[hpc-announce] ICCCN 2011 (Athens, Greece, July, 2021) Call for Workshop Proposals

[Kewei Sha]

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The 30th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
(ICCCN’2021) will be held in Athens, Greece, July 19 - 22, 2021. ICCCN
workshops are exciting forums to present, discuss, and formulate
specialized topics and emerging hot research topics (new areas, new
problems or new methods). The topic of the proposed workshop should offer a
perspective distinct from and complementary to the research themes of the
main conference. Workshops for presenting papers from industry and papers
on design and implementations of systems and services are welcome. As the
ICCCN is a premier international conference in the field, a workshop at the
conference will generate high visibility. Accepted and registered (and
presented by one of authors) workshop papers will be published and included
in the conference proceedings.



We invite you to submit *workshop proposals* on any topic related to the
broad set of research and application areas covered by the ICCCN
conference. We welcome workshops on topics in network research, practice,
and education. The workshop format itself should favor interaction among
participants and community building. We welcome returning workshops.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

·        *5G & Beyond*

·        *Edge/Fog Computing*

·        *Novel Networking Architectures*

·        *Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Communications and Networks*

·        *Internet of Things*

·        *Big Data Networking*

·        *Cyber-Physical Systems*

·        *Blockchain *

·        *Mobile Cloud Computing and Services*

·        *Flexible Optical networks and visible light communication*

·        *Critical Infrastructure Networks (e.g., Smart Grid and Vehicular
Networks)*

·        *Security and Privacy in communications, networks, and testbeds*

·        *Social Networking and Novel Applications*

·        *Software-Defined Radio and Software-Defined Networking*

·        *Green communications and energy-harvesting networks*

·        *Next-Generation Broadband Wireless Access Networks*

·        *Virtualized Infrastructure Systems and Architectures*

·        *Quantum Communication, Networking, and Security*

·        *Service-centric networking*



*Submission Guidelines and Publication:* In general, a workshop is one day
with 12-16 accepted and registered papers and presentations. Please send a
workshop proposal by November 16th, 2020, to *Workshop General Chair Prof.
Kewei Sha (sha at uhcl.edu <sha at uhcl.edu>).* Please note that the workshop
proposals will be reviewed as we receive them, and we will try to make the
decision and send the result notification back as soon as possible.
Early-bird proposals are highly encouraged and will be given higher
priority! For each approved workshop, at least one organizer (TPC Chair)
must commit to attending and running the workshop on site. Please do not
hesitate to send emails to the Chair if you have any questions.



The workshop proposal should include the following information: (1)
workshop title; (2) the names of the organizers (up to two Program Chairs
and there should not be any General Chair in any workshop proposal), their
brief bios, and contact information; (3) a description of why and how the
workshop will be organized (half to one page) e.g., relevance and
significance of the workshop to the main conference; (4) a history of the
workshop, if not being offered for the first time; (5) estimated paper
submission volume and paper acceptance rate; (6) expected number of
attendees; (7) length – Full day or half day; (8) indication if a journal
special issue is associated with; (9) how you will advertise to increase
paper submissions (a list of emailing-lists will help); (9) any other
relevant information.



Each workshop must start to advertise and distribute its own Call-For-Paper
(CFP) after receiving the approval notification *(the ICCCN 2021 Steering
Committee and the Workshop General Chair, Prof. Kewei Sha must approve the
format and contents of each workshop’s CFP, before it is used for
advertisement, per our policy).* Papers submitted to each workshop should
be original and peer reviewed by its own program committee (at least 3
reviews per submitted paper is required). An accepted paper must be
registered and presented by one of authors at the workshop venue and must
be limited to 6 pages in standard double-column, 10pt font format. Two
additional pages are allowed with the payment of an over-length fee of
$100/page. More updates will be posted on the ICCCN 2021 website and please
refer to the *Author Information* at the website. Please contact the
Workshop General Chair with any questions.