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CALL FOR TRACK PROPOSALS – SAC 2009 The 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing March 8 – 12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009 For the past twenty-three years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. The conference proceedings are published by ACM and are also available online through ACM's Digital Library. SAC is based on a flexible structure of mostly self-contained and self-managed tracks. Over the past years SAC hosted tracks on a variety of timely topics such as Software Engineering, Bioinformatics, Computer Security, Database Technology, Data Mining, Embedded Systems, Evolutionary Computing, Distributed Systems and Grid Computing, Mobile Computing, Programming Languages, and Web Technologies. SAC 2008, which was held in Fortaleza, Brazil, consisted of 45 tracks that hosted 384 accepted papers out of about 1307 submissions. More information on past SAC events can be found at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac. The 24th Annual SAC meeting will be held March 2009 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, and is hosted by the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Chaminade University of Honolulu. The conference Organizing Committee solicits proposals for organizing and hosting tracks. Prospective track chairs should submit an up to two-page description for organizing a track, which should include at least the following items: 1) The proposed title for the track with a description of its aims, topics it will cover, and rationale for having such a track in SAC. This rationale should refer to any related conference events that are held regularly and why the proposed track differs from them or complements them. The proposed track should not be overly general but also not overly specialized, thus being able to attract a wide audience of people sharing similar interests. Proposals from industry are also welcomed. Despite its name, SAC also welcomes topics of mostly theoretical nature, provided there is clear practical potential in applying the results of such work. 2) A short description of the activities the track chair(s) will undertake upon acceptance of the proposal, to disseminate the call-for-papers for the track, and to manage the review process. (Specific guidelines to track chairs regarding these issues will also be provided.) 3) A short CV of the prospective track chair(s) with reference to research interests and publication record directly related to the themes of the proposed track, and any previous experience of involvement in the organization of similar events (in the interest of brevity, reference to a personal web page where such information can be found will be sufficient). All proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee using the criteria described above. The Committee reserves the right to: (1) accept a proposal as is, (2) require modifications before acceptance, (3) recommend merging of similar proposals with a considerable overlap in the topics addressed (in this case the track chairs of the different proposals will be asked to form a single chair), (4) reject a proposal. Upon acceptance of a proposal, the track chairs will be notified of their responsibilities in managing the affairs of their track; as such responsibilities are defined by both the ACM and SAC conference rules. The Committee reserves the rights to cancel a track at any time if these responsibilities are not addressed adequately by the track chair(s). IMPORTANT DATES April 12, 2008: Submission of track proposals April 26, 2008: Notification of acceptance/rejection May 10, 2008: Call-For-Papers for accepted tracks Aug 16, 2008: Submission of papers Sept 20, 2008: Submission of tutorial proposals Oct 11, 2008: Notification of acceptance/rejection Oct 25, 2008: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers Please submit your proposal electronically in any acceptable readable format to: Mirko Viroli SAC 2008 Program Co-Chair Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy mirko.viroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] unibo.it -- Dott. Ing. Mirko Viroli, PhD Research Associate DEIS, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Cesena via Venezia 52 47023 Cesena (FC) Tel.: +39 0547 339216 Fax: +39 0547 339208 Dept. secretariat: +39 0547 339200 mailto: mirko.viroli "at" unibo.it http://www.ingce.unibo.it/~mviroli