ITiP: IT in Practice

Cosponsored by IT Professional and the IEEE Computer Society STC Information Technology

Call for Papers

IT in Practice (ITiP) Symposium COMPSAC 2021, cosponsored by IT Professional, covers practice-entered research and design, development and operation of computing and IT applications in a range of areas. Aligned with conference theme “Intelligent and Resilient Computing for a Collaborative World,” the symposium focuses on diverse elements necessary to successfully architect, design, engineer, configure and field IT applications as well as application-oriented research outcomes.  It also covers new risks and concerns of IT and its applications.

The symposium serves the interests and needs of IT practitioners and researchers, application developers and IT managers from business, industry and government.  It presents an interactive forum for sharing and gaining valuable insights and experiences and facilitates 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:

  • AI and machine learning — applications, risks, concerns
  • Automation — advances, applications, impact
  • Autonomous systems and vehicles
  • Augmented data analytics, location analytics
  • Blockchain and crypto currency
  • Cloud computing, fog computing, edge computing
  • Cognitive computing and its applications
  • Crowd sourcing and collaborative computing
  • Cyber-physical systems
  • Cyberrisks and cybersecurity
  • Data and social media mining
  • Data management and governance
  • Digital twins
  • Design, deployment and management of large scale systems
  • Emerging trends in IT
  • Enterprise IT/IS management
  • Ethics and privacy
  • FinTech
  • Geographical information system (GIS)
  • Green computing and sustainability
  • Human factors in IT
  • Industry 4.0
  • Information assurance and security
  • IT application architecture, data architecture
  • Internet of Things
  • IT audit and controls
  • IT in arts, music, entertainment and culture
  • IT in business, healthcare, finance and government
  • IT in education and training
  • IT services and service providers
  • IT standards and regulations
  • IT strategy, AI strategy, and data Strategy
  • Smart systems – smart cities, smart grid, smart buildings, smart logistics
  • Social computing
  • Social impact of IT
  • Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, extended reality

We also welcome case studies, experience reports, position papers and visionary perspectives. We solicit both regular and short papers. Furthermore, to facilitate presentation of their already published work to a wider audience in person and to gain feedback on their work, authors can submit their published work in an IEEE journal in the last three years or accepted but not yet published papers for presentation under the J1C2 (Journal First and Conference Second) scheme.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers.  Simultaneous submission to other publication venues is not permitted. In accordance with IEEE policy, submitted manuscripts will be checked for plagiarism; instances of alleged misconduct will be handled according to the IEEE Publication Services and Product Board Operations Manual.

Important Dates


UPDATED: Main conference papers due: 18 Feb 2021

Paper notification: 15 April 2021

Camera-ready and registration due: 31 May 2021

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research work, as well as industrial practice reports. Simultaneous submission to other publication venues is not permitted.  In accordance with IEEE policy, submitted manuscripts will be checked for plagiarism. Instances of alleged misconduct will be handled according to the IEEE Publication Services and Product Board Operations Manual.

Please note that in order to ensure the fairness of the review process, COMPSAC follows the double-blind review procedure. Therefore we kindly ask authors to remove their names, affiliations and contacts from the header of their papers in the review version. Please also redact all references to authors’ names, affiliations or prior works from the paper when submitting papers for review. Once accepted, authors can then include their names, affiliations and contacts in the camera-ready revision of the paper, and put the references to their prior works back.

Formatting


Page limits are inclusive of tables, figures, appendices, and references. Full conference papers and workshop papers can add an additional 2 pages with additional page charges ($250USD/page).

Full conference papers: 10 pages
Journal then Conference (JC) papers: 2 pages
Industrial Practice Reports: 10 pages
Short Papers: 6 pages
Fast Abstracts: 2 pages
Student Research Symposium papers: 4 pages
Posters: 1 page

Paper Templates


IEEE Paper templates are available in MS Word 2003 and LaTex. All submissions must use US 8.5×11 letter page format.



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ITiP 2020 is co-sponsored by the IEEE Information Technology Special Technical Community.

Special Technical Communities (STCs) are technical, educational and professional resources on emerging topics that are outside or beyond the scope of the Computer Society’s Technical Committees. They are online communities of computing professionals who share a common technical, career, or technical interest, and which can be created around any set of ideas relevant to the members and professional colleagues of the Computer Society. Their membership is open to both members and non-members and available at no cost. Furthermore, anyone, member or not, can participate and can propose the creation of new STCs. For information about IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Communities, please visit https://www.computer.org/communities/special-technical-communities.

Symposium Co-Chairs

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

Charalampos (Babis) Patrikakis, University of West Attica, Greece
Email: bpatr@uniwa.gr

PC Co-Chairs

G.R. Gangadharan, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, India
Email: geeyaar@gmail.com

Piyush Saxena, Direct Supply, USA
Email: piyush.saxena.phd@gmail.com

General Chair

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