• ICT enabled services

ICT in Business Administration, Finance and Economy; ICT in Governance and Government Policy Making; ICT in Education, Humanities, Social Sciences and Research; ICT in Medicine and Health Care.

• Bio informatics and its usability

Novel applications in Bioinformatics; Data Mining and Statistical Modelling of biological data; Visualization of Biological Processes and Data, Management; Migration and Integration of Biological Databases; Biological Database search; Indexing and access.

• Linguistic issues in multilingual setup

Corpora and Language Resources; Speech Recognition; Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech; Speech and Spoken Language Generation; Semantic Processing of Text and Speech; Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing; Automatic Dialogue Systems.

• ICT infrastructure in adverse scenario

Managing Big Data and Linked Open Data; Data Analytics and Business Intelligence; Knowledge Models, Languages, and Representations; Ontologies: Engineering, Alignment, and Evolution; Machine Learning and Reasoning Methods; Service-Orientation and Large-scale Distributed Computing Cloud Computing; Model Driven Architectures / Software Development; Infrastructures, Tools and Framework Conditions for Cooperation and Knowledge Transfer; Advances in and Tools for Technology Enhanced Learning; ICT Competence Design and Development; Infrastructures and Framework Conditions for ICT Education.

• Signal processing and its applications

Array Signal Processing; Biomedical Systems; Compressive Sensing; DSP Algorithms and Architectures; Detection and Estimation; Image/Video Processing; Language Identification; Machine Learning; Pattern Recognition; Speech and Audio Processing.

• Internet of Anything

Smart utility grids; Smart mass transportation; Smart buildings, factories & homes; Smart medical technologies; Next-generation air traffic control; Robots and drones; Advanced retail and commerce; Advanced vehicles; IoA and cloud computing; IoA and mobile computing; IoA and big data analytics; IoA technological trends; IoA impact of policies, standards, and regulations; Impact of IoA on IT industry and IT professionals; IoA education and training; IoA case studies.

• Information security and privacy

Authentication, Access control and Authorization; Accountability and Anonymity; Cloud and Distributed systems security; Computer and Cyber Forensics; Hardware and Embedded systems security; Internet of Things – Security and Privacy; Intrusion detection and Malware analysis; Network and Systems security; Privacy technologies and mechanisms; Security and privacy metrics and policies; Social Networks Analysis and Security; Usable security and privacy.

• Emerging Technology