ICCSA 2012 - 2012 International Conference for Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2012)

The 2012 International Conference for Computational Science and Its
Applications (ICCSA 2012)

to be held on June 18-21, 2012 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

*** http://www.iccsa.org ****

Session proposals for Workshops or Technical Sessions will be collected
until September 25, 2011 and notification of acceptance /rejection will be
sent before September 30, 2011. The Session proposals should be sent to
the e-mail address:

session_props-AT-iccsa.org

and should include the following information:

- Title of the session

- Name, the affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address of the session
organizer(s)

- Previous experience of the organizer(s) in organizing sessions (if any)

- name, the affiliation, and e-mail addresses of at least three colleagues
of the organizer(s) who can comment on his (their) ability to organize the
session. The organization of successful sessions in previous editions of
ICCSA (with minimum no-show up, several discussions and questions
during/after presentations), including the participation of the session
chairs to the Conference, will be given priority ranking for acceptance.

- Description of the topic of the session (not exceeding 100 words) and
detailed list (name, affiliation, country) of the Program Committee
members and additional reviewers (if external to the program committee)

- The selected publisher (LNCS or Conference Publishing System (CPS)) of
the proposed session

- A short description on how the session will be advertised.

The information provided by the session organizer(s) to the Conference
Chairs shall remain strictly confidential.

The Session Chairs are responsible for all the organizational aspects
including soliciting, reviewing and selection of Session papers. Session
chairs are also fully responsible for ensuring that only high quality
papers are selected and for verifying the correctness of the layout
adopted by the authors. They are also responsible for choosing the actual
reviewers (at least three) for each paper and for monitoring the reviewing
process, in collaboration with the Conference Program Chairs.

Session Chairs (or their Deputies) are expected to attend ICCSA 2012, set
the order of presentations and chair their related session(s).

The nature of the Sessions (either a Workshop or Technical Session) will
be determined after the reviewing process and according to the number of
accepted papers. Technical Sessions are collections of 5 oral
contributions having a homogeneous subject. Workshops are a collection of
Technical Sessions having very closely related subjects. Workshops will
have at least two technical sessions and no longer than 11 technical
sessions.

Due to their active role, Session chairs will receive the benefit of a
reduced conference registration fee. The Chairs of the most successful
Sessions attending ICCSA 2012 will receive a small honorarium too. The
amount of the honorarium will depend on the number and quality of the
Session's papers.

Committees


HONORARY GENERAL CHAIRS:
Antonio Laganà, University of Perugia, Italy
Norio Shiratori, Tohoku University, Japan
Kenneth C. J. Tan, Qontix, UK

GENERAL CHAIRS:
Osvaldo Gervasi, University of Perugia, Italy
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Mirco Ragni, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil (Chair)
Frederico V. Prudente, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Ana Carla P. Bitencourt, Universidade Federal do Reconcavo da Bahia,
Brazil

WORKSHOP AND SESSION ORGANIZING CHAIR:
Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy

INTERNATIONAL LIAISON CHAIRS:
Jemal Abawajy, Daekin University, Australia
Marina L. Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Canada
Robert C. H. Hsu, Chung Hua University,Taiwan
Tai-Hoon Kim, Hannam University, Korea
Andrés Iglesias, University of Cantabria, Spain
Takashi Naka, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
To be determined.

Proceedings

The proceedings will be published as a special issue of the Lecture Notes
on Computer Science (LNCS) edited by Springer (the agreement is pending)
and in a book published by Conference Publishing System (CPS).
The Session Chair(s) will select to which publisher their session(s) will
be published, Cross publication on the two publishers is not allowed.
General Track papers of the Conference will be published on LNCS.

Important dates

October 1, 2011 - January 15, 2012: Abstract and Full Paper
submission
January 16, 2012 - February 28, 2012: Reviewing of submitted Papers
March 7, 2012: Notification of Acceptance and
Early-bird Registration starts
April 4, 2012: Early-bird Registration ends.
April 4, 2012: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers
June 18-21, 2012: ICCSA 2012 Conference