CALL FOR TRACK PROPOSALS – SAC 2023

The 38th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 27 – April 2, 2023, Tallinn, Estonia
https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2023/

For the past thirty-seven years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and international
forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present theirwork. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. The conference
proceedings are published by ACM and available online through ACM's Digital Library.
SAC is based on a flexible structure of mostly self-contained and self-managed tracks. Over the past years SAC hostedtracks on a variety of timely topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Computer Security, Data Mining, BigData, IoT, Fog/Edge Computing, Blockchain, Evolutionary Computing, Health Information, Machine Learning, MobileComputing, Programming Languages, Software Engineering, Web Technologies, and so on. SAC 2022 included 31 tracks
that attracted 821 paper submissions from 55 countries; 183 submissions were finally accepted as full papers (<25%acceptance rate). More information on past SAC events can be found at http://www.sigapp.org/sac.
The 38th Annual SAC meeting will be held from March 27 to April 2, 2023 in Tallinn, Estonia. The conference
Organizing Committee solicits proposals for organizing and hosting tracks. Prospective track chairs should submit an up
to two-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 atrack in SAC. This rationale should refer to any related conference events that are held regularly and why theproposed track differs from them or complements them. The proposed track should not be overly general but also
not overly specialized, thus being able to attract a wide audience of people sharing similar interests. Proposals fromindustry are also encouraged. Despite its name, SAC also welcomes topics 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(s) will undertake upon acceptance of the proposal, to disseminate
the call-for-papers for the track, and to manage the review process. (Current Track Chairs guideline document isposted on the SAC 2023 website).
3) A short CV of the prospective 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 sufficient).
All proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee using the criteria described above. The Committee reserves theright to: (1) accept a proposal as is, (2) require modifications before acceptance, (3) 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 track), (4) reject a proposal. Upon acceptance of a proposal, the track chairs will be notified of
their responsibilities in managing the affairs of their track; as such responsibilities are defined by both the ACM and SAC
conference rules. The Committee reserves the rights to cancel a track at any time if these responsibilities are not addressed
adequately by the track chair(s).
Please submit your proposal electronically to theSTART submission system in PDF format through theSAC 2023 website. If you encounter any problems foryour submission, please e-mail your questions to:- Juw Won Park (juw.park@louisville.edu)- Tomas Cerny (tomas_cerny@baylor.edu)
SAC 2023 Program Co-Chairs

IMPORTANT DATESJuly 15, 2022:
Submission of track proposals
July 29, 2022:
Notification of acceptance/rejection
Aug 5, 2022:
Call-For-Papers for accepted tracks
Oct 1, 2022:
Submission of papers
Oct 10, 2022:
Submission of tutorial proposals
Nov 10, 2022:
Notification of tutorial acceptance
Nov 19, 2022:
Paper author notification
Dec 6, 2022:
Camera-ready copies