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Thursday, February 6, 2020

Call for Papers (Publisher: Springer Nature): International Conferences on Computer Science, STEM Education, Software Engineering, e-Learning, U.S.A., July 27-30, 2020, Paper Submission Deadline: March 24, 2020




                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

                     Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE



              Paper Submission Deadline: March 24, 2020



     FCS 2020:

          The 16th International Conference on Foundations of Computer

          Science

          https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/fcs20

                                 &

     EEE 2020:

          The 19th International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,

          Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

          https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/eee20

                                 &

     FECS 2020:

          The 16th International Conference on Frontiers in Education:

          Computer Science and Computer Engineering + STEM

          https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/fecs20

                                  &

    SERP 2020:

          The 18th International Conference on Software Engineering

          Research and Practice

          https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/serp20



Co-Located: July 27-30, 2020, Luxor (MGM), Las Vegas, USA



ALL ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE PUBLISHED BY



   Publisher: Springer Nature - Book Series:

      Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence

      https://www.springer.com/series/11769

      Book Title: Advances in Software Engineering, Education, & e-Learning



   Indexation: Subject to Springer science indexation which includes:

      online Springer Link (link.springer.com/), Scopus

      (www.info.scopus.com), SCI Compendex, EI Compendex (www.ei.org),

      EMBASE, Web of Science, Inspec, ACM digital library, Google

      Scholar, EBSCO, and others.



 *************************************************************************



In order to leverage synergy between various CS & CE fields, the program

committees of FECS, SERP, EEE, FCS conferences have their 2020 events

held at one venue (same location and dates). This joint research event

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 27-30, 2020. For the complete list of joint

conferences, refer to: https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020





KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:



   There will be between 10 and 15 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)

   - Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming; Stanford U.)

   - Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT)

   - Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology)

   - Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and CTO of NSF Office of

     Cyber-infrastructure)

   - Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.; known for Flynn's taxonomy)

   - 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

   - Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, UC Berkeley)

   - Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California)

   - 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))

   - Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms;

     U. of Michigan)

   - Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic, UC Berkeley)

   - 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)

   - and over 200 other distinguished speakers.



   The Congress 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 (over 2,000 photos):

   https://photos.ucmss.com/

   https://americancse.org/photo-gallery/index-html





INTRODUCTION:



   We anticipate having between 1,000 and 2,000 participants in the

   Congress. The congress includes 20 major tracks

   ( https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020 ) composed of: 122

   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 27-30, 2020. Last year, the Congress

   had attracted speakers/authors and participants affiliated with over

   158 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, Twitter, Uber

   Technologies, ...), major corporations (including: Exxon Mobil,

   Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC,

   Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, ...), government

   research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, US Air Force, NSA National Security

   Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, ...), US national laboratories

   (including, NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ANL

   Argonne National Lab, Sandia National Lab, ORNL Oak Ridge National Lab,

   Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab,

   Los Alamos National Lab, Pacific Northwest National Lab, ...), and a

   number of Venture Capitalists as well as distinguished speakers

   discussing Intellectual Property issues. Last year, 54% of attendees

   were from academia, 25% from industry; 20% from government and funding

   agencies; and 1% unknown. About half of the attendees were from outside

   USA; from 69 nations.



   See the web link below for a small subset of publications based on

   papers accepted in the CSCE proceedings: many 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.



   https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/books-journal-special-issues



   See the link below for some information on citation record:

   https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/publication





SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:  https://american-cse.org/



   Publisher:  Springer Nature - Book Series:

               Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence

               Book Title: Advances in Software Engineering, Education,

                        and e-Learning

   Indexation: Subject to Springer science indexation which includes:

               online Springer Link (link.springer.com/), Scopus

               (www.info.scopus.com), SCI Compendex, EI Compendex (www.ei.org),

               EMBASE, Web of Science, Inspec, ACM digital library, Google

               Scholar, EBSCO, and others.



   Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading

   them to the evaluation web site at:  https://american-cse.org/

   Submissions must be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and

   must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (maximum of 10 pages for Regular

   Research Papers; maximum of 6 pages for Short Research Papers; and

   maximum of 3 pages for Extended Abstract/Poster Papers - the number of

   pages includes all figures, tables, and references). ALL REASONABLE

   TYPESETTING FORMATS ARE ACCEPTABLE (many authors use Springer's

   one-column style format for their submissions or IEEE style format:

   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 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

      portal at https://american-cse.org/



   Type of Submissions/Papers:



     - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 10 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 6 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 3 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:



   https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/career_job_fair

   The CSCE 2020 Congress plans to host a one-day Career, Job, & Education

   Fair on July 28, 2020. This annual strategic event provides the congress

   attendees and participants with opportunities to connect with employers

   and educators and learn more about career options. Corporations and

   Universities can also exhibit their products, services, and degree programs

   during the event. Interested parties should contact cs@american-cse.org .



IMPORTANT DATES:



   March 24, 2020:    Submission of papers: https://american-cse.org/

                      - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages);

                      - Short Research Papers (maximum of 6 pages);

                      - Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 3 pages)

   April 09, 2020:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)

   May   05, 2020:    Final papers + Copyright + Registration



   July 27-30, 2020:  FECS 2020: The 16th International Conference on

                                 Frontiers in Education: Computer Science,

                                 Computer Engineering, & STEM +

                      SERP 2020: The 18th International Conference on Software

                                 Engineering Research & Practice +

                      EEE 2020:  The 19th International Conference on

                                 e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise

                                 Information Systems, & e-Government +

                      FCS 2020:  The 16th International Conference on

                                 Foundations of Computer Science

                      https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020



CONTACT:

   Questions and inquiries should be sent to:

   Conference Secretariat: cs@american-cse.org


Saturday, May 18, 2019

Call for Papers: The 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'19), U.S.A., July 29-August 1, 2019



     The 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Education:
         Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'19)

             (Includes a number of tracks about ABET)

      https://americancse.org/events/csce2019/conferences/fecs19

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

             Paper Submission Deadline: May 28, 2019

         July 29 - August 1, 2019, Luxor (MGM), Las Vegas, USA
               https://americancse.org/events/csce2019

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


FOREWORD:

   We anticipate having between 1,000 and 2,000 participants in the
   Congress that FECS'19 is part of. The congress includes 20 tracks
   ( https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2019 ) composed of: 122
   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 29 - August 1, 2019. 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.
   The event is among the top five largest international annual gathering
   of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
   computing. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see
   some delegates photos available at (over 2,000 photos):
   http://photos.ucmss.com/


KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:

   There will be between 10 and 15 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.


