Call for Papers : PlatCon-20
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** Important Notices **

1. [IEEE Proceeding] Submission due: Saturday, 29 February 2020

2. Selected papers accepted and presented in PlatCon-20, after further revisions, will be recommended in the special issues of distinguished international journals indexed in EI Compendex, SCOPUS, SCIE, SCI, and/or SSCI. (Totally about 30% recommendation rate, Pending)

- Applied Science - MDPI(SCIE)
- International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks - SAGE(SCIE)
- Applied Soft Computing- Elsevier (SCIE)
- Sensors - MDPI (SCIE)
- Electronics - MDPI (SCIE)
- Mathematics - MDPI (SCIE)
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Overview
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"PlatCon-20 covers all Computer Science and ICT areas with their convergence topics."
PlatCon-20 will be the sixth event of the PlatCon conference series which is hosted and organized by the Institution of Creative Research Professionals (ICRP), and this year event is technically cosponsored by IEEE Seoul section. This conference will be one of most comprehensive conferences in the field of Platform Technology (PT). The main focus of PlatCon-20 is various PT research issues, but also its coverage can be extended to a wide spectrum of topics related to Computer Science and ICT platforms and their service domains. And PlatCon-20 would be a professional and informative forum for scientists, engineers, experts, professors, and students in the areas of Computer Science, Information Technology, Computing Technology, Communication & Network, HCI, Business & Management, Intelligent System, Cyber security, Industrial Security, Cyber Physical System, Education Technology, IT-based convergence research fields, and also in multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary research fields of them.

During the last decade, many countries have adopted in recent years roadmap for developing the future infrastructure in emerging platform technology areas such as automobile, big data processing technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, grid computing and ICT (Information and Communication Technology). Our special interest lies in both theoretical and practical research contributions presenting new techniques, concepts, or analysis, reports on experiences and experiments of implementation and application of theories, and tutorials on new technologies and trends in various platforms/services areas and in all relevant scientific/engineering areas.

The PlatCon-20 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conference on Platform Technology and Service, previously held as PlatCon-19 (Jeju, Korea, Jan. 2019), PlatCon-18 (Jeju, Korea, Jan. 2018), PlatCon-17 (Busan, Korea, Feb. 2017), PlatCon-16 (Jeju, Korea, Feb. 2016), PlatCon-15 (Jeju, Korea, Jan. 2015), and PlatCon-14 (Jeju, Korea, Feb. 2014).

Conference Topics
Potential authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research articles, and on-going research papers, and also some invited articles, in all areas related to the platform technologies including, but not limited to, the following suggested topics:

** Computing Platform **
- Computing theory
- Computer architecture
- Grid and cloud computing and systems
- Distributed and parallel computing systems
- Embedded computing and systems
- Fault-tolerant computing and systems
- Ubiquitous computing and systems
- Operation systems
- Secure OS and Trust OS

** Networking Platform **
- Ad hoc and sensor network platform
- Broadband communication platform
- Microwave communication platform
- Mobile and wireless platform
- Satellite communication platform
- Smart home and M2M (machine to machine) network
- System and network management and troubleshooting
- Vehicular communication platform
- Software defined network

** Smart Human & Media Platform **
- Game platform
- Interaction and HCI
- Media art convergence
- Multimedia platform
- Scientific and big data visualization platform
- Smart UI/UX platform
- Virtual and augmented reality
- E-Learning & U-Learning platform
- Web platform platform
- Artificial intelligence platform
- Automobile platform
- Big data platform
- Semantic web technology platform

** Convergence Platform **
- Business service platform
- Business management and intelligence
- Internet of things
- Service innovation and entrepreneurship
- Service oriented computing and applications
- Social networks
- Security and privacy issues in emerging platforms
- Convergence security
- Cyber security and digital forensics
- Smart grid and its security
- Financial platform

