****Call for Special Sessions and Workshops***Deadline:February 20, 2017*** * 2017 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP) July 5-7, 2017, Barcelona, Spain Web: http://tsp.vutbr.cz/ ************************************************************************************ Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Region 8 <http://www.ieeer8.org/>, EEE Spain Section <http://www.ieeespain.org/>, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section <http://ieee.cz/en>, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section SP/CAS/COM Joint Chapter <http://ieee.cz/cascom>, and IEEE Croatia Section Communications Chapter <http://www.ieee.hr/ieeesection/odjeli_chapteri/com19>. The TSP 2017 Proceedings, containing presented papers at the Conference, will be sent for indexing in the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/> registered under _IEEE Conference Record #41294 <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=41294>_, SCOPUS <http://www.scopus.com/>, Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) of Thomson Reuters <http://isiknowledge.com/>, DBLP <http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/index.html>, and Google Scholar <http://scholar.google.com/> databases. Authors of the best rated and presented papers will be invited for publishing in special issues of international journals. ************************************************************************************ Dear Colleague, Within the framework of the *2017 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP - http://tsp.vutbr.cz )* held during *July 5-7, 2017, Barcelona, Spain*, prospective Organizers are invited to submit proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops at TSP 2017 Conference. Proposals are due through the form below by February 20, 2017. For a Special Session and Workshops proposal to be considered for acceptance at TSP 2017 Conference, the proposed topic needs to be an emerging area in telecommunications or signal processing. The topic should be timely and significantly important to the technical audience, and the speakers need to convey compelling information about the topic. The proposals will be evaluated by the ability to introduce the area to large telecommunications and signal processing community, further develop the area, and help establishing a larger research community beyond the area. Each Special Session and Workshop will be approx. 90 minutes long and will usually consist of 5 oral presentations, however, in case of larger interest the Special Session or Workshop will be divided to more parts. Other formats may be possible, including panel discussions, demos, or poster presentations. The Organizer’s role is to invite the speakers, help with reviews, and chair the session itself. Each speaker invited to a Special Session and Workshop will be required to submit a paper, under the regular submission requirements, by the regular submission deadline. These papers will enter the same system as regular papers, and be subject to reviews. The Organizer will be asked to help with selection of reviewers and in consultation with the program committee will make accept/reject decisions. It is possible that some invited papers may be rejected. However, this is expected to be a rare case since the Organizer should recruit only the high-quality papers to the Special Session or Workshop. The invited speakers as well as the Organizer will be required to register for the conference. Registration fees will not be waived and there will be no honoraria available through TSP. Formore information please visit the /Call for Special Sessions and Workshops/ at website http://tsp.vutbr.cz/. We are also ready to answer your questions emailed to tsp@feec.vutbr.cz <mailto:tsp@feec.vutbr.cz>. Looking forward to meeting you in Barcelona, Spain. With best regards, Norbert Herencsar and Marcos Faundez-Zanuy TSP 2017 General Co-Chairs Web: http://tsp.vutbr.cz/ E-mail: tsp@feec.vutbr.cz <mailto:tsp@feec.vutbr.cz> Follow us on: - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tspconf - Twitter https://twitter.com/tspconf =============================================================== doc. Ing. Norbert Herencsar, Ph.D., IEEE Senior Member - IEEE Czechoslovakia Section SP/CAS/COM Joint Chapter Chair Department of Telecommunications Brno University of Technology Brno, Czech Republic & Prof. Dr. Marcos Faundez-Zanuy - Dean Escola Universitaria Politecnica de Mataro, Tecnocampus Mataro, Spain ************************************************************************************ TSP Organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the Conference (e.g., non-indexing in IEEE Xplore® and other databases) if the paper is not presented at the Conference. However, this paper will be distributed as part of the Conference proceedings issued on an USB drive. ************************************************************************************