[AISWorld] Call for Papers - Metrics2023

[Izzat Alsmadi]

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Call for Papers - Metrics2023
(November 11 - November 12, 2023; Denver, Colorado)

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/metrics2023

Topics: Metrics for objectively assessing the progress and impact of CyberInfrastructure (CI) projects are important for not only obtaining the required resources for the long-term sustainability of the projects and community engagement but also for identifying issues and prioritizing the areas of improvement. As projects evolve over time, the metrics for measuring their progress and impact should also evolve. Even though each CI project is unique, there are certain elements (such as the community engagement and training) that cross-cut across a vast majority of the projects. Hence, there is a possibility of defining a set of metrics that can be relevant to a broad range of the CI projects for measuring their progress and impact.

The main goal of the Metrics 2023 conference is to bring together colleagues from a diverse range of disciplines and organizations to network, collaborate, and work towards defining a taxonomy of CI projects and the appropriate metrics for their short-term and long-term evaluation. Towards this end, abstracts for presentations, and papers for publication in the special issue of Springer Nature journal are invited.

Metrics for evaluating the projects related to the following areas are in the scope of this conference:

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  *   Case-studies on measuring success of projects
  *   Currently known best practices for tracking metrics
  *   Problems and solutions related to gathering certain types of metrics
  *   Benchmarking and performance evaluation techniques for hardware and software products
  *   Methods and experiences related to measuring productivity of people
  *   Methods and experiences related to measuring accuracy, precision, explainability, and fairness of results
  *   Manual and automated methods for gathering quantitative and qualitative metrics
  *   Methods for measuring the societal impact of projects
  *   Literature review and survey of the methods for evaluating success of projects from the areas that are in the scope of the conference
  *   New methods for analyzing success including the role and use of social-media
  *   Taxonomy of CyberInfrastructure (CI) projects and associated metrics

Submission Guidelines:
The Metrics2023 proceedings will be published by Springer Nature Computer Science in a special journal issue.

We invite authors to submit their original and unpublished work, that is not under review for another publication. Full papers (10 -25 pages in length including references) should be formatted as per the Springer-specified guidelines (details below) for review. Authors of selected papers will be provided 20 minutes time-slots for their presentations at the conference.

Deadline for abstract submission: September 15, 2023
Deadline for paper submission: October 1, 2023
Deadline for notification: November 1, 2023
Deadline for submission of the final version of the paper: November 30, 2023
Timeline for publication: December 1, 2023

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrics2023

Guidelines for Abstracts for Presentations: We invite extended abstracts for short talks (maximum 7 minutes each). The abstracts should be prepared following the Springer guidelines, and could be 3-5 pages in length including references. While the abstracts will NOT be published in the proceedings, they will be made publicly accessible through a GitHub repository set up for the conference. The PDF copies of the rough draft of the slides (up to 16 slides maximum) are also required. The PDFs of the abstract and the slides can be merged into a single PDF file, and can be uploaded to Easychair for peer-review.The PDF version of the extended abstracts and slides can be submitted for review through EasyChair.

Organizing committee:
Ritu Arora, Wayne State University
Izzat Alsmadi, Texas A & M University
Prasad Calyam, University of Missouri
Matthew Curry, Sandia National Laboratory
George K. Thiruvathukal, Loyala University

Contact:
All questions about submissions should be emailed to ritu at wayne.edu<mailto:ritu at wayne.edu>



Izzat Alsmadi
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Department of Computing and Cyber Security
Texas A&M, San Antonio