CFP with extended deadline of Mar. 31, 2011: The 2011 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'11), USA, July 18-21, 2011

                        CALL  FOR  PAPERS
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             Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2011

                             IKE'11
               The 2011 International Conference on
               Information and Knowledge Engineering
                 July 18-21, 2011, Las Vegas, USA

              http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
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You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The proceedings will be indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography, and others.) In the past, all tracks of this federated conference have also been included in EI Compendex/Elsevier. Like prior years, extended
versions of selected papers will appear in journals and edited research
books (a large number of book projects and journal special issues are in the pipeline: Springer, Elsevier, BMC journals, ...)

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

O Knowledge management and cyber-learning O Information reliability and security
O Information and knowledge structures
O Information retrieval systems
O Knowledge mining
O Knowledge delivery methods
O Knowledge life cycle
O Knowledge and information extraction and discovery techniques O Knowledge classification tools
O Knowledge and information management techniques O Knowledge extraction from images/pictures O Large-scale information processing methods O Intelligent knowledge-based systems
O Re-usability of software/knowledge/information O Aspect-oriented programming
O Formal and visual specification languages O Decision support and expert systems
O e-Libraries (digital libraries) + e-Publishing O Digital typography
O Agent-based techniques and systems
O Workflow management
O Business intelligence
O Large-scale information processing methods and systems O Content management
O Database engineering and systems
O Data and knowledge fusion
O Data and knowledge processing
O Databanks - issues, methods, and standards O Dataweb models and systems
O Global contextual processing and management implementation O Data/Information/Knowledge models
O Data warehousing and datacenters
O Health information systems
O Data security and privacy issues
O Managing copyright laws
O Interoperability issues
O Transaction systems
O Search methods
O Ontologies and semantics
O Object-oriented modeling and systems
O Case-based reasoning
O Digital watermarking
O Classical aspects of information theory O Coding theory
O Information geometry
O Quantum information theory
O Applications (e-Commerce, multimedia, business, banking, ...) O Emerging technologies and related issues

USEFUL WEB LINKS:
The DBLP list of accepted papers of IKE 2010 is at: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ike/ike2010.html The main web site of IKE'11 can be accessed via: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

IMPORTANT DATES: March 31, 2011: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages) April 20, 2011: Notification of acceptance (+/- 6 days) May 7, 2011: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration July 18-21, 2011: The 2011 International Conference on

                   Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'11)

Those who have submitted papers during the month of February will receive the decision on their papers by the end of March 2011.

ACADEMIC CO-SPONSORS: Currently being prepared - The Academic sponsors of the last offering of IKE (2010) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia; Emory University, Georgia; University of Minnesota; University of Iowa; University of North Dakota; NDSU-CIIT Green Computing & Comm. Lab.; University of Siegen, Germany; UMIT, Austria; SECLAB (University of Naples Federico II + University of Naples Parthenope + Second University of Naples, Italy); National Institute for Health Research; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM); The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; Eastern Virginia Medical School & the American College of Surgeons, USA.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: 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 March 31, 2011 and they must be in either MS doc (but not docx) or pdf formats (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. Finally, the name of the conference (ie, IKE) that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page.

The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be charged to make the final decision
(accept/reject) - often, this would involve seeking help from
additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In addition, all papers whose authors included a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels).

All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology, DBLP / CS Bibliography, and others. The printed proceedings will be available for distribution on site at the conference. In the past, all tracks of the federated congress have also been included in EI Compendex/Elsevier.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: The members of the Steering Committee of The 2010 congress included: Dr. Selim Aissi (Chief Strategist, Intel Corporation, USA); Prof. Hamid Arabnia (ISIBM Fellow & Professor, University of Georgia; Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Supercomputing, Springer; Advisory Board, IEEE TC on Scalable Computing); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
(Member, National Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow,
Professor; University of California, Berkeley, USA); Prof. Hyunseung Choo (ITRC Director of Ministry of Information & Communication; Director, ITRC; Director, Korea Information Processing Society; Assoc. Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology; Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea); Prof. Winston Wai-Chi Fang (IEEE Fellow, TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor, National ChiaoTung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC); Prof. Andy Marsh (Director HoIP, Secretary-General WABT; Vice-president ICET and ICMCC, Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK); Dr. Rahman Tashakkori
(Director, S-STEM NSF Supported Scholarship Program and NSF Supported
AUAS, Appalachian State U., USA); Prof. Layne T. Watson (IEEE Fellow, NIA Fellow, ISIBM Fellow, Fellow of The National Institute of Aerospace,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA); and Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Member, National Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IFSA Fellow; Director, BISC; Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA). The list of Program Committee of IKE 2010 appears at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/conferences/ike10/committee

The IKE 2011 program committee is currently being compiled. Many who have already joined the committee are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research labs., members of National Academy of Engineering, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of departments, program directors of research funding agencies, deans and provosts as well as members of chapters of World Academy of Science.

2011 PUBLICITY CHAIR:

1. M. G. Solo BCS Fellow (British Computer Society Fellow) Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc. Principal/Intelligent Systems Instructor, Trailblazer Intelligent Systems, Inc.

GENERAL INFORMATION: IKE conference is an important track of a federated research conference. It is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP). WORLDCOMP is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. We anticipate to have 2,000 or more attendees from over 85 countries.

WORLDCOMP 2011 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/ architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler
(known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known
as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster
(known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL),
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi
(Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate
Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2010 delegates photos available at: www.pixagogo.com/1676934789

An important mission of WORLDCOMP is "Providing a unique platform for a diverse community of constituents composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, and practitioners. The Congress makes concerted effort to reach out to participants affiliated with diverse entities (such as: universities, institutions, corporations, government agencies, and research centers/labs) from all over the world. The congress also attempts to connect participants from institutions that have teaching as their main mission with those who are affiliated with institutions that have research as their main mission. The congress uses a quota system to achieve its institution and geography diversity objectives."

One main goal of the congress is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research conferences, workshops, and symposiums into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different branches of computer science, computer engineering, and applied computing. The Congress also encourages multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research initiatives; ie, facilitating increased opportunities for cross-fertilization across subdisciplines.

According to "Microsoft Academic Search" (a Microsoft initiative) all tracks of WORLDCOMP are listed as worldwide "Top-ranked Conferences" (based on various metrics but mainly based on the number of citations). You can access "Microsoft Academic Search" to extract citation data for each individual track of worldcomp using the following link: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ As of March 4, 2011, the papers published in the proceeedings have received 14,385 citations which is a higher citation than many reputable journals in computer science. Received on Wed Mar 23 2011 - 08:36:15 CET