INVITATION:

   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. The
   proceedings will be imprinted by the American Council on Science and
   Education, and distributed/published by CSREA (Computer Science Research,
   Education, and Applications Press). The books will be processed for
   indexation in science databases, including EBSCO (www.ebsco.com), one
   of the largest subject index systems, and all other EBSCO affiliated
   science indexation databases. 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%) of the conference will appear in journals and edited
   research books; publishers include, Springer, Elsevier, BMC, and others.
   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). 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.)

   https://americancse.org/events/csce2019/books-journal-special-issues
   https://americancse.org/events/csce2019/publication

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

   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:  https://american-cse.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 which conform to the two-column IEEE style
   format - see:
   https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
   The first page of the paper should include:

   - 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 "LATE BREAKING PAPERS",
     "POSITION PAPERS", or "ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPERS".
   - 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
   portal at http://american-cse.org/

   Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts in the field
   for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness.


IMPORTANT DATES:

    May 28, 2019:   Submission of papers: https://american-cse.org/
                     - LATE BREAKING PAPERS (maximum of 7 pages);
                     - POSITION PAPERS (maximum of 4 pages);
                     - ABSTRACT/POSTER PAPERS (maximum of 2 pages)
                     The sooner, a submission is received, the earlier,
                     the status report (notification) will be sent out.

    June 08, 2019:   Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)

    Deadline - TWO OPTIONS:
                     OPTION 1: June 18, 2019
                     (Registration and Camera-ready Papers due: June 18, 2019)
                     The paper will be published by end of July 2019 if and
                     only if the Camera-ready Paper is uploaded to the
                     publication portal AND the conference registration is
                     done by June 18, 2019. Authors who miss the June 18
                     deadline, can use OPTION 2, shown below.

                     OPTION 2: July 10, 2019
                     (Registration and Camera-ready Papers due: July 10, 2019)
                     The paper will be published by September 15, 2019 if and
                     only if the Camera-ready Paper is uploaded to the
                     publication portal AND the conference registration is
                     done by July 10, 2019.

   July 29 - August 1, 2019:
                     The 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Education:
                     Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'19)
                     https://americancse.org/events/csce2019/conferences/fecs19
                     Including affiliated federated/joint conferences
                     https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2019

LOCATION:
   Luxor in Las Vegas (renovated)
   https://www.luxor.com/en/entertainment.html

CONTACT:
   Questions and inquiries should be sent to:
   CSCE'19 Conference Secretariat: cs@american-cse.org


Friday, April 12, 2019

Call for Papers with Extended Deadline of April 26, 2019: The 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'19), USA, July 29-August 1, 2019



                         CALL  FOR  PAPERS

        Paper Submission Deadline (extended): April 26, 2019

    The 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Education:
         Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'19)

             (Includes a number of tracks about ABET)

      https://americancse.org/events/csce2019/conferences/fecs19
              https://americancse.org/events/csce2019

        July 29 - August 1, 2019, Luxor (MGM), Las Vegas, USA


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


The event ( https://americancse.org/events/csce2019 ) that this
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
(over 2,000 photos): https://photos.ucmss.com/


INTRODUCTION:

   We anticipate having between 1,000 and 2,000 participants in the
   event (CSCE Congress) that this conference is part of. The congress
   includes 20 major tracks ( https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2019 )
   composed of: 122 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 29 - August 1, 2019.
   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.


KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:

   There will be between 10 and 15 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.

   The Congress 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 (over 2,000 photos):
   https://photos.ucmss.com/


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
   science databases, including EBSCO (www.ebsco.com), one of the
   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
   indexing products (which includes: Scopus, www.info.scopus.com; SCI
   Compendex, Engineering Village, www.ei.org; EMBASE, www.info.embase.com;
   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.)

   https://americancse.org/events/csce2019/books-journal-special-issues
   https://americancse.org/events/csce2019/publication

   Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading
   them to the evaluation web site at:  https://american-cse.org/
   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 - see:
   https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ).
   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
      portal at https://american-cse.org/

   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).


IMPORTANT DATES:

   April 26, 2019:    Submission of papers: https://american-cse.org/
                      - Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 7 pages);
                      - Short Research Papers (maximum of 4 pages);
                      - Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 2 pages)
                      (Note: Authors who have already submitted papers before
                      March 27, will receive decisions and status reports by
                      around April 12; others by May 8 or sooner.)
   May 08, 2019:      Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
   May 20, 2019:      Final papers + Copyright + Registration
   July 29 - August 1, 2019:
                      The 15th International Conference on Frontiers in Education:
                      Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'19)
               https://americancse.org/events/csce2019/conferences/fecs19
                      Including affiliated federated/joint conferences
                      https://americancse.org/events/csce2019

LOCATION:
   Luxor in Las Vegas (renovated)
   https://www.luxor.com/en/entertainment.html

CONTACT:
   Questions and inquiries should be sent to:
   CSCE'19 Conference Secretariat: cs@american-cse.org