[Vki-list] CALL FOR TRACKS: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

[Ronaldo Menezes]

CALL FOR TRACK PROPOSALS – SAC 2007
The 22nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 11 – 15, 2007, Seoul, Korea
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2007

For the past twenty-one years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing  
(SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied computer  
scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather,  
interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on  
Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. The conference  
proceedings are published by ACM and are also available online  
through ACM's Digital Library.

SAC is based on a flexible structure of mostly self-contained and  
self-managed tracks. Over the past years SAC hosted tracks on a  
variety of timely topics such as Artificial Intelligence,  
Bioinformatics, Computer Security, Database Technology, Data Mining,  
Embedded Systems, Evolutionary Computing, Distributed Systems and  
Grid Computing, Mobile Computing, Programming Languages, Software  
Engineering, and Web Technologies. SAC 2006, which was held in Dijon,  
France, consisted of 38 tracks that hosted 300 accepted papers out of  
927 submissions. More information on past SAC events can be found at  
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac.

The 22nd Annual SAC meeting will be held 11-15 March 2007 in Seoul,  
Korea, and is hosted by the Seoul National University and Suwon  
University, in Seoul. The conference Organizing Committee solicits  
proposals for organizing and hosting tracks. Prospective track chairs  
should submit an up to two-page description for organizing a track,  
which should include at least the following items:

1) The proposed title for the track with a description of its aims,  
topics it will cover, and rationale for having such a track in SAC.  
This rationale should refer to any related conference events that are  
held regularly and why the proposed track differs from them or  
complements them. The proposed track should not be overly general but  
also not overly specialized, thus being able to attract a wide  
audience of people sharing similar interests. Proposals from industry  
are also welcomed. Despite its name, SAC also welcomes topics of  
mostly theoretical nature, provided there is clear practical  
potential in applying the results of such work.

2) A short description of the activities the track chair will  
undertake upon acceptance of the proposal, to disseminate the call- 
for-papers for his/her track, manage the review process and collect  
final materials from authors of accepted papers. (Specific guidelines  
to track chairs regarding these issues will also be provided.)

3) A short CV of the perspective track chair(s) with reference to  
research interests and publication record directly related to the  
themes of the proposed track, and any previous experience of  
involvement in the organization of similar events (in the interest of  
brevity, reference to a personal web page where such information can  
be found will be sufficient).

All proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee based on the  
above criteria. The Committee reserves the right to: (1) accept a  
proposal as is, (2) require modifications before acceptance, (3)  
recommend merging of similar proposals with a considerable overlap in  
the topics addressed (in this case the track chairs of the different  
proposals will be asked to form a single chair), (4) reject a  
proposal. Upon acceptance of a proposal, the track chairs will be  
notified of their responsibilities in managing the affairs of their  
tracks; as such responsibilities are defined by both the ACM and SAC  
conference rules. The Committee reserves the rights to cancel a track  
at any time if these responsibilities are not addressed adequately by  
the track chair(s).

Please submit your proposal electronically in any acceptable readable  
format to:
Sascha Ossowski,
SAC 2007 Program Co-Chair
University Rey Juan Carlos
Madrid, Spain
sascha.ossowski at urjc.es

IMPORTANT DATES
May 19, 2006: Submission of track proposals
June 5, 2006: Notification of acceptance/rejection
June 12, 2006: Call-For-Papers for accepted tracks
Sep 4, 2006: Submission of papers and tutorial proposals
Oct 16, 2006: Notification of acceptance/rejection
Oct 30, 2006: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers