Dear Colleagues: Please share the announcement below with those who might be interested. Thank you very much. Best regards, Organizing Committee ------------ ==================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline: May 23, 2011 FECS'11 The 2011 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Engineering July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA ==================================================== INVITATION: This announcement is ONLY for those who MISSED the opportunity to submit their papers in response to earlier "Call For Papers". You are invited to submit a full paper (about 7 pages) for consideration (see instructions below). Full papers will be considered for both, oral presentation and publication in the conference proceedings as full papers. In addition, after the conference, selected authors will be asked to provide an extended version of their papers for publication consideration in research books to be published and indexed by Springer as well as by various journals. For a few examples of recent books and journal issues based on WORLDCOMP (FECS is an important track of WORLDCOMP, a federated congress in CS and CE), see the links below: (indexed by Medline, Scopus, EMBASE, BIOSIS, Biological Abstracts, CSA, Biological Sciences and Living Resources, Biological Sciences, and others): http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-7045-9 http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/bioinformatics/book/978-1-4419-5912-6 + a number of journal special issues published by BMC Genomics: http://www.biomedcentral.com . Abstract submissions (one/two-page) will be considered for poster presentations and one/two-page publication in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be made available in printed book as well as online. INDEXING: FECS proceedings will be indexed by Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering and Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others (in the past, all tracks of the federated congress, WORLDCOMP, in which FECS is part of have also been included in EI Compendex/Elsevier.) NOTE - Important: 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, MUST still follow the instructions that were emailed to them; including meeting the deadlines mentioned in the notifications that were sent to them). IMPORTANT DATES: May 23, 2011: Submission of papers for evaluation June 6, 2011: Notification of acceptance/not-acceptance June 21, 2011: Registration July 18-21, 2011: The 2011 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'11) July 30, 2011: Camera-Ready Papers Due for publication in the Final Edition of the proceedings. SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: FECS'11 is composed of a number of tracks (keynote presentations, invited talks, regular research presentations, tutorials, and workshops); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 18-21, 2011. See below for the topical list: 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 USEFUL WEB LINKS: The DBLP list of accepted papers of FECS 2010 appears at: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/fecs/fecs2010.html The main web site of FECS'11 can be found at: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/fecs11 SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: 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. 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 in late August 2011 (the conference would then make the necessary arrangements to ship the printed proceedings/book 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. The Final Edition will be indexed by Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering and Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others (in the past, all tracks of the federated congress, WORLDCOMP, in which FECS is part of, have also been included in EI Compendex/Elsevier.) The proceedings will be published in both, printed book/ISBN form as well as online. 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 May 23, 2011 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 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. Finally, the name of the conference (ie, FECS) should be mentioned. 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 included 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). 2011 PUBLICITY CHAIR: Ashu M. G. Solo Fellow of British Computer Society Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc. Intelligent Systems Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc. GENERAL INFORMATION: FECS 2011 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 2,100 or more attendees from over 85 countries. WORLDCOMP 2011 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 (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), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789 An important mission of WORLDCOMP 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. According to "Microsoft Academic Search" (a Microsoft initiative) all tracks of WORLDCOMP are listed as worldwide "Top-ranked Conferences" (based on various metrics but mainly based on the number of citations). You can access "Microsoft Academic Search" to extract citation data for each individual track of worldcomp using the following link: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ As of March 4, 2011, the papers published in the proceedings have received 14,385 citations which is a higher citation than many reputable journals in computer science.
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