As software plays an increasingly important role in our daily lives, it is essential to maintain its reliability and dependability in the face of faults and failures. Unlike faults in other components, software faults can cause catastrophic consequences unless they are anticipated and handled appropriately. The rise of software-based autonomous systems (e.g., self-driving cars) has […]

Submissions due: 10 September 2020 Publication issue: March/April 2021 From automobiles and aircraft to ships and scooters, vehicles of all shapes and sizes are increasingly autonomous. They can navigate intricate paths, plan multi-faceted routes, react to unexpected events, and complete complex missions with limited input from human operators. Their societal and economic impact is already […]

With the exponential growth of interconnected devices and computers, cyber-physical systems have experienced a significant growth of cyber-attack incidents resulting in huge property losses. Cyber-attacks, caused by malware, software vulnerabilities, privacy breaches, diverse smart attackers, etc., are undoubtedly growing matters of public concern. For example, attacks on sensors, inter-vehicle communications, and entertainment platforms can enable […]

Today’s proliferating virtual reality (VR) technology is setting the stage for the next revolution in visual entertainment. Real VR will make it possible to experience live-action movies, sports broadcasts, music events, etc. via head-mounted displays (HMDs) with an unprecedented sense of “being there.” By being able to elicit intensive personal experiences, prospective real VR applications […]

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) have established themselves in a multitude of domains because of their ability to process and model unstructured input data. As these fields are becoming increasingly integrated into our daily lives, there is a significant amount of interest among the community in improving AI/ML/DL through the […]

The evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the nature of edge-computing devices. End nodes have to support, in place, an increasing range of functionality: multi-sensory data processing and analysis, complex systems control strategies, and, ultimately, artificial intelligence. These new capabilities will enable disruptive innovation in wearable and implantable biomedical devices, autonomous insect-sized […]

Communications in various forms have become increasingly important with the advent of diverse computing platforms, such as many-core CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, machine learning (ML) accelerators, and other domain-specific processors. Meanwhile, data-intensive workloads pose greater challenges to both on-chip and off-chip communications, whereas emerging technologies offer new opportunities for interconnection networks. These trends on architecture, application, […]

Recently, networks throughout the world have been undergoing profound restructuring and transformation with the development of software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), and 5th-generation wireless systems (5G). The new networking paradigms are eroding the dominance of traditional ossified architectures and reducing dependence on proprietary hardware. However, the corresponding improvements in network flexibility and scalability […]

IEEE Transactions on Computers seeks original manuscripts for a special issue on Highlights of Computer Architecture (HiCA). The special issue provides the top-quality journal venue for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly changing field. Authors of computer architecture conferences in the past 12 months, including but not limited to […]

Foundations Track Papers We invite authors to submit high quality contributions describing significant, original, and unpublished results in the following categories: Technical Papers: Technical papers should describe innovative research in modeling or model-driven engineering activities. Papers in this submission category should describe a novel contribution to the field and should carefully support claims of novelty with […]

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and challenges in software maintenance and evolution.

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Clusters remain the primary system architecture for building many of today’s rapidly evolving computing infrastructures and are used to solve some of the most complex problems. The challenges to make them scalable, efficient, productive, and increasingly effective requires a community effort in the areas of cluster system design, advancing the capabilities of the software stack, system management and monitoring, and the design of algorithms, methods, and applications to leverage the overall infrastructure.

