Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: AREA 1 :Big Data - Big data mining - Big data scalability and reliability - Big data security - Big sensor data management - Managing and mining data in cloud computing - Managing and mining social networking data - Privacy in big data - Others AREA 2 : Biomedical Engineering - Biosignal sensors and signal processing - Body Area Network (BAN) for medicine and healthcare - eHealth systems and pervasive healthcare - Preventive care & long-term patient management - Privacy and security issues for biomedicine - Smart textiles for wearable BAN - Telemedicine and Telemonitoring - Wearable and implantable devices/systems - Others AREA 3 : Cloud Computing - Access Control - Cloud Computing Security - Intrusion Detection Methodologies and Applications - Reliable Computing - Trust Model and Trust Management Policy - Trusted Computing - Others AREA 4 : Information Systems - Applications of Information Theory - Business Process Change - Deductive vs Inductive Approaches - Enterprise Application Integration - Enterprise Resource Planning - Ethical, social, privacy, security and moral issues in an e-society - IS and Change Management - IS and Organisation Development - IS Quality Management and Assurance - Knowledge Management - Multi-Terminal Information Theory - Organisational IS Roles - Outsourcing Risks, Barriers and Opportunities - Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods - Risk Management in IS Design and Development - Others AREA 5 : Multimedia - Compression algorithms - Crowdsourcing in multimedia systems and applications - Human-centered approaches to mobile and multi-device interaction with multimedia - Mobile augmented and mixed reality - Mobile multimedia services - Novel multimedia interfaces and technologies for multi-device interaction - Novel multimedia service architectures - Others AREA 6 : Security and Internet of Things - Communication networks - Future networks and architectures - Green the IoT - IoT applications and services development - Learning Automats Methodologies and Applications - Machine-to-machine communications - Metrics, Measurement and Evaluation of the IoT - Modelling and simulation of communications networks - Network architecture and system design for the IoT - Algorithms and data analysis techniques for the IoT - Security, Trust and Privacy in the IoT - Sensor and Actuator Networks - Wireless and mobile networking - Others AREA 7 : Robotics - Cognitive Approach for Robotics - Collective and Social Robots - Engineering Applications - Humanoid Robots - Human-Robots Interfaces - Industrial Networks and Automation - Intelligent Transportation Technologies and Systems - Mechatronics Systems - Physical Sensors - Grasping and Manipulation - Mobile Robots and Intelligent Autonomous Systems - Network Robotics - Surveillance, Fault detection and Diagnosis - Others AREA 8 : Software Engineering and Applications in Business and Social Sciences - Next frontiers of Software Engineering: use of big data - Rapid Application Development for Mobile - Service Oriented Architectures - Software Architectures and Engineering for Novel Systems - Software Engineering for Mobile Systems - Software Engineering for the Web - Software testing - System Software for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems - Others AREA 9 :Applications in Business and Social Sciences - Applications using human-computer interaction - Business engineering - Business intelligence - Business studies of applications and technology - Crowd sensing - Enterprise computing and applications - Mobile phone sensing - Opinion mining - Pervasive computing - Social and Community Intelligence - Social aspects and issues of applications and technology - Social Behaviour Modelling - Social engineering - Social network analysis - Social Opinion Representation - Others