The annual Dalhousie University Faculty of Computer Science In-House Conference (#dcsi) is meant to showcase the research being done by the students and faculty of Dalhousie's Faculty of Computer Science. The goal of the conference is to enhance the research community among the students and faculty and to extend the visibility of this research to our university and local community.

SCOPE AND TOPICS

We invite all Computer Science undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty to submit a 2-page abstract of your current research results, work in progress, or reports from course projects. You may submit previously published material or material accepted at other venues and are eligible to submit non-published works to Crossroads, the ACM Student Magazine. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

• Human Computer Interaction, Collaborative Technologies and Program Comprehension
• Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Based Systems and Robotics
• Databases, Data Mining, Graphical and Image Database
• Hand-held and Pervasive Computing
• Software Architecture, Design, Engineering and Testing
• Programming Language Design, Visual Programming and Software
• Visualization
• Genetic Programming, Machine Learning, Neural Networking and Computational Neuroscience
• Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Image Analysis and Computational Geometry
• Computing Theory, Numerical Optimization, Number Theory and Algorithms
• Web Technologies, Crawling, Searching, E-Commerce and Hypertext
• Parallel Computing, Concurrency and High-Performance Computing
• Bio-Informatics, Medical Informatics and Molecular Modeling
• Networking, Wireless Communication, Grid and Distributed Computing
• Security, Encryption and Intrusion Detection

No submission will be rejected. All submissions will be refereed to enhance the quality of the conference. The purpose of the refereeing process is to provide feedback to the presenters.

CONFERENCE INCLUDES

• Keynote Speakers from Industry and Academia.
• Merit based awards for outstanding student submissions and presentations.
• Door prizes for Attendees.
• Commercial Sponsors: meet and to talk to local and international industry experts.
• Research Group based sessions.
• Tutorials on paper writing, poster making, LaTeX, research process and Library resources.
• Full day of events ending in evening reception and awards presentations.

PRESENTATIONS

There will be three types of presentations:

1. Oral Presentations

All submitters of abstracts will be required to perform an oral presentation. These are conference-styled talks, in front of a group of peers, using overhead material such as transparencies or a computer. They are 15 minutes in length, followed by 5 minutes of questions and answers. Oral presentations will be grouped into subject related tracks.

2. Poster Presentations:

Posters will be displayed during the conference in the Atrium on provided poster boards. This will provide presenters with an excellent opportunity to discuss late-breaking and on-going work in an informal setting, as well as practicing your conference-style poster-presentation skills.

3. Demonstrations:

Computer demonstrations are valuable if you have developed an application and you would like to have a chance to showcase your application in action. All demonstrations are in the Atrium and you must provide your own computer system. Table, chairs, power and networking will be provided.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

All abstracts must be at most 2 pages long. All submissions must be created from either the LaTeX or the MS-Word templates provided on the conference web site. Submissions will only be accepted if they are created using a conference template.

All submissions are to be submitted via the #dcsi Submission Site: www.easychair.org/DCSI07

IMPORTANT DATES (exact dates to be announced)

September 2006 – #dcsi fall term launch party.

September 2006 - Writing and Library Tutorials.

October 2006 – LaTeX Tutorial.

November 2006 - 1st Review Paper submission deadline.

November 2006 - Poster Tutorial.

February 2007 - Presentation Tutorial.

March 1, 2007 - Final Submission Deadline (Reviewed) .

March 12, 2007 - Final Reviews Returned.

March 30, 2007 - Poster Deadline (Extended).

March 30, 2007 - Programming Contest Entry Deadline.

April 2, 2007 - Camera-ready deadline.

April 5, 2007 - #dcsi Day of Conference

AWARDS

Merit based awards will be given at the for outstanding student submissions and presentations. Awards will be given for the categories of best abstracts, abstract presentations, posters, poster presentations, and demonstrations. The number of awards for each category will be dependent on the number of submissions.

If you would like to volunteer or help organize #dcsi or if you have any questions or suggestions you may reach us by email at dcsi@cs.dal.ca.

We are looking forward to your participation,

The #dcsi '07 Organizing Committee