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 […]

Nowadays, we are witnessing a progressive digitalization of our lives, digitalization that has undergone a very strong acceleration in the last 10 years. As a result, we are now immersed in the so-called cyberspace, where millions of electronic devices of various natures and computational capacities are connected via the Internet. This huge amount of data, […]

Submission deadline: 5 May 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 […]

 IEEE World Congress on Services (IEEE SERVICES 2020) – Call for Papers JULY 7 – 11, 2020, BEIJING, CHINA   The Congress will cover all aspects of services computing and applications, current or emerging. It covers various systems and networking research pertaining to cloud, edge and Internet-of-Things (IoT), as well as technologies for intelligent computing, […]

40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS2020) – Call for Papers July 8 – 10, 2020, Singapore   The annual ICDCS conference is a premier international forum for researchers, developers and users to present, discuss and exchange the cutting edge ideas and latest findings on topics related to any aspects of distributed computing […]

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 […]

Submission deadline: 4 March 2020 Publication: July-September 2020 Urban computing is a process of acquisition, integration, analysis, and understanding of the urban data generated from various sources (e.g., sensors, devices, and social media) for various applications (e.g., tackling air pollution and monitoring urban activities). Multimedia computing plays a vital role in urban computing due to […]

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 […]

Submissions due: 22 December 2019 Publication (expected): Fall 2020 This special issue will explore security and privacy issues related to hardware-assisted security, which is the use of hardware-based building blocks to design and implement security and privacy techniques to protect applications, services, and the platform itself. Hardware-assisted security mechanisms are widely deployed, for example, in […]

The Internet coupled with recent advances in computing and information technologies, such as IoT, mobile edge/cloud computing, cyber-physical-social systems, and artificial intelligence/machine learning/deep learning, have paved the way for creating next-generation smart and intelligent systems and applications that can have transformative impact in our society while accelerating rapid scientific discoveries and innovations. Unprecedented cyber-social and […]

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: 17 March 2020 Publication date: Sept/Oct 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, […]

The world is becoming increasingly complex with a major drive to incorporate increasingly intricate coupling relationships and interactions between entities, behaviors, subsystems, and systems and their dynamics and evolution of any kinds and in any domains. Effective modeling in complex couplings and interactions in complex data, behaviors, and systems directly addresses the core nature and […]

Final submissions due: 13 January 2020 Publication issue: July/August 2020 As healthcare solutions and augmented monitoring of human mobility overlap with the new concepts of the Internet of Things (IoT), an emerging area of interest leverages sensor networks that monitor personal health data and human activity. This paradigm effectively connects the human body to the […]

CALL FOR PAPERS Domain-Specific Architectures for Emerging Applications IEEE Transactions on Computers Special Issue   IEEE Transactions on Computers seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on Domain-Specific Architectures for Emerging Applications scheduled to appear in May 2020.   Domain-specific architectures have gained prominence in the effort to overcome the stagnation in transistor feature-size scaling. […]

CALL FOR PAPERS Hardware Security IEEE Transactions on Computers Special Issue   IEEE Transaction on Computers seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on Hardware Security scheduled to appear in July 2020.   Recently, the hardware of computing systems has been a major target for cyber attacks. Unlike software vulnerabilities, hardware attacks and vulnerabilities can […]

• Paper Submission: 13 March 2020 • First Decision: 9 June 2020 • Revision: 14 July 2020 • Final Decision: 4 August 2020 • Camera-ready paper due: 1 September 2020 • Publication: November/December 2020 Outlier detection (also known as anomaly detection) aims at identifying data objects which are rare or significantly different from the majority […]

The proliferation of hardware accelerators has enabled the pervasive use of machine-learning algorithms in a range of diverse real-world applications, from computer vision to natural language processing. In addition to building the systems and accelerators that have enabled this current momentum in artificial intelligence, the computer architecture community has also explored these new models to […]

• Paper submission due: 15 December 2019 • First-round review due: 25 February 2020 • Revision due: 30 March 2020 • Final decision notification: 10 April 2020 • Camera-ready submission due: 30 April 2020 • Publication: Sept./Oct. 2020 Recommendation has become one of the most important applications of artificial intelligence (AI), data science, and advanced […]

Biological systems carry out computation and store information with efficiency levels and complexity that far exceed those of synthetic computer systems. Consider biological neural networks that are estimated to achieve at least four order of magnitude greater ops/Joule than synthetic ones, recent studies that show the extremely high storage densities that DNA can achieve, and […]

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 […]

Title and abstracts due: 25 Jan 2020 (email to pvc4-2020@computer.org) Full manuscripts due: 1 Feb 2020 (via submission site) Publication date: October—December 2020 Today, the infrastructure needed to support pervasive computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) faces unprecedented challenges as entirely new classes of applications and systems emerge. For example, pervasive systems designed to […]

Call for Papers about Agile and Open-Source Hardware As the benefits of traditional technology scaling, like Dennard Scaling and Moore’s Law, slow significantly, computer architecture is poised to enter a golden age of innovation. Domain-specific architecture (DSA) is a promising solution to continue improving computing performance, while maintaining the level of energy efficiency previously found […]

Submission deadline: 26 November 2019 Publication: May/June 2020 Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way from the introduction of fuzzy logic by Zadeh, the applications of Norbert Wiener’s feedback mechanisms in intelligent systems by Newell and Simon, and John McCarthy’s tireless efforts that promoted research on AI. Today, as intelligent systems are emerging to […]

Important Submission Information Schedule (tentative): deadline for submissions: 1 December 2019 first decision (accept/reject/revise): 15 March 2020 submission of revised papers: 15 June 2020 notification of final decision: 15 August 2020 publication: First half of 2021 Guest Editors (blockchain.tetc.si@gmail.com) Hong-Ning Dai (www.henrylab.net), Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau (IEEE Senior Member) Zibin Zheng (www.zibinzheng.com), […]

41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP2020) – Call for Papers MAY 18-20, 2020 AT THE HYATT REGENCY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA   IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP 2020) is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in cooperation with the International Association for Cryptologic Research. Please note […]

Submission deadline: 1 February 2020 Publication: September 2020 Blockchain combines a number of properties, in particular untamperability, auditability, accessibility, global identification, and inherent distribution. Newer blockchains such as Ethereum further provide execution environments such that the elements loaded upon a chain can have interesting behavior. These are the so-called smart contracts. Cyberphysical systems combine the […]

Submission deadline: 1 December 2019 Publication: July 2020 Trust and trust management lie at the heart of today’s increasingly decentralized economy. Blockchain, in all its variations, is emerging as a foundational technology that allows mutually untrusting parties to reach consensus on a shared digital history without a (central) trusted party. Although blockchain is best known […]

Due to the extensive use of various medical information systems, large quantities of medical data and clinical information (such as multi-modal medical images and standard electronic medical records) have been collected in many hospitals and institutes. Most existing analysis methods, however, use these data separately, ignoring the relationship among potentially related categories of medical data. […]

Abstract submissions due: 31 October 2019 Final submissions due: 31 January 2020 Publication date: September/October 2020 IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications plans a September/October 2020 special issue on data physicalization. Data physicalization is an emerging cross-disciplinary research area that examines how physical representations of data – data physicalizations – can support communication, learning, problem solving, […]

Submission deadline: 1 February 2020 Publication: December 2020 Modern systems, such as cooperative robotic systems, mobile computing systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and financial systems, are becoming distributed, ubiquitous, and systems of systems composed of autonomous entities. They have to operate in highly dynamic and volatile environments, where physical infrastructure, social and societal context, network topologies, […]

Articles Due: 1 January 2020  Publication Date: August 2020 Computer plans an August 2020 special issue on Hybrid Human–Artificial Intelligence. Recent advances in increased computation power enabled by cloud computing–coupled with emerging machine learning and statistical methods, in addition to the availability of big data generated by the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile devices, and […]

Submission deadline: 1 March 2020 (to Scholar One Manuscripts) Publication: November/December 2020 Guest Editors: Venkateswara Dasari and Simon Su US Army Research Laboratory This is a call for papers for an upcoming special issue of Computing in Science & Engineering to be published in November/December 2020. Major advancements in computational and sensor hardware have enormously facilitated the generation and […]

Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 January 2020 Paper Notification: 15 March 2020 Camera Ready due: 31 May 2020 Special Issue Publication: September/October 2020 Blockchains help to build trust among a decentralized network of unknown and untrusted peers. Still, all peers need to agree on a common protocol and trust the correctness and compatibility of the corresponding software […]

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 […]

Submission deadline: 1 December 2019 Publication: July/August 2020 What can AI do for software engineering, and how can we as software engineers design and build better AI systems? As AI continues to disrupt many fields from agriculture to manufacturing, it’s important to explore the essential connections between AI and software engineering. For this issue, we […]

Submission deadline: 1 May 2020 (to Scholar One Manuscripts) Publication: Jan/Feb 2021 Guest Editors: Geoffrey Fox, Pete Beckman, Terry Moore, Daniel Reed, Rosa Badia, Satoshi Matsuoka, Jack Dongara, and Barry Schneider This is a call for papers for an upcoming special issue of Computing in Science & Engineering to be published in Jan/Feb 2021. The intersection of Big Data and Extreme Scale […]

Final submissions due: 1 December 2019 Publication date: July/August 2020 IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications plans a July/August 2020 special issue on graphics and virtual environments for serious games, or computer games that do not have entertainment as their primary purpose. Over the past two decades the swift and dramatic emergence of serious games has revealed numerous […]

Letter of intent to submit (with abstract) deadline: 1 May 2019 (to cs5-2020@computer.org) Full paper submission deadline: 1 January 2020 (to ScholarOne Manuscripts) Publication date: September/October 2020 This is a call for papers for an upcoming special issue of Computing in Science & Engineering to be published in September/October 2020. The goal of this special issue is to promote theories […]

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 […]