The Colloquium will be held at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), which is located in Electronics City of Bangalore. It is two hours by car from Bangalore International Airport. Bangalore is internationally known as the Silicon Valley of the East with many hi-tech companies and research labs. Holding the conference in the Electronics City of Bangalore gives the conference participants valuable opportunity to discuss and network with the software practitioners and researchers in India’s Information Technology (IT) hub. This will be further facilitated via an Industry Day, a special feature of ICTAC 2012.
 

SUBMISSION DEADLINES

Regular and Short Paper submission deadline: 23 April 2012.

Tool demos paper submission deadline extended to 30 April 2012.
 

BACKGROUND

ICTAC 2012 is the 9th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, the latest in a series founded by the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST). ICTAC 2012 will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to present research and to exchange ideas and experience addressing challenges in both theoretical aspects of computing and in the exploitation of theory through methods and tools for system development. The other main purpose is to promote cooperation in research and education between participants and their institutions, from developing and industrial countries, as in the mandate of the United Nations University.

 

TOPICS

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:

INDUSTRY DAY

IICTAC 2012 will feature an Industry Day, a special feature being introduced to the ICTAC colloquium for the first time. One of the days of the conference is planned to be marked as Industry Day. The industry day will feature technical talks from the industry participants. These talks will be drawn from the papers submitted and accepted to the conference; however any such paper must have at least one co-author from the Industry and must be clearly marked for “Industry Day” during submission. In addition, we plan to have tool demonstrations and posters by the companies in the exhibition floor. Participants from academia will thus also get a chance to mingle with the industry participants in an informal atmosphere, thereby getting a flavor of the ongoing activities in Bangalore’s IT industry.


In addition to research papers, we welcome tool demo papers from industry participants. Proposals for tool demos should be submitted in the same way and in the same format as research papers; a 2-4 page description of the tool is sufficient. Selected tool demos will be scheduled on the industry day. Such submissions should also be marked for "For Industry Day:" in the title during submission.
 

Industry Day Co-chairs:

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

PUBLICATION AND SUBMISSION

The proceedings of ICTAC 2012 will be published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and will be available at the colloquium. Submissions to the colloquium must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. Submissions can be either Regular Papers or Short Papers. Short papers can present recent or ongoing work or discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and have not been thoroughly evaluated yet. Papers should be written in English. Regular Papers should not exceed 15 pages and Short Papers should be between 4 and 8 pages in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Papers shall be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2012


Please submit final version of your papers as instructed in the correspondence from PC chair to the email id ictac2012@iist.unu.edu.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: 23 April 2012
Paper Accept/Reject Notification: 14 June 2012
Final paper submission: 30 June 2012
Conference dates: 24 --- 27 September 2012
 

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