers;
176 to FCS papers; 9,408 to FECS papers; 157 to GCA papers; 75 to GEM
papers; 2,172 to ICAI papers; 1,529 to ICOMP papers; 1,247 to ICWN papers;
571 to IKE papers; 255 to IPCV papers; 137 to MSV papers; 5,239 to PDPTA
papers; 496 to SAM papers; 1,390 to SERP papers; and 177 to SWWS papers.
In total, over 25,600 citations have been made (so far) to papers
published in the proceedings of this federated joint conferences. Refer
to the URLs below to see the actual citation numbers (each is a link to
a live search and so it may take a few seconds for the data to pull up):

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1816/biocomp-bioinformatics-&-computational-biology
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1845/cdes-international-conference-on-computer-design/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1852/cgvr-international-conference-on-computer-graphics-and-virtual-reality/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1887/csc-international-conference-on-scientific-computing/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1920/dmin-int-conf-on-data-mining/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1891/csreaeee-international-conference-on-e-business-enterprise-information-systems-e-government/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/679/ersa-engineering-of-reconfigurable-systems-and-algorithms/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/681/esa-embedded-systems-and-applications/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1981/fcs-international-conference-on-foundations-of-computer-science/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1983/fecs-conference-on-frontiers-in-education/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1998/gca-international-conference-on-grid-computing-and-applications/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2467/gem-international-conference-on-genetic-and-evolutionary-methods/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/7/ic-ai-international-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/5/icomp-international-conference-on-internet-computing/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/48/icwn-international-conference-on-wireless-networks/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/65/ike-information-and-knowledge-engineering/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2114/ipcv-international-conference-on-image-processing-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2209/msv-int-conf-on-modeling-simulation-&-visualization-methods/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/214/pdpta-parallel-and-distributed-processing-techniques-and-applications/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/332/sam-security-and-management/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/361/serp-software-engineering-research-and-practice/
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2308/swws-conference-on-semantic-web-and-web-services/


USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION:
1. Web site of GEM'12:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/gem12
2. The 2011 congress delegates photos are available at:
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606
3. This announcement contains updated and current information (correct
as of the date of this message). The information that appears in this
announcement supersedes earlier ones.

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