TACS 2012 invites submissions in the fields of theoretical and applied computer science. The aim of the conference is to encourage collaboration among students and provide them with a forum to present their research. Accepted papers will be published on the conference website. Full papers must be no more than 6 pages in length; short papers (including work in progress) may be submitted with a length no more than 3 pages.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: January 31, 2012 at 11:59pm CDT
Author Notification: February 10, 2012
Camera-ready Papers:  February 16, 2012 
Conference Date:  February 17, 2012

Formatting will follow IEEE two column conference format and an author guide and detailed submission information is available. For more information, please visit http://www.cs.okstate.edu/tacs12

The conference will be held in Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, on February 17, 2012.

Best paper award will be given, which includes a certificate and a monetary prize. 

Scope
  
Security

    *   Cryptography
    *   Intrusion Detection
    *   Data and Network Security
    *   Defect and Fault Tolerance
    *   Information Forensics and Security

Network and Traffic Management

    *   Wireless Sensor Networks
    *   Mobile and Ad-hoc Networks
    *   Social Networks
    *   Network Coding   
    *   Congestion Control 
    *   Information Theory

Artificial Intelligence

    *   Bioinformatics
    *   Computer Vision
    *   Machine Learning
    *   Multimedia and Speech Processing
    *   Neural Networks
    *   Graphics
    *   Pattern Recognition
    *   Self Assembling Systems
    *   Data Mining

Parallel Distributed Systems and Computing

    *   Distributed Systems
    *   Molecular Computing
    *   Operating Systems
    *   Parallel Computation
    *   Quantum Computing
    *   Cluster and Grid computing

Computer Architecture

    *   Processor, Memory, and Storage Systems Architecture
    *   Parallel and Multi-Core Systems 
    *   System and Network on Chips
    *   Application Specific, Reconfigurable, and Embedded Architectures 
    *   Architectures for Emerging Technologies and Applications

Software Engineering

    *   Software Engineering Methodologies 
    *   Formal Methods
    *   Theoretical Computer Science
    *   Yield Modeling in Emerging Technologies
    *   Performance Evaluation
    *   Engineering Applications
    *   Formal Languages
    *   Reliability Theory
    *   Risk Analysis

Note: Topics are not limited to the above categories.