2002 ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING (SAC'02) Madrid, Spain, 10-13 March 2002 *** Call for Track Proposals *** For the past sixteen years the Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present their work. SAC is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP); its proceedings are published by ACM in both printed form and CD-ROM; they are also available on the web through ACM's Digital Library. More information on SAC can be found at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac . SAC is based on a flexible structure of mostly self-contained and self-managed tracks. Over the past years it has hosted tracks on a variety of topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Internet Technologies, Software Engineering, etc. For SAC'02, to be held in Spain in March of 2002, the SAC organizers solicit proposals for hosting tracks. Perspective track chairs should submit a less than one page description for organizing a track, which should include at least the following items: 1) The proposed title for the track with a description of its aims, topics it will cover and rationale for having such a track in SAC. This rationale should refer to any related conference events that are held regularly and why the proposed track differs from them or complements them. The proposed track should not be over general but also not overly specialized, thus being able to attract a wide audience of people sharing similar interests. Proposals from industry are also welcomed. Despite its name, SAC also welcomes papers of mostly theoretical nature, provided there is clear practical potential in applying the results of such work. 2) A short description of the activities the track chair will undertake upon acceptance of the proposal, to disseminate the call-for-papers for his/her track, manage the review process and collect final materials from authors of accepted papers. (Specific guidelines to track chairs regarding these issues will also be provided.) 3) A short CV of the perspective track chair(s) with reference to research interests and publication record directly related to the themes of the proposed track, and any previous experience of involvement in the organization of similar events (in the interest of brevity, reference to a personal web page where such information can be found will be welcomed). All proposals will be reviewed by the Conference and Program Chairs with respect to the above criteria. The Chairs reserve the right to: (1) accept a proposal as is, (2) recommend merging of similar proposals with a considerable overlap in the topics addressed (in this case the track chairs of the different proposals will be asked to form a single chair), (3) reject a proposal. Upon acceptance of a proposal, the track chairs will be notified of their responsibilities in managing the affairs of their tracks, as these are defined by SAC itself but also ACM. The Chairs reserve the right to cancel at any time a track, if these responsibilities are not addressed adequately by its track chair(s). Please submit your proposal electronically and in any acceptable readable form to: George A. Papadopoulos Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus E-Mail: george@cs.ucy.ac.cy IMPORTANT DATES 20 March 2001: Submission of track proposals 15 April 2001: Notification of acceptance/rejection 15 May 2001: Call-For-Papers for accepted tracks 1 Sept 2001: Submission of papers and tutorial proposals 15 Oct 2001: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection 1 Nov 2001: Camera-Ready copies of accepted papers 10-13 March 2002: SAC'02 takes place