CSICC’09 consists of four collocated symposiums. Contributions describing novel research are solicited for the symposiums’ subject areas as described below:

• Computer Science and Software Engineering Symposium

o Theory of Computation
o Algorithms and Heuristics
o Automata Theory
o Semantics of Programming Languages
o Computational Geometry
o Computational Complexity
o Formal Languages
o Formal Logics
o System and Software Development
o Software Validation and Verification
o Data and Code Processing
o Visualization and User Interfacing
o Languages and Environments
o Processes, Methodologies, and Modeling
o Best Practices
o Special Topics in Computer Science and Software Engineering

• Soft Computing and Artificial Intelligence Symposium

o Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
o Distributed Artificial Intelligence
o Soft Computing
o Natural Language Processing
o Neural Networks
o Fuzzy Systems
o Machine Vision and Image Processing
o Signal and Voice Processing
o Pattern Recognition
o Robotics
o Data Mining
o Special Topics in Soft Computing and Artificial Intelligence

• Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Symposium

o Parallel and Distributed Processing
o Network Protocols
o Data Communication
o Network Security
o Next Generation Networks
o Internet, Grid, and Cluster Computing
o Wireless, Ad Hoc, and Sensor Networks
o Modeling and Evaluation of Computer Networks
o Special Topics in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems

• Computer Architecture and Digital Systems Symposium

o Computer Architecture
o Arithmetic Systems
o Dependable and Fault-Tolerant Systems
o Testing of Digital Systems
o Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits
o Embedded and Real-time Systems
o Reconfigurable Systems
o Special Topics in Computer Architecture and Digital Systems