Friday, July 15, 2016

Call for Participation: 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing including 11 tutorials, Las Vegas, U.S.A., July 25-28, 2016


                      CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

            The 2016 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                                +
                   11 Tutorials (including ABET)

        July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
                 http://worldcomp.org/events/2016

This is an invitation to attend The 2016 World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. The congress
is composed of 20 major tracks composed of: 11 tutorials (most are
3 hours long; including a tutorial about ABET); 738 research
presentations divided into 111 sessions and workshops; and 14
keynotes, invited lectures, and panel discussions, ... - all will
be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 25-28, 2016.
Attendees will have full access to all conferences' sessions, tracks,
and tutorials. Registration is required to attend. As of now, 55% of
registrants are from academia, 24% from industry; 20% from government
and funding agencies; and 1% unknown (correct as of July 10). About
half of the attendees are from outside USA; from 74 nations. The
congress has participants, speakers, authors affiliated with over 176
different universities (including many from the top 50 ranked
institutions), major IT corporations (including, Microsoft, Google,
Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE,
Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Hitachi, NTT, ...), major
corporations (including, Exxon Mobil, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase,
Raytheon, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC, Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, ...),
government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, US Air Force, NSA National
Security Agency, ...), US National Labs (including, NASA, ANL, LLNL,
Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab,
National Cancer Institute, NIST,  ...), and a number of Venture
Capitalists as well as distinguished speakers discussing Intellectual
Property issues.

See below for:

A. General Information (and detailed schedule)
B. Broad Topical Scopes
C. Registration Information for attendees (Deadline: July 20, 2016)
D. Location of congress (hotel) and online reservation system
E. Partial list of planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes
F. Misc Information

We look forward to seeing you July 25-28, 2016.
-----------------------------cut here-----------------------------


A. GENERAL INFORMATION:

   CONGRESS PROGRAMS/SCHEDULES:

B. BROAD TOPICAL SCOPES: (20 to 70 research presentations for each topic)

   Advances in Big Data Analytics (ABDA); Bioinformatics & Computational
   Biology (BIOCOMP); Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (BIOENG);
   Scientific Computing (CSC); Data Mining (DMIN); e-Learning, e-Business,
   Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE); Embedded
   Systems, Cyber-physical Systems, and Applications (ESCS); Foundations
   of Computer Science (FCS); Frontiers in Education (FECS, includes ABET);
   Grid, Cloud, and Cluster Computing (GCC); Health Informatics and Medical
   Systems (HIMS); Artificial Intelligence (ICAI); Internet Computing and
   Internet of Things (ICOMP); Wireless Networks (ICWN); Information &
   Knowledge Engineering (IKE); Image Processing, Computer Vision, &
   Pattern Recognition (IPCV); Modeling, Simulation and Visualization
   Methods (MSV); Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
   Applications (PDPTA); Security and Management (SAM); and Software
   Engineering Research and Practice (SERP).

C. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: (Deadline: July 20, 2016)


D. LOCATION OF CONGRESS:

   Attendees are to reserve their hotel rooms as soon as possible. A limited
   number of rooms are available at the reduced negotiated rate -
   reservations will be honored on the first-come first-served basis. If you
   were unable to reserve a room, then send an email to sc@world-comp.org ;
   we will try to help you book a room.

E. PLANNED TUTORIALS AND FEATURED KEYNOTES: (partial list)


   In addition to the above, there are a number of focused invited talks
   and lectures in individual tracks (these are not listed in the above
   links but will be listed in the individual schedules for each conference
   track.)

