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<h1 style="color: #ca0000; font-size: 40px; line-height: 30px; padding:20px 0 5px 0; margin: 0; display:block; text-align:center; ">Call for Proposals/ Papers</h1>
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<h3 style="color: #002e6c; font-weight:normal; font-size: 18px; padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align:center; line-height: 25px; margin: 10px 0; ">The 2<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">nd</sup> International Conference on Open Source Software Computing</h3>
<p style=" text-align:center; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; "><strong style=" background: #ca0000; color: #fff; padding: 10px 20px; display:inline-block; font-size: 25px; margin: 0 0 10px 0; ">1<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">st</sup> - 3<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">rd</sup> December 2016 </strong> <br />
American University of Beirut, Beirut - Lebanon <br />
<a target="_blank" style=" color: #67d5e6;" href="http://osscom2016.OSSCOM.org/ ">http://osscom2016.OSSCOM.org/</a><br />
Partially funded by EC - Tempus and technically sponsored by IEEE</p>
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<div style="color: #ca0000; font-size: 35px; line-height: 30px; padding:20px 0 5px 0; margin: 0; display:block; border-top: 5px solid #ca0000; ">Objectives</div>
<p style=" line-height: 21px; padding:0; margin:0;">To promote opportunities for cooperation towards enabling OSS key technologies, building cross-cutting sciences, and driving disruptive innovations; to disseminate research on technology and applications of open source software computing; and to expand the framework of effective participation of universities in developing OSS industry through incubators and business accelerators.</p>
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<p style=" line-height: 21px;">- Keynotes <br />
- Panel and roundtable discussions <br />
- Presentation sessions <br />
- Industry and technology discussions <br />
- Consultation meetings, focus groups, and roundtables <br />
- Best practice showcases and practical demonstration <br />
- Workshops</p>
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<h3 style="color: #fff; background: none; font-size: 25px; line-height: 30px; padding:0; margin: 0;">Submission Deadline</h3>
1<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">st</sup> September, 2016 (Manuscripts)<br />
1<sup style="font-size:60%; vertical-align:top;">st</sup> October, 2016 (Proposals)</td>
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<h5 style="color: #fff; background: #6ad3e6; font-size: 25px; line-height: 30px; padding: 3px 10px; margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-weight: normal;">Topics of Interest</h5>
<h3 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 20px; padding: 5px 0; margin: 0;">Track 1: Systems Software</h3>
<p style=" padding: 0 10px 0 0; margin:3px 0 0 0;">- Operating systems: Linux Kernel, Server and Desktop Linux: RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Caldera, SuSe, Fedora <br />
- Distributed Operating systems: Open source platforms and software for the cloud platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Open stack, Open-source software in scientific computing including clouds, grids and HPCs <br />
- Embedded and Realtime Operating systems <br />
- Ubiquitous mobile computing and technologies: middleware, operating system (e.g. Android), new I/O and user interfaces, mobile protocols</p>
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<h3 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 20px; padding: 5px 0; margin: 0;">Track 2: Applications and Services</h3>
<p style=" padding: 0 10px 0 0; margin:3px 0 0 0;">- Open-source software services and applications in energy, environment, education, health, climate, water, agriculture, biology, economy, medicine and other pressing global issues and problems<br />
- Open-source software for e-Services, including e-Government, e-Libraries, e-Learning and any e-*<br />
- Open-source software for Smart Education, Smart Cities, Smart Power Grids, Smart Transportation<br />
- Open Source applications for mobile and tablets</p>
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<h3 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 20px; padding: 5px 0; margin: 0;">Track 3: Networking and Security</h3>
<p style=" padding: 0 10px 0 0; margin:3px 0 0 0;">- Open source network simulation/emulations tools <br />
- Open source platforms for network security deployment, testing and verification <br />
- Network and security open source management software</p>
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<h3 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 20px; padding: 5px 0; margin: 0;">Track 4: Open Source Development and Support</h3>
<p style=" padding: 0 10px 0 0; margin:3px 0 0 0;">- Perspectives on open-source software development and services, including challenges, operation, sustainability, funding, governance, business models, and security <br />
- National, regional and international organizations and their role in funding and supporting open-source software applications in research and education <br />
- Collaborative projects and initiatives in research and education at national, regional and global levels <br />
- Research and education challenges and open access paradigm <br />
- Business models for open-source software development and services</p>
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American University of Beirut, Beirut - Lebanon</td>
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English</td>
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<h3 style="color: #fff; background: none; font-size: 25px; line-height: 30px; padding:0; margin: 0;">Registration Fees</h3>
<div style="color: #6ad3e6; font-size: 16px; padding:15px 0; margin: 0; border-bottom: 1px dashed #fff;">OSSCOM members <br />
50 Euro</div>
<div style="color: #f20000; font-size: 16px; padding:15px 0; margin: 0; ">OSSCOM non-members <br />
100 Euro</div>
<div style="color: #f20000; font-size: 16px; padding:15px 0; margin: 0; ">Authors and Speakers <br />
50 Euro</div>
<div style="color: #f20000; font-size: 16px; padding:15px 0; margin: 0; ">Students <br />
Free</div>
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<u> <strong>All papers will be peer-reviewed and selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings and made available through IEEE Explorer. </strong></u></td>
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- Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany <br />
- German Jordanian University, Jordan<br />
- The Lebanese University, Lebanon<br />
- Brunel University, United Kingdom<br />
- Yarmouk University, Jordan<br />
- Notre Dame University, Lebanon<br />
- University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain<br />
- Tarent AG, Germany<br />
- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Information Technology International, Jordan<br />
- Information Management Ltd, Lebanon<br />
- American University of Beirut<br />
- Le Cnam Liban</td>
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<h5 style="color: #fff; background: #6ad3e6; font-size: 25px; line-height: 30px; padding: 3px 10px; margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-weight: normal;">Important Dates</h5>
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<p style="color: #000; font-size: 15px; font-weight:normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0;">Manuscript Submission Deadline</p>
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<p style="color: #000; font-size: 15px; font-weight:normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0;">Acceptance Notification</p>
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<p style="color: #000; font-size: 15px; font-weight:normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0;">Registration Deadline</p>
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<p style="color: #000; font-size: 15px; font-weight:normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0;">OSSCOM 2016 Conference</p>
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<div style="color: #fff; font-size: 17px; padding: 5px; margin: 20px 0 0 0; display:block; border-top: 5px solid #002e6c; background: #002e6c; ">For more information and paper submission, <em>please contact </em></div>
<h6 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 16px; margin: 10px 0 5px 0; padding: 0; line-height: 18px;">Paper Submission:</h6>
- Please submit your manuscript or proposal at: <a target="_blank" href="https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=35687240.zFmYIg0y0IcAB5RI">https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=35687240.zFmYIg0y0IcAB5RI</a><br />
<h6 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 16px; margin: 10px 0 5px 0; padding: 0; line-height: 18px;">Registration:</h6>
- Please register for OSSCOM 2016 conference at: <a target="_blank" href="http://osscom2016.osscom.org/?q=Forms/registration">http://osscom2016.osscom.org/?q=Forms/registration</a><br />
<h6 style=" color: #ca0000; font-size: 16px; margin: 10px 0 5px 0; padding: 0; line-height: 18px;">More Information:</h6>
- Please contact us through our email: <a href="mailto:office@osscom.org">office@osscom.org</a></td>
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All information is available at: <a target="_blank" style=" color: #ca0000;" href="http://osscom2016.osscom.org">http://osscom2016.osscom.org</a> Enclosed Call for Papers</td>
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