CALL FOR
PAPERS
Paper Submission Deadline: March
30, 2018
11:59pm USA Eastern Time zone
(EDT)
The 14th International Conference on
Frontiers in Education:
Computer Science and Computer
Engineering
(FECS'18)
July 30 - August 2, 2018, Luxor (MGM),
Las Vegas, USA
Corporations who
wish to participate in "Career, Job, & Education
Fair",
please see the instructions at the end of this announcement.
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conference is
part of, is among the top five largest international
annual gathering
of researchers in computer science, computer
engineering and
applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees
from about 75
countries and territories. To get a feeling about the
conferences'
atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at
SCOPE: TOPICS OF
INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:
- ABET Accreditation and assessment
- ABET experiences and good practices
- Student recruitment and retention methods
- Promoting multi-disciplinary initiatives -
impact on curriculum
- Capstone research projects: examples and
case studies
- Distance learning; methods, technologies
and assessment
- Innovative degree programs and
certificates
- Innovative uses of technology in the
classroom
- Collaborative learning
- Learning models and learning from mistakes
- Computer and web-based software for
instruction
- Ethics in computer science and engineering
- Incorporating writing into CS and CE
curriculum
- Preparing graduates for academia
- Preparing graduates for industry
- Partnerships with industry and government
- Team projects and case studies
- Undergraduate research experiences
- Student observation and mentoring
strategies
- Advising methods
- Evaluation strategies (professors,
students, ...)
- Transition to graduate studies
- Integrating gender and culture issues into
computer science and
engineering curriculum
- The balance between course-work and
research
- Issues related to the choice of first
programming language
- Debugging tools and learning
- Projects, software engineering,
programming issues, and
laboratory practices
- Virtual laboratories
- Computer science and computer engineering
curriculum
- Active learning tools
-
Undergraduates as teaching assistants
- Funding opportunities for curriculum
development and studies
- Pilot studies
- STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering
& Mathematics) initiatives
- Teaching methods
- Recruiting methods to attract graduate
students
- Proposed methods for ranking CS and CE
departments
- The role of visualization and animation in
education
- Academic dishonesty in a high-tech
environment
- Experiences in the formation of Department
Advisory Board
- Factors that lead to success in CS and CE
- Software Engineering for Embedded Systems
in Education
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 in recent years have
included:
- Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer,
architecture, UC Berkeley)
- Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid
Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL)
- The Late Prof. John H. Holland (known as
Father of Genetic Algorithms;
U. of Michigan)
- Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT
Media Lab, MIT)
- Prof. John Koza (known as Father of
Genetic Programming; Stanford U.)
- Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy
Logic, UC Berkeley)
- Dr. Firouz Naderi (former Head of NASA
Mars Exploration Program;
former Administrator and/or Director of
Jet Propulsion Lab,
CalTech/NASA; NASA's JPL Solar System
Exploration
- Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of
Nanotechnology)
- Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, UC
Berkeley)
- Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of
Southern California)
- Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director
and CTO of NSF Office of
Cyberinfrastructure)
- Prof. David Lorge Parnas (pioneer of
software engineering)
- Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive
Director, CERIAS and Professor,
Purdue University)
- Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University
& former NSF admin)
- Prof. Alfred Inselberg (Tel Aviv U,
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 (LexisNexis Eminent
Scholar; Founder/Executive Director,
Ohio Center of Excellence in
Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis))
- Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard
University and CEO LP Information Tech)
- Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer,
Raytheon Intelligence)
- Prof. Diego Galar (Director &
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Lulea University of
Technology, Sweden)
- Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.; known
for Flynn's taxonomy)
- and over 190 other distinguished speakers.
