Timeline :

• March 31, 2018: Submission for participation closes.
• April 15, 2018: Selection of the best teams, among which the finalists of the contest will be selected. The best teams will be asked to submit a final report, which will be included in the finalists.
• May 20, 2018 : Deadline for the submission of the final document.
• May 20, 2018:Early-bird registration due 
• July 12-14,2018: Conference Dates and final evaluation and presentation of the awards. Awards All finalists will be recognized in the main conference. 

Submission and evaluation of projects

To take part in competition, teams have to submit, before the deadline of March 31, 2017, a document of approximate 10 pages. In particular, each document is required to be formatted using the report template (word). The report should describe the various artifacts produced during the development, according to the requests formulated in the project description. Each submitted report will be evaluated by at least 2 members of the Program Committee. Evaluation will be based on standard quality criteria for software development, which will be detailed in later announcements.

• Judging

The judges will grade entries by using of the following criteria:

• Originality of Concept--Does the project introduce a great new idea?
• Effective Use of the Platform --Does the application take advantage of OS and hardware?
• Polish and Appeal--Is the application easy to use and aesthetically appealing?
• Final document

The eventual selected teams will be required to submit a final document of 6 pages. Those teams will be invited to present and demonstrate their projects in the FC2017 conference. Award winners will be selected during the conference by all conference participators. The teams are responsible to prepare all the material that is necessary to run and fully evaluate their applications during the conference. Each selected team is requested to register strictly. Every final document will be published in the FC2017 conference proceedings after presentation and registration.

• Copyright issues

Unless exceptions are explicitly stated in advance, all artifacts produced by the teams will be treated confidentially by the PC during the evaluation phase but a copyright release will be requested from the teams selected to submit a full report of their project (see the evaluation procedure). 

• Panel of Judges 
  The application competition is co-chaired by and includes members both from academia and industry. 

  Co-chairs, panel of judges: Yi-Chun Liao,China University of Technology, Taiwan Chuan-Feng Chiu, Minghsin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Jury Members: Rong-Chi Chang, Asia University, Taiwan Hanmin Chien ,China University of Technology, Taiwan Hsieh Tsung Han ,China University of Technology, Taiwan Chang-Yi Kao, IDEAS Institute of Institute for Information Industry Yung-Sheng Hsu ,China University of Technology, Taiwan Shu-Wei Chang, China University of Technology, Taiwan Neil Y. Yen, The University of Aizu, Japan Vladimír Smejkal, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic Fei Wu, Zhejiang University, China Francisco Isidro Massetto, Federal University of ABC, Brazil Shing-Chern You, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan Riz Sulaiman, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore Yusuke Manabe, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan Soumya Banerjee, Birla Institute of Technology, India Tran Thien Phuc, Hochimin City University of Technology, Vietnam Jindrich Kodl, Authorised expert in security of information systems, cryptology and informatics, Czech Republic Poonphon Suesaowaluk, Assumption University of Thailand, Thailand Jenn-Wei Lin, Fu Jen University, Taiwan Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, U.K. Yishui Zhu, Chang'an University, China Chun-Hong Huang, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology

Frontier Innovation Award Competition (Fi Award 2018) joins in The 7th International Conference on Frontier Computing (FC 2018) - Theory, Technologies and Applications . This contest is only for students and aims to demonstrate the latest results in multimedia technologies. To take part in the competition, teams must register and follow the contest rules as outlined below. Teams submit full software products, covering the whole software development process. After a careful evaluation carried out by the Program Committee, several finalist teams will be invited to FC 2018 in Osaka to present and demonstrate their projects and receive their awards in the conference.

Papers must be prepared using a Springer LNEE (LNCS) formatting template:Download Here .

Copyright form can be downloaded at: Download Here.

Authors should submit their papers in format via e-mail to: fiaward2016@gmail.com

Tracks:

1. Game Design: This track is intended to show the game development in mobile, PC and Console, not limited to programming. You can make a case by any popular multimedia authoring tools.

2. Frontier Computing Applications: Frontier Computing can be used for entertainment, education, museum exhibits and so much more. The original design consists of your innovation or standard patent application in this track. Your end product is only limited by your imagination.