The 2018 International Conference on Progress in Informatics and Computing (PIC-2018) will be held on Dec 14-16, 2018 in Suzhou, China, which is one of the most beautiful ancient city in China and famed as the heaven on earth. It has long been both a center of commerce and a haven for scholars, artists, and skilled craftsmen.

PIC-2018 will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry to discuss the progress, challenges, experiences and trends of the theoretical and application issues in computer science, software and information management, to exchange ideas, share knowledge and promote future cooperation.

PIC-2018 is sponsored by IEEE Beijing Section, co-organized by Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Tongji University. It will also be partly supported by Soochow University and Shanghai University, China. It is the Sixth in the series of PIC conference. The former conferences were held in 2010, 2014, 2016 in Shanghai, and 2015, 2017 in Nanjing. The previous conferences were great successful and all the proceedings were published by IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI.

As with the previous PIC conference, the papers of PIC-2018 will be published in the IEEE categorized conference proceedings and submitted for indexing by EI Compendex, as well as IEEE Xplore after the conference. Best paper awards will be distributed during the conference. Substantially extended versions of good papers will be recommended for publication in several international journals, such as Knowledge Based Systems, etc.