1. Industrial Automation and Sustainable Systems:

Systems modeling and control / Mechatronics / Industrial and manufacturing automation / Industrial informatics / Industrial Electronics / Industrial robotics and control / Supply-chain management / Quality management / Testing and screening / System safety / Program and project management / integrated manufacturing and service systems / Intelligent transportation systems / AI and Computational intelligence in IAMS / Nano Technologies.

2. Wired and Wireless Integration:

Hybrid Access Optical Networks / Microwave-Millimeter Wave over Fibre / Wireless communications Technologies / Sensor Networks / Home security / Cyber infrastructure / Grid technology / Living in a wireless world - Applications / Information sharing / Internet technology / AI and Computational Intelligence WSTP / High speed data networks.

3. Intelligent Machines and Man-machine Co-existence:

Pattern recognition / Image Processing / Machine learning / Expert systems / Decision support systems / Softcomputing / Data fusion, data mining and knowledge discovery / Bio-Robotics / AI and Computational intelligence in IMMMC / Sensor design, integration, and fusion / Machine vision / Man-machine interfaces / Brain-computer Interface / Bioinformatics and bioengineering / Neural networks / Fuzzy systems / Evolutionary computation.

4.Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Social Transformation:

Impact of ICT on Society / eTransformation of Organizations / Technologies to support process automation / Technologies to support collaborative work / Semantic Web Technologies / eLearning systems, applications and case studies /E-commerce / E-governance / Ubiquitous, Collaborative and Learning organizations .

5. Sustaiable Systems in Disaster Management, Welfare, and Rehabilitation:

Sensing the earth, oceans, and atmosphere / Information processing, interpretation, and dissemination / Environmental systems and risk analysis / Environmental management/ Engineering management / Robotic applications in DMWR / Assistive robotics / Prosthetic devices / Tele-operation and remote manipulation in DMWR / AI and Computational Intelligence in DMWR / Welfare robots / Sustainable Systems.