[agents] Invitation | ICONS 2019: Special Track Invitation

[Sandra Sendra]

Invitation for special tracks proposals,

During ICONS 2019, taking place during March 24 - 28, 2019 - Valencia, 
Spain, the IARIA Board decided to have a few special tracks. This will 
strengthen the event and provide more visibility to the special tracks 
coordinators and their teams.

See: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/ICONS19.html

To that respect, a few scientists were selected from the program 
committee of the conference. You are invited to participate in this 
initiative as a chair of a special track.

After reading the invitation, a reply is greatly appreciated regarding 
your availability to take part in this effort. Then, a step-by-step 
procedure will be communicated to you.

If you accept this invitation, but are unable to participate as chair 
during the conference, you can delegate that task to someone else from 
your team when time comes. If your schedule does not allow you to 
undertake this effort, feel free to forward this invitation to a colleague.

A special track is intended to work this way:

The benefits of the special track Chair:
- The Chair of a successful track (a least three registered 
contributors) is granted the registration fees
- The Chair of a successful track is granted one Publication of a 
regular scientific paper
- The Chair is granted one Editorial writing on the topic, to be posted 
on www.iaria.org under Additional Publications (not in proceedings)
- The Chair can select one paper to be invited (as extended version) for 
publication in a IARIA Journal (see www.iariajournals.org)
- The Chair is listed as an editor of the ICONS 2019 proceedings.

The responsibilities of the Chair
- The Chair has the freedom to select the topic of the track and the 
contributors (the chair will also provide a track title and possibly an 
acronym)
- The Chair identifies and invites contributors (among team members, 
project partners, scientific colleagues, etc.)
- The Chair provides the Call for Contributions, or point them to the 
posted one on the conference site
- The Chair confirms to steve at iaria.org that the evaluation has been 
completed, and includes the Chair's editorial

The conference logistics will then
- Cross-validate editorial/grammar aspects and work with the 
contact-authors to fix the camera-ready version, if needed
- Provide the appropriate presentation slot into the program
- Publish the papers in an open access digital library
- Once at least 3 authors register for the event, a waiver code will be 
provided to the Chair to be used towards the free registration

The papers will be in the conference proceedings and publicly accessible 
in an open access digital library at www.thinkmind.org

Information for the authors
- Carefully consider the editorial rules (see 
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html)
- Have a careful proofreading of the contribution
- Carefully observe the required format: text style and size, captions, 
references, etc.  (see http://www.iaria.org/format.html)
- Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html
- The actual registration form will be posted in time for notification

Potential contribution types
- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
- demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]

If you agree to organize a special track, please:
- Email to steve at iaria.org a title/topic of the special track, as soon 
as you have one

- Take note that the submission deadlines for special tracks are
     Submission: Jan 29, 2019
     Notification: Feb 18, 2019
     Registration: Feb 27, 2019
     Camera-ready: Feb 27, 2019

These dates are somewhat flexible, providing arrangements are made ahead 
of time with you.

A reply is appreciated, regardless of the decision, for a better 
coordination among topics/special tracks.
If you take the leadership of a special track, a step-by-step procedure 
will be communicated to you by the logistics (see steve at iaria.org).

Thanks, and looking forward for your position!

ICONS 2019 Special Tracks Chair
Sandra Sendra, University of Granada, Spain
ssendra at ugr.es