• Smart Cities

Big data acquisition; Urban security; Biometrics; Enabling wireless and mobile technologies; M2M Communications; Sensing and IoT architectures; Cloud computing and network infrastructures; Crowd sourcing; Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust in smart cities ecosystems; Sensor networks, smart sensors, smart integrated systems; Communication protocols; Intelligent infrastructure; Vehicle-to-infrastructure communication; Smart buildings; Modeling and simulation; Urban population modeling and simulation; Smart grid; Energy efficient technologies; Smart traffic operation systems; Smart E-health systems; Monitoring technologies; Fault detection technologies; Social networks; Information harvesting in smart cities; Advanced robotic systems; Enabling wireless and mobile technologies.

• Automation

Industrial 4.0; Man-machine interactions; Process automation; Intelligent automation; Factory modeling and simulation; Home, laboratory and service automation; Network-based systems; Planning, scheduling and coordination; Automated Material Handling; Instrumentation System; Asset Management Systems; Precision Motion; Simulation and Control CAD; Computer Integrated Manufacturing; Automation Systems; Nano-scale automation and assembly; Large Scale Systems; Hybrid Systems; Cybernetics; Parallel and Distributed Systems; Optimization Problems; Decision Support Systems; Failure of Systems; Fault Tolerance; Diagnostics; Machine Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Virtual Reality for Automation; Embedded Systems; Geometric modeling and Fractals

• Intelligent Computing Systems

Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning; Artificial Life; Control Systems; Fuzzy Logic and System; Neural Networks; Genetic Algorithm; Swarm Intelligence; Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain; Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management; Modeling and Simulation; Classification and Clustering; Feature Extraction and Dimension Reduction; Natural Language and Speech Processing; Computational Intelligence for Creativity; Control and Automation; Health, e-Health, Biomedical; Image Processing; Computer Vision; Communications Systems and Cyber Security; Data Mining & Analytics; Dynamic and Uncertain Environments; Vehicle and Transportation; Signal Processing; Evolving, Adaptive and Autonomous Systems; Robotics, Security and Defence; Engineering and Industrial Applications; Sensor and Actuator; Hybrid Learning Systems; Optimization Methods in Learning; Evolutionary Computation