CfP: COMPSAC 2014
COMPSAC 2014 Call For Papers
The 38th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference
http://www.compsac.org
Vasteras, Sweden - July 21-25, 2014
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Important Dates
* January 31, 2014: Main Conference Full papers due
COMPSAC 2014 Theme
The theme of the 38th COMPSAC conference is The Integration of Heterogeneous and Mobile Services in Smart Environments. The emergence and increasing importance of digital society, cyber-physical systems, and semantic, pervasive, and mobile computing are expanding the role of software and applications in smart environments. Associated with these paradigms are instruments, sensors, and a multitude of applications that generate and require analysis of massive volumes of diverse, heterogeneous, complex, and distributed data. The potential of the emerging electric smart grid motivates developing systems designed with smart grid capabilities foremost in mind. The design of such intelligent systems is challenged by the complexity of the domains in which they are deployed. Knowledge, tools, practices, and infrastructures related to software and data have begun to evolve to cover this expanding sphere, while addressing grand challenges brought about by the complexities and uncertainties of the physical world and the heterogeneity of interconnected services and devices. Beyond the core emphasis areas of the conference, COMPSAC 2014 will provide additional tracks, special sessions, panels, and keynotes to facilitate discourse on and deepen the understanding of these challenges by furthering the fundamental contributions needed for advances in software and breakthroughs in big data analytics.
Conference Venue
COMPSAC 2014 will be located in the beautiful city of Vasteras, Sweden. Vasteras is located on the shore of Lake Malaren in the province of Vastmanland, about 100 kilometers west of Stockholm.
Topics of interest (Tracks)
* Emergent Topics
* Software Engineering
* Networking
* Web Technologies
* Security and Privacy
* Quality Assurance and Assessment
* Embedded and Cyber-Physical Environments
About COMPSAC
COMPSAC is the IEEE Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications. It is one of the major international forums for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results, advancements, and future trends in computer, software technology, and applications. The technical program includes keynote addresses, research papers, industrial case studies, panel discussions, fast abstracts, doctoral symposium, poster sessions, and a number of workshops and tutorials on emerging important topics
Paper Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research work; as well as industrial practice reports. Simultaneous submission to other publication venues is not permitted. Detailed instructions for electronic paper submission, panel, tutorial, and workshop proposals, fast abstracts, poster papers, doctoral symposium, and the review process are available at www.compsac.org.
The review and selection process for submissions is designed to identify papers that break new ground and provide substantial support for their results and conclusions as significant contributions to the field. Submissions will be selected that represent a major advancement in the subject of the track to which they are submitted. Authors of submissions with a limited contribution or scope may be asked to revise their submissions into a more succinct camera-ready format; e.g., a short paper, workshop, industry practice report, fast abstract, or poster.
All contributions will be included the conference proceedings. The length of a camera-ready regular paper or industry practice report will be limited to 10 pages. Short papers and workshop papers are limited to 6 pages; fast abstracts to 2 pages; and posters to 1 page. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines in preparing your paper. Each accepted paper (full, short, industry, workshop, or fast abstract) is required to be registered at full rate by one of its authors. Reduced registration rates are available for posters and Doctoral Symposium papers, but such registrations will provide limited privileges during the conference. All accepted papers will be published in the electronic proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society. In order to enable indexing through INSPEC and EI Index, and inclusion in the IEEE digital library, a paper must be presented in person by one of its authors.
A special poster session will be dedicated to Work-in-Progress, new ideas, and emerging fields and research topics in the area of computer software. An area on the conference premises will be designated for the presentation of such posters. Poster presenters are expected to bring their printed poster and handouts and be present for the entire duration of session. Attendees will browse the posters and directly interact with the presenters. Thus, the poster session is intended to be an informal, conversational forum for new ideas.
Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards will be presented by COMPSAC 2014. The first author of the best student paper must be a full-time student. Doctoral Symposium papers and posters are encouraged; a reduced registration rate applies. Authors of the best technical contributions will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for consideration by reputable journals. In the past, certain technical contributions to COMPSAC were designated for eventual publication in journals including IEEE Computer, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, and Computer Communications - among others.
Important Dates
Main Conference Paper and Industry Paper Deadlines
* January 31, 2014: Full papers due
* March 31, 2014: Paper notifications
* April 28. 2014: Camera-ready copy and registration due
Workshop and Tutorial Deadlines
* March 23, 2014: Workshop papers due
* April 20, 2014: Workshop paper notifications
* April 28, 2014: Camera-ready copy and registration due
Fast Abstracts, Posters, and Doctoral Symposium Paper Deadlines
* April 8, 2014: Fast abstract, poster, and doctoral symposium papers due
* April 20, 2014: Fast abstracts, posters, and doctoral symposium papers notifications
* April 28, 2014: Camera-ready copy and registration due
Submission
* Upload papers in PDF format at www.compsac.org.
* Information on workshops will be available at www.compsac.org.
General Inquiries and Contact Information For more detailed information, please visit the conference website at www.compsac.org.
Chair of the COMPSAC Standing Committee
* Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA
Chair of the 2014 COMPSAC Steering Committee
* Bruce McMillin, Missouri S&T, USA
General Chairs
* John Walz, 2012 IEEE Computer Society President
* Tiberiu Seceleanu, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
Program Chairs
* Ali Hurson, Missouri S&T, USA
* Cristina Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden
* Kenichi Yoshida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Workshop Chairs
* Mihhail Matskin, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
* Yasuo Okabe, Kyoto University , Japan
Track Chairs
* Emergent Topics
Hiroyuki Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan
William R. Claycomb, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ivica Crnkovic, Malardalen University, Sweden
* Software Engineering
Rajesh Subramanyan, Siemens, USA,
Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado, Universidad de Granada, Spain,
Gang Huang, Peking University, China
* Networking
Motonori Nakamura, NII, Japan
Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA
Tugkan Tuglular, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
* Web Technologies
Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
Juergen Rilling, Concordia University, Canada,
Leong Hong-va, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
* Security and Privacy
Hiroki Takakura, Nagoya University, Japan,
Morris Chang, Iowa State University, USA
* Quality Assurance and Assessment
Michele Bugliesi, University Ca' Foscari, Italy,
Dianxiang Xu, Boise State University, USA
* Embedded and Cyber-Physical Environments
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy,
Kazutoshi Fujikawa, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan,
Sahra Sedigh, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA,
COMPSAC is Sponsored by the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative.