-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call For Papers: EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: March 27, 2012 - Conference on Frontiers in Education: CS and CE (FECS: July 2012, USA) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:23:12 -0400 From: CS and CE Education wcom12@world-comp.org To: neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS

EXTENDED Paper Submission Deadline: March 27, 2012

FECS'12 The 2012 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

July 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, USA ======================================================================

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers 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. The proceedings of the congress that FECS is part of, enjoys a high number of citations; about 26,000 citations so far.

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

O Accreditation and assessment 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 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) promising 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 Using the web O Factors that lead to success in CS and CE

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 March 27, 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, FECS) 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).

Authors whose papers are accepted will be instructed to upload their papers to a particular web site for publication - the uploaded papers to the publication web site will only be checked for correct typesetting. At this point, authors will be required to attest to the originality of their work (ie, declaring that no part of the work is plagiarized and the paper does not suffer from any acts of plagiarism.)

Proceedings of FECS will be published in printed conference books (ISBN) and will also be made available online. The proceedings will be indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each published paper (science citation databases such as: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering& Technology; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core scientific literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals; only about 9% are proceedings; worldcomp tracks are selected to be among the 9% - accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others. Though, there is no guarantee that the proceedings will also be included in EI Compendex/Elsevier indexings, in the past, the proceedings of FECS was included in these databases. Therefore, we will also be sending the proceedings for indexing procedures to EI Compendex/Elsevier. 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 - 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.

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.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 27, 2012: Submission of full papers (about 7 pages) April 26, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+/- 2 days) May 12, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration July 16-19, 2012: The 2012 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'12)

GENERAL INFORMATION:

FECS conference is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences, WORLDCOMP congress. The congress 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. The 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, 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 2011 delegates photos available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606

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. 67969

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF PROCEEDINGS:

The conference proceedings enjoy a high number of citations. As of March 2012, papers published in each track of the proceedings have received the following number of citations: 252 citations to BIOCOMP papers; 116 to CDES papers; 65 to CGVR papers; 55 to CSC papers; 271 to DMIN papers; 69 to EEE papers; 1,286 to ERSA papers; 504 to ESA papers; 176 to FCS papers; 9,408 to FECS papers; 157 to GCA papers; 75 to GEM papers; 2,172 to ICAI papers; 1,529 to ICOMP papers; 1,247 to ICWN papers; 571 to IKE papers; 255 to IPCV papers; 137 to MSV papers; 5,239 to PDPTA papers; 496 to SAM papers; 1,390 to SERP papers; and 177 to SWWS papers. In total, over 25,600 citations have been made (so far) to papers published in the proceedings of this federated joint conferences. Refer to the URLs below to see the actual citation numbers (each is a link to a live search and so it may take a few seconds for the data to pull up):

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1816/biocomp-bioinformatic... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1845/cdes-international-co... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1852/cgvr-international-co... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1887/csc-international-con... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1920/dmin-int-conf-on-data... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1891/csreaeee-internationa... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/679/ersa-engineering-of-re... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/681/esa-embedded-systems-a... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1981/fcs-international-con... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1983/fecs-conference-on-fr... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/1998/gca-international-con... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2467/gem-international-con... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/7/ic-ai-international-conf... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/5/icomp-international-conf... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/48/icwn-international-conf... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/65/ike-information-and-kno... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2114/ipcv-international-co... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2209/msv-int-conf-on-model... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/214/pdpta-parallel-and-dis... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/332/sam-security-and-manag... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/361/serp-software-engineer... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Conference/2308/swws-conference-on-se...

USEFUL WEB LINKS AND OTHER MISC INFORMATION: 1. Web site of FECS'12: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp12/ws/conferences/fecs12 2. The 2011 congress delegates photos are available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606 3. This announcement contains updated and current information (correct as of the date of this message). The information that appears in this announcement supersedes earlier ones.

CONTACT: Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org

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