CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACk PROPOSALS & PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ITNG 2019 The 16th Int'l Conf. on Information Technology: New Generations ITNG 2019 WWW.ITNG.INFO April 1-3, 2019, Las Vegas, USA (PROCEEDINGS TO BE PUBLISHED BY THE SPRINGER) Track Proposal Deadline : Aug. 31, 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: Oct. 5, 2018 THEME: The International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations (ITNG) is an annual event focusing on state of the art technologies pertaining to digital information and communications. The applications of advanced information technology to such domains as astronomy, biology, education, geosciences, security and health care are among topics of relevance to ITNG. Visionary ideas, theoretical and experimental results, as well as prototypes, designs, and tools that help the information readily flow to the user are of special interest. Machine Learning, Robotics, High Performance Computing, and Innovative Methods of Computing are examples of related topics. The conference features keynote speakers, the best student award, poster award, service award, a technical open panel, and workshops/exhibits from industry, government and academia. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Authors should submit a 6-page version of their original and unpublished work including 5 keywords in the IEEE format to their respective track/session chair via the following site: https://www.itng.info Papers that do not fit the scope of any of the existing sessions, should be submitted to the ITNG General Track. Electronic submission in the PDF format or Word document is mandatory. Per ITNG policy, all papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. The criteria for paper acceptance include originality, technical soundness, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by the Springerin series named Advances in Intelligent Systems & Computing Series and the books of the series are submitted to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink library and online catalogs. Selected papers presented in the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of an international journal. PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/TRACKS/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA: Proposals are solicited to organize a technical forum at the ITNG 2018. You may take part by organizing a session (typically 5 to 6 papers), a track (20 to 30 papers), a workshop (the number of participants may vary), or a symposium (50 to 100 papers) within the ITNG 2019 targeting one of the IT topics. Benefits of such an involvement include: 1.Recognition as the PC member of the ITNG 2019 2.Recognition as the Associate Editor on the cover page of the ITNG proceedings 3.Possible Guest Editorship of a special issue of an international journal developed around a selective set of accepted papers in the ITNG. Organizers are expected to actively advertise their proposed activity via internet, email, and other means. They will solicit, review and select high quality papers related to their respective IT topic. Those interested may send an email to the conference chair Dr. Shahram Latifi ( latifi@itng.info ) and include the following: 1. Title and a brief description of the forum 2. A short biography of the proposer 3. Plan for publicity IMPORTANT DATES: Track Proposal Deadline: Aug. 31, 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: Oct. 6, 2018 Author Notification: Dec. 7, 2018 Advance Registration: Dec. 21, 2018 Camera Ready Deadline: Jan. 11, 2019 Conference Dates: Apr. 1-3, 2019 LOCATION: The conference will be held in the Tuscany Suites Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. GENERAL CHAIR: Shahram Latifi, PhD, PE, IEEE Fellow Professor of Electrical & Computer Eng. UNLV, USA latifi@itng.info GENERAL VICE CHAIR: Doina Bein, PhD Computer Science Dept. California State University, Fullerton dbein@fullerton.edu SPONSOR: Premier Hall for Advancing Science & Engineering (PHASE) -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs