Symposium on “Environmental Electromagnetic Compatibility” in the frame of the 24th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and  Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2016),  technically cosponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), will be held in Split, September 22-24, 2016.The rapid growth of the telecommunication industry has resulted in  an increasing number of various transmitting installations, (particularly GSM and UMTS), and the related influence on human health has recently become a very hot and controversial issue.

While the message or data-handling processes and computational capabilities are necessary aspects of the mobile and wireless communication systems, the intensity and form of transmitted electromagnetic energy is of the great interest to biological researchers.
The aims of the Symposium are not only related to the modeling of natural electromagnetic interference (EMI) sources, such as lightning, and analysis and design of the protection systems (LPS), but also to  the optimization of the radiation sources design by taking into account the safety aspects regarding both  the human health and the quality of services (QoS).

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their manuscripts for publication in a special issue of  the Journal of Communications Software and Systems (JCOMSS).