CALL FOR PAPERS
and
Call For Conference Tracks

IKE'12
The 2012 
International Conference on
Information and Knowledge Engineering

Date 
and Location: July 16-19, 2012, USA

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
Location: See the 
above web site for venue/city

You are invited to submit a full paper for 
consideration. All accepted
papers will be published in printed conference 
books/proceedings (they
will also be available on the web). The proceedings 
will be indexed in
Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering and 
Technology, DBLP /
Computer Science Bibliography, and others. Like prior 
years, extended
versions of selected papers (about 40%) will appear in 
journals and
edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier, 
...).

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

O Knowledge management and cyber-learning
O Information 
reliability and security
O Information and knowledge structures
O 
Information retrieval systems
O Knowledge mining
O Knowledge delivery 
methods
O Knowledge life cycle
O Knowledge and information extraction and 
discovery techniques
O Knowledge classification tools
O Knowledge and 
information management techniques
O Knowledge extraction from 
images/pictures
O Knowledge representation and acquisition
O Knowledge 
re-engineering
O Large-scale information processing methods
O Intelligent 
knowledge-based systems
O Re-usability of software/knowledge/information
O 
Aspect-oriented programming
O Formal and visual specification languages
O 
Decision support and expert systems
O e-Libraries (digital libraries) + 
e-Publishing
O Ontology: engineering, sharing and reuse, matching and 
alignment
O Digital typography
O Agent-based techniques and systems
O 
Workflow management
O Business intelligence
O Large-scale information 
processing methods and systems
O Content management
O Database engineering 
and systems
O Data and knowledge fusion
O Data and knowledge 
processing
O Databanks - issues, methods, and standards
O Dataweb models 
and systems
O Global contextual processing and management implementation
O 
Data/Information/Knowledge models
O Data warehousing and datacenters
O 
Health information systems
O Data security and privacy issues
O Managing 
copyright laws
O Interoperability issues
O Transaction systems
O Search 
methods
O Ontologies and semantics
O Object-oriented modeling and 
systems
O Case-based reasoning
O Digital watermarking
O Classical 
aspects of information theory
O Coding theory
O Information geometry
O 
Quantum information theory
O Applications (e-Commerce, multimedia, business, 
banking, ...)
O Emerging technologies and related issues
O Natural 
language processing
O Information integration
O Multi-cultural information 
systems
O Domain analysis and modeling
O Metamodelling
O Education and 
Training Issues


IMPORTANT DATES:

March 12, 2012: Submission of 
full papers (about 7 pages)
April 12, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+/- 
two days)
April 26, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + 
Registration
July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on 
Information and
Knowledge Engineering 
(IKE'12)

CO-SPONSORS:

Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC 
sponsors of the last offering of
IKE (2011) included research labs and 
centers affiliated with (a
partial list): University of California, Berkeley; 
Harvard University;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University 
of Texas at
Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota 
Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of 
Siegen; UMIT,
Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, 
Austria; Georgia
Institute of Technology; University of Iowa; Russian Academy 
of Sciences,
Russia; University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University of 
Naples
Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas 
A&M
University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others.
CORPORATE 
Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list):
Intel 
Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; Pico 
Computing;
SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing for 
Nanotechnology
(HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent Biological 
Medicine; World
Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Int'l 
Council on Medical
and Care Compunetics; UK Department for Business, 
Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform; Scientific Technologies Corporation; and 
HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; and others.


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 
12, 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, IKE) 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). Proceedings of IKE 
will be published and indexed in:
Inspec / IET / The Institute for 
Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS
Bibliography, & others. 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 
(such as,
Springer, Elsevier, ...) - 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.


PROPOSAL FOR 
ORGANIZING CONFERENCE TRACKS:

IKE 2012 is composed of a number of tracks. 
A track can be a session,
a workshop, or a symposium. A session will have at 
least 6 papers; a
workshop at least 12 papers; and a symposium at least 18 
papers. Track
chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their tracks, 
including:
soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of track 
chairs
will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and 
on
the cover of the printed books (and indexed in science databases as 
such).

Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums) 
should
include the following information: name and address (+ email) of 
proposer,
his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the 
topic of
the track, the name of the conference (ie, IKE) the track is 
submitted
for consideration, and a short description on how the track will 
be
advertised (in most cases, track proposers solicit papers from 
colleagues
and researchers whose work is known to the track proposer). E-mail 
your
track proposal to [log in to unmask] We 
would like to receive the
track proposals as soon as possible but by no later 
than January 31, 2012.


MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING 
COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized:
The members of the Steering 
Committee of The 2011 congress included:
Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, 
Intel Corp., USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia
(ISIBM elected Fellow & Professor, 
University of Georgia; Editor-in-Chief,
The Journal of Supercomputing / 
Springer; Board member, Journal of
Computational Science / Elsevier; 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; Director, System-on-Chip Research Center); Prof. 
Kun Chang Lee
(Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, 
Sungkyunkwan
University, South Korea); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director of HoIP and 
Director
of HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT; Vice-President Int'l 
Council
for Engineering and Technology, University of Westminster, UK); Prof. 
Layne
T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The 
National
Institute of Aerospace, Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute 
& State
University, USA); 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).

2012 Publicity Chair:  A. M. G. Solo (BCS Fellow; Principal/
Interdisciplinary R&D Engineer and Mathematician, Maverick Technologies 
America Inc.; Director/Interdisciplinary Researcher, Solo Research Lab, 
Crocels, Swansea University; Principal/Intelligent Systems and New Math 
Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.)
The 2012 Program 
Committee for IKE is 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, 
as well as deans and provosts.

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] 
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) offering to 
help with.
The list of Program Committee of IKE 2011 appears at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/ike11/committee


GENERAL 
INFORMATION:

The IKE 2012 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. WORLDCOMP 2012 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 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.


MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF WORLDCOMP:

As 
of November 23, 2011, papers published in WORLDCOMP set of proceedings
have 
received 15,860 citations. In recent months (March to November 2011),
there 
had been 1,475 citations to WORLDCOMP papers (about 164 citations per
month). 
The above record is significant (thanks to the authors). As the
result of 
high impact (based on citations) of WORLDCOMP papers, "Microsoft
Academic 
Search" has listed each individual track of the congress among its
compiled 
list of "Top Conferences". The citation record of WORLDCOMP set 
of
proceedings is in fact higher than the citation data of many 
reputable
journals in computer science and computer engineering. (The above 
citation
data does not include citations to WORLDCOMP papers published in 
2011; thus,
it is highly probable that the actual number of citations is 
higher;
citation data was obtained from http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ )


USEFUL 
WEB LINKS:
To see the DBLP entries for IKE, go to:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ike/index.html
The 
main web site of IKE'12 is currently under construction, it will
soon appear 
at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
The Table of 
Contents of last offering of IKE (2011) appears at:
http://world-comp.org/proc2011/ike/contents.pdf

CONTACT:
Inquiries 
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