TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: Communication Technology: Optics and Optoelectronics Secure Communications Video and Broadcasting Wireless and Satellite Communications Communication Software and Services Wireless Communications and Networking Optical Communications and Networking Signal Processing for Communications Multimedia Communications Green Communications & Computing Networking Technology and Application: Smart Networking Optical Networks and Systems Next-Generation Networking Ad-hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Network Architectures Internet of Things Cognitive Radio and Networks Network and Information Security: Network Security Cryptology and Information Security Mobile and Wireless Security Information Hiding and Watermarking Disaster Recovery Information Theory and Application: Digital Systems Electronics, Computing and Control Quality, Reliability, Security & Safety Semiconductors and device Signal Processing Information Engineering Computational Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence and Its Application Intelligent Data Management Genetic Algorithms Interactive computational models Information Retrieval Machine learning Hybrid methods Grid Computing Natural Language Processing