Final submissions due: 8 July 2020 Publication issue: January/February 2021 The integration of 5G networks with other technology advancements, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing, can fundamentally transform the way we use the Internet and conduct our business and daily lives. Many diverse services, including real-time autonomous machines, safety-critical health applications, and augmented/virtual […]

Submissions due: August 27, 2020 Preliminary notification: October 29, 2020 Revisions due: December 3, 2020 Publication: March/April 2021 The modeling and processing of geometric data is fundamental to many computer applications, including computer graphics, computer vision, CAD/CAM, medical imaging, engineering analysis, robotics, additive manufacturing, and scientific computing. There has recently been increasing demand for geometric […]

Many see great value in papers about hardware developed by industry that apply or combine novel ideas. Such papers are unlikely to be accepted by conferences in the current reviewing ecosystem, since they are so different. Retrospective industrial product papers remain valuable complements to academic research papers. Hence, we have a special issue for commercial […]

By controlling devastating and emerging coronavirus disease (COVID)-19, new drug molecules, vaccines, and antibiotics from microbiological to sequence-based approaches have had an enormous impact on world health. Healthcare researchers have always been a leader in innovation. Virus diseases make it challenging to stay ahead of the curve, but with the application and utility of artificial […]

Title and abstracts due: 18 May 2020 (email to pvc1-2021@computer.org) Full Manuscripts due: 1 Jun 2020 (via mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pc-cs) Publication date: January–March 2021 Pervasive fabrication technologies including 3D printing, computer-controlled milling, and robotic assembly are increasingly accessible and broadly applied. The precision of computer control without a high upfront investment in tooling coupled with human ingenuity […]

Submission deadline: November 9, 2020 Publication: March/April 2021 Technology and education have always followed intersecting paths, with education supporting students learning about technology and new technology supporting educators improving the educational experience. The technological advances have dramatically influenced options for education, introducing the ability for remote, media-rich, enhanced, ubiquitous training and testing. Technology advances have […]

Important Dates Initial submissions due: August 5, 2020 First round of reviews: September 9, 2020 Revised/final versions due: November 11, 2020 Final decisions: December 2, 2020 Special issue published: March/April 2021 Real-world knowledge-based systems must deal with information coming from different sources, leading to uncertainty due to incompleteness, inconsistency, and/or inherent uncertainty (such as the […]

Submission deadline: April 12, 2020 Publication: November/December 2020 Fundamentally, software is limited only by human imagination and ingenuity. Understanding human reasoning and the social context in the software engineering (SE) process is crucial to promoting innovation and productivity – and there is a well-established, international community that conducts empirical studies of the psychology of SE, […]

Biological networks are powerful resources for modelling, analysis, and discovery in biological systems, ranging from molecular to epidemiological levels. In recent years, network models and algorithms have been used to represent and analyze the whole set of associations and interactions among biologically relevant molecules inside cells, (e.g., proteins, genes, transcription factors, and more recently the […]

Call for Technical Papers IEEE Quantum Week aims to be a leading venue for presenting high-quality original research, ground-breaking innovations, and compelling insights in quantum computing, engineering, and technologies. Technical papers are peer-reviewed and can be on any topic related to quantum computing, engineering, and technologies. Technical Paper Tracks Quantum Communications, Sensing, Cryptography Quantum Photonics […]

Machine learning has demonstrated great potential to revolutionize the Internet of Things (IoT) by improving the efficiency of deployment and management of IoT, enhancing IoT security and privacy protection, and enabling various smart applications. The success of artificial intelligence (AI) in IoT stems from availability of big training data and massive computation power, which drives […]

Social media has become the most important platform for interaction and information among people and for society. Although it supports social good through applications such as disaster relief coordination and health promotion, the misuse of these platforms for social harm has been rampant in recent years. In the pursuit of gaining a better understanding of […]

Data science has become the new frontier for self-driving cars and AI. Such intelligent applications derive from Information Reuse and Integration (IRI). IRI seeks to maximize the utility of information by creating simple, rich, and cost-effective knowledge representations and ontologies. IRI consequently explores strategies for integrating this knowledge into systems and applications. It plays a […]

Quantum computers promise dramatic improvements in our ability to efficiently solve classically intractable problems ranging from cryptosystems, to the simulation of quantum systems, to optimization and machine learning. Recent progress in the development of quantum-computing systems has been profound, with demonstrations of 53-qubit entanglement, improvements in classical simulations of quantum systems, and advances in the […]

