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Subject: [computational.science] ICCSA 2021 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 22:43:10 +0100
From: Osvaldo Gervasi <osvaldo.gervasi@unipg.it>
Organization: University of Perugia
To: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science@lists.iccsa.org>


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*********************        Call for Papers        
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**********************   Deadline March 28, 2021   
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ICCSA 2021 will be organised as a virtual conference with online-only
participation (which includes online attendance and presentation in
sessions, and the publication of papers in Springer LNCS or IEEE CPS
conference proceedings)


Optional in-presence participation may be organised, should the COVID-19
restrictions allow it.
The Organising Committee will decide by April 30, 2021 if the
in-presence conference will take place.


Registration fees:
* Virtual conference online-only participation 150 Euro
* Optional in-presence participation: regular 520 Euro, students 340
Euro, workshop chair 315 Euro


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**         Call for Papers, Short Papers and PHD Showcase
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The 2021 International Conference on Computational Science and Its
Applications
             University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
                               ICCSA 2021
                             July 5-8, 2021
                          https://iccsa.org




ICCSA 2021 is the next event in the series of highly successful
International Conferences on Computational Science and Its Applications,
previously held in Cagliari - Italy (2020, as an online-only event due
to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions), Saint Petersburg - Russia (2019),
Melbourne - Australia (2018), Trieste - Italy (2017), Beijing - China
(2016), Banff - Canada (2015), Guimaraes - Portugal (2014), Ho Chi Minh
City - Vietnam (2013), Salvador da Bahia - Brazil (2012), Santander -
Spain (2011), Fukuoka - Japan (2010), Suwon - Korea (2009), Perugia -
Italy (2008), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia (2007), Glasgow - United Kingdom
(2006), Singapore - Singapore(2005), Assisi - Italy (2004), Montreal -
Canada (2003), and, as ICCS, in Amsterdam - The Netherlands (2002) and
San Francisco - USA (2001).


The ICCSA 2021 conference will again we organized in Cagliari, Italy,
and we are once more planning for robustness.
Like last year, ICCSA 2021 offers the possibility of online-only
participation (with reduces registration fees). But we are also planning
to offer the possibility of in-presence participation, should the
pandemic situation allow it, by setting up a blended experience for
mixed online/in-presence sessions.






Computational Science is a main pillar of most of the present research,
industrial and commercial activities and plays a unique role in
exploiting ICT innovative technologies.


The ICCSA Conference offers a real opportunity to bring together
scientists of different disciplines, discuss new issues, tackle complex
problems and find advanced solutions breeding new trends in
Computational Science.


Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least
three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted
papers will appear in the Conference proceedings to be published by
Springer in Lecture Notes for Computer Science and, as post-Conference
proceedings, Conference Publishing System (CPS). The authors of a
selected number of top-quality papers will be requested to extend their
papers for further review and publication as special issues in highly
recognized international journals.


ICCSA 2021 accepts paper submission in the following categories: main
Conference theme papers and Workshop papers. The details for each paper
submission category can be found at the URL
http://www.iccsa.org/nstructions-for-authors and the list of Workshops
at the URL: http://www.iccsa.org/workshops.


Conference Themes
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The ICCSA 2021 Conference themes, grouped in five tracks, are the
following (but are not limited to):


1. Track: Computational Methods, Algorithms and Scientific Application
Computational Biology
Computational Combustion Computational Chemistry
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Computational Physics
Computational Geometry
Computational Mathematics
Computational Mechanics
Computational Electro-magnetics
Numerical Methods and Algorithms


2. Track: High Performance Computing and Networks Parallel and
Distributed Computing
Cluster Computing
Supercomputing
Cloud Computing
Autonomic Computing
P2P Computing
Mobile Computing
Grid and Semantic Grid Computing
Workflow Design and Practice
Computer and Network Architecture


3. Track: Geometric Modelling, Graphics and Visualization
Scientific Visualization
Computer Graphics
Geometric Modelling
Pattern Recognition
Image Processing
CAD/CAM
Web3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality


4. Track: Advanced and Emerging Applications
Biochemistry
Bioinformatics
Astrophysics
Biometric Modelling
Environmental, Climate and Weather Modelling
Geology and Geophysics
Nuclear Physics
Financial and Economical Modelling
Computational Journalism
Geographical Information Systems


5. Track: Information Systems and Technologies
Information Retrieval
Scientific Databases
Security Engineering
Risk Analysis
Reliability Engineering
Software Engineering
Data Mining
Artificial Intelligence
Learning Technologies
Web Based Computing
Web 2.0




