CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2015
International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing
and Applications (GCA'15)
July
27-30, 2015, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
CALL FOR LATE
BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2015
11:59pm US Eastern Time zone (EDT)
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/conferences/gca15
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/call_for_papers
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INVITATION:
This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the
opportunity to submit
their papers in response to earlier "Call For
Papers". Therefore,
authors who have ALREADY submitted papers in response to
earlier "Call
For Papers" should IGNORE this announcement. (Those
who have been
notified that their papers have been accepted, should
still follow the
instructions that were emailed to them; including meeting
the deadlines
mentioned in the notifications that were sent to them).
You are invited to submit a "LATE BREAKING
PAPER", "POSITION PAPER", or
"ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPER" for consideration. All
accepted papers will be
published in printed conference books/proceedings (ISBN)
and will also
be made available online. In addition, like prior years,
extended
versions of selected papers (about 35%) of the conference
will appear
in journals and edited research books (publishers
include: Springer,
Elsevier, BMC, and others); some of these books and
journal special
issues have already received the top 25% downloads in
their respective
fields. See the link below for a very small subset of the
books published
mostly based on extended versions of the accepted papers
of this congress:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/publications
. The
titles of proceedings of this congress have been indexed
into the ACM
Digital Library ( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which includes
bibliographic
citations from major publishers in computing. To get a
feeling about
the conferences' atmosphere, see some delegates photos
available at:
http://infinitydempsey.smugmug.com/WorldComp
http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/
The conference is composed of a number of tracks,
tutorials, sessions,
workshops, poster and panel discussions; all will be held
simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 27-30, 2015.
SCOPE: TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED
TO, THE FOLLOWING:
o Grid Computing:
- Software
engineering support for grid computing
- Software
integration technologies in grid systems
- Big Data
management on Grid
- Grid
technology and security
- Grid computing
virtual organizations
- Grid
middleware and toolkits
- Grid
monitoring, management, and organization tools
- User
development environment and programming tools for grid computing
- Resource
management, scheduling, load balancing & run-time environments
- Autonomic
& utility computing on global grids
- Architectures
for grid computing and fabrics
- Data grid
management systems
- Metadata,
ontologies, and provenance
- Resource
discovery
- Web services
and web security in grid computing
- Wireless
enhanced grid systems
- Grid and
cluster integration
- e-Science,
e-Business applications, and virtual instrumentation
- Grid object
metadata and schemas
- Grid
application and deployment environments
- Interconnects
and protocols for grids
- Major grid
initiatives
- Grid computing
scenarios and applications in science,
engineering,
and commerce (life science, CFD grids, business
process grids,
physics grids, ...)
o Cloud Computing:
- Big Data
management on Cloud
- Hardware as a
service
- SaaS, PaaS,
and IaaS
- SOA and Cloud
computing
- Green
information technology
- Application
portability
- Cloud
scalability
- Cloud
management and databases
- Use of cloud
for high-performance computing
- Cloudsourcing
- Cloud
interoperability
- Web-scale
computing
- Data
encryption
- Virtual
Private Inter-Cloud
- Cloud
reliability and secure Cloud computing
- Cloud
automation and mobility
- Cloud policies
and compliance
- Cloud
federation
- Cloud
enablement
-
Consumption-based billing
- Cloud
serviceability and architecture
- Cloud
computing and SMBs
- Cloud
applications
- Enterprise
Cloud Orchestration
- Fabric
Computing
- Eclipse and
Cloud computing
- Cloud
internetworking
IMPORTANT DATES:
May 31, 2015:
Submission of LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS,
ABSTRACTS/POSTERS for evaluation (the sooner, a submission
is received, the earlier, the notification will be sent out.)
Submission web site: http://world-comp.org
June 14, 2015:
The notification of acceptance will be sent out typically 10
days after the paper has been submitted but by no later than
June 14.
June 24, 2015:
Registration due
July 27-30, 2015: The 2015 International Conference on
Grid & Cloud Computing
and Applications (GCA'15)
August 20, 2015:
Camera-Ready LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS/
POSTERS Due for publication. Papers submitted and accepted in
response to this announcement will be published in the Final
Edition of the proceedings which will go to press soon after
the conference; they will also be indexed in science citation
index databases. The Final Edition of the proceedings will be
identical to the Preliminary Edition except for the addition
of the accepted LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS,
ABSTRACTS/POSTERS at the end of the books. The conference
would make the necessary arrangements to
ship the printed
proceedings/books to such authors.
SUBMISSION OF LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS,
ABSTRACTS/POSTERS:
In response to this announcement, authors are given the
opportunity to
submit their papers for evaluation in one of the
following three paper
categories:
1. LATE BREAKING
PAPERS: describe late-breaking/recent developments in
the field.
The maximum number of pages is 7. Please write the
following on
the first page of your submission "name of conference:
LATE BREAKING
PAPER". If accepted, The length of the final/Camera-
Ready paper
will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages and
the author
will be given the opportunity to present the paper in a
formal
session.
