ECSS 2015 - 1st Call for Participation/Contributions

21 May 2015

The call has been released for the 11th European Computer Science Summit - ECSS 2015.

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11th European Computer Science Summit - ECSS 2015 -

"Informatics in the future – in the year 2025"

 13–14 October 2015, Vienna, Austria

Pre-Summit Workshops on 12 October 2015

 *Deadline for Submissions: August 15, 2015*
*Notifications of Acceptance: September 7, 2015*
*Deadline for Early Registration: September 15, 2015*
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The 11th European Computer Science Summit, ECSS 2015, is the meeting place for anyone interested in issues of research, education, and policy in Information and Computer Sciences. It is a unique opportunity to meet some of the leading decision makers in Informatics research and education, and discuss the critical issues of the discipline.

ECSS 2015 will be held in Vienna, Austria, October 12-14, 2015, hosted by the Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). The Summit is co-chaired by Carlo Ghezzi, President of Informatics Europe, and Gerald Steinhardt, Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien. The program chairs are Hannes Werthner, Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien and Frank van Harmelen, Department of Computer Science & The Network Institute, VU University Amsterdam.

The Summit is devoted to important and timely strategic issues and trends regarding all aspects of Informatics: education, research, funding, entrepreneurship, management, career development, and policies. ECSS 2015 brings together key constituencies:

• Heads (deans, chairs) of Informatics/Computer Science/IT departments (schools, faculties, institutes) in universities
• Research directors and managers of research centers, institutes and laboratories, both in public institutions and in industry
• Faculty and researchers from both academia and industry
• Members of funding agencies and government at the European, national, regional, and local level.
• Experts, advisors and thinkers in numerous key topics like ethics, the relation between Informatics and other sciences, the future of the discipline and its influence in the academic world and society.

The central topic of the 2015 Summit is "Informatics in the future – in the year 2025”. Informatics as the science behind IT has two faces: Informatics "in itself", e.g. algorithm, design, information presentation, programming languages, distribution aspects, complexity issues; and Informatics "for others" and "behind others", being a tool or methodological approach in other sciences and application fields. It is pervasive and changes the world, with its artefacts and also its way of thinking. Informatics is interdisciplinary quasi by nature, with engineering, formal methods (logics, maths) and natural science based approaches. These and other related topics will be discussed and reflected on the Summit with a future 10 year perspective.

ECSS 2015 will feature keynote talks by some of the most prominent academics and researchers from Europe and elsewhere, who will present their latest advances and debate the future of the field. An advanced list of speakers includes:

• Dirk Brockmann - Humboldt Universität, Germany
• Stefano Ceri - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Jeroen van den Hoven - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Dunja Mladenic - Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Bertrand Meyer - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Maarja Kruusmaa - Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Matti Tedre - Stockholm University, Sweden
• Moshe Vardi - Rice University, USA

A few more speakers will be soon announced.

Informatics is transforming into a societal technology – raising questions not only in research, but also technology and policy. ECCS 2015 is an event to discuss and determine the future of Informatics and the Informatics of the future. To determine the spectrum of the opinions we call for submission of position papers for the ECCS 2015.

We invite position statements including, but not restricted to, the following topics:

• Informatics and Society: What is the role of Informatics in society? Should we influence policy? How should we influence policy? What is the ethics of Informatics? Should we do everything with data because we can? What should be ethical principles of researchers?
• The role of Informatics in the sciences: Is Informatics still just a support science? Are we getting too fragmented?
• Research (group) and / or faculty of the future: How will computer scientists have to evolve? Factors to consider are local vs. global, mobility and connection, interdisciplinarity, problem vs. idea driven, relation to industry (especially the big ones), funding agencies and funding models (financial autonomy of universities and / or defined programs of agencies)

The position papers submitted will be screened, and if accepted, be published on the Informatics Europe website as well as submitted as CEUR-WS Proceedings. From the accepted position papers 10 submissions will be invited for a poster presentation during the ECCS 2015 conference in Vienna.

Format and Submission Procedure

We invite 2-4 page submissions in the CS Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes Format from Springer (see https://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

We request authors to provide the submission under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and provide a statement to reflect this into a footnote on the first page of the paper.

Please submit your position paper only via Easychair using the following URL:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eccs2015

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: 15 August

Paper and Poster acceptance: 7 September

Conference: October 12-14, 2015

Deadline for Early Registration: September 15, 2015

Please direct queries to Stefan Decker (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

ECSS 2015 is hosted by the Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and will be held in Vienna, Austria, at TU Wien Main Building, Karlsplatz 13, 1040, Vienna. The University Main Building is located close to the historic center of Vienna and a few meters away from the Vienna Opera House, the Karl Church and the subway station Karlsplatz. See more details here.

Vienna can be reached by place, train, bus from all main European cities. The Vienna International Airport (IATA: VIE, ICAO: LOWW) (German: Flughafen Wien-Schwechat), is located 18 kilometers (11 miles) southeast of Vienna. It is often referred to as Schwechat, the name of the nearby town. See more details on how to reach the venue here.

The local organizers of ECSS 2015 have negotiated with Austrian Airlines a special "Conference Fare" to save 15 % on your flights to Vienna during the ECSS 2015. See here further information on how to benefit from this special offer.

Come join this exciting and important event in the field of Informatics and participate by submitting your contribution!