Prospect to SAC 2015

30th ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING (SAC 2015) will be held in Salamanca (Spain) in 13th-17th April, 2015.

This symposium will be organized by the Bioinformatic, Intelligent System and Educational Technology Reseach Group (http://bisite.usal.es/) of the University of Salamanca. The Bioinformatic, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology (BISITE) group brings Together a group of researchers interested primarily in the development and application of intelligent computer systems to various types of problems. BISITE is characterized by multi-disciplinary and inter-university. It is multidisciplinary by the member’s diverse Profile: computer scientists, biologists, chemists, physicists, oceanographers and economists. BISITE’s interuniversity aspect includes researchers from several universities and research centers. The work of this group has a very practical component, although the theoretical aspects, necessary in any research, are not forgotten. Technological innovation also applies to the education and teaching fields, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In this sense BISITE has developed techniques and educational tools based on intelligent systems and mathematical models, of great help for both teachers and students.

Salamanca is the university city by excellence, known in the whole world for this and for its artistic richness: cathedrals, palaces, churches... of artistic styles such as romanesque, gothic, plateresque y barroque. Situated on the banks of the river Tormes, its geographical extensión is 12.336 Km², and It currently has 159.000 inhabitants.