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            UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF H.H. Abdul Rahim Mrad – Former MINISTER of EDUCATION and MINISTER OF DEFENSE – Lebanon

                                                                      International Conference on Computer and Applications
                                                                                                           Third Edition

                                                                     July 25-26, 2018, RAMADA RAOUCHEH, Beirut, Lebanon

                                                                   EDAS NUMBER 24063 – IEEE CONFERENCE NUMBER 43450
                                                            In the Memory of Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh Founder of Fuzzy Logic

                                                                LATEST NEWS: ICCA'17 Proceedings Published in IEEE XPLORE

                   AN INDEXED CONFERENCE – SPONSORED BY SPRINGER-VERLAG  & IEEE & IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY (Technical Co-sponsorship)

The International Conference on Computer and Applications ICCA 18 is an annual event focusing
on state of the art technologies pertaining to digital information, communications and multimedia.
It addresses all applications of computing including (but not limited to) connected health,
information security, edutainment and serious games, education, grid computing, transportation,
social computing, natural language processing, knowledge extraction and reasoning, knowledge
extraction, image and pattern processing, virtual reality, cloud computing, robotics, networks
algorithms, web engineering, big data analytics, ontology, constraints satisfaction, cryptography
and steganography, neural networks, artificial intelligence, biometry and bio-informatics, embedded
systems, computer graphics, algorithms and optimization, Internet of things and smart cities. It
is an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to meet together and discuss the recent trends
in computer applications. Young researchers are highly encouraged to submit their work to the
conference.

Technical Committee include
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Prof. Abdulmutaleb Elsaddik (Chair, IEEE FELLOW, Canada)
Prof. Patrick S. P. Wang (USA)
Dr. Sumaya Al-Maadeed (Qatar)
Dr. Justin varghese (Saudi Arabia)
Prof. Mohamed Jemni (Tunisia)
Prof. Jinana Faidhi (Canada)
Prof. Omara Karam (Dean, Egypt)
Prof. Abed Elsadik (Canada)
Dr. Saudia Subash, (India)
Dr. Nabil Sahli (Oman)
Prof. Jianfeng Ma
Prof. Albert Zomaya (Australia)
Prof. Hassan Ali Artail (Lebanon)
Dr. J. Subash Bose (Saudi Arabia)
Prof. Osman Ibrahim (Egypt)
Prof. Chadi Assi (Canada)
Prof. Ali M. Jaoua (Qatar)
Dr. Jalal Akaichi (Saudi Arabia)
Prof. Ali Haidar (Lebanon)
Prof. Mohammad Khalil (Lebanon)
Prof. Adrian Constantin (Vienna)
Prof. Wenliang Du (USA)
Dr. Majdi Rawashdeh (Jordan)
Dr. Mohamad EID (UAE)
Prof. Peter Mark Athanas
Prof. Sabah Mohammad (Canada)
Prof. Youcef Baghdadi (Oman)
Prof. Moutaz Saleh (Qatar)
Dr. Mohsin Bilal (USA)
Prof. Nima Bari (USA)
Dr. Khaled Khan (Qatar)
Dr. Nader Hossain (Canada)
Dr. Daouad Daouad (Jordan)
Prof. Samir A. Elsaoud (Egypt)
Prof. Mohamed Jemni (Tunisia)
Dr. Abdelaali Hassaine (Qatar)
Prof. Sadok Benyahia (Tunisia)
Dr. Borhan Marzougui (UAE)
Prof. Hassan Ali Artail (Lebanon)
Prof. Fadi Dornaika (Spain)
Prof. Abdul Sadka (UK)
Prof. Med Salim Bouhlel (Tunisia)
Prof. Ali Elzaart (Lebanon)
Prof. A. Vasilakos (Sweden)
Prof. Hany Ammar (USA)
Dr. Islam Taj-Eddin (Egypt)
Dr. Borhan Marzougui (UAE)
Dr. Mohamad EID (UAE)
Dr. Ahmad S. Mashhour (Bahrain)
Prof. ELSayed ElHorbaty (Egypt)
Prof. Mudasser F. Wyne (USA)
Prof. Abdel Badi Salem (Egypt)
Dr. Mohamed M. Yeddes (UAE)
Prof. Ezekiel F. Adebiyi (Nigeria)
Prof. Wald. Koczkodaj (Canada)
Prof. Taleb Obaid (Iraq)
Prof. Sebti Foufou (Qatar)
Prof. Abdelaziz Bouras (Qatar)
Prof. Azlinah Mohamed (Malaysia)
Prof. Zakaria Maamar (UAE)
Dr. Mohamed A. Mellal (Algeria)
Dr. Osama Shata (Qatar)
Prof. Arthur Edwards (Colima)
Prof. Hossam El Sofany (Egypt)
Prof. Arafat Awajan (Jordan)
Dr. Khalid AbualSaud (Qatar)
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Submission Instructions
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Authors are encouraged to submit high quality, original work written in good English that has neither appeared in,
nor is under consideration by other conferences or journals. Paper submission is done through EDAS management
system. A Special privileges will be given to young researchers (i.e., PhDs, Postdoctoral fellow).

Proceedings Publication
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All accepted and registered papers will be submitted to IEEE for publication. ICCA'17 is published recently
in IEEE Digital Library.

Alternatively, the program committee will select the best papers to be published by Springer-Verlag in a book
on "Recent Trends in Computer Applications" and in a special issue of the journal of Complex & Intelligent
Systems (Indexed in Web Of Science).

CIS Springer Journal Special Issue
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The scientific committee will select the best presented papers for submission in the journal of Complex
& Intelligent Systems (SPRINGER). This special issue will focus on recent trends in computer applications
including evolutionary systems, data mining, machine learning, data science, multiagent, simulation,
visualization, and knowledge discovery. The deadline for submission is October 22nd, 2018. Please follow
the hyperlink ‘Submit Online’ on the journal’s webpage and upload your manuscript files following the
‘Instructions for Authors’. In the journal’s electronic submission system, you will find the voice
‘ICCA2017’ active in the drop-down menu, to be selected when submitting. Any inquiries can be directed
to the leading volume Editor Prof. Jihad Mohamad ALJA’AM (jaam@qu.edu.qa or jaljaam@gmail.com).
Guest Editors are Prof. Abdul Sadka (Brunel University, United Kingdom) and Prof. Abdulmotaleb
El Saddik (Canada).

Springer Book
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The best papers will be selected after a second round of peer review for publications in an edited volume
by SPRINGER after the conference. Interested authors should update their papers based on the ICCA'18
reviewers comments (research work, contribution, English, etc). The publication of the accepted paper
doesn't require any additional payment from the authors. The focal point for Springer is:

Dr. Nabil Khélifi
Publishing Editor | Middle East & North Africa Program | Springer
Heidelberg | Germany

All the papers will be peer reviewed by the ICCA'18 Technical Program Committee to improve their quality
before their publications as chapters in the SPRINGER Book.

Registration and Visa Information Instructions
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The registration fee covers one paper publication, two lunches and the coffee breaks during the conference.
All accepted papers should be registered before by the deadline. Authors should sign the copyright form
fully signed and submit it with their camera-ready.

The conference website: http://www.ijcis.info/icca18ieee.htm

Contact:
Eng. Dana Bandock
icca@ijcis.info
dana.bandock@ijcis.info