Data Communication and Computer Networking

• Cryptography 

• High Speed Networks

• Mobile Computing 

• Mobile Networks & Wireless LAN

• Optical Networking 

• Network Based Applications

• Network Security 

• Next Generation Web 

• Instruction-, Thread- and Memory-Level Parallelism

• Embedded and Application-Specific Architectures

• Reconfigurable Computing & FPGA Based Architectures

• Memory, Storage, and Warehousing

• Energy/Power Aware HPC Architectures and Green Computing

• HPC Architectures for Mobility 

• Broadband and High Performance Networks

• Network and Security Processors

• Load Balancing and Sharing

• Real-time and embedded P & D Applications

• Distributed Multimedia Systems

• Web Services and Applications

• P & D Industrial and Manufacturing Applications

• Databases, Repositories and Their Applications

• Mobile and Wireless High Performance Applications

• HPC and Education

• Cooperative Information Systems and Applications

• Computer Supported Decision Making using HPC

• Mutual Exclusion, Deadlock Detection

• Causality and Time

• Network Flow and Congestion

• Reliable Parallel, and Distributed Algorithms

• High Performance Knowledge Based Systems

• Agent and Multi Agent Based Applications

• Neural, Fuzzy, and Rough Sets in HPC

• Large Scale Scientific Computing

• e-Sciences

• Service Oriented Applications

• Applied Modeling and Simulation using HPC

• Large Scale Systems for Computational Sciences (Biological, Chemical, Physical, Bioinformatics, Environmental, Transportation, Agriculture, etc.)

• Routing, Synchronization, Consistency

• Resource Allocation, Sharing and Management

• Coordination, Consensus, and Agreement

• Fault Tolerance and Resilience in HPC Systems

• Network and Systems Protocols

• Scalable Computing

• Distributed Shared Memory

• Peer-to-Peer Architectures and Networks

• High Performance Interconnection Networks

• High Performance I/O

• HPC Monitoring & Instrumentation

• Recent Trends in Computer Networks

• Wireless and Adhoc Network 

• Wireless Multimedia systems

Software Engineering

• Agile Software Development 

• Architecture and Design 

• Aspect-Orientation 

• Cloud-Computing 

• Data Mining Systems 

• Dependability, Safety, and Reliability 

• Development Tools and Environments 

• Databases 

• Data Warehousing Systems 

• Empirical Software Engineering 

• Interprocess Communication

• Transaction and Concurrency Control

• Brokering Middleware

• Enterprise Based Technologies

• Benchmarking and Assessment

• Formal Methods 

• Human-Computer Interaction 

• Information Privacy and Security 

• Process Modeling 

• Query Processing and Optimization 

• Parallel and Distributed File Systems

• Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation

• Object-Oriented Programming & Design

• Software Development Tools and Support

• Software Monitoring and Measurement

• Visualization, Scientific Visualization and Rendering

• Programming Languages 

• Refactoring 

• Requirements Engineering 

• Search-Based Software Engineering 

• Software Economics and Metrics 

• Software Evolution and Maintenance 

• Software Reuse 

• Software Testing and Analysis 

• Software Visualization 

• Software Validation and Verification 

• Recent Trends in Software Engineering 

Machine Learning and Optimization

• Artificial Intelligence 

• Big Data Analysis, Security Issues in Big Data 

• Cloud / Grid / Distributed Computing 

• Cognitive Science 

• Component Analysis 

• Data & Knowledge Engineering 

• Digital Image Processing 

• Evolutionary Optimization 

• Information Theoretic Learning 

• Intrusion Detection/Prevention Techniques 

• Multi Agent Systems 

• Multimedia Technologies 

• Optimization Technique 

• Recent Trends in Machine Learning 

• Robotics and Automation 

• Statistical Learning 

VLSI Design and Automation

• Communication Circuits 

• Device/Circuit Simulation and Modeling 

• Digital Circuits and ASIC 

• Electronic System Level Design 

• Emerging Trends and Development in VLSI 

• Embedded Systems 

• Low Power CMOS Design 

• Logic Synthesis and Physical Design 

• MEMS and Sensors Design 

• RF, Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits

• System-on-Chip and Network-on-Chip

• VLSI Testing and Reliability

Aerospace Computing

• Aerospace systems and software engineering

• Verification and validation of embedded systems

• Machine learning and knowledge management for aerospace systems

• Human-automation interaction 

• Systems health management for aerospace systems.

• Applications of autonomous systems

• Systems engineering principles

• Safety and mission assurance