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Track 2: Computer Science and Systems (CSS)
https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/css

Organized within the framework of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and
Information Systems (FedCSIS 2020)

Sofia, Bulgaria, 6-9 September, 2020
http://www.fedcsis.org/

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FOR PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINES SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE

Our track includes the following technical sessions:

ACSS'20 - Advances in Computer Science and Systems
https://fedcsis.org/2020/acss

ACSS'20 TOPICS:

-- Applied Artificial Intelligence
-- Applied Parallel Computing
-- Applied methods of multimodal, constrained and heuristic optimization
-- Applied computer systems in technology, medicine, ecology, environment, economy, etc.
-- Theoretical models of the above computer sciences developed into the practical use


4A’20 - 1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars
https://fedcsis.org/2020/4a

4A’20 TOPICS:

-- Actors, as an approach to design and (efficiently) implement distributed systems
-- Current perspectives on software agents and multi-agent systems
-- Design and implementation of assistants
-- ChatBot design, implementation and use • Avatars for today and tomorrow
-- Theoretical foundations of 4A-based systems • 4A-based simulations (with application to real-world use cases, in particular)
-- Case studies, applications and experiences with 4A’s (in real-world, in particular)

CANA'20 - 13th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms
https://fedcsis.org/2020/cana

CANA'20 TOPICS:

-- Parallel numerical algorithms
-- Novel data formats for dense and sparse matrices
-- Libraries for numerical computations
-- Numerical algorithms testing and benchmarking
-- Analysis of rounding errors of numerical algorithms
-- Languages, tools and environments for programming numerical algorithms
-- Numerical algorithms on coprocesors (GPU, Intel Xeon Phi, etc.)
-- Paradigms of programming numerical algorithms
-- Contemporary computer architectures
-- Heterogeneous numerical algorithms
-- Applications of numerical algorithms in science and technology

MMAP'20 - 13th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing
https://fedcsis.org/2020/mmap

MMAP'20 TOPICS:

-- Audio, Image and Video Processing
-- Animation, Virtual Reality, 3D and Stereo Imaging
-- Big Data Science and Multimedia Systems
-- Cloud Computing and Multimedia Applications
-- Machine Learning, Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence for Information Retrieval in Multimedia Applications
-- Data Mining, Warehousing and Knowledge Extraction
-- Multimedia File Systems and Databases: Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval
-- Multimedia in Internet and Web Based Systems
-- E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications
-- Human Computer Interaction and Interfaces in Multimedia Applications
-- Multimedia in Medical Applications and Computational biology
-- Entertainment, Personalized Systems and Games
-- Security in Multimedia Applications: Authentication and Watermarking
-- Distributed Multimedia Systems
-- Network and Operating System Support for Multimedia
-- Mobile Network Architecture and Fuzzy Logic Systems
-- Intelligent Multimedia Network Applications
-- Future Trends in Computing System Technologies and Applications
-- Trends in Processing Multimedia Information
-- Multimedia Ontology and Perception for Multimedia Users

WCO'20 - 11th Workshop on Scalable Computing
https://fedcsis.org/2020/wsc

WSC'20 TOPICS:

General issues in scalable computing
-- Algorithms and programming models for large-scale applications, simulations and systems
-- Large-scale symbolic, numeric, data-intensive, graph-oriented, distributed computations
-- Fault-tolerant and consensus techniques for large-scale computing
-- Resilient large-scale computing
-- Data models for large-scale applications, simulations and systems
-- Large-scale distributed databases
-- Load-balancing / intelligent resource management in large-scale applications, simulations and systems
-- Performance analysis, evaluation, optimization and prediction
-- Scientific workflow scheduling
-- Data visualization
-- On-demand computing
-- Virtualization supporting computations
-- Volunteer computing
-- Scaling applications from small-scale to exa-scale (and back)
-- Big data real-time computing / analytics
-- Economic, business and ROI models for large-scale applications
Emerging technologies for scalable computing
-- Cloud / Fog / Dew computing architectures, models, algorithms and applications
-- High performance computing in Cloud / Fog / Dew
-- Green computing in Cloud / Fog / Dew
-- Performance, capacity management and monitoring of Cloud / Fog / Dew configuration
-- Cloud / Fog / Dew application scalability and availability
-- Big Data cloud services
-- Architectures for large-scale computations (GPUs, accelerators, quantum systems, federated systems, etc.)
-- Self* and autonomous computational / storage systems

FedCSIS'20 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (to be extended):

-- Christian Blum (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
(IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain)
-- George Boustras (European University, Cyprus)
-- Hans-Georg Fill (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

PAPER PUBLICATION:

Preprints will be published on USB memory sticks provided to the
FedCSIS'20 participants.

Papers presented during FedCSIS'20 will be submitted to IEEE for
inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library under a nonexclusive copyright,
thus further publication of extended papers are possible.

Moreover, proceedings published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI
numbers will be posted at FedCSIS WWW site.

IMPORTANT DATES:

-- Regular paper submission: May 15, 2020 (fixed - no extensions)
-- Position paper submission:June 9, 2020 (with option of regular paper
submission - if discussed with chairs)
-- Acceptance notification: June 30, 2020
-- Final paper submission and author registration: July 15, 2020
-- Conference dates: September 6-9, 2020

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

CHAIRS OF THE CSS TRACK

-- Woźniak, Marcin, Institute of Mathematics, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
-- Dimov, Ivan, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgaria