FICC 2019 Call for Papers

About the Conference

Information and Communication is playing an increasing role in society and within our lives. Recognizing this, FICC 2019 aims to provide a forum for researchers from both academia and industry to share their latest research contributions, future vision in the field and potential impact across industries.

Join us, 14-15 March, to explore discovery, progress, and achievements related to Communication, Data Science, Computing and Internet of Things. Click here for conference topics.

The conference will provide its attendees an uncommon opportunity to expand their network beyond their immediate professional environment. It is a unique chance to work with other accomplished individuals from diverse areas towards the common goal of shaping the future of the communication, computing and society.

FICC is part of the SAI Conferences, a group of annual conferences produced by The Science and Information (SAI) Organization, based in the United Kingdom. Previous conferences include Future Technologies Conference (FTC) in San Francisco, Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) in London and Computing Conference in London.

Authors are kindly invited to submit their papers/ posters/ demo proposals as per the schedule below,

Formatting Guidelines

• Papers must be in English and not more than 10 double column pages in length.
• Paper content must be original and relevant to one of the many conference topics.
• Authors are required to ensure accuracy of quotations, citations, diagrams, maps, and tables.
• Figures and tables need to be placed where they are to appear in the text and must be clear and easy to view.
• Papers must follow format according to the downloadable template

Review Process

The review process will be double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize your submission. This means that all submissions must contain no information identifying the author(s) or their organization(s): Do not put the author(s) names or affiliation(s) at the start of the paper, anonymize citations to and mentions of your own prior work that are directly related to your present work, and do not include funding or other acknowledgments.

Each paper will be reviewed by at least three regular PC members or two senior PC members. The acceptance decisions will take into account paper novelty, technical depth, elegance, practical or theoretic impact, and presentation.

• Original: the paper explores a new idea, project or issue; discusses existing research with promise of new insight, discusses new research; or presents new ways of considering existing information
• Engaging: presentation format will involve the audience in some way, or has high potential to attract conference attendees by addressing needs of the community
• Significant: the paper raises and discusses issues important to improving the effectiveness and/or sustainability of open education efforts, and its contents can be broadly disseminated and understood
• Quality: claims are supported by sufficient data; claims draw upon relevant literature; and limitations are described honestly
• Relevant: the paper addresses one or more of the themes of the conference

Post Conference Publication and Indexing

All FICC 2019 presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted for indexing to IEEE Xplore, Scopus, Inspec, Google Scholar and more. The conference proceedings USB and Certificate of Presentation will be distributed to the conference participants at the conference registration desk. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in the following:

• Springer Book Series - Studies in Computational Intelligence, Indexed by DBLP, Ulrichs, SCOPUS, MathSciNet, Current Mathematical Publications, Mathematical Reviews, Zentralblatt Math: MetaPress and Springerlink.
• International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Indexed by Thomson Reuters Web of Science, EBESCO, Inspec and many more