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From: A. M. G. Solo on 15 Mar 2010 22:17
It would be greatly appreciated if this announcement could be shared
with educators whose interests include computer science, computer
engineering, and applied computing. Thanks.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): March 21, 2010

FECS'10
The 2010 International Conference on Frontiers
in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

Date and Location: July 12-15, 2010, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All
accepted papers will be published in the FECS conference
proceedings (in printed book form; later, the proceedings will
also be accessible online).

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 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 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

USEFUL WEB LINKS:
To see the DBLP list of accepted papers in the last offering of FECS,
go to
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/fecs/fecs2009.html
The main web site of FECS'10 is accessible at
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/fecs10

CONFIRMED ACADEMIC & TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS (a partial list):

The Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), University of
California, Berkeley, USA; Collaboratory for Advanced Computing and
Simulations (CACS), University of Southern California, USA;
Intelligent
Data Exploration & Analysis Lab., University of Texas at Austin,
Texas,
USA; Harvard Statistics Department Genomics & Bioinformatics Lab.,
Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA; BioMedical Informatics &
Bio-Imaging Lab., Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University,
Georgia, USA; Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, USA; Minnesota Supercomputing
Institute, University of Minnesota, USA; Medical Image HPC &
Informatics
Lab. (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa, USA; University of North Dakota,
USA; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing & Communications Lab., North Dakota
State
University, USA; Knowledge Management & Intelligent System Center
(KMIS)
of University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics
and
Translational Research, Austria; SECLAB of University of Naples
Federico II, University of Naples Parthenope, & Second University of
Naples, Italy; National Institute for Health Research; World Academy
of
Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; High Performance Computing for
Nanotechnology (HPCNano); Supercomputer Software Department (SSD),
Institute of Computational Mathematics & Mathematical Geophysics,
Russian Academy of Sciences; Int'l Council on Medical & Care
Compunetics;
The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, UK; VMW
Solution
Ltd.; Scientific Technologies Corporation; HoIP - Health without
Boundaries; Space for Earth Foundation; and Manjrasoft (Cloud
Computing
Technology company), Melbourne, Australia.

WORLDCOMP 2010 MEMBERS OF STEERING COMMITTEE:
(Each track/conference has its own committee members - what
appears below is a partial list of members of the steering
committee of the federated event - WORLDCOMP.)

Dr. Selim Aissi
Chief Strategist - Security, Manageability and Virtualization,
Ultra Mobile Group, Intel Corporation, USA

Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
Coordinator & General Co-Chair, Professor, Computer Science,
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer),
Co-Editor/Board, Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier),
Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing,
Elected Fellow, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine,
The University of Georgia, USA
email: hra(a)cs.uga.edu

Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
Member, National Academy of Engineering,
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Prof. Hyunseung Choo
ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication, Korea,
Director, ITRC: Intelligent HCI Convergence Research Center, Korea,
Director, Korea Information Processing Society,
Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology,
Assoc. Editor, Transactions on Computational Science, Springer-
Verlag;
Director, Korean Society for Internet Info. (KSII) + Society for
Sim.;
Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Prof. Andy Marsh
Director HoIP (Healthcare over Internet Protocol),
Secretary-General WABT (World Academy of Biomedical Science &
Tech.),
Vice-president ICET (Int'l Council for Engineering & Technology),
Vice-president ICMCC (Int'l Council on Medical & Care Compunetics),
Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK

Prof. Layne T. Watson
IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National
Institute of Aerospace, Departments of Computer Science & Math,
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, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing,
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA

URL: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/fecs10

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

FECS'10 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 2,000 or more attendees from over 85 countries
participating
at WORLDCOMP Congress. A number of individual research tracks of
the Congress have been held for many years; for example, PDPTA has
been held annually since 1995 (PDPTA'10 is the 16th annual
conference); ERSA has been held annually since 2001 (ERSA'10 is the
10th annual conference); ICAI has been held annually since 1999
(ICAI'10 is the 12th annual conference); FECS has been held
annually since 2005 (FECS'10 is the 6th annual conference). Other
tracks of WORLDCOMP Congress have similar records.

The motivation behind this federated congress is to assemble
a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated
research meeting held in a common place at a common time. The
main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of ideas in a
number of research areas that interact. The model used to form
FECS facilitates communication among researchers and educators
from all over the world in different fields of computer science,
computer engineering, mathematics, and applied computing. Both
inward topics (core areas) and outward topics (multi-disciplinary,
inter-disciplinary, and applications) will be covered during the
conference. FECS 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.

FECS'10 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 (as part of the federated event):
Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/computer 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 (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.),
Anousheh Ansari (CEO, Prodea Systems & first female private
space explorer), and many other distinguished speakers. To get
a feeling about the events' atmosphere, see the 2009 delegates
photos available at:
http://www.pixagogo.com/1672514104
2008 delegates photos can be viewed at:
http://www.pixagogo.com/8658134154

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, PUBLICATION, INDEXING INFORMATION:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by
uploading them to the evaluation web site at:
http://worldcomp.cviog.uga.edu/
Submissions must be uploaded by March 21, 2010 and they must
be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5
to 7 pages - 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.)

The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been
previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere. The first page of the draft 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. Finally, the name of the conference (ie. FECS)
must be stated on the first page.

Full papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
clarity, impact, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed
by two experts in the field who are independent of the
conference program committee. The referees' evaluations will
then be reviewed by one member of the program committee who
will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that
the paper has been submitted to. The chair will make the
final decision. Lastly, the final papers will be reviewed
by one member of the program committee.

All accepted papers will be published in the respective
conference proceedings (in both, printed book form as well as
online). The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET /
The Institute for Engineering and Technology, DBLP / Computer
Science Bibliography, and others.) The printed proceedings
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 being
proposed/contracted with various publishers (such as, Springer,
Elsevier, IOS, ...) - these books would be composed after the
conference. Also, many chairs of sessions and workshops will
be forming journal special issues to be published after the
conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 21, 2010: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
April 10, 2010: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 1, 2010: Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 12-15, 2010: The 2010 International Conference on Frontiers
in Education: Computer Science and Computer
Engineering (FECS'10)

URL: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World
Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific
computing; AI; imaging science; databases; simulation;
software eng.; embedded systems; internet & web technologies;
communications; computer security; & bioinformatics.) The
Program Committee for FECS'10 conference is currently
being formed. Many who have already joined the committees
of individual tracks are renowned leaders, scholars,
researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest
ranks; many are directors of research labs., fellows of
various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program
directors of research funding agencies, deans and provosts.
You can view the list of program committee of the last two
offerings of FECS at:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/fecs08/committee
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp09/ws/conferences/fecs09/committee
Program Committee members are expected to have established
a strong and documented research track record. Those
interested in joining the Program Committee should email
H. R. Arabnia (hra(a)cs.uga.edu) the 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
offering to help with (ie, FECS).

LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

FECS'10 will be held at Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).
This is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and
over 3,000 rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour
shuttle service to and from the airport. This hotel has many
recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools,
sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool, nightly shows, many
restaurants, ... The hotel is adjacent to CityCenter
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityCenter ) which is the
largest private development in the United States' history
(costing over $11 Billion); this offers access to additional
recreational and entertainment attractions. The negotiated
room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable.

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