Call for Papers

The Sixth Annual Conference on Undergraduate Research on Applied Computing (URC 2014) aims to provide a forum for undergraduate students to present their ideas and interact with other young researchers from educational institutions in the UAE, other GCC countries, and the rest of the Arab world, as well as expert faculty and leaders from the IT industry. So, if you are an undergraduate student (in UAE, GCC counrties, other Arab countries) working on a final year project or doing research in any computing field, you are encouraged to submit an abstract for oral or poster presentation. There are two types of submission, and all submissions will be reviewed by expert faculty and feedback will be provided to all submissions.
Call for Papers in PDF format.

Submission Types

The papers and presentations should report on work done by undergraduate students, and the first author should be an undergraduate student.

  • Full paper for Oral Presentation: This type of submission reports on a research project with results. The submission must be 5 to 6 pages and must be formatted using the IEEE template (download the MS Word format). Accepted papers must be presented at URC2014 in an oral presentation. Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
  • Abstracts for Oral or Poster Presentation: This type of submission reports on a research project that's in progress and results will be available and presented at the conference in an oral or poster presentation. In an oral presentation, the presenter will be given 15 minutes to present his/her work in front of the audience. Poster presentations are meant to be visual and will be displayed in the conference venue and presented during breaks. Most students who have demos like to present in a poster presentation style.

Submission Guidelines

  • Full Papers: Please submit a full paper (5 to 6 pages) describing your research and resuslts. Please follow these guidelines:
    • First, please note the deadline for full paper submissions is February 6, 2004 (submission of full papers is now closed; please submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations, see below).
    • All submissions must be written in English
    • You may have one or more co-authors, but the first author must be an undergraduate student
    • Use this template in MS Word format for your submission. Please coordinate with your research supervisor.
  • Abstracts for Oral and Poster Presentations: Please submit a 500-word abstract describing your final year project or on-going project work. Please follow these guidelines:
    • First, please note the deadline for abstract submissions is February 20, 2014 March 2, 2014 (closed)
    • All submissions must be written in English
    • You may have one or more co-authors, but the first author must be an undergraduate student
    • Use this template in MS Word format for your submission (for oral and poster presentations). For your information, here are some sample abstracts (please follow the same style):sample-abstract1.doc, sample-abstract2.doc, sample-abstract3.doc.
    • Make sure you specify whether you want to present your work in an oral presentation or a poster presentation format

All submissions must be made online at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=urc2014 Note: If you don't already have an account, sign up for one...it is free and it only takes 2 minutes. Once you login, create a new submission and fill out the necessary information. Please make sure you upload your MS Word (.doc or .docx) file containing the full paper or abstract. Please use this template for full paper submission and use this template for abstract submission.

Conference Proceedings

  • Authors of accepted full papers will have the opportunity to finalize their abstracts before final submission for inclusion in the IEEE eXplore digital library
  • Authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity to finalize their abstracts before final submission for inclusion in the ebook of abstracts (for your information, here is the book of abstracts from URC2013). Authors will be invited to submit extended papers for journal publication.