   Tutorials are free to conference registrants - Speakers include: IEEE
   and ACM Fellows, Distinguished Professors and Endowed Chairs, founders
   and CEOs of corporations, authors of major books, directors of labs
   and research centers, ABET National and International Program evaluators,
   IBM CIO of major divisions, members of Berkeley BISC, professors,
   educators and practitioners. Tutorial titles include (partial list):
   most tutorials are about 3 hours long:

   -> ABET Accreditation Process of Computer Science Program
   -> Visualization & Data Mining for High Dimensional Datasets
   -> Energy-Aware Resource Management for Computing Systems
   -> Industrial Big Data: The door to prescriptive analytics
   -> Predicting with Confidence
   -> Data Privacy-Preserving in Cloud Computing
   -> Becoming Successful Developing and Selling Mobile Apps and IoT
      Systems - Best Practices, Tools, Technologies and Processes for
      University Students and Professors
   -> Reactive Web Development Using Play and Akka
   -> Cyber Infrastructure for Emerging computing Technologies: A New
      Global Perspective
   -> What's the Secret? You're staring at it! Steganography from Greece
      to Cyberspace
   -> A Deep Dive Into Hybrid Cloud Adoption
   -> and others.

   Partial/featured list of Keynotes/Invited Talks:

   -> Search for Extraterrestrial Life in Our solar System
      Dr. Firouz Naderi
      Former director of Solar System Exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion
      Laboratory (JPL) - (Oversaw robotic spacecraft dispatched to all
      corners of the solar system); Prior position: NASA's Program Manager
      for Mars Exploration; Recipient of NASA's outstanding Leadership Medal
      and NASA's Distinguished Service Medal (NASA's highest award); In
      appreciation of his contributions, The International Astronomical
      Union (IAU) and NASA/JPL has named an asteroid "Naderi" after his name.

   -> Data Science for High Dimensional Datasets
      Prof. Alfred Inselberg
      Tel Aviv University, Israel; University of California, Los Angeles
      (UCLA); University of Southern California (USC); Senior Fellow at the
      San Diego Supercomputing Center, California, USA; Author of "Parallel
      Coordinates: VISUAL Multidimensional Geometry"; his work is praised by
      Stephen Hawking among many others.

   -> Industrial Big Data and SMART Assets: The fourth industrial revolution
      by the means of death awareness capabilities
      Prof. Diego Galar
      Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering,
      Lulea University of Technology, Sweden

   -> Data Science: Where Academia Meets Commerce
      Dr. Peter Geczy
      National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
      (AIST), Japan

   -> Mining Smartphone and Smartwatch Sensor Data: Activity Recognition,
      Biometrics, and Beyond
      Dr. Gary M. Weiss
      Director of Wireless Sensor Data Mining (WISDM) Lab, Department of
      Computer and Information Science, Fordham Univesity, New York, USA

   -> Evolving Systems: Theory and Applications
      Prof. Igor Schagaev
      London Metropolitan University, London, UK; Research Advisor of
      ITACS Ltd, UK

   -> (Potential) Recurrent Breast Cancer Treatment
      Steve Richfield* and Jane Eyre**
      *Owner, FixLowBodyTemp.com
      **Owner, NormalBodyTemperature.co.uk

   -> Panel Discussion: Multi- , Trans-Disciplinary Systems Engineering
      Dr. John N. Carbone; Engineering Fellow, Mission Support &
      Modernization, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services,
      Richardson, Texas, USA
      and
      Dr. James A. Crowder, Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence,
      Information and Services, Aurora, Colorado, USA

   -> Panel Discussion: Biologically-Inspired Computing: Merging Human
      and AI Learning Models
      Dr. James A. Crowder, Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence,
      Information and Services, Aurora, Colorado, USA
      and
      Dr. John N. Carbone; Engineering Fellow, Mission Support &
      Modernization, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services,
      Richardson, Texas, USA

   -> Panel Discussion: Future of Cybersecurity Education
      Moderator: Prof. Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy,
                 Michigan, USA
      Panelists:
      Prof. Eman El-Sheikh, University of West Florida, USA
      Prof. Levent Ertaul, California State University East Bay, USA
      Prof. Guillermo Francia, Jacksonville State University, USA

   -> SiTASENSE: Hierarchical 6LoWPAN and Sensing Model for Women
      Safety Services
      Prof. Dhananjay Singh
      Director of ReSENSE Lab & Chair of Division of Global IT, Hankuk
      University of Foreign Studies, Yongin-si, South Korea

   -> On Transforming Silicon to Brain
      Prof. T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair
      Fellow IE; SM IEEE, SM ACM, AAAS, LM CSI; Rector, RR Group of
      Institutions; Visiting Research Prof, University of Ulster, UK

   -> Doctoral Colloquium & Demos Sessions-2016 (DCDS-16)
      General Chair: Dr. Lamia Atma Djoudi, Synchrone Technologies,
      France

   -> Innovative Projects for International Collaborations "Investing
      for the Future" (IPIC-16)
      General Chair: Dr. Lamia Atma Djoudi, Synchrone Technologies,
      France

   -> + more than 15 other Invited Talks and Panels.