2. POSITION
PAPERS: enable discussions on emerging topics without the
experimentation normally present in an academic paper. Commonly,
such papers
will substantiate the opinions or positions put forward
with evidence
from an extensive objective discussion of the topic.
The maximum
number of pages is 5. Please write the following on the
first page of
your submission "name of conference: POSITION PAPER".
If accepted,
The length of the final/Camera-Ready paper will be
limited to 4
(two-column IEEE style) pages and the author will be
given the
opportunity to present the paper in a formal session.
3.
ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPERS: describe research roadmaps (similar to PhD
plan or PhD
prospectus). The maximum number of pages is 2. Please
write the
following on the first page of your submission "name of
conference:
ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPER". If accepted, The length of the
final/Camera-Ready paper will be limited to 2 (two-column IEEE
style) pages
and the author will be given the opportunity to
present the
paper in a discussion/poster session.
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 the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and
must be in either
MS doc or pdf formats. 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; these formatting instructions appear at:
http://world-comp.org
and they conform to the two-column IEEE style
format). 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 as well as a maximum of 5 topical
keywords that
would best represent the content of the paper. The first
page should also
identify the name of the Contact/Corresponding author
together with
his/her professional email address. A 100 to 150-word
abstract should
appear on the first page. Authors are to conform to the
common CODE OF
ETHICS FOR AUTHORS (The document for the Code of Ethics
is available on
the submission web site.)
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 proceedings 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. All proceedings are also approved for
inclusion into
EBSCO ( www.ebsco.com ), one of the largest subject index
systems. The
titles of proceedings of the federated congress have been
indexed into
the ACM Digital Library ( http://dl.acm.org/ ) which
includes
bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing.
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 process may take
12 to 18
months), a significant number of authors of accepted
papers of our
congress, will be given the opportunity to submit the
extended version
of their papers for publication consideration in these
books. We
anticipate having between 10 and 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).
For a recent
and a very small subset of the books (and journal special
issues) that
have been published based on the extended versions of
many of our
congress papers, see the link below:
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/books_journals
Note that authors who submit papers in response to this
announcement,
will have their papers evaluated for publication
consideration in the
Final Edition of the conference proceedings which will go
to press
soon after the conference (the conference would then make
the necessary
arrangements to ship the printed proceedings/books to
such authors).
The Final Edition of the conference proceedings will be
identical to
earlier edition except for a number of sections/chapters
appended to
the proceedings/book.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The federated Congress that this conference is part of is
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.), 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);
Prof. Amit Sheth (Fellow of IEEE and LexisNexis Eminent
Scholar;
Founder/Executive Director, Ohio Center of Excellence in
Knowledge-enabled
Computing (Kno.e.sis) and Professor of Computer Science,
Wright State
University, Ohio, USA); Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard
University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and School of Engineering
and Applied
Sciences and Medical School Athinoula Martinos Brain
Imaging Center; and
The US Air Force Research Lab., USA; CEO, LP Information
Technology, USA
and Chair of IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain;
Recipient of John
McLucas Award, the highest US Air Force Award for basic
research);
and many other distinguished speakers. 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.
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;
i.e., facilitating increased opportunities for
cross-fertilization across
sub-disciplines.
TUTORIALS:
All tutorials are free to conference registrants, the
list of tutorials
that have been approved so far can be found at: (Under
Construction)
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp15/ws/tutorials
.
We plan to offer about 12 tutorials and panel
discussions. As of the
writing of this announcement, the following tutorials are
in the
pipeline of approval and final review; tutorials will be presented
by
distinguished experts in their respective fields.
O. Building Dependable Distributed Systems
O. Introduction to Cryptography and Network Security
O. Motion Tracking and Recognition with Microsoft Kinect
O. Application of MATLAB in Science and Engineering
O. Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology
(ABET)
O. Natural Language in Information Security and Privacy
O. Recommendation Systems for Big Data
O. Fault Tolerance and Beyond
O. Cloud Computing for Big Data Challenges
O. Big Data and Data Analytics (multiple proposals
received)
O. Data Center and related issues
O. Visualization and datamining in the context of Big
Data
O. Power-aware systems and efficient consumption issues
for HPC
O. Big Data Analytics
MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
As of December 14, 2014, papers published in the
conference proceedings
that have been held as part of this congress, have
received over
27,914 citations (includes 3,346 self-citations).
Citation data is
obtained from Microsoft Academic Search. The citation
data does not
even include more than 15,000 other citations to papers
in conferences
whose first offerings were initiated by this congress.
Individual
proceedings/books (2013 & 2014) of the federated congress
can be
purchased from major science book distributors: (such as:
EBSCO and
others):
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp14/ws/proceedings
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/proceedings
CONTACT:
Inquiries should be sent to: sc@world-comp.org
