16th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS’2021)

Online, 2-5 September, 2021

www.fedcsis.org

Strict submission deadline: June 14th, 2021, 23:59 UCT (no extensions)

FedCSIS IEEE conference number: #52320

FedCSIS is ranked B in CORE2021

********************** COVID-19 Information **********************

While we have planned the 2021 conference to take place in Sofia,
Bulgaria, slow progress in fighting the global pandemic has forced us to
switch to the fully online mode. Therefore, we plan to organize FedCSIS
2022 in Sofia, and hope that by that time COVID will be over, and we
will be able to meet in person.

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Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and
associates who could be interested in it.

The FedCSIS 2021 Federated Conference invites submissions of POSITION
PAPERS to its respective events. Position papers must not exceed 8 pages
and they should relate to an ongoing research or experience. Position
papers will be presented by the authors alongside regular papers.
Position papers may be also submitted as DEMO PAPERS and presented as
demonstrations of software tools and products. They should describe
non-for-profit software tools in a prototype-, alpha-, or beta-version.

We invite TWO TYPES OF POSITION PAPERS:

– EMERGING RESEARCH PAPERS present preliminary research results from
work-in-progress based on sound scientific approach but presenting work
not completely validated as yet. They must describe precisely the
research problem and its rationale. They must also define the intended
future work including the expected benefits from solution to the tackled
problem.

– CHALLENGE PAPERS propose and describe research challenges in theory or
practice of computer science and information systems. The papers in this
category must be based on deep understanding of existing research or
industrial problems and should be defining new promising research
directions.

FedCSIS TRACKS AND TECHNICAL SESSIONS

The FedCSIS 2021 consists of five conference Tracks, hosting Technical
Sessions, and a Doctoral Symposium:

Track 1: Advanced Artificial Intelligence in Applications (16th
Symposium AAIA'21)
         *Computational Optimization (14th Workshop WCO'21)

Track 2: Computer Science & Systems (CSS'21)
         * Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars (1st Workshop 4A'21)
         * Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (14th Workshop CANA'21)
         * Multimedia Applications and Processing (14th International
Symposium MMAP'21)
         * Scalable Computing (12th Workshop WSC'21)

Track 3: Network Systems and Applications (NSA'21)
         * Internet of Things – Enablers, Challenges and Applications
(5th Workshop IoT-ECAW'21)
         * Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust (2nd International Forum
NEMESIS'21)

Track 4: Advances in Information Systems and Technologies (AIST'21)
         * Data Science in Health, Ecology and Commerce (3rd Special
Session DSH'21)
         * Information Systems Management (16th Conference ISM'21)
         * Knowledge Acquisition and Management (27th Conference KAM'21)

Track 5: Software, System and Service Engineering (S3E'21)
         * Cyber-Physical Systems (8th Workshop IWCPS-8)
         * Software Engineering (41th IEEE Workshop SEW-41)
         * Advances in Programming Languages (8th Workshop WAPL'21)

Recent Advances in Information Technology (7th Doctoral Symposium
DS–RAIT'21)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

* David Bader
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Keynote title: Solving Global Grand Challenges with High Performance
Data Analytics

* Rajkumar Buyya,
Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab, The University of
Melbourne, Australia; and CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Keynote title: Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud and Edge Computing

* Hristo Djidjev
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Keynote title: Using quantum annealing for discrete optimization

* Moshe Y. Vardi
Rice University
Keynote title: Lessons from COVID-19: Efficiency vs Resilience

ZDZISŁAW PAWLAK BEST PAPER AWARD

The Professor Zdzisław Pawlak Awards are given in the following categories:

•       Best Paper Award (€600)
•       Young Researcher Paper Award (€400)
•       Industry Cooperation Award (€400)
•       International Cooperation Award (€400)

All papers accepted to FedCSIS are eligible to be considered as the
award winners.

This award will be awarded independently from awards given by individual
FedCSIS events (Tracks and/or Technical Sessions).

Past Award winners can be found here: https://fedcsis.org/2021/zp_award

POSITION PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION:

Position papers will be published as a Volume of the Annals of Computer
Science and Information Systems series (https://annals-csis.org/), with
an ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers. The papers will be submitted for indexing
to DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar (see, also:
https://annals-csis.org/indexation). The Annals-CSIS volume will NOT be
placed in the IEEE Digital Library and will NOT be submitted to
Clarivate Analytics Web of Science.

Authors should submit a position paper in English, carefully checked for
correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference website
ought to be used for all submitted papers. The required submission
format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check, and
carefully follow, the instructions and templates provided. Papers that
are out of the conference scope of the selected event, or that contain
any form of (self)plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. All
position papers will be refereed before inclusion in the conference program.

IMPORTANT DATES
+ Position paper submission:                    June 14, 2021
+ Author notification:                          July 5, 2021
+ Final paper submission and registration:      July 26, 2021
+ Conference date:                              September 2-5, 2021

CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki

CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat@fedcsis.org

ABOUT FedCSIS Conference Series

FedCSIS is an annual international conference, this year organized
jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), IEEE Poland
Section Computer Society Chapter and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The
mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly
acclaimed forum in computer science and information systems. We invite
researchers from around the world to contribute their research results
and participate in Technical Sessions focused on their scientific and
professional interests in computer science and information systems.