F. MISC INFORMATION:
   To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see some
   delegates photos available at:
   Last 10 years: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/

   MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
   As of January 5, 2016, papers published in the conference proceedings
   that have been held as part of this congress, have received 28,380
   citations. Citation data is obtained from Microsoft Academic Search.
   The citation data does not include more than 17,000 other citations to
   papers in conferences whose first offerings were initiated by this
   congress (such as: FUSION, ICWS, ICMLA, and others). In addition to the
   proceedings, the congress has also arranged the publication of a number
   of books and journal special issues; some of these publications have
   already received the top 25% most 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:

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

----
The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of
July 10, 2016.


Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Call For Participation: 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, U.S.A., July 25-28, 2016


                      CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

            The 2016 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

        July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
                 http://worldcomp.org/events/2016

This is an invitation to attend The 2016 World Congress in Computer
Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. The congress
is composed of 20 major tracks composed of: 9 tutorials (3 hours each);
618 research presentations divided into 105 sessions and workshops;
and 12 keynotes, invited lectures, and panel discussions, ... - all
will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 25-28, 2016.
Attendees will have full access to all conferences' sessions, tracks,
and tutorials. Registration is required to attend. As of now, 55% of
registrants are from academia, 24% from industry; 20% from government
and funding agencies; and 1% unknown (correct as of June 27). About
half of the attendees are from outside USA; from 74 nations. The
congress has participants, speakers, authors affiliated with over 176
different universities (including many from the top 50 ranked
institutions), major IT corporations (including, Microsoft, Google,
Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE,
Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Hitachi, NTT, ...), major
corporations (including, Exxon Mobil, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase,
Raytheon, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC, Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, ...),
government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, US Air Force, NSA National
Security Agency, ...), US National Labs (including, NASA, ANL, LLNL,
Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab,
National Cancer Institute, NIST,  ...), and a number of Venture
Capitalists as well as distinguished speakers discussing Intellectual
Property issues.

See below for:

A. General Information
B. Broad Topical Scopes
C. Registration Information for attendees (Deadline: July 18, 2016)
D. Location of congress (hotel) and online reservation system
E. Partial list of planned Tutorials and Featured Keynotes
F. Misc Information

We look forward to seeing you July 25-28, 2016.
-----------------------------cut here-----------------------------


A. GENERAL INFORMATION:

   http://www.worldcomp.org/events/2016

B. BROAD TOPICAL SCOPES: (10 to 70 research presentations for each topic)

   Advances in Big Data Analytics (ABDA); Bioinformatics & Computational
   Biology (BIOCOMP); Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (BIOENG);
   Scientific Computing (CSC); Data Mining (DMIN); e-Learning, e-Business,
   Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE); Embedded
   Systems, Cyber-physical Systems, and Applications (ESCS); Foundations
   of Computer Science (FCS); Frontiers in Education (FECS, includes ABET);
   Grid, Cloud, and Cluster Computing (GCC); Health Informatics and Medical
   Systems (HIMS); Artificial Intelligence (ICAI); Internet Computing and
   Internet of Things (ICOMP); Wireless Networks (ICWN); Information &
   Knowledge Engineering (IKE); Image Processing, Computer Vision, &
   Pattern Recognition (IPCV); Modeling, Simulation and Visualization
   Methods (MSV); Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
   Applications (PDPTA); Security and Management (SAM); and Software
   Engineering Research and Practice (SERP).

C. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: (Deadline: July 18, 2016)

   http://worldcomp.org/registration

D. LOCATION OF CONGRESS:

   http://worldcomp.org/event_location
   Attendees are to reserve their hotel rooms as soon as possible. A limited
   number of rooms are available at the reduced negotiated rate -
   reservations will be honored on the first-come first-served basis.

E. PLANNED TUTORIALS AND FEATURED KEYNOTES: (partial list)

   http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/tutorials/index_html
   http://worldcomp.org/events/2016/keynotes/index_html
   In addition to the above, there are a number of focused invited talks
   and lectures in individual tracks (these are not listed in the above
   links but will be listed in the individual schedules for each conference
   track.)

   Tutorials are free to conference registrants - Tutorial titles include
   (partial list): most tutorials are about 3 hours long:

   -> ABET Accreditation Process of Computer Science Program
   -> Visualization & Data Mining for High Dimensional Datasets
   -> Energy-Aware Resource Management for Computing Systems
   -> Becoming Successful Developing and Selling Mobile Apps and IoT
      Systems - Best Practices, Tools, Technologies and Processes for
      University Students and Professors
   -> Reactive Web Development Using Play and Akka
   -> Cyber Infrastructure for Emerging computing Technologies: A New
      Global Perspective
   -> What's the Secret? You're staring at it! Steganography from Greece
      to Cyberspace
   -> A Deep Dive Into Hybrid Cloud Adoption
   -> and others.

   Partial/featured list of Keynotes/Invited Talks:

   -> Search for Extraterrestrial Life in Our solar System
      Dr. Firouz Naderi
      Former director of Solar System Exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion
      Laboratory (JPL) - (Oversaw robotic spacecraft dispatched to all
      corners of the solar system); Prior position: NASA's Program Manager
      for Mars Exploration; Recipient of NASA's outstanding Leadership Medal
      and NASA's Distinguished Service Medal (NASA's highest award); In
      appreciation of his contributions, The International Astronomical
      Union (IAU) and NASA/JPL has named an asteroid "Naderi" after his name.

   -> Data Science for High Dimensional Datasets
      Prof. Alfred Inselberg
      Tel Aviv University, Israel; University of California, Los Angeles
      (UCLA); University of Southern California (USC); Senior Fellow at the
      San Diego Supercomputing Center, California, USA; Author of "Parallel
      Coordinates: VISUAL Multidimensional Geometry"; his work is praised by
      Stephen Hawking among many others.

   -> Evolving Systems: Theory and Applications
      Prof. Igor Schagaev
      London Metropolitan University, London, UK; Research Advisor of
      ITACS Ltd, UK

   -> (Potential) Recurrent Breast Cancer Treatment
      Steve Richfield* and Jane Eyre**
      *Owner, FixLowBodyTemp.com
      **Owner, NormalBodyTemperature.co.uk

   -> Panel Discussion: Multi- , Trans-Disciplinary Systems Engineering
      Dr. John N. Carbone; Engineering Fellow, Mission Support &
      Modernization, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services,
      Richardson, Texas, USA
      and
      Dr. James A. Crowder, Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence,
      Information and Services, Aurora, Colorado, USA

   -> Panel Discussion: Biologically-Inspired Computing: Merging Human
      and AI Learning Models
      Dr. James A. Crowder, Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence,
      Information and Services, Aurora, Colorado, USA
      and
      Dr. John N. Carbone; Engineering Fellow, Mission Support &
      Modernization, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services,
      Richardson, Texas, USA
   -> + more than 15 other Invited Talks and Panels.


F. MISC INFORMATION:
   To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see some
   delegates photos available at:
   2015 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6981287
   2014 Congress: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/6626396
   Last 10 years: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/

   MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:
   As of January 5, 2016, papers published in the conference proceedings
   that have been held as part of this congress, have received 28,380
   citations. Citation data is obtained from Microsoft Academic Search.
   The citation data does not include more than 17,000 other citations to
   papers in conferences whose first offerings were initiated by this
   congress (such as: FUSION, ICWS, ICMLA, and others). In addition to the
   proceedings, the congress has also arranged the publication of a number
   of books and journal special issues; some of these publications have
   already received the top 25% most 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://worldcomp.org/events/2016/worldcomp-books-journal-special-issues

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

----
The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of
June 1, 2016.



Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Call for Late Breaking Papers with Submission Deadline of June 10, 2016: 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, USA, July 25-28, 2016


 CALL FOR LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS
                       LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

            EXTENDED Submission Deadline: June 10, 2016
                 11:59pm US Eastern Time zone (EDT)

            The 2016 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

        July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
                  http://worldcomp.org/events/2016

INVITATION:

We anticipate having between 1,200 and 1,800 participants. Last year,
the Congress and its affiliated tracks had attracted speakers, authors,
and participants from over 178 different universities (including many
from the top 50 ranked institutions), major IT corporations (including,
Microsoft, Google, Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung,
IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Hitachi,
NTT, ...), major corporations (including, Exxon Mobil, Johnson & Johnson,
JPMorgan Chase, Raytheon, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC, Airbus,
Boeing, Hyundai, ...), government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE,
US Air Force, NSA National Security Agency, ...), US National Labs
(including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National
Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, National Cancer Institute, NIST,  ...),
and a number of Venture Capitalists as well as distinguished speakers
discussing Intellectual Property issues.

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).

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 (with unique
international ISBN number) and will also be made available online. In
addition, like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about
40%) 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% most 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:

Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer
science indexing products (which includes: Scopus, SCI Compendex,
Engineering Village, EMBASE, and others). The publications will be
indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data.
All publications are approved for inclusion into EBSCO, one of the
largest subject index systems. ACM Digital Library is also including
the titles into its database as well as ProQuest indexing databases
and others.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:

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 4. 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). 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 and the category of the paper (see
above). A 100 to 150-word abstract should appear on the first page.
The actual text of the paper can start from the first page (space
permitting).

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).


IMPORTANT DATES:

June 10, 2016:     Submission of Late Breaking Papers (7 pages), Position
                   Papers (4 pages), Abstract/Poster Papers (2 pages) for
                   evaluation (the sooner, a submission is received, the
                   earlier, the notification will be sent out.)
                   Submission web site: http://world-comp.org
June 20, 2016:     Notifications will be sent to the authors typically 10
                   days after the submission date but by no later than June 20.
July 5, 2016:      Registration due
July 25-28, 2016:  The 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer
                   Engineering, and Applied Computing (including all
                   affiliated federated conferences).
                   http://worldcomp.org/events/2016
August 20, 2016:   Final (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 all authors.


KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:

There will be between 10 and 20 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks;
speakers include world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured
Keynote Speakers for year 2016 include:

     Title: Search for Extraterrestrial Life in Our Solar System
     Dr. Firouz Naderi
     Former Director of Solar System Exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion
     Laboratory (JPL) - Oversaw robotic spacecraft dispatched to all
     corners of the solar system. Prior position: NASA's Program Manager
     for Mars Exploration Recipient of NASA's outstanding Leadership
     Medal and NASA's Distinguished Service Medal (NASA's highest award).
     In appreciation of his contributions, The International Astronomical
     Union (IAU) and NASA/JPL has named an asteroid "Naderi" after his name.

     Title: Data Science for High Dimensional Datasets
     Prof. Alfred Inselberg
     Tel Aviv University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing
     Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel
     Coordinates which has significant utilities in Big Data (his work
     has been praised by Stephen Hawking among others.)

There will also be between 10 and 12 half-day tutorials and panel
discussions. A typical tutorial is half a day long (3 hours) and is free
to all registered conference attendees. Tutorial speakers are all
distinguished scientists, educators, and practitioners: including senior
scientists from IBM (USA), Raytheon (USA), and academia as well as
research funding agencies. Topical panel discussions will include,
security, ABET Accreditation, data mining, Data Science and Big Data,
IoT, and others. Featured tutorials and panel discussions include (more
are in the pipeline of evaluation):

     ABET Accreditation Process of Computer Science Program
     Prof. Gurdeep S. Hura
     University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Maryland and
     ABET National and International Program evaluator.

