Call for proposals for workshops

The SA’2021 Program Committee invites proposals for Workshops to address cutting edge research and developments in technological sciences in the technical scope of the SA 2020 Conference.

Proposals should be sent to the Workshop Day Chair: Marek Miskowicz miskow@agh.edu.pl

Proposals

The proposals should be structured as follows:

Title of the Workshop, and its format.
Names and contact addresses of all organizers.
Bio sketches of all organizers (around 500 words) accompanied by a list of their journal publications relevant to the workshop’s subject matter(s).
Reasons which, in view of the organizers, make their proposal relevant and of interest to the SA’2021 Conference attendees
Summary of the subject matter(s) covered by the workshop – no less then 500 words.
The proposal has to include a list of the workshops Technical Program Committee members.

Acceptance

The selection is highly competitive favoring proposals presenting subject matters with prospects for practical applications. Priority will be given to proposals with speakers from industry.

Deliveries

Organizers are responsible for securing and collating the presentation material to be distributed electronically to the workshops attendees.

Format

Proposals are accepted for half and full day Workshops.

Presenters and Organizers are responsible for obtaining copyright clearance from the appropriate bodies if use in their presentations material subject to copyright laws.

Disclaimer

All organizers and speakers are to cover their travel expenses.

Workshops schedule and conditions

Organizers are responsible for forming workshop’s Technical Program Committee to assist in the review of the submitted papers. Organizers are to act as the Chairs of this Technical Program Committee. A minimum of three review reports are required to make acceptance/rejection decision.

IMPORTANT: The organizers are to use the conference submission system.

The accepted material is to report on significant novel research/development results having a lasting impact on the research area with prospects for implementations.

The final manuscripts must comply with the SA’2021 formatting requirements. The page limit is 8 pages for 0.5 hour presentation.

Organizers are encouraged to submit a proposal as soon as possible to allow ample time for soliciting submissions, but not later then March 15, 2021. Workshops papers will be submitted to the IEEE eXplore data base and submitted for indexation in World of Science, Scopus as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Deadlines

Deadline for submission of Workshop proposals	March 7, 2021
Notification of acceptance of Workshop proposals	within one working week
Deadline for submission of Workshop papers	March 28, 2021
Notification of acceptance of Workshop papers	April 25, 2021
Deadline for submission of final manuscripts	May 9, 2021