The submissions in each track could be on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• DRM: Information Security, Content Protection, and Digital Rights Management

• Watermarking, Steganography, Cryptography, Biometrics, Digital Libraries, Network Security, Computer Security, Ontologies and Reasoning, Applications of Semantic Web and Linked Data, Semantic Web Architecture Social Semantic Web.

• TWA: Text and Web-data Analytics

• Information retrieval, question answering, sentiment analysis, collaborative filtering and ontologies, Visual Data Mining, Privacy Sensitive Data Mining, Graph Data mining, Machine Learning, Mining Spatial and Temporal Data, Metadata and Meta modeling especially focused in the domains of social networks, social media including blogs and online collaborative environments.

• ICT: Modern Trends in Information and Computing Technology

• Big Data, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Bio-Informatics, Information Science including Multi-Agent Systems and Intelligent Systems, high performance computing, low power/energy-aware computing, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) for Behavioral/High-Level Synthesis and Optimization, High-level synthesis algorithms and methodology, IP core design, algorithms for IP core protection, algorithms for security aware behavioural synthesis, fault aware computing, CAD algorithms for smart devices, algorithm for biometric security.

• SPD: Sequential, Parallel and Distributed Computing

• Analysis and Design of exact and approximation algorithms, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Load balancing and partitioning, Cloud Computing, Parallel and Distributed algorithms in Data Mining and Computational Biology. Multi-cores, memory hierarchy, multiprocessor synchronization and debugging, concurrent programming, OS virtualization modeling and simulation, load balancing and partitioning, compiler techniques.

• CNP: Communication Networks and Protocols

• Broadband Multimedia Communications, Wireless Ad hoc/ Sensor/IoT Networks, Wireless and Mobile Communications, Emerging Information Technology Networks, Vehicular ad-hoc network, Optical Fiber Network, SDN, Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks, Energy- and power-aware communication, cognitive radio Networks.

• BMI: Biomedical Informatics

• Information and Computing Technologies topics mentioned in other tracks, but with specific application to Biomedical Informatics (Translational Bioinformatics and Clinical Informatics) will be considered in this track; additional topics of interest are the application of Crowdsourcing and Open Science Development to Biomedical Informatics.