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Important Dates (Time Zone : KST)
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Conference Dates: 29 June ~ 1 July 2020
1st Paper Submission Due: Friday, 31 January 2020
2nd Paper Submission Due: Saturday, 29 February 2020
Authors Notification: Friday, 27 March 2020
Camera-Ready Paper Due: Friday, 1 May 2020
Author Registration Due: Friday, 8 May 2020

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Organization
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General Chairs
Sung Jo Kim, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Dae Hun Kim, Chung-Ang University, Korea

General Vice-Chairs
Hangbae Chang, Chung-Ang University, Korea

Program Chairs
Ka Lok Man, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Sanghyun Seo, Chung-Ang University, Korea

Financial Chair
Sangoh Park, Chung-Ang University, Korea

Publication Chair
Seungmin Rho, Sejong University, Korea
Taeshik Shon, Ajou University, Korea
Mucheol Kim, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Jongsung Kim, Kookmin University, Korea

Workshop Chairs
Soo-Kyun Kim, Paichai University, Korea
Young-Gab Kim, Sejong University, Korea
Laihyuk Park, SeoulTech, Korea

Publicity Chairs
Jeongheon Kim, KISTI, Korea
Jung-Sik Cho, KISA, Korea
Jaesung Lee, Chung-Ang University, Korea

Local Arrangement Chairs
Yangsun Lee, Mokwon University, Korea
Yanghoon Kim, Far East University, Korea

Industry Liaison Chair
Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea
Changhoon Lee, SeoulTech, Korea

Award Chair
Young-Ae Jung, Sun Moon University, Korea

Banquet Chair
Dongwann Kang, SeoulTech, Korea

Steering Committee
Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea (Chair)
Seungmin Rho, Sejong University, Korea (Co-Chair)
Hangbae Chang, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Changhoon Lee, SeoulTech, Korea
Sangoh Park, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Yangsun Lee, Mokwon University, Korea
Jongsung Kim, Kookmin University, Korea
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA
Andrew Kusiak, The University of Iowa, USA
Bernard Grabot, National Engineering School of Tarbes, France
Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Ka Lok Man, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Nak-Young Chong, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA

Advisory Board
Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA (Chair)
Keith Mayes, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Yoon-Ho Kim, Mokwon University, Korea
Sangjin Lee, President, Digital Forensics Society of Korea, Korea
Daesik Ko, Senior Vice-President, ICT Platform Society, Korea
Sung Won Sohn, Senior Vice-President, ETRI, Korea
Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Von-Wun Soo, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Yong Yue, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Sheng-Uei Guan, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Bon-Gen Gu, Korea National University of Transportation, Korea
Heau-Jo Kang, Mokwon University, Korea
Suk-Hyung Hwang, Sun Moon University, Korea
Sun Myung Hwang, Daejeon University, Korea
Im-Yeong Lee, Soonchunhyang University, Korea
Namje Park, Jeju National University, Korea
Young B. Park, Dankook University, Korea

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Contact Information
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If you have enquiries about the conference, please contact the following conference chairs:
Hangbae Chang (hangbae.chang@gmail.com), Sanghyun Seo (pc.shseo@gmail.com), Sangoh Park (pc.sopark@gmail.com), Mucheol Kim (pc.mckim@gmail.com)

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Paper Submission
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EDAS is the official conference tool for PlatCon-20.
Authors should submit their papers to the following EDAS system for review: http://edas.info/N26509
You can download a sample format: http://www.platcon.org/publications

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Special Issues for conference
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Some selected papers will be recommended to peer-reviewed international journals indexed in EI Compendex, SCOPUS, SCIE, SCI, and/or SSCI as below. And we are contacting other journals for the selected papers.
- Applied Science - MDPI(SCIE)
- International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks - SAGE(SCIE)
- Applied Soft Computing- Elsevier (SCIE)
- Sensors - MDPI (SCIE)
- Electronics - MDPI (SCIE)
- Mathematics - MDPI (SCIE)