Topics of Interest

Track I: Computer Systems

• Cloud computing
• Cloud management
• Cloud services
• Computer architectures
• Computer hardware technology
• Computer-aided designs and technology
• Display technology
• Digital circuits, systems and logic design
• Embedded systems
• Evolutionary algorithms and computing
• Fuzzy systems and fuzzy logic
• Green computing
• Grid computing and architectures
• Hardware and software co-design
• High-performance computing
• Input/Output systems
• Low-power computer technology
• Memory systems
• Mobile computing
• Modeling and simulation
• Object Oriented Languages
• Operating system and middleware for mobile computing and networking
• Performance evaluation
• Pervasive computing
• Real-time systems and simulations
• Reconfigurable computing
• System integration
• Systems on chip (SoC)
• Scientific computing algorithms
• Soft computing
• Software design, verification and validation
• Software performance and engineering
• Social networking and computing
• VLSI design

Track II: Information Technology

• Agents and multi-agents systems
• Artificial intelligence and expert systems
• Adaptive learning automata
• Bioinformatics and biological computing and engineering
• Database and data warehouses
• Data mining
• Future web
• e-Government
• e-Commerce
• e-Health
• e-Learning and adaptive learning
• Geographical information systems (GIS)
• Global positioning systems (GPS)
• Human-computer interaction (HCI)
• Network systems, proxies and servers
• Neural networks
• Protocols and standards
• RF technology and control error correction
• Signal and image processing
• System engineering
• Telematics
• Web-Based Simulation Applications

Track III: Web Technologies

• Accessibility issues and Technology
• Data Fusion
• Digital Libraries
• Content transformation and adaptation in proxy server
• Metadata and metamodeling
• Multimedia
• Ontology and semantic web
• Personalized web sites/Web site classification and optimization
• Portal strategies
• Quality recommendation for software service provisioning
• Service oriented architecture
• System integration
• User modeling
• Usability and ergonomics
• Web analytics
• Web services and engineering
• Web interfaces and applications
• Web searching, browsing and ranking
• Web information retrieval
• Web intelligence
• Web performance measurement, modeling and caching
• XML and data management

Track IV: Networking Systems

• Bio-inspired and nature-inspired solutions in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
• Broadband access technologies
• Cognitive radio
• Cross-layer design for mobile and wireless networks
• Dynamic spectrum management
• Disruption tolerant networks
• Energy-efficient networks
• Future Internet
• Hybrid networks
• Medium access control protocols
• Network management
• Network services and protocols
• Optical networks
• Opportunistic networks
• Personal area networks
• Performance-oriented design and evaluation focused on networks and mobile applications
• Quality of service provisioning
• Routing protocols
• Sensor networks
• Smart grids
• Testbed design and implementation
• Traffic Eng. & measurements
• Under water networks
• 60 GHz networking
• Wireless networks

Track V: Telecommunication Systems

• Adaptive communications
• Channel estimation
• Cognitive vehicular ad hoc networks
• Cooperative communications
• Channel coding
• Interference management
• Massive MIMO systems
• Modulation techniques
• MIMO systems
• Novel applications enabled by telecommunication networking systems
• OFDM communications
• Power line communication
• Satellite communication
• Spread-spectrum communications
• UWB communications
• Wireless broadcasting
• Wireless communication

Track VI: Security Systems

• Authentication and access control
• Biometrics systems
• Computer and communication security
• Cryptography and cryptanalysis
• Digital watermarking, fingerprinting, and traitor tracing schemes
• Detection analysis and prevention of malware
• Denial of service issues
• Intrusion detection systems
• Information systems security
• Keystroke dynamic systems
• Multimedia security
• Network security
• Network systems forensics
• Operating systems security
• Program security
• Physical security
• Privacy enhancing technologies
• Public-key infrastructure systems
• Quantum cryptography
• Security of e-Systems and applications
• Security modeling, tools & simulation
• Security of personal area networks
• Security of WiFi and WiMax systems
• Security of web systems
• Secure PHY and MAC protocols
• User & location privacy
• Virtual Private Network systems
• Vulnerability and Virus analysis
• Vulnerability and attack modeling
• Web security and privacy
• Web-based application security