Dear Colleague,

ICCSA 2021 will be organized as a virtual conference with online-only participation (which includes online attendance and presentation in sessions, and the publication of papers in Springer LNCS or IEEE CPS conference proceedings)

Optional in-presence participation may be organized, should the COVID-19 restrictions allow it.

The Organizing Committee decided to move the dates of the conference to 13-16 September 2021 to benefit from the vaccine effect and to have a higher number of participants in person.

Registration fees:

* Virtual conference online-only participation: 150 Euro

* Optional in-presence participation: regular 520 Euro, students 340 Euro, workshop chair 315 Euro

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Computational and Applied Statistics (CAS 202https://cas2020.webnode.com/1)

Workshop of the 21th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2021, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held in Cagliari, Italy.

TOPICS

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The aim of CAS workshop is to bring together scientists working in computational statistics, scientific computation and applications in all areas of sciences, engineering, industry, economics, life sciences and social sciences.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Computational Statistics: new issues in the design of computational algorithms for implementing statistical methods, development in R, etc

* Applications: statistical case study in all areas of sciences, engineering and industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social sciences.

IMPORTANT DATES (NEW)

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May 10, 2021: Deadline for paper submission to the General Tracks (Workshops may select a different deadline)

June 6, 2021: Notification of Acceptance.

June 21, 2021: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers (firm deadline).

June 28, 2021: Registration ends (firm deadline).

September 13-16, 2021: ICCSA 2021 Conference

PROCEEDINGS

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The proceedings of the CAS 2021 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules

SUBMISSION DETAILS

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All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site: http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors

If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms.

The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline.

ORGANIZER

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* Ana Cristina Braga (acb@dps.uminho.ptmailto:acb@dps.uminho.pt), Dep. of Production and Systems (University of Minho), Algoritmi Research Centre (University of Minho), Portugal. If you have some doubts or problems, do not hesitate to contact the organizer.

Best regards,

Ana Cristina Braga

(CAS 2021 organizer)