Design Automation (DA)

– Artificial Intelligence and Applications
– Backend Silicon Tools and Methodologies
– CAD Tools and Algorithms
– Characterisation and Timing Simulation
– Design for Low Power
– Design Optimization and Implementation
– ESL Methodologies and EDA Tools
– FPGAs, ASICs, ASIPs and SoCs
– Numerical and Scientific Computation
– Open-Source Tools
– Placement & Routing
– Rapid Prototyping and Hardware/Software Co-verification and Co-design
– Silicon Device Level Research
– System-Level and High-Level Synthesis
– VLSI and Digital Design and Design for Test
– Reconfigurable computing and FPGA-based acceleration
– Approximate computing
– System level and architecture level dependability
– Safe and secure embedded systems

Computer Networks and Communications

– Advances in Internet Protocols
– Cloud and Fog Computing
– Intelligent Agents and Distributed Computing
– Internet of Things and Smart Cities
– Internet Services and Applications
– Management of Telecommunications and Networks
– Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Optimization and Management
– Security and Privacy
– Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications
– Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures
– Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile Communications

Computer Engineering

– Computer Architecture and Design
– Formal Methods in Architecture Design
– Computer-Aided Architecture Design and Implementation
– Embedded Systems and Applications
– Multi-core VLSI/ULSI Design
– Parallel and other Advanced Architectures
– Distributed Computing
– Memory and Storage Systems
– Parallel programming, parallel computing and ILP
– Advanced I/O device design
– Human-Computer Interaction
– Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems
– Industrial informatics
– Heterogeneous many/multi-core computing

Social Media and e-technologies

– Active and Collaborative Learning
– Advances in e-Energy Design and Development
– Digital Media Technologies
– e-Commerce and e-Services
– Economic and Regulatory Issues
– e-Government Issues
– e-Health Technologies and Applications
– Game-Based Learning for Engineering Education
– Image Processing and Visualization
– Social Networks in Education
– Social Networks, Crowdsourcing, and Crowdsensing