[alife] 3rd CfP: 7th Balkan Conference in Informatics - BCI'2015

[Costin Badica]

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7th Balkan Conference in Informatics - BCI'2015
2-4 September 2015, Craiova, Romania
http://bci2015.bci-conferences.org/

News: 

Invited speakers announced at:
http://software.ucv.ro/BCI2015/speakers.html

Workshops announced at:
http://software.ucv.ro/BCI2015/workshops.html

Registration fees announced at:
http://software.ucv.ro/BCI2015/registration.html


Dear Colleague,

We cordially invite you to contribute by submitting papers to the 7th Balkan Conference in Informatics to be held during September 2-4, 2015 in Craiova, Romania.
http://bci2015.bci-conferences.org/

The accepted papers will be published by ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and indexed in major international datanses relevant for Computer Science, including ACM Digital library and DBLP.

Please find enclosed the CfP and feel free to distribute it to your colleagues and other persons that might be interested in this event.

Sincerely Yours,
Costin Badica
-- Organizing Chair of BCI'2015

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CALL FOR PAPERS

7th Balkan Conference in Informatics - BCI'2015
2-4 September 2015, Craiova, Romania
http://bci2015.bci-conferences.org/

AIM & SCOPE

The main objective of the BCI series of conferences is to provide a forum for discussions and dissemination of research accomplishments in Computer Science and Information Technology and to promote interaction and collaboration among scientists from the Balkan countries and the rest of the world, and to encourage involvement of young researchers from the region.

The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions (regular papers) reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks presented by leading scientists. Different workshops will be held in line with the main conference. The official language of the conference will be English.

The 7th Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI 2015) continues the tradition of BCI conferences held in Thessaloniki (2013), Novi Sad (2012), Thessaloniki (2009), Sofia (2007), Ohrid (2005), and Thessaloniki (2003).

TOPICS

Original papers dealing with both theory and/or practical aspects of wide areas of ICT are solicited. The general areas of interest include all topics listed in the 2012 Revision of the ACM Computing Classification System (http://www.acm.org/about/class/2012):

- Hardware
- Computer systems organization
- Networks
- Software engineering
- Theory of computation
- Mathematics of computing
- Information systems
- Human-centered computing
- Computing methodologies
- Applied computing
- Social and professional topics

Papers reporting on developments, reviews, proposals, projects on Information Technology in South-East Europe in the following areas are also solicited:

- Governance (e.g. systems in place, policies etc)
- Education (curricula issues, secondary and higher education etc)
- Professional Issues (e.g. employment, Computer Societies, entrepreneurship etc)
- European ICT Priorities (e.g. enterprise, smart specialization, aging etc)

IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper submission           March 1, 2015
Notification of acceptance    April 3, 2015
Early (Author) Registration    May 15, 2015
Camera-ready papers           May 15, 2015
Late Registration                   September 1, 2015
Conference                             September 2-4, 2015

SUBMISSION

Original contributions are solicited for the following categories:

- Full research papers (max 8 pages) describing research accomplishments.
- Short research papers (max 4 pages), i.e. experience reports, project overviews, etc. which do not fully adhere to the standards of a first rate scientific publication, but are nevertheless of interest and value for the participants of the conference.

Submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers, members of the Programme Committee. Only accepted full papers and some high-quality short papers will be included in the main BCI 2015 Proceedings (published by ACM in the International Conference Proceedings Series). Papers must be formatted according to the ACM ICPS style templates, Tighter Alternate style: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates#aL2
LaTeX2e format is preferred. Other accepted papers will be published in local proceedings (with ISBN). A selection of outstanding papers from the conference may be invited for publication in internationally recognized journals (subject to additional reviewing).

All contributions should be in PDF format and should be submitted electronically via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bci2015.
For their submissions, authors are encouraged to consider the final paper format requirements, as specified at the conference site. Research papers should be original contributions and should not be accepted or submitted elsewhere until the decisions of the BCI 2015 program committee are announced. At least one author from every submission accepted to appear in proceedings is obliged to register and attend the conference.

COMMITTEES

Steering Committee
http://software.ucv.ro/BCI2015/sc.html

Conference Committees
http://software.ucv.ro/BCI2015/cc.html


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