CALL  FOR  PAPERS

              Paper Submission Deadline: March 24, 2020
                     Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE
            July 27-30, 2020, Luxor (MGM), Las Vegas, USA

      ICAI 2020:
          22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
          https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/icai20

      ACC 2020:
          4th International Conference on Applied Cognitive Computing
          https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences/acc20

ALL ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE PUBLISHED BY

      Publisher:  Springer Nature – Book Series:
            Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence
            https://www.springer.com/series/11769
            Book Title:
            Advances in Artificial Intelligence & Applied Cognitive Computing

      Indexation: Subject to Springer science indexation which includes:
            online Springer Link (link.springer.com/), Scopus
            (www.info.scopus.com), SCI Compendex, EI Compendex (www.ei.org),
            EMBASE, Web of Science, Inspec, ACM digital library, Google
            Scholar, EBSCO, and others.

INTRODUCTION:

   In order to leverage synergy between various CS & CE fields, the program
   committees of ICAI and ACC conferences have their 2020 events held at
   one venue (same location and dates). This joint research event is
   composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, sessions,
   workshops, poster and panel discussions); all will be held simultaneously,
   same location and dates: July 27-30, 2020. For the complete list of joint
   conferences, refer to: https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020

   We anticipate having between 1,000 and 2,000 participants in the
   Congress. The congress includes 20 major tracks
   ( https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020 ) composed of: 122
   technical, research, and panel sessions as well as a number of
   keynote lectures and tutorials; all will be held simultaneously,
   same location and dates: July 27-30, 2020. Last year, the Congress
   had attracted speakers/authors and participants affiliated with over
   158 different universities (including many from the top 50 ranked
   institutions), major IT corporations (including: Microsoft, Google,
   Apple, SAP, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, Yahoo, Samsung, IBM, Ebay, GE,
   Siemens, Philips, Ericsson, BAE Systems, Hitachi, NTT, Twitter, Uber
   Technologies, …), major corporations (including: Exxon Mobil,
   Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, PetroChina, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC,
   Airbus, Boeing, Hyundai, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, …), government
   research agencies (NSF, NIH, DoE, US Air Force, NSA National Security
   Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, …), US national laboratories
   (including, NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ANL
   Argonne National Lab, Sandia National Lab, ORNL Oak Ridge National Lab,
   Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab,
   Los Alamos National Lab, Pacific Northwest National Lab, …), and a
   number of Venture Capitalists as well as distinguished speakers
   discussing Intellectual Property issues. Last year, 54% of attendees
   were from academia, 25% from industry; 20% from government and funding
   agencies; and 1% unknown. About half of the attendees were from outside
   USA; from 69 nations.

   See the web link below for a small subset of publications based on
   papers accepted in the CSCE proceedings: many of these books and
   journal special issues have already received the top 25% downloads
   in their respective fields and/or identified as "Highly Accessed" by
   publishers and/or science citation index trackers.

   https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/books-journal-special-issues

   See the link below for some information on citation record:
   https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/publication

KEYNOTE LECTURES AND TUTORIALS:

   There will be between 10 and 15 Keynote lectures and Invited Talks;
   speakers include world-renowned scientists and educators. Featured
   Keynote Speakers in recent years have included:

   – Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, UC Berkeley)
   – Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL)
   – Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming; Stanford U.)
   – Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT)
   – Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology)
   – Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and CTO of NSF Office of
     Cyber-infrastructure)
   – Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.; known for Flynn's taxonomy)
   – Dr. Firouz Naderi (former Head of NASA Mars Exploration Program;
     former Administrator and/or Director of Jet Propulsion Lab,
     CalTech/NASA; NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration
   – Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, UC Berkeley)
   – Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California)
   – Prof. David Lorge Parnas (pioneer of software engineering)
   – Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor,
     Purdue University)
   – Prof. Haym Hirsh (Dean, Cornell University & former NSF admin)
   – Prof. Alfred Inselberg (Tel Aviv U, Israel; Senior Fellow, San Diego
     Supercomputing Center; Inventor of the multidimensional system of
     Parallel Coordinates and author of textbook)
   – Prof. H. J. Siegel (Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE
     and Professor of CS; Director, CSU Information Science and Technology
     Center (ISTeC), Colorado State University, Colorado, USA)
   – Prof. Amit Sheth (LexisNexis Eminent Scholar; Founder/Executive Director,
     Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis))
   – Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms;
     U. of Michigan)
   – Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic, UC Berkeley)
   – Dr. Leonid I. Perlovsky (Harvard University and CEO LP Information Tech)
   – Dr. James A. Crowder (Chief Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence)
   – Prof. Diego Galar (Director & Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Lulea University of
     Technology, Sweden)
   – and over 200 other distinguished speakers.

   The Congress is among the top five largest international annual
   gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and
   applied computing. We anticipate to have attendees from about 75
   countries and territories. To get a feeling about the conferences'
   atmosphere, see some delegates photos available at (over 2,000 photos):
   https://photos.ucmss.com/
   https://americancse.org/photo-gallery/index-html

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:  https://american-cse.org/

   Good News:  Due to the high quality of published papers in the proceedings
               of CSCE in recent years, this year (2020) ALL accepted papers
               will be published by Springer Nature. Thanks to the authors for
               submitting their quality research work to the congress for years.

