Dear colleagues and friends:
 
Please share the appended announcement with those who may be interested.
Thank you - Organizing Committee.
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                     CALL  FOR  PAPERS
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         Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2011
 
 
                       WORLDCOMP'11
        The 2011 World Congress in Computer Science,
        Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
              July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA
 
         http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
 
You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All
accepted papers will be published in the respective conference
proceedings. The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET /
The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / Computer
Science Bibliography, and others.) Like prior years, extended
versions of selected papers will appear in journals and edited
research books (a large number of book projects and journal special
issues are in the pipeline: Springer, Elsevier, BMC journals, ...)
 
WORLDCOMP'11 is composed of the following main tracks (each includes,
paper presentations, invited presentations, keynote lectures,
tutorials, workshops, and panel discussions); all tracks will be held
simultaneously, same location and dates: July 18-21, 2011:
 
o Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'11)
o Computer Design (CDES'11)
o Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR'11)
o Scientific Computing (CSC'11)
o Data Mining (DMIN'11)
o e-Learning, e-Business, EIS, & e-Government (EEE'11)
o Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'11)
o Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'11)
o Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'11)
o Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'11)
o Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'11)
o Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'11)
o Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'11)
o Internet Computing (ICOMP'11)
o Wireless Networks (ICWN'11)
o Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'11)
o Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'11)
o Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'11)
o Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA'11)
o Security and Management (SAM'11)
o Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'11)
o Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'11)
 
A link to each of the above can be found at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org
 
 
IMPORTANT DATES:
 
March 10, 2011:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 03, 2011:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
April 24, 2011:    Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 18-21, 2011:  WORLDCOMP 2011 and all its affiliated conferences
 
 
ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS:
 
Currently being prepared - The Academic sponsors of the last offering
of WORLDCOMP (2010) included research labs and centers affiliated
with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; University
of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Georgia Institute of Technology,
Georgia; Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota;
University of Iowa; University of North Dakota; NDSU-CIIT Green
Computing & Comm. Lab.; University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Austria;
SECLAB (University of Naples Federico II + University of Naples
Parthenope + Second University of Naples, Italy); National Institute
for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and
Technologies; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; International
Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM:4042); The
International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; Eastern
Virginia Medical School & the American College of Surgeons, USA.
 
 
SUBMISSION OF 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 10, 2011 and they must be
in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5 to 7
pages - 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. Finally, the name of the
conference that the paper is being submitted for consideration
must be stated on the first page.
 
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 included 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).
 
All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in:
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology,
DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others.
 
 
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
 
The members of the Steering Committee of the 2011 congress is currently
being prepared. Last year's (ie, 2010's) members included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA);
Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia;
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in
Biomedicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer;
Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
(Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung
Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication;
Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society;
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor,
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE
Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director HoIP,
Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET and ICMCC, Visiting
Professor, University of Westminster, UK); Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
(Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF Supported
AUAS, Appalachian State U., USA); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow,
NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); and
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE
Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director,
BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA).
 
The 2011 Program Committees for individual tracks and conferences are
currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committees
are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
labs., members of National Academy of Engineering, fellows of
various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors
of research funding agencies, deans and provosts as well as members
of chapters of World Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing;
scientific computing; AI; imaging science; databases; simulation;
software eng.; embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
communications; computer security; and computational biology/bioinformatics.)
 
Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong
and documented research track record. Those interested in joining
the Program Committee should email  [log in to unmask]  the
following information for consideration/evaluation: Name,
affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address,
a one-page biography that includes research expertise and the name
of the conference(s)/track(s) offering to help with.
 
 
GENERAL INFORMATION:
 
WORLDCOMP 2011 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 (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), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a
feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates
photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789
 
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 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.