Scope and Target Audience

The minicourses to be presented at the I Latin American Journey of Professional Updating in Computing have (preferably) undergaduate students, graduate students, researchers and professionals as their target audience, and shall address either fundamental concepts (introductory minicourses) or emerging technologies (advanced minicourses). Preference will be given to courses with a practical character, which adress in their proposals learning strategies that favour a more dynamic approach and favour the interaction between instructors and students. We intend to not select minicourses that are based solely on expositive strategies. The authors of the selected proposals must prepare a text based on the course material to be included as a chapter to be published in an ISBN-issued book in electronic format.

Initial Proposal Format

The initial proposals must be submited as a single PDF file to the email jolaicleilaclo@gmail.com with the following information:

• Identification data (one page): minicourse data, language of offer (English, Portuguese or Spanish), author(s) information (affiliation, address, phone number, email), and name of course presenter (if there is more than one).
• Duration of the proposed minicourse: 3 or 6 hours.
• Abstracts in Portuguese (or Spanish) and in English, with up to 200 wors each (one page).
• General information (one page): course goals and treatment given to the theme (theoretical or practical, survey of results, in-depth focus on some specific aspects, presentation or comparison of technologies, capacitation in new abilities, or information); intended profile of participants; physical infrastructure demanded for the presentation (slide projector, data show, sound system, special equipment, or software).
• Detailed structure of the text: brief description of the sections and subsections that will be part of the chapter, in such a way that it is possible to evaluate the text.
• Bibliography used in the preparation of the course (one page at most).
• Mini CV of the authors (at most one page for each author), including a selection of publications deemed relevant for the proposal.

Final Version Format

The final version of the chapter (between 15 and 25 pages) must obey SBC format and must be sent, in both PDF and editable format (Word/Latex) to the email jolaicleilaclo@gmail.com . All the necessary additional material for publication (figures and tables) must be send with the text (figures must be sent in 300 dpi resolution at least). Non-compliance with the deadlines or the referees' comments entail the exclusion of the proposal from JoLAI's program.

Conditions for Acceptance and Publication

Initial selection of proposals will be done on the basis of a classificatory process, following evaluation and discussions of proposals by the Program Committee. The criteria for selection will include:

• Proven competence of the proponent(s) on the couse subject.
• Quality of the proposal.
• Maturity of the proposed subject.
• Importance and breadth of the proposed theme.
• The proponent(s)' curriculum vitae.
• Distribution of proposals across several areas of computing.
• Adherence to instructions in this call.

The main goal of JoLAI is not the publication of results of thesis, dissertations, research projects, system manuals etc., but the dissemination of established techniques that are deemed as important in the academic or professional area, which many studemts would not have the opportunity to study in their home institutions. In the same vein, the course must not reflect the particular vision of a sole research group in the area of interest.

The text of the chapter will be evaluated by experts. Their approval is a necessary condition for the course to be included in the final program of JoLAI. The criteria for revision of the texts will include:

• Adherence to the initial proposal.
• Technical correctness of the text.
• Quality of writing: style, errors, excess of foreign terms etc.
• Text structure.
• Adherence to instructions on thext formatting.
• Quality of figures, tables, equations etc.
• Quality of the abstracts in English, Portuguese or Spanish.

The Program Committee has the right to reject works that present problems related to the criteria above which are unsuitable to be corrected in due time.

Chairs

Ana Grasiele Dionísio Corrêa (Mackenzie) ana.correa@mackenzie.br
André L. S. Kawamoto (UFTPR) kawamoto@utfpr.edu.br
Valéria Farinazzo Martins (Mackenzie) valeria.farinazzo@mackenzie.br