     Energy-Aware Resource Management for Computing Systems
     Prof. H. J. Siegel
     Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of ACM; Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished
     Professor of ECE and CS, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA;
     Founding Director of CSU Info. Science and Tech. Center (ISTeC).

     Becoming Successful Developing and Selling Mobile Apps and IoT
     Systems - Best Practices, Tools, Technologies and Processes for
     University Students and Professors
     Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
     Founder and CEO, EVx, USA; Received PhD from Massachusetts Institute of
     Technology (MIT) - his work in mobile computer systems was selected as
     one of the most important inventions in computing; his invention is
     preserved and showcased in a time capsule at the Museum of Science in
     Boston, Massachusetts.

     Visualization & Data Mining for High Dimensional Datasets
     Prof. Alfred Inselberg
     Tel Aviv University, Israel; University of California, Los Angeles
     (UCLA); University of Southern California (USC); Senior Fellow at
     the San Diego Supercomputing Center, California, USA; Prof.
     Inselberg's work is praised by Stephen Hawking among many others.

     Cyber Infrastructure for Emerging computing Technologies: A New
     Global Perspective
     Prof. Gurdeep S. Hura
     University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Maryland and
     ABET National and International Program evaluator.

     Steganography from Greece to Cyberspace
     Prof. Kathy J. Liszka
     The University of Akron, Computer Science, Akron, Ohio, USA

     A Deep Dive Into Hybrid Cloud Adoption
     Tamer Nassar
     IBM CIO Cloud Platforms & Integration, New York, USA

     Becoming Successful Developing and Selling Mobile Apps and IoT
     Systems - Best Practices, Tools, Technologies and Processes for
     University Students and Professors
     Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
     Founder and CEO, EVx, USA; Named "Young Global Leader" by World
     Economic Forum; Received PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
     (MIT) - his work in mobile computer systems was selected as one of the
     most important inventions in computing; his invention is preserved and
     showcased in a time capsule at the Museum of Science in Boston.

     Reactive Web Development Using Play and Akka
     Prof. Mark Lewis
     Department of Computer Science, Trinity University, Texas, USA


LIST OF CONFERENCES:

The Congress is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences,
tutorials, sessions, workshops, poster and panel discussions); all will
be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 25-28, 2016. For
the complete list of joint conferences, see below.

o ABDA'16:
  The 3rd International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics

o BIOCOMP'16:
  The 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational
  Biology

o BIOENG'16:
  The 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences

o CSC'16:
  The 14th International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'16:
  The 15th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
  Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ESCS'16:
  The 14th International Conference on Embedded Systems, Cyber-physical
  Systems, and Applications

o FCS'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science

o FECS'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering

o GCC'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Grid, Cloud, and Cluster
  Computing

o HIMS'16:
  The 2nd International Conference on Health Informatics and
  Medical Systems

o ICAI'16:
  The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'16:
  The 17th International Conference on Internet Computing and
  Internet of Things

o ICWN'16:
  The 15th International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'16:
  The 15th International Conference on Information & Knowledge
  Engineering

o IPCV'16:
  The 20th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
  Vision, & Pattern Recognition

o MSV'16:
  The 13th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'16:
  The 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
  Processing Techniques and Applications

o SAM'16:
  The 15th International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'16:
  The 14th International Conference on Software Engineering Research
  and Practice

July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA.

All conferences listed above will be held simultaneously; i.e., same
location and dates.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

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), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director
and Consultant), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic),
Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor,
Purdue University), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University and
former director of Division of Info. and Intelligent Systems, NSF, USA),
Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, 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, USA and The US Air Force Research Lab.), Dr. James A.
Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and
Services; Aurora, Colorado, USA); Prof. Yaroslav D. Sergeyev
(Distinguished Professor, Head of Numerical Calculus Laboratory
University of Calabria, Rende, Italy), 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 and
territories. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see
some delegates photos available at:

DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM AND DEMO SESSION (DCDS-16):
Contact Person: Dr. Lamia Atma Djoudi, Synchrone technologies, France

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


Friday, April 22, 2016

Call for Late Breaking Papers with Submission Deadline of May 17, 2016: 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, Las Vegas, USA, July 25-28, 2016