6 Track: Urban and Regional Planning
Urban and regional growth
Sustainable urban and regional development
Socio-ecological systems
Open Data- Big Data
Cultural Heritage
Smart and Sustainable Cities
Mobility and Intelligent Transport Systems
Geographical Information Systems
Decision Support Systems
Complexity assessment and mapping
Logistics




Workshops  
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For details visit https://iccsa.org/workshops  


1)  Advanced Transport Tools and Methods (A2TM 2021)
2)  Adversarial Attack to Smart Infrastructures: detection,
countermeasures, resilience (AA2SI 2021)
3)  Advances in Artificial Intelligence Learning Technologies: Blended
Learning, STEM, Computational Thinking and Coding (AAILT 2021)
4)  Workshop on Advancements in Applied Machine-learning and Data
Analytics (AAMDA 2021)
5)  Automatic landform classification: spatial methods and applications
(ALCSMA 2021)
6)  Application of Numerical Analysis to Imaging Science (ANAIS 2021)
7)  Advances in information Systems and Technologies for Emergency
management, risk assessment and mitigation based on the Resilience
concepts (ASTER 2021)
8)  Advances in Web Based Learning (AWBL 2021)
9)  Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers: Technologies and Applications
(BDLTA 2021)
10)  Bio and Neuro inspired Computing and Applications  (BIONCA 2021)
11)  Computational and Applied Mathematics  (CAM 2021)
12)  Computational and Applied Statistics  (CAS 2021)
13)  Computerized Evaluation of Economic Activities: Urban Spaces  (CEEA
2021)
14)  Computational geometry and Applications 2021  (CGA 2021)
15)  Collaborative Intelligence in Multimodal Applications  (CIMA 2021)
16)  Computational Movement Analysis  (CMA 2021)
17)  Computational Optimization and Applications  (COA 2021)
18)  Computational Astrochemistry  (CompAstro 2021)
19)  Computational Science and HPC 2021  (CSHPC 2021)
20)  Cities, Technologies and Planning  (CTP 2021)
21)  Advanced Modeling E-Mobility in Urban Spaces  (DEMOS 2021)
22)  Digital Trasformation and Smart City (DIGISMART 2021)
23)  Econometrics and Multidimensional Evaluation in Urban Environment 
(EMEUE 2021)
24)  The 11th International Workshop on  Future Computing System
Technologies and Applications  (FiSTA 2021)
25)  Transformational Urban Mobility: Challenges and Opportunities
During and Post COVID Era  (FURTHER 2021)
26)  Geographical Computing for Archaeology  (GCArcheo 2021)
27)  Geodesign in Decision Making: meta planning and collaborative
design for sustainable and inclusive development  (GDM 2021)
28)  Geomatics in Agriculture and Forestry: new advances and
perspectives  (GeoForAgr 2021)
29)  Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics 
(GEOG-AND-MOD 2021)
30)  Geomatics for Resource Monitoring and Management  (GRMM 2021)
31)  12th International Symposium on Software Quality  (ISSQ 2021)
32)  10th International Workshop on Collective, Massive and Evolutionary
Systems  (IWCES 2021)
33)  Land Use monitoring for Sustainability  (LUMS 2021)
34)  Machine Learning for Space and Earth Observation Data  (MALSEOD 2021)
35)  Building multi-dimensional models for assessing complex
environmental systems  (MES 2021)
36)  Ecosystem Services: nature’s contribution to people in practice.
Assessment frameworks, models, mapping, and implications (NC2P 2021)
37)  Privacy in the Cloud/Edge/IoT World  (PCEIoT 2021)
38)  Computational methods with radial basis functions  (RBF 2021)
39)  Processes, methods and tools towards RESilient cities and cultural
heritage prone to SOD and ROD disasters  (RES 2021)
40)  Risk, resilience and sustainability in the efficient management of
water resources: approaches, tools, methodologies and multidisciplinary
integrated applications  (RRS 2021)
41)  Scientific Computing Infrastructure  (SCI 2021)
42)  Statistical Computing and informatics for Biodiversity  (SCIBFC 2021)
43)  Smart Cities and User Data Management  (SCIDAM 2021)
44)  13th International Symposium on Software Engineering Processes and
Applications  (SEPA 2021)
45)  Ports of the future – smartness and sustainability  (SmartPorts 2021)
46)  Smart Tourism  (SmartTourism 2021)
47)  Sustainability Performance Assessment:  models, approaches and
applications toward interdisciplinary and integrated solutions.  (SPA 2021)
48)  Smart and Sustainable Island Communities  (SSIC 2021)
49)  Science, technologies and policies to innovate spatial planning 
(STP4P 2021)
50)  Sustainable Urban Energy Systems  (SURENSYS 2021)
51)  Space Syntax for Cities in Theory and Practice  (Syntax_City 2021)
52)  Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and its Applications 
(TCCMA 2021)
53)  13th International Workshop on Tools and Techniques in Software
Development Process  (TTSDP 2021)
54)  Urban Form Studies  (UForm 2021)
55)  Urban Space Accessibility and Safety  (USAS 2021)
56)  Virtual Reality, Augmented reality and Applications  (VRA 2021)
57)  Workshop on Advanced and Computational Methods for Earth Science
applications  (WACM4ES 2021)


Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to one of the
above listed Workshops, to select the right entry in the list box shown
in the submission form.
An author is enabled to change the workshop associated to a submitted
paper until the submission deadline, by resubmitting the paper into the
system.




Paper Submission
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To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link
available at the ICCSA 2021 web site: https://ess.iccsa.org.
Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly
adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and
publication.
The submission may fall into the following five categories: Main
Conference Theme Papers (LNCS), Special Session/Workshop Papers (LNCS or
CPS), Short Papers (LNCS), and PHD Showcase Papers (CPS).


MAIN CONFERENCE THEME PAPERS (LNCS)
The submitted paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long
and formatted according to the LNCS rules. Please consult the URL
http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors for formatting information
and templates.




WORKSHOPS PAPERS (LNCS or CPS)
The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long for LNCS
publication, or 7 to 11 pages for CPS publication (in such case as
post-conference proceedings), and should be formatted according to the
LNCS or CPS rules, respectively.
Please consult the URL https://iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors for
formatting information and templates.


SHORT PAPERS (LNCS)
Reporting preliminary results of ongoing research. The submitted paper
must be between 7 and 9 pages long formatted according to LNCS rules.
The Short Papers will be presented during the conference and will be
published by LNCS.


PHD SHOWCASE PAPERS (CPS)
Reporting ongoing research already achieving significant results and
primarily carried out by Ph.D. students and junior researchers. The
submitted paper must be between 6 to 8 pages long formatted according to
CPS rules. The PHD Showcase Papers will be presented during the
conference and will be published by CPS as post-conference proceedings.


Each paper must deal with original and unpublished work, not submitted
for publication elsewhere (copyright problems fall entirely under
responsibility of the authors). Each paper will be reviewed by at least
three experts in the relevant field (acceptance rate was 28% in 2005,
26% in 2006 and 28% in 2007, 29% in 2008, 30% in 2009, 29% in 2010,
2011, 2012, and 30% in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019)
ensuring the publication of only top quality contributions.


When a paper is accepted at least one of the authors has to register to
the conference and deliver the related talk. Failure to do so shall lead
to rejection of the application to attend next year conference and the
exclusion of the paper for the current year proceedings.


 
Important Dates
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March 28, 2021: Deadline for paper submission to the General Tracks
(Workshops may select a different deadline)
April 18, 2021: Notification of Acceptance.
May 10, 2021: Early-bird Registration ends (firm deadline).
May 10, 2021: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers
(firm deadline).
July 5-8, 2021: ICCSA 2021 Conference




Proceedings
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The proceedings of the Conference will be published both by
Springer-Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science series) and, as
post-conference proceedings, by Conference Publishing Services (CPS).


In particular:


1. The selected top-quality Theme Papers and Session Papers having
adopted LNCS, will appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series (paper length: 10-16 pages).


2. The selected top-quality Session Papers having adopted CPS, will
appear in the CPS post-conference Proceedings.


3. Short papers will appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in
Computer Science ( LNCS) series (paper length: 7-9 pages)


4. PHD Showcase Papers will be published in the CPS post-conference
Proceedings.


For a selected number of top-quality papers, after the Conference, the
authors will be requested to extend the paper in order to be published
as special issues in appropriate international journals.




Conference policy
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By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide
by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation
policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not
appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted
to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it
appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore,
upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the
accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper
and present the paper at the event.


No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration
date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes
first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through
email, letter or fax to conference organizers.


The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental
misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and
conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for
opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in
the Conference Proceedings.




Contact Information
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Ivan Blečić
  Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Architecture,
University of Cagliari
  Via Marengo, 2
  06913 Cagliari
  Italy
  Email: ivanblecic <at>unica <dot> it


Osvaldo Gervasi
   Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia
   Via Vanvitelli, 1
   06123 Perugia
   Italy
   Phone: +39-075-5855048
   Fax: +39-075-5855024
   Email: osvaldo <dot> gervasi <at> unipg <dot> it
   URL: http://ogervasi.unipg.it