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CALL FOR TRACK PROPOSALS
The 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2005)
March 13 - 17, 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
For the past nineteen years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)
has been a primary and international forum for applied computer
scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather,
interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on
Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC.
The conference proceedings are published by ACM and are also available
online through ACM's Digital Library.
SAC is based on a flexible structure of mostly self-contained and
self-managed tracks. Over the past years SAC hosted tracks on a
variety of timely topics such as Artificial Intelligence,
Bioinformatics,
Computational Sciences, Database Technology, Data Mining, Embedded
Systems,
Evolutionary Computing, Parallel and Distributed Systems,
Mobile Computing, Programming Languages, Software Engineering,
and Web Technologies. SAC 2004, which was held in Nicosia, Cyprus,
consisted of 26 tracks that hosted 268 accepted papers out of 780
submissions. More information on past SAC events can be found at
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/
The 20th Annual SAC (SAC 2005) will be held 13-17 March, 2005 in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, and hosted by New Mexico Institute of Mining
and Technology. The conference Steering Committee solicits proposals
for organizing and hosting tracks. Perspective track chairs should
submit an up to two pages description for organizing a track, which
should include at least the following items:
1) The proposed title for the track with a description of its aims,
topics it will cover and rationale for having such a track in SAC.
This rationale should refer to any related conference events that
are held regularly and why the proposed track differs from them or
complements them. The proposed track should not be overly general
but also not overly specialized, thus being able to attract a wide
audience of people sharing similar interests. Proposals from industry
are also welcomed. Despite its name, SAC also welcomes topics of
mostly theoretical nature, provided there is clear practical potential
in applying the results of such work.
2) A short description of the activities the track chair will
undertake upon acceptance of the proposal, to disseminate the
call-for-papers for his/her track, manage the review process and
collect final materials from authors of accepted papers. (Specific
guidelines to track chairs regarding these issues will also be
provided.)
3) A short CV of the perspective track chair(s) with reference to
research interests and publication record directly related to the
themes of the proposed track, and any previous experience of involvement
in the organization of similar events (in the interest of brevity,
reference to a personal web page where such information can be found
will be sufficient).
All proposals will be reviewed by the Program Chairs with
respect to the above criteria. The Program Chairs reserve the right to:
(1) accept a proposal as is,
(2) require modifications before acceptance,
(3) recommend merging of similar proposals with a considerable
overlap in the topics addressed (in this case the track chairs of
the different proposals will be asked to form a single chair),
(4) reject a proposal. Upon acceptance of a proposal, the track
chairs will be notified of their responsibilities in managing the
affairs of their tracks; as such responsibilities are defined by
both the ACM and SAC conference rules. The Program Chairs reserve
the right to cancel at any time a track, if these responsibilities
are not addressed adequately by the track chair(s).
Please submit your proposal electronically in any acceptable
readable form by April 16, 2004 to:
Roger L. Wainwright,
SAC 2005 Program Co-Chair
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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