                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS
 CALL FOR LATE BREAKING PAPERS, POSITION PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS

                 Submission Deadline: May 17, 2016
                 11:59pm US Eastern Time zone (EDT)

            The 2016 World Congress in Computer Science,
            Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

        July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA
                  http://worldcomp.org/events/2016

INVITATION:

We anticipate having between 1,200 and 1,800 participants. Last year,
the Congress and its affiliated tracks had attracted speakers, authors,
and participants from over 178 different universities (including many
from the top 50 ranked institutions), major IT corporations (including,
Microsoft, Google, Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung,
IBM, Ebay, GE, Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Hitachi,
NTT, ...), major corporations (including, Exxon Mobil, Johnson & Johnson,
JPMorgan Chase, Raytheon, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC, Airbus,
Boeing, Hyundai, ...), government research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE,
US Air Force, NSA National Security Agency, ...), US National Labs
(including, NASA, ANL, LLNL, Sandia, ORNL, Lawrence Berkeley National
Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, National Cancer Institute, NIST,  ...),
and a number of Venture Capitalists as well as distinguished speakers
discussing Intellectual Property issues.

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).

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 (with unique
international ISBN number) and will also be made available online. In
addition, like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about
40%) 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% most 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:

Each book in each series will be subject to Elsevier and Springer
science indexing products (which includes: Scopus, SCI Compendex,
Engineering Village, EMBASE, and others). The publications will be
indexed in science citation databases that track citation frequency/data.
All publications are approved for inclusion into EBSCO, one of the
largest subject index systems. ACM Digital Library is also including
the titles into its database as well as ProQuest indexing databases
and others.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR EVALUATION:

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 4. 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). 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 and the category of the paper (see
above). A 100 to 150-word abstract should appear on the first page.
The actual text of the paper can start from the first page (space
permitting).

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).


IMPORTANT DATES:

May 17, 2016:      Submission of Late Breaking Papers (7 pages), Position
                   Papers (4 pages), Abstract/Poster Papers (2 pages) for
                   evaluation (the sooner, a submission is received, the
                   earlier, the notification will be sent out.)
                   Submission web site: http://world-comp.org
June 2, 2016:      Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
June 16, 2016:     Registration due
July 25-28, 2016:  The 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer
                   Engineering, and Applied Computing (including all
                   affiliated federated conferences).
                   http://worldcomp.org/events/2016

August 20, 2016:   Final (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 all authors.


KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:

There will be between 10 and 20 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks;
speakers include world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured
Keynote Speakers for year 2016 include:

     Title: Search for Extraterrestrial Life in Our Solar System
     Dr. Firouz Naderi
     Former Director of Solar System Exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion
     Laboratory (JPL) - Oversaw robotic spacecraft dispatched to all
     corners of the solar system. Prior position: NASA's Program Manager
     for Mars Exploration Recipient of NASA's outstanding Leadership
     Medal and NASA's Distinguished Service Medal (NASA's highest award).
     In appreciation of his contributions, The International Astronomical
     Union (IAU) and NASA/JPL has named an asteroid "Naderi" after his name.

     Title: Data Science for High Dimensional Datasets
     Prof. Alfred Inselberg
     Tel Aviv University, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego Supercomputing
     Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of Parallel
     Coordinates which has significant utilities in Big Data (his work
     has been praised by Stephen Hawking among others.)

There will also be between 10 and 12 half-day tutorials and panel
discussions. A typical tutorial is half a day long (3 hours) and is free
to all registered conference attendees. Tutorial speakers are all
distinguished scientists, educators, and practitioners: including senior
scientists from IBM (USA), Raytheon (USA), and academia as well as
research funding agencies. Topical panel discussions will include,
security, ABET Accreditation, data mining, Data Science and Big Data,
IoT, and others. Featured tutorials and panel discussions include (more
are in the pipeline of evaluation):

     ABET Accreditation Process of Computer Science Program
     Prof. Gurdeep S. Hura
     University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Maryland and
     ABET National and International Program evaluator.