Submission deadline: 5 June 2020 Publication: November/December 2020 Resiliency and recovery are timely topics in telecommunications. As societies rely on communication networks for critical services at an increasing rate, and technologies evolve based on the assumption of reliable services supported by reliable networks, extremely high reliability is necessary. Networks must therefore provide higher amounts of […]

Submissions due: 29 April 2020 Publication: November/December 2020 IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications plans a November/December 2020 special issue on climate change. Climate trends are studied by scientists through innovative cross-disciplinary research such as physical ice and soil core sampling, geological investigation of the rock record, paleontological investigation of the fossil record, and even astronomical […]

Submission deadline: 27 May 2020 Publication: October-December 2020 Big social-media data is heralded as a powerful new resource for social media, multimedia data, and business analytics. The excitement around big multimedia data (e.g., social multimedia data, healthcare data, or business data) emerges from the recognition of the opportunities. It may advance our understanding of human […]

Submissions due: 27 April 2020 Publication: November/December 2020 With slowing down of the dimensional scaling in advanced CMOS technologies coupled with the rise of custom hardware accelerators for energy-efficient computing in a variety of AI/ML, AR/VR applications, integrated circuits (ICs) are transforming rapidly to meet the power, performance, security, and connectivity demands of such systems […]

Submission deadline: 1 June 2020 Publication: January/February 2021 Serverless computing, the conjunction of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS), has become an attractive polyglot programming and deployment model for developers and a core runtime offering of all major cloud platform providers within the past five years. Cloud functions orchestrated in FaaS are seen as the sincerest form of […]

The future increase in the amount of data and workloads generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices and connected sensors will lead to the necessity to move computational nodes from the cloud data centers closer to the data source, i.e., at the edge of the cloud, for reduced latency. An edge system is composed of […]

Submission deadline: 1 August 2020 Publication: March 2021 Autonomous systems are coming into use in a wide range of domains, from vehicles to manufacturing. The characteristics of computing workloads for autonomy are much more complex than those exhibited by traditional sampled-data control systems. Autonomy workloads exhibit wide variations in computing load, timing, and power/thermal behavior. […]

Full paper submission deadline: 15 April 2020 Publication date: September/October 2020 The Page Rank algorithm ignited Google. A knowledge graph empowers Amazon. Facebook and other social media thrive on graph search and routing algorithms. Together, these powerful “graph algorithms” have literally enlivened billion-dollar industries. They have also invaded our privacy by profiling virtually everyone, even […]

Aim and Scope Brain-machine interfacing or brain-computer interfacing (BMI/BCI) is an emerging and challenging technology used in engineering and neuroscience. The ultimate goal is to provide a pathway from the brain to the external world via mapping, assisting, augmenting, or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions. Recently, many advanced machine-learning technologies have appeared, such as […]

IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), the flagship journal for the IEEE Computer Society, is a monthly publication with a wide distribution to researchers, developers, technical managers, and educators in the computer field. It publishes papers on research in areas of current interest to the readers, including but not limited to the following: Computer organizations and […]

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing is a cross-disciplinary and international archive journal aimed at disseminating results of research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena. The journal publishes original research on the principles and theories explaining why and how affective factors condition interaction between humans […]

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) seeks original manuscripts for submission under Technical Tracks. In a track, the technical contents of a submitted manuscript must be both of research type and of an emerging nature, and must fall within the scope and competencies of the Computer Society. Manuscripts not abiding by these specifications will […]

CiSE accepts submissions on an ongoing basis for the following three tracks: Reproducible Research Data* Software Engineering Please see the individual Calls for Papers below for details. Reproducible Research – Call for Papers Submission and publication: Ongoing Track editors: Lorena A. Barba (George Washington University) and George K. Thiruvathukal (Loyola University Chicago) Since the year 2000, CiSE […]