FECS 2014 - The 2014 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

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Category FECS 2014

Deadline: April 19, 2014 | Date: July 21, 2014-July 24, 2014

Venue/Country: Las Vegas, U.S.A

Updated: 2014-04-09 15:09:58 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

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. In

addition, like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about

35%) will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers include:

Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others). See the following links for a small

subset of the publications based on the accepted papers of the federated

congress that FECS is part of; some of these books and journal special

issues have already received the top 25% downloads in their respective fields.

To get a feeling about the conferences atmosphere, see some delegates photos

available at:

http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/

http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp

FECS14 is composed of a number of tracks, including: tutorials,

sessions, workshops, posters, and panel discussions. The conference will

be held July 21-24, 2014, Las Vegas, USA.

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

o ABET Accreditation and assessment (experiences and methods)

o Student recruitment and retention methods

o Promoting multi-disciplinary initiatives - impact on curriculum

o Capstone research projects: examples and case studies

o Distance learning; methods, technologies and assessment

o Innovative degree programs and certificates

o Innovative uses of technology in the classroom

o Collaborative learning

o Learning models and learning from mistakes

o Computer and web-based software for instruction

o Ethics in computer science and engineering

o Incorporating writing into CS and CE curriculum

o Preparing graduates for academia

o Preparing graduates for industry

o Partnerships with industry and government

o Team projects and case studies

o Undergraduate research experiences

o Student observation and mentoring strategies

o Advising methods

o Evaluation strategies (professors, students, ...)

o Transition to graduate studies

o Integrating gender and culture issues into computer science and

engineering curriculum

o The balance between course-work and research

o Issues related to the choice of first programming language

o Debugging tools and learning

o Projects, software engineering, programming issues, and

laboratory practices

o Virtual laboratories

o Computer science and computer engineering curriculum

o Active learning tools

o Undergraduates as teaching assistants

o Funding opportunities for curriculum development and studies

o Pilot studies

o STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) initiatives

o Teaching methods

o Recruiting methods to attract graduate students

o Proposed methods for ranking CS and CE departments

o The role of visualization and animation in education

o Academic dishonesty in a high-tech environment

o Experiences in the formation of Department Advisory Board

o Factors that lead to success in CS and CE

IMPORTANT DATES:

April 19, 2014: Submission of full/regular papers (about 7 pages)

May 10, 2014: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)

May 24, 2014: Final papers + Copyright + Registration

July 21-24, 2014: The 2014 International Conference on Frontiers in

Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

(FECS14)

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 April 19, 2014 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 (i.e., FECS) must also 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 would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);

often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees. 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).

The FECS14 proceedings will be published in printed conference books

(ISBN) and will also be made available online. The printed proceedings/

books will be available for distribution on site at the conference. The

proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track

citation frequency/data for each published paper. Science citation

databases include: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering &

Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS,

INIST databases, PASCAL (accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO,

OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, & STN International); and others. Though,

there is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in

SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings; in the past, many of the proceedings

of the federated congress that FECS is part of were included in these

databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for

indexing procedures to SCI EI Compendex/Elsevier.

In addition to the above, we have arranged two new book series (multiple

books in each series); one with Elsevier publishers (Emerging Trends in

Computer Science and Applied Computing) and another with Springer publishers

(Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence).

After the conference (the whole process takes 12 months), a significant

number of authors of accepted papers of FECS, will be given the

opportunity to submit the extended version of their papers for publication

consideration in these books. We anticipate having between 10 to 20 books

a year in each of these book series projects. Each book in each series

will be subject to Elsevier and Springer science indexing products (which

includes: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI Compendex, Engineering Village,

www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com; and others). See below for recent

examples of books/journals based on extended versions of accepted papers

of the federated congress that FECS is part of:

http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-7045-9

http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-5912-6

http://store.elsevier.com/Emerging-Trends-in-ICT-Security/isbn-9780124114746/

http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedgenomics/supplements/6/S1

http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC3287490/

http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC2709251/

http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/articles/PMC2999338/

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/S1/I1

http://www.springer.com/series/11769

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/5?issue=S3

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.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

Currently being finalized. The members of the Steering Committee of the last

offerings of the congress that FECS was held jointly with, included:

Dr. Selim Aissi, (formerly: Chief Strategist - Security, Intel Corporation,

USA) Senior Business Leader & Chief Architect, Visa Corporation, USA;

Prof. Babak Akhgar, PhD, FBCS, CITP, Professor of Informatics, Co-Director

of CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence &

organised Crime research), Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK;

Prof. Nizar Al-Holou, Professor and Chair, Vice Chair, IEEE/SEM-Computer

Chapter; University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. Hamid R.

Arabnia, Professor of Computer Science, Elected Fellow of ISIBM,

Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Supercomputing (Springer), University of

Georgia, USA; Prof. Kevin Daimi, Professor of Computer Science, Director of

Computer Science and Software Engineering Programs, University of Detroit

Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Prof. George Jandieri, Georgian Technical

University, Tbilisi, Georgia and Chief Scientist at The Institute of

Cybernetics, Georgian Academy of Science, Georgia; Prof. D. V. Kodavade, Head

of Computer Science and Engineering, DKTE Institute, India; Prof. Kun Chang

Lee, Professor of MIS and WCU Professor of Creativity Science, Sungkyunkwan

University, Korea; Prof. George Markowsky, Professor and Associate Director,

School of Computing and Information Science, Chair Intl Advisory Board of

IEEE IDAACS, Director 2013 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition,

University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Prof. G.N. Pandey, Vice-Chancellor,

Arunachal University of Studies, India; Prof. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park,

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea and President of

KITCS, President of FTRA, Editor-in-Chiefs: HCIS, JoC and IJITCC Journals;

Prof. Fernando G. Tinetti, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina,

Co-editor, Journal of CS and Technology (JCS&T); Dr. Predrag Tosic, Microsoft,

Washington, USA; Prof. Vladimir Volkov, The Bonch-Bruevich State University of

Telecommunications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Dr. Michael R. Grimaila, Air

Force Institute of Technology, Fellow of ISSA, CISM, CISSP, IAM/IEM, Air Force

Center of Cyberspace Research, Advisor to the Prince of Wales Fellows & Prince

Edward Fellows at MIT and Harvard Universities and PC member of NATO

Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE); Prof. Victor

Malyshkin, Head of Supercomputer Software Department, Russian Academy of

Sciences, Russia; Prof. Andy Marsh, Director of HoIP, Director of HoIP

Telecom, UK, Secretary-General of WABT, Vice-president of ICET, Visiting

Professor, University of Westminster, UK; Ashu M. G. Solo (Publicity Chair),

Fellow of British Computer Society, Principal R&D Engineer, Maverick

Technologies America; Prof. Sang C. Suh, Head and Professor of Computer

Science, Vice President, of Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS),

Director of Intelligent Cyberspace Engineering (ICEL), Texas A&M University,

Com., Texas, USA; Prof. Layne T. Watson, IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow,

Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace, Virginia Polytechnic Institute &

State University, Virginia, USA; and others.

The 2014 Program Committee for FECS is currently being compiled. Many who

have already joined the committee are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers,

scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks.

Program Committee members are expected to have established a strong and

documented research track record. Those interested in joining the Program

Committee should email editorworld-comp.org the following information

for consideration: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,

email address, a one-page biography that includes research expertise & the

name of the conference (i.e., FECS).

GENERAL INFORMATION:

FECS is an international conference that serves researchers, scholars,

professionals, students, and academicians who are looking to both foster

working relationships and gain access to the latest research results. It is

being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research

conferences; namely, The 2014 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer

Engineering, and Applied Computing. The Congress is among the top five

largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer

engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from

about 85 countries/territories.

The 2014 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, NASAs 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.), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell

University - formerly at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA and former

director of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National

Science Foundation, USA), Dr. Flavio Villanustre (Vice-President, HPCC

Systems), Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue University,

USA); Prof. Alfred Inselberg (School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv

University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing Center;

Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel Coordinates and

author of textbook); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished

Professor of ECE and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science

and Technology Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA);

and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the

conferences atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at:

http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp

http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/

We plan to have 12 tutorials in addition to author presentations and keynote

talks. Tutorial attendance and participations are free to all registered

attendees. As of the writing of this announcement, we have received tutorial

proposals from distinguished speakers in the following areas (12 of them

will be accepted) -

O. Accreditation (ABET, ...) (multiple proposals received)

O. Power-aware systems and efficient consumption issues for HPC

O. Big Data and Data Analytics (multiple proposals received)

O. Enterprise systems and entrepreneurial spirits and possibilities

O. Cryptography and network security

O. Service Oriented Architectures for Internet of Things

O. Agent technologies

O. Exploiting parallelism and scalability

O. Actor Parallelism and Akka/Scala

O. First Programming Language in CS Education - The Argument For Scala

O. Big Data Analytics Cognitive Algorithms

O. Hacking with Kali Linux

O. Cloud computing

O. Big Data in Cloud Computing

O. Brain imaging and systems

O. Data Center and related issues

O. Cybersecurity tools and education

O. Visualization and datamining in the context of Big Data

O. Computational biology

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. 109849

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 this joint congress.

MISCELLANEOUS:

The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of

January 29, 2014

CONTACT:

Inquiries should be sent to: scworld-comp.org