   Publisher:  Springer Nature – Book Series:
               Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence
   Indexation: Subject to Springer science indexation which includes:
               online Springer Link (link.springer.com/), Scopus
               (www.info.scopus.com), SCI Compendex, EI Compendex (www.ei.org),
               EMBASE, Web of Science, Inspec, ACM digital library, Google
               Scholar, EBSCO, and others.

   Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading
   them to the evaluation web site at:  https://american-cse.org/
   Submissions must be uploaded by the due date (see IMPORTANT DATES) and
   must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (maximum of 10 pages for Regular
   Research Papers; maximum of 6 pages for Short Research Papers; and
   maximum of 3 pages for Extended Abstract/Poster Papers – the number of
   pages includes all figures, tables, and references). ALL REASONABLE
   TYPESETTING FORMATS ARE ACCEPTABLE (many authors use Springer's
   one-column style format for their submissions or IEEE style format:
   later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
   particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for
   publication). Papers must not have been previously published or currently
   submitted for publication elsewhere.

   The first page of the paper should include the followings:
      – Title of the paper
      – Name, affiliation, postal address, and email address of each
        author (identify the name of the Contact Author)
      – Abstract (between 100 and 120 words)
      – A maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
        work described in the paper
      – Write the type of the submission as "Regular Research Paper",
        "Short Research Paper", or "Extended Abstract/Poster Paper".
      – The actual text of the paper can start from the first page
        (space permitting).
      Submissions are to be uploaded to the submission/evaluation web site
      portal at https://american-cse.org/

   Type of Submissions/Papers:

     – Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages):
       Regular Research Papers should provide detail original research
       contributions. They must report new research results that
       represent a contribution to the field; sufficient details and
       support for the results and conclusions should also be provided.
       The work presented in regular papers are expected to be at a
       stage of maturity that with some additional work can be published
       as journal papers.

     – Short Research Papers (maximum of 6 pages):
       Short Research Papers report on ongoing research projects. They
       should provide overall research methodologies with some results.
       The work presented in short papers are expected to be at a stage
       of maturity that with some additional work can be published as
       regular papers.

     – Extended Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 3 pages):
       Poster papers report on ongoing research projects that are still
       in their infancy (i.e., at very early stages). Such papers tend
       to provide research methodologies without yet concrete results.

   Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for
   originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases
   of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program
   committee would be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject);
   often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees.
   Papers whose authors include a member of the conference program
   committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process.
   (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered
   for discussion/panels).

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING WORKSHOPS/SESSIONS:

   Each conference ( https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/conferences )
   is composed of a number of tracks. A track can be a session, a workshop,
   or a symposium. A session will have at least 6 papers; a workshop at
   least 12 papers; and a symposium at least 18 papers. Track chairs will
   be responsible for all aspects of their tracks, including: soliciting
   papers, reviewing, selecting, … The names of track chairs will appear
   as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings and they will be
   presented achievement awards at appropriate professional levels during
   the Award Ceremony on site at the congress. Track chairs who attract a
   sufficient number of solid papers can propose to edit books with a major
   publisher based on the extended versions of the papers accepted in their
   tracks (the congress will facilitate and help such track chairs to get
   the publisher's approval: such as Springer, Elsevier, …).

   Proposals to organize tracks (sessions, workshops, or symposiums) should
   include the following information: name and address (+ email) of proposer,
   his/her biography, title of track, a 100-word description of the topic of
   the track, the name of the conference the track is submitted for
   consideration and a short description on how the track will be advertised
   (in most cases, track proposers solicit papers from colleagues and
   researchers whose work is known to the track proposer). E-mail your
   track proposal to cs@american-cse.org . We would like to receive the
   track proposals as soon as possible (see IMPORTANT DATES).

CAREER, JOB, & EDUCATION FAIR:

   https://americancse.org/events/csce2020/career_job_fair
   The CSCE 2020 Congress plans to host a one-day Career, Job, & Education
   Fair on July 28, 2020. This annual strategic event provides the congress
   attendees and participants with opportunities to connect with employers
   and educators and learn more about career options. Corporations and
   Universities can also exhibit their products, services, and degree programs
   during the event. Interested parties should contact cs@american-cse.org .

IMPORTANT DATES:

   As Soon As Possible: Track/Session/Workshop/Symposium Proposals

   March 24, 2020:    Submission of papers: https://american-cse.org/
                      – Full/Regular Research Papers (maximum of 10 pages);
                      – Short Research Papers (maximum of 6 pages);
                      – Abstract/Poster Papers (maximum of 3 pages)
   April 09, 2020:    Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
   May   05, 2020:    Final papers + Copyright + Registration
   July 27-30, 2020:  ICAI 2020: The 22nd International Conference on
                                 Artificial Intelligence +
                      ACC 2020:  The 4th International Conference on Applied
                                 Cognitive Computing
                      https://www.americancse.org/events/csce2020

CONTACT:
   Questions and inquiries should be sent to:
   Conference Secretariat: cs@american-cse.org