Track 1: Intelligent Systems & Data Science  

Decision support systems
Autonomous multi-agent systems
Fuzzy logic  systems
Machine learning and deep learning
Summarization and information extraction
Big data modeling, analytics and prediction
Statistical learning algorithms, models and theories
Uncertainty modeling of intelligent systems
Data-science and AI applications for resource limited areas
ICT for meeting the sustainable development goals (ICT4SDG)
Application of IoT and AI in agriculture, healthcare, industry, and in solving other societal problems

Track 2: Wireless Communications & Emerging Networking

Wireless, cellular and cognitive radio networking trends
Network virtualization and software defined networking
Ad hoc and sensor networking
Massive machine type communication and its applications
Energy efficiency in networking & data centers
Next generation networking: MIMO, tactile Internet & gigabit networks
Smart grid and power-line communications
Satellite and space communication
QoS, reliability and modelling in next generation networks
Smart spectrum sharing in future wireless networks
Wireless standards: WLAN, WPAN, RFID, and NFC
Affordable broadband wireless networks for emerging economy
5th Generation (5G) wireless and the sustainable development goals
Wireless communications for intelligent transport systems and control
Wearable computing and body area networks
 Social network applications and mobile computing
Context and location aware applications and services
IoT and smart sensing in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4th IR) applications.

Track 3: Circuits and Computing Systems

Analog and mixed signal circuits and systems
Communication circuits and systems
Digital circuits, systems and signal processing
Parallel and multicore architecture
Power-efficient architectures
Reconfigurable and heterogeneous architectures
New platforms and hardware designs for low-power embedded systems
 Energy harvesting, and energy management systems
 Mobile and pervasive systems, including personal wearable devices, drones and robots
Fault-tolerance, reliability, and verification

Track 4: Security and Privacy

Access control and security models
Cloud, mobile platforms and embedded systems security
Internet, communication and network security
 Economics of security and privacy
Forensics, hardware and biometric security
Software security and malware
Intrusion detection and prevention systems
Data and network security in resource limited environments
Security and privacy for the Internet of Things
Security and privacy policies in next generation networks & the 4th Industry Revolution
Usability vs security and privacy in the context of emerging economies
Information societal for societal and  e-Government services

Track 5: Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Speech recognition, speech synthesis
Dialogue and multilingual Interactive Systems
Narrative understanding and commonsense reasoning
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Multimodal and grounded language processing
Summarization and Information Extraction
Part of Speech Tagger
Applications of NLP on web, social media and computational social science
Machine learning in NLP

Track 6: Human Computer Interaction

Accessibility and assistive technologies
Design of interactive entertainment systems
Information visualization
Interaction design for culture and development
 Interactive systems technologies and engineering
 Social interaction and mobile HCI
Tools for design, modelling, evaluation
User experience-based approaches
Child-computer interfaces
 Human-robot interaction
Multi-modal interfaces
Multi-user interaction / cooperation
Ubiquitous and context-aware computing
User Interfaces for web applications, e-government