ITiP: IT in Practice

COMPSAC 2018 symposium on IT in Practice (ITiP), cosponsored by IT Professional, covers a broad range of emerging innovative IT applications and serves the interests and needs of IT practitioners and researchers as well as application developers and IT managers from business, industry and government. The symposium focuses on diverse elements necessary to successfully architect, design, engineer, configure and field a range of IT applications in several domains and application-oriented research outcomes. It is an interactive forum for sharing and gaining valuable insights and experiences and for active engagement among IT professionals and researchers around the globe.

We solicit submissions on a range of topics related to the symposium theme, including but not limited to:

  • Applications of AI and machine learning
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Big data analytics and management
  • Blockchain and crypto currencies
  • Cognitive computing
  • Crowd sourcing and collaborative computing
  • Cyber-physical systems
  • Cyberrisks and security
  • Data and social media mining
  • Design, deployment and management of large scale IT systems
  • Emerging trends in IT
  • Enterprise IT/IS management
  • Green computing and sustainability
  • Human factors in IT
  • Information assurance and security
  • Innovative IT applications and architectures
  • IT audit and controls
  • IT in business, healthcare, industry, and other sectors
  • IT standards and regulations
  • Network of things
  • Smart systems – smart cities, smart grid, smart buildings, smart logistics
  • Social computing
  • Social impacts of IT

ITiP Symposium Schedule

Tuesday July 24, 11:00 – 12:30pm
Session 1
Location: Meeting Hall 103
Session Chair: Morris Chang, University of South Florida, USA

Load Prediction for Data Centers Based on Database Service
Rui Cao, Zhaoyang Yu, Trent Marbach, Jing Li, Gang Wang, Xiaoguang Liu

Randomness Classes in Bugs Framework (BF): True-Random Number Bugs (TRN) and Pseudo-Random Number Bugs (PRN)
Irena Bojanova, Yaacov Yesha, Paul E. Black

Tuesday July 24, 1:30 – 3:00pm
Session 2
Location: Meeting Hall 103
Session Chair: Irena Bojanova, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA

An IoT Platform for Civil Infrastructure Monitoring
Seongwoon Jeong, Kincho Law

The Smart-X Model for Smart Cities
Nishtha Kesswani, Sanjay Kumar

Tuesday July 24, 3:30 – 5:00pm
Session 3
Location: Meeting 103
Session Chair: San Murugesan, BRITE Professional Services, Australia

Long Short-term Memory Neural Network for Artificial Dialogue Generation
Sid Ahmed Selouani, Mohammed Sidi Yakoub

Sentiment Classification System of Twitter Data for US Airline Service Analysis
Ankita Rane, Anand Kumar

WorkflowDSL: Scalable Workflow Execution with Provenance for Data Analysis Applications
Tharidu Fernando, Nikita Gureev, Mihhail Matskin, Michael Zwick, Thomas Natschlaeger



Paper submission for COMPSAC symposia are now closed.

Deadlines and due dates are available on the Important Dates page.

Paper templates and additional information for authors is available on the Information for Authors page.

ITiP Symposium Co-chairs

San Murugesan, BRITE Professional Services, Australia
Email: san@computer.org
Fulvio Corno, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Email: fulvio.corno@polito.it

ITiP PC Chair

G.R. Gangadharan, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, India
Email: geeyaar@gmail.com

ITiP General Chair

Irena Bojanova, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Email: irena.bojanova@computer.org

ITiP Standing Committee Liaison

San Murugesan, BRITE Professional Services, Australia
Email: san@computer.org

ITiP Program Committee

Saeid Abolfazli, TELUS Canada, Canada
Kameas Achilles, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Ben Amaba, IBM Corporation, USA
Mohan Bavirisetty, CISCO, USA
Tsugn Teng Chen, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Wes Chou, Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA
Chi-Yin Chow, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Claudio Demartini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Haluk Demirkan, University of Washington, USA
Charles Despins, École de TechnologieSupérieure, Canada
Seth Early, Earley Information Science, USA
Raj Gururajan, University of South Queensland, Australia
George Hurlburt, STEM Corporation, USA
Rajni Jindal, Delhi Technological University, India
Samee Khan, North Dakota State University, USA
Tohru Kondo, Hiroshima University, Japan
Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Rick Kuhn, NIST, USA
Linda Lai, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao
Phillip Laplante, Penn State University, USA
Matthew Lee, Pereg Venture, USA
Jyhjong Lin, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Praveen Malla, Hanken School of Economics, Finland
Sunil Mithas, University of Maryland, USA
T.S. Mohan, Infosys, India
Prasad MVNK, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, India
Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Tamer Omar
Nearchos Paspallis, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus
Charalampo Patrikakis, Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, Greece
Gianfranco Politano, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK
Prema Sankaran, Firebird Institute of Research in Management, India
Zonyin Shae, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan
Uma Srivivasan, Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre, Australia
Ram Sriram, NIST, USA
Jilei Tian, BMW Technology Chicago, USA
Federico Tomassetti, Strumenta Consulting, Italy
Marco Torchiano, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Antonio Vetro, NexaCenter for Internet and Society, Italy
Jeffrey Voas, NIST, USA
Tim Weil, Alcohol Monitoring Systems, USA
Linda Wilbanks, US Department of Education, USA
Joseph Williams, State of Washington, USA
Jianjun Zhao, Kyushu University, Japan