INTRODUCTION:
We anticipate having between 1,000 and 2,000
participants in the
Congress. The congress includes 20 major
tracks
technical, research, and panel sessions as
well as a number of
keynote lectures and tutorials; all will be
held simultaneously,
same location and dates: July 30 through
August 2, 2018. Last year,
the Congress had attracted speakers/authors
and participants
affiliated with over 169 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, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline,
HSBC, Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, ...),
government research agencies
(NSF, NIH, DoE, US Air Force, NSA National
Security Agency, ...), US
national laboratories (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. Last year, 55% of attendees were
from academia, 24% from
industry; 20% from government and funding
agencies; and 1% unknown.
About half of the attendees were from
outside USA; from 72 nations.
SUBMISSION OF
PAPERS:
You are invited to submit a paper for consideration.
All accepted
papers will be published in printed
conference books (ISBN),
imprinted by the American Council on Science
and Education, and
distributed/published by CSREA (Computer
Science Research, Education,
and Applications Press). The proceedings
will also be made available
online. The printed proceedings/books will
be available for
distribution on site at the conference. The
books will be indexed in
largest subject index systems, and others.
ACM Digital Library is
also including the titles into its databases
as well as ProQuest
indexing databases and others.
In addition, like prior years, extended
versions of selected papers
(about 40%) will appear in journals and 12
edited research books;
publishers include, Springer, Elsevier, BMC,
and others. Each book
in each series will be subject to Elsevier
and Springer science
and others). See the web link below for a
small subset of such
publications: (some of these books and
journal special issues have
already received the top 25% downloads in
their respective fields and/or
identified as "Highly Accessed" by
publishers and/or science citation
index trackers.)
Prospective authors are invited to submit
their papers by uploading
Submissions must be uploaded by the due date
(see IMPORTANT DATES) and
must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (7
pages for Regular Research
Papers; 4 pages for Short Research Papers; 2
pages for Extended
Abstract/Poster Papers - the number of pages
include all figures,
tables, and references). 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 the submission
web site 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
the followings:
- Title of the paper
- Name, affiliation, postal address, and
email address of each
author (identify the name of the
Contact Author)
- Abstract (between 100 and 120 words)
- A maximum of 5 topical keywords that
would best represent the
work described in the paper
- Write the type of the submission as
"Regular Research Paper",
"Short Research Paper", or
"Extended Abstract/Poster Paper".
- The actual text of the paper can start
from the first page
(space permitting).
Submissions are to be uploaded to the submission/evaluation web site
Type of Submissions/Papers:
- Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of
7 pages):
Regular Research Papers should provide
detail original research
contributions. They must report new
research results that
represent a contribution to the field;
sufficient details and
support for the results and conclusions
should also be provided.
The work presented in regular papers are
expected to be at a
stage of maturity that with some
additional work can be published
as journal papers.
- Short Research Papers (maximum of 4
pages):
Short Research Papers report on ongoing
research projects. They
should provide overall research
methodologies with some results.
The work presented in short papers are
expected to be at a stage
of maturity that with some additional
work can be published as
regular papers.
- Extended Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum
of 2 pages):
Poster papers report on ongoing research
projects that are still
in their infancy (i.e., at very early
stages). Such papers tend
to provide research methodologies
without yet concrete results.
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).
CAREER, JOB,
& EDUCATION FAIR:
The CSCE 2018 Congress will host its two-day
Career, Job, & Education Fair
on July 30 and July 31, 2018. This annual
strategic event provides
congress attendees and participants with
opportunities to connect with
employers and educators and learn more about
career options. Corporations
can also exhibit their products during the
event. Interested parties
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Full/Regular Research
Papers (maximum of 7 pages);
- Short Research Papers
(maximum of 4 pages);
- Abstract/Poster Papers
(maximum of 2 pages)
April 15, 2018: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
May 7, 2018: Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 30 - August 2, 2018:
The 14th International
Conference on Frontiers in
Education: Computer
Science and Computer Engineering
(FECS'18)
LOCATION:
Luxor in Las Vegas (renovated)
CONTACT:
Questions and inquiries should be sent to:
