ITiCSE 2018 preview.

ITiCSE 2018, to be held in Larnaka, Cyprus and hosted by the University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus (UCLan Cyprus) is shaping up to be a truly international event of the highest caliber. Consider the following statistics. Approximately one third of the 193 submitted full paper manuscripts had at least one author affiliated with a USA-based institution. Similarly, one third of the submissions had at least one author affiliated with an institution outside of both the USA and Europe. About 45% of the submissions had at least one author affiliated with a European institution. The sum of these percentages exceeds 100% due to 23 submissions co-authored by researchers from multiple countries. This fills out a "standard" ITiCSE program of two and half days of three parallel sessions with 56 accepted manuscripts yielded an acceptance rate of 29%; this is the second lowest in ITiCSE history! Only ITiCSE 2007, in Dundee, Scotland had a lower acceptance rate (28.9%)