Call for Papers and Attendance
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS Sep 17-21, 2018 Poznan, Poland wcc2018.org wcc2018.put.poznan.pl
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING (IFIP) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * The leading multinational organization in Information & Communications Technologies (ICT), established 60 years ago * Recognized by United Nations and other world bodies * Membership covers over 50 countries, with a total membership of over 350 000 * Includes over 100 Working Groups organized in 13 Technical Committees
WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS (WCC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The World Computer Congress is the main event of the International Federation For Information Processing, being organized since 1959. In the recent past, WCC was held in: Canada (2002), France (2004), Chile (2006), Italy (2008), Australia (2010), the Netherlands (2012), and Korea (2015).
MAIN TOPICS OF WCC: http://wcc2018.org/program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Security and Privacy - Data Science - Big Data Management and Analysis - Enterprise Information Systems and Database Technologies - the Internet of Things - Entertainment Computing - Social Aspects of Information Technologies - the History of Computing
CONTESTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - PhD Student Research Competition - Cybersecurity contest: Capture-the-Flag
HIGHLIGHTS: http://wcc2018.put.poznan.pl/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keynote talks ---------------- - Prof. Wil van der Aalst (one of the most cited computer scientists in the world, top expert in workflow management, process mining, Petri nets, business process management, process modeling, and process analysis) Talk title: Responsible Data Science in a Dynamic World - Dr. Jan Camenisch (a leading scientist in the area of privacy and cryptography, Principal Research Staff Member at IBM Research - Zurich) - Prof. Leslie Valiant (world-renowned for contributions to complexity theory, Turing Award holder) Talk title: What Needs to be Added to Machine Learning? - Shamika N. Sirimanne (world-renowned expert in disaster risk reduction)
Available grants ---------------- - 7 participation grants for students presenting at PhD Student Research Competition (http://wcc2018.put.poznan.pl/PhD-Workshop) - 2-3 travel grants for PhD students from developing countries - 1 travel grant for a mature researcher from a developing country (http://wcc2018.put.poznan.pl/grants)
CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following events have open calls for papers (for details see the web pages of individual events): http://wcc2018.put.poznan.pl/program
- International Conference on Research and Practical Issues Enterprise Information Systems - IFIP Internet of Things Conference - International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences - International Conference on Entertainment Computing - Histories of Computing in Eastern Europe - Semantics in Big Data Management - IT in Disaster Risk Reduction Conference - IT Research Workshop - Applied Data Science