[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] ********************************************************************** ******** I S C I S 2007 ******** ****** ****** **** 22nd International Symposium on **** *** Computer and Information Sciences *** ** ** * November 7-9, 2007 * * * * Cultural and Convention Center, * * Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey * * * * http://www.iscis.metu.edu.tr/ * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * ********************************************************************** We kindly invite you to submit papers for the twenty-second of the ISCIS series of conferences that bring together computer scientists and engineers from around the world. This year's conference will be held in METU, Ankara. There will be invited talks given by leading researchers, and oral and poster presentations in three main tracks: COMPUTER VISION, GRAPHICS AND INTELLIGENCE - Computational and Artificial Intelligence - Computer Vision - Pattern Analysis and Recognition - Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality - Human-Computer Interaction - Simulation and Modeling - Natural Language Understanding NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS - Computer networks - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Computer Architecture - Operating Systems - Security and Cryptography - Mobile computing - Reconfigurable computing systems - Sensor networks - Embedded systems DATA MANAGEMENT - Databases - Information Retrieval - Web Data Management - Web Information Systems - Multimedia DB's - Mining Data, Text, and the Web Keynote Speakers: _________________ Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK (http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/gelenbe/) Nick Jennings, University of Southampton, UK (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nrj/ Ozgur Ulusoy, Bilkent University, Turkey (http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~oulusoy/ Important Dates: ________________ - Submission of full papers: May 14, 2007 - Notification of acceptance: July 14, 2007 - Camera-Ready copies due: August 4, 2007 - Author Registration deadline: August 6, 2007 Paper Submission and Publication: _________________________________ Authors are invited to submit manuscripts written in English. Papers must contain original work not published or under revision elsewhere. All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality, and clarity. Proceedings of the previous ISCIS conferences have been published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. While selected papers will be published in conference proceedings published by a prestigious publisher, we will provide the other papers with the opportunity for oral and poster presentations, which will be published on a CD-ROM. For submission instructions, and more information about the conference please refer to http://www.iscis.metu.edu.tr/.