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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** CALL FOR TRACK PROPOSALS ***<br></b><br>The 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2019)<br><br>St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, April 8-12, 2019<br></font><font face='Lucida Grande' size='4' color='#4DC2FF'><u><br><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlUaGUgMzR0aCBBQ00gU3ltcG9zaXVtIG9uIEFwcGxpZWQgQ29tcHV0aW5nIChTQUMgMjAxOSk6IENhbGwgZm9yIFRyYWNrIFByb3Bvc2FscwkxODkJTGlzdHMJMTYwCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sigapp.org%2Fsac%2Fsac2019">https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2019</a><br></u></font><font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><br>*** Submission Deadline: May 25, 2018 ***<br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br><br>For the past thirty-three years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing<br>(SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied computer<br>scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather,<br>interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on<br>Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. The conference<br>proceedings are published by ACM and are also available online through<br>ACM's Digital Library.<br><br>SAC is based on a flexible structure of mostly self-contained and<br>self-managed tracks. Over the past years SAC hosted tracks on a variety<br>of timely topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Computer<br>Security, Database Technology, Data Mining, Embedded Systems,<br>Evolutionary Computing, Distributed Systems and Grid Computing, Mobile<br>Computing, Programming Languages, Software Engineering, and Web<br>Technologies. SAC 2018 included 40 tracks that attracted 931 paper<br>submissions from 50 countries; 235 submissions were finally accepted as<br>full papers (25% acceptance rate). More information on past SAC events<br>can be found at </font><font face='Lucida Grande' color='#4DC2FF'><u><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlUaGUgMzR0aCBBQ00gU3ltcG9zaXVtIG9uIEFwcGxpZWQgQ29tcHV0aW5nIChTQUMgMjAxOSk6IENhbGwgZm9yIFRyYWNrIFByb3Bvc2FscwkxODkJTGlzdHMJMTYwCWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sigapp.org%2Fconferences%2Fsac">https://www.sigapp.org/conferences/sac</a></u></font><font face='Lucida Grande'> .<br><br>The 34th Annual SAC meeting will be held in April 2019 in Limassol, Cyprus,<br>and is hosted by the University of Cyprus. The conference Organizing<br>Committee solicits proposals for organizing and hosting tracks. Prospective<br>track chairs should submit an up to two-page description for organizing a<br>track, which should include at least the following items:<br><br>1) The proposed title for the track with a description of its aims, topics it<br>will cover, and rationale for having such a track in SAC. This rationale<br>should refer to any related conference events that are held regularly and<br>why the proposed track differs from them or complements them. The<br>proposed track should not be overly general but also not overly specialized,<br>thus being able to attract a wide audience of people sharing similar<br>interests. Proposals from industry are also encouraged. Despite its name,<br>SAC also welcomes topics of mostly theoretical nature, provided there is<br>clear practical potential in applying the results of such work.<br><br>2) A short description of the activities the track chair(s) will undertake<br>upon acceptance of the proposal, to disseminate the call-for-papers for the<br>track, and to manage the review process. (Current Track Chairs guideline<br>document is posted on the SAC 2019 website).<br><br>3) A short CV of the prospective track chair(s) with reference to research<br>interests and publication record directly related to the themes of the<br>proposed track, and any previous experience of involvement in the<br>organization of similar events (in the interest of brevity, reference to a<br>personal web page where such information can be found will be sufficient).<br><br>All proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee using the criteria<br>described above. The Committee reserves the right to: (1) accept a proposal<br>as is, (2) require modifications before acceptance, (3) recommend merging<br>of similar proposals with a considerable overlap in the topics addressed (in<br>this case the track chairs of the different proposals will be asked to form a<br>single track), (4) reject a proposal. Upon acceptance of a proposal, the track<br>chairs will be notified of their responsibilities in managing the affairs of their<br>track; as such responsibilities are defined by both the ACM and SAC<br>conference rules. The Committee reserves the rights to cancel a track at<br>any time if these responsibilities are not addressed adequately by the track<br>chair(s). <br><br><br><u>Important Dates<br></u><br>May 25, 2018: Submission of track proposals<br><br>June 8, 2018: Notification of acceptance/rejection<br><br>June 15, 2018: Call-For-Papers for accepted tracks<br><br>Sept 10, 2018: Submission of papers<br><br>Sept 20, 2018: Submission of tutorial proposals<br><br>Nov 10, 2018: Author notification<br><br>Nov 25, 2018: Camera-ready copies<br><br><br>Please submit your proposal electronically to the START submission system<br>in PDF format through the SAC 2019 website. If you encounter any<br>problems for your submission, please e-mail your questions to:<br><br>- Dongwan Shin (dongwan.shin@nmt.edu)<br>- Seiji Isotani (isotani@ieee.org)<br><br>SAC 2019 Program Co-Chairs<br><br><br></font>
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