CALL FOR PAPERS
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6th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services (SoFAST-WS'17)

Prague, Czech Republic, 3 - 6 September, 2017

www.fedcsis.org
E-mail: sofast-ws2017@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to SoFAST-WS’17 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017).

FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Czech Technical University in Prague, in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Chechoslovakia Section, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz (Poland) ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Polish Cluster of Research and Development of Internet of Things, Mazovia Cluster ICT.

TOPICS
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Topics include (but are not limited to):

- Architecture, scalability and security of Open API solutions,
- Technical and social aspects of Open API and open data,
- Service delivery platforms - architecture and applications,
- Telecommunication operators API exposition in Telco 2.0 model,
- The applications of intelligent techniques in network systems,
- Mobile applications,
- Network-based computing systems,
- Network and mobile GIS platforms and applications,
- Computer forensic,
- Network security,
- Anomaly and intrusion detection,
- Traffic classification algorithms and techniques,
- Network traffic engineering,
- High-speed network traffic processing,
- Heterogeneous cellular networks,
- Wireless communications,
- Security issues in Cloud Computing,
- Network aspects of Cloud Computing,
- Control of networks,
- Standards for Web services,
- Semantic Web services,
- Context-aware Web services,
- Composition approaches for Web services,
- Security of Web services,
- Software agents for Web services composition,
- Supporting SWS Deployment,
- Architectures for SWS Deployment,
- Applications of SWS to E-business and E-government,
- Supporting Enterprise Application Integration with SWS,
- SWS Conversational Protocols and Choreography,
- Ontologies and Languages for Service Description,
- Ontologies and Languages for Process Modeling,
- Foundations of Reasoning about Services and/or Processes,
- Composition of Semantic Web Services,
- Innovative network applications, systems and services.

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by May 10, 2017 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events).
The publication in the following journals is already arranged:
- Informatica
- Teleinformatics Review
Moreover, the best papers may be published in the special issues arranged by other conferences of iNetSApp group (subject to topic compliance and the approval of the chairs of the remaining conferences). Possible journals already arranged in cooperation with other conferences are:
- Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (ISI indexed)
- EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems
- Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology
- Studia Informatica Universalis

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: May 10, 2017 (strict deadline, there will be no extensions)
- Position paper submission: May 31, 2017
- Acceptance decision: June 14, 2017
- Final version of paper submission: June 28, 2017
- Final deadline for discounted fee: August 1, 2017
- Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Furtak, Janusz, Military University of Technology, Poland
- Grzenda, Maciej, Orange Labs Poland and Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Legierski, Jarosław, Orange Labs Poland, Poland
- Luckner, Marcin, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Szmit, Maciej, IBM, Poland

CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki


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