The 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- University of Trieste, Trieste (Italy), July 3-6, 2017 Call for Workshop proposals --------------------------- We encourage and invite interested parties to submit a proposal for organizing a Workshop Workshop proposals will be collected and evaluated as they are received until October 31, 2016 and notification of acceptance / rejection will be sent before November 8, 2016 The Workshop proposals should be submitted from the researcher's home page on the ICCSA 2017 Electronic Submission System. Researchers who have already collaborated with the ICCSA Conference series are already defined to the system, the others have to register to the submission system first. The form to be filled will require the following information: - Title of the Workshop - Name, the affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address of the Workshop organizer(s) - Previous experience of the organizer(s) in organizing Workshops (if any) - name, the affiliation, and e-mail addresses of at least three colleagues of the organizer(s) who can comment on her/his (their) ability to organize the Workshop. The organization of successful workshops in previous editions of ICCSA (with minimum no-show up, several discussions and questions during/after presentations), including the participation of the Workshop Organizers to the Conference, will be given priority ranking for acceptance. - Description of the topics of the workshop (not exceeding 100 words) and detailed list (name, affiliation, country) of the Program Committee members and additional reviewers (if external to the program committee) - The selected publisher (LNCS) of the proposed workshop. - A short description on how the workshop will be advertised. The information provided by the workshop organizer(s) to the Conference Chairs shall remain strictly confidential. The Workshop Organizers are responsible for all the organizational aspects including soliciting submissions and providing the details of an adequate number of reviewers for the Workshop papers. Workshop Organizers are also fully responsible for ensuring that only high quality papers are accepted for publication in the Proceedings and for verifying the correctness of the layout adopted by the authors (which depends from the editor selected for the workshop). They are also responsible for choosing the actual reviewers (at least three) for each paper and for monitoring the reviewing process on the reviewing system, in collaboration with the Conference Program Chairs. Workshop Organizers (or their Deputies) are expected to attend ICCSA 2017, set the order of presentations and chair their related workshop(s). The nature of the Workshops will be determined after the reviewing process and according to the number of accepted and registered papers. Due to their active role, Workshop Organizers will receive some incentives, depending on the number and quality of accepted and registered papers. Paper submission GENERAL TRACKS PAPERS: The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules. WORKSHOP PAPERS: The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules. SHORT PAPERS: The submitted paper must be between 7 to 9 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules. Proceedings The proceedings will be published as a special series of volumes of the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) edited by Springer.