<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><b class="">*** Call for Workshop Proposals ***</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The 20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2015)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">6-9 July 2015, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="http://ieee-iscc.org/2015" class="">http://ieee-iscc.org/2015</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Continuing the well-established tradition of this series of symposia, IEEE ISCC</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">2015 will be an international technical forum of experts from industry and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">academia to exchange ideas and present the results of ongoing research work</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">in state-of-the-art of computers and communications as listed in its call for</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">papers (the web site is on <span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #0433ff" class=""><a href="http://www.ieee-iscc.org/2015" class="">http://www.ieee-iscc.org/2015</a></span>). </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">ISSC 201515 Workshops Committee invites proposals for half or full day</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">workshops affiliated with the conference. Example topics would be 5G,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Internet of Things, Software-Defined Networking, Big Data, Cloud Computing,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">M2M communications or Smart Grid. The purpose of these workshops is to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">provide a platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">more sharply focused way than at the conference itself. All papers included in</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">the ISCC 2015 workshops will be included in the conference proceedings</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">published by IEEE. We expect that all selected workshops to adhere to the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">common paper submission and reviewing schedule as outlined in the ISCC</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">2015 Call for Papers.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Each workshop proposal must include the following:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• The name of the workshop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• The names, addresses, and short bios of the organizers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• A brief description (up to one page long) of the technical issues that the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Workshop’s focus will be on, and the reasons why the workshop is of interest</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">at this time</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• The names of potential Program Committee members</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• The planned format of the Workshop, including a strategy to facilitate lively</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">discussions and involvement of the attendees</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• If a keynote speech is included in the planned format of the workshop, the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">name(s) of the potential keynote speaker(s)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• If applicable, a description of past versions of the workshop, including</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">dates, organizers, number of submitted and accepted papers, and number</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">of attendees</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• If the workshop is going to be organized for the first time, an estimate of</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">the expected number of submissions and attendees</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• A tentative Call for Papers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• A description of the plans for publicity and workshop Web site</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Workshop proposals should be submitted, no later than Monday 12th</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">January 2015, by email (in PDF format) with the subject line “ISCC’15</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Workshop Proposal” to all Workshop Co-Chairs Periklis Chatzimisios</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">(<span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #0433ff" class=""><a href="mailto:peris@it.teithe.gr" class="">peris@it.teithe.gr</a></span>), Andreas Kamilaris (<span style="text-decoration: underline ; color: #0433ff" class=""><a href="mailto:kami@cs.ucy.ac.cy" class="">kami@cs.ucy.ac.cy</a></span>) and Massimo</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);" class=""><span style="color: #000000" class="">Villari (</span><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="mailto:mvillari@unime.it" class="">mvillari@unime.it</a></span><span style="color: #000000" class="">).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>