     Energy-Aware Resource Management for Computing Systems
     Prof. H. J. Siegel
     Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of ACM; Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished
     Professor of ECE and CS, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA;
     Founding Director of CSU Info. Science and Tech. Center (ISTeC).

     Becoming Successful Developing and Selling Mobile Apps and IoT
     Systems - Best Practices, Tools, Technologies and Processes for
     University Students and Professors
     Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
     Founder and CEO, EVx, USA; Received PhD from Massachusetts Institute of
     Technology (MIT) - his work in mobile computer systems was selected as
     one of the most important inventions in computing; his invention is
     preserved and showcased in a time capsule at the Museum of Science in
     Boston, Massachusetts.

     Visualization & Data Mining for High Dimensional Datasets
     Prof. Alfred Inselberg
     Tel Aviv University, Israel; University of California, Los Angeles
     (UCLA); University of Southern California (USC); Senior Fellow at
     the San Diego Supercomputing Center, California, USA; Prof.
     Inselberg's work is praised by Stephen Hawking among many others.

     Cyber Infrastructure for Emerging computing Technologies: A New
     Global Perspective
     Prof. Gurdeep S. Hura
     University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Maryland and
     ABET National and International Program evaluator.

     Steganography from Greece to Cyberspace
     Prof. Kathy J. Liszka
     The University of Akron, Computer Science, Akron, Ohio, USA

     A Deep Dive Into Hybrid Cloud Adoption
     Tamer Nassar and Nader Nassar
     IBM CIO Cloud Platforms & Integration, New York, USA


LIST OF CONFERENCES:

The Congress is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences,
tutorials, sessions, workshops, poster and panel discussions); all will
be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 25-28, 2016. For
the complete list of joint conferences, see below.

o ABDA'16:
  The 3rd International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics

o BIOCOMP'16:
  The 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational
  Biology

o BIOENG'16:
  The 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences

o CSC'16:
  The 14th International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'16:
  The 15th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
  Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ESCS'16:
  The 14th International Conference on Embedded Systems, Cyber-physical
  Systems, and Applications

o FCS'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science

o FECS'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
  Science and Computer Engineering

o GCC'16:
  The 12th International Conference on Grid, Cloud, and Cluster
  Computing

o HIMS'16:
  The 2nd International Conference on Health Informatics and
  Medical Systems

o ICAI'16:
  The 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'16:
  The 17th International Conference on Internet Computing and
  Internet of Things

o ICWN'16:
  The 15th International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'16:
  The 15th International Conference on Information & Knowledge
  Engineering

o IPCV'16:
  The 20th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
  Vision, & Pattern Recognition

o MSV'16:
  The 13th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
  Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'16:
  The 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
  Processing Techniques and Applications

o SAM'16:
  The 15th International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'16:
  The 14th International Conference on Software Engineering Research
  and Practice

July 25-28, 2016, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA.

All conferences listed above will be held simultaneously; i.e., same
location and dates.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

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), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director
and Consultant), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic),
Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor,
Purdue University), Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University and
former director of Division of Info. and Intelligent Systems, NSF, USA),
Prof. Victor Raskin (Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, 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, USA and The US Air Force Research Lab.), Dr. James A.
Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and
Services; Aurora, Colorado, USA); Prof. Yaroslav D. Sergeyev
(Distinguished Professor, Head of Numerical Calculus Laboratory
University of Calabria, Rende, Italy), 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 and
territories. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see
some delegates photos available at:

DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM AND DEMO SESSION (DCDS-16):
Contact Person: Dr. Lamia Atma Djoudi, Synchrone technologies, France

MEASURABLE SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF CONGRESS:

As of January 5, 2016, papers published in the conference proceedings
that have been held as part of this congress, have received 28,380
citations (includes 3,346 self-citations). Citation data is obtained
from Microsoft Academic Search. The citation data does not even
include more than 17,000 other citations to papers in conferences
whose first offerings were initiated by this congress (such as:
FUSION, ICWS, ICMLA, and others).

MISCELLANEOUS:
The information that appears in this announcement is correct as of
April 16, 2016.

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