[Mandarax-develop] 1st Call For Papers: 7th Balkan Conference in Informatics

[Costin B. <bad...@so...>]

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Dear Colleague,

We cordially invite you to contribute by submitting papers to the 7th
Balkan Conference in Informatics to be held during September 2-4, 2015 in
Craiova, Romania.
http://bci2015.bci-conferences.org/
The accepted papers will be published by ACM International Conference
Proceedings Series.

Please find enclosed the CfP and feel free to distribute it to your
colleagues and other persons that might be interested in this event.

Sincerely Yours,
Costin Badica
-- Organizing Chair of BCI'2015

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CALL FOR PAPERS

7th Balkan Conference in Informatics - BCI'2015
2-4 September 2015, Craiova, Romania
http://bci2015.bci-conferences.org/

AIM & SCOPE

The main objective of the BCI series of conferences is to provide a forum
for discussions and dissemination of research accomplishments in Computer
Science and Information Technology and to promote interaction and
collaboration among scientists from the Balkan countries and the rest of
the world, and to encourage involvement of young researchers from the
region.

The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical
contributions (regular papers) reviewed and selected by an international
program committee, as well as of invited talks presented by leading
scientists. Different workshops will be held in line with the main
conference. The official language of the conference will be English.

The 7th Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI 2015) continues the
tradition of BCI conferences held in Thessaloniki (2013), Novi Sad (2012),
Thessaloniki (2009), Sofia (2007), Ohrid (2005), and Thessaloniki (2003).

TOPICS

Original papers dealing with both theory and/or practical aspects of wide
areas of ICT are solicited. The general areas of interest include all
topics listed in the 2012 Revision of the ACM Computing Classification
System (http://www.acm.org/about/class/2012):

- Hardware
- Computer systems organization
- Networks
- Software engineering
- Theory of computation
- Mathematics of computing
- Information systems
- Human-centered computing
- Computing methodologies
- Applied computing
- Social and professional topics

Papers reporting on developments, reviews, proposals, projects on
Information Technology in South-East Europe in the following areas are
also solicited:

- Governance (e.g. systems in place, policies etc)
- Education (curricula issues, secondary and higher education etc)
- Professional Issues (e.g. employment, Computer Societies,
entrepreneurship etc)
- European ICT Priorities (e.g. enterprise, smart specialization, aging etc)

IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper submission         March 1, 2015
Notification of acceptance    April 3, 2015
Early (Author) Registration   May 15, 2015
Camera-ready papers           May 15, 2015
Late Registration             September 1, 2015
Conference                    September 2-4, 2015

SUBMISSION

Original contributions are solicited for the following categories:

- Full research papers (max 8 pages) describing research accomplishments.
- Short research papers (max 4 pages), i.e. experience reports, project
overviews, etc. which do not fully adhere to the standards of a first rate
scientific publication, but are nevertheless of interest and value for the
participants of the conference.

Submissions will be reviewd by at least two independent reviewers, members
of the Programme Committee. Only accepted full papers and some
high-quality short papers will be included in the main BCI 2015
Proceedings (published by ACM in the International Conference Proceedings
Series). Papers must be formatted according to the ACM ICPS style
templates, Tighter Alternate style:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates#aL2
LaTeX2e format is preferred.
Other accepted papers will be published in local proceedings (with ISBN).
A selection of outstanding papers from the conference may be invited for
publication in internationally recognized journals (subject to additional
reviewing).

All contributions should be in PDF format and should be submitted
electronically via the EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bci2015.
For their submissions, authors are encouraged to consider the final paper
format requirements, as specified at the conference site. Research papers
should be original contributions and should not be accepted or submitted
elsewhere until the decisions of the BCI 2015 program committee are
announced. At least one author from every submission accepted to appear in
proceedings is obliged to register and attend the conference.

COMMITTEES

Steering Committee
http://software.ucv.ro/BCI2015/sc.html

Conference Committees
http://software.ucv.ro/BCI2015/cc.html