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CFP: The NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS)
September 16-18, 2015, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
www.nafosted-nics.org
Hosted by Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT)
Technically sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Vietnam Section
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The NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS) is a series of scientific activities supported by the National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) to build a durable, innovative and conducive environment for research activities at universities and institutes, improve the research ability of young scientists and establish research groups that meet international standards. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from Vietnam and overseas in an academic forum to present and discuss recent advancements and future directions in the field of information and computer science. NICS 2015 will be held at Ho Chi Minh City during September 16-18, 2015 and hosted by Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology.

***Important Dates***
- Manuscript submission: March 15, 2015
- Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2015
- Camera-ready submission: July 30, 2015

***Submission Guidelines***
Authors are invited to submit papers of up to 6 pages, written in English, in PDF format and compliant with the IEEE standard (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). All papers must be original contributions and not previously published, nor currently under consideration, for publication elsewhere.
Papers should be submitted through the EDAS conference submission system at http://edas.info/N19343

Submitted papers (for both regular and special sessions) are subject to a blind reviewed process handled by an international technical program committee. An author of an accepted paper must be registered at full rate (member or non-member of the IEEE) prior to uploading the camera-ready version. The maximum length of the camera-ready version is 6 pages. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEExplore Digital Library. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference.

***Post-Conference Publication
We are planning to edit special issues after NICS'15 in the following journals:
1. Int. J. of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (World Scientific, SCI-E)
link: http://www.worldscientific.com/page/ijseke/abstracted-indexed
2. Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier, SCI-E)
link: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-network-and-computer-applications/
3. Vietnam Journal of Computer Science (Springer)
link: http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/journal/40595

The conference program will run for three days with the regular tracks, tutorials and special sessions. For the tracks and special sessions, we invite you to contribute your original work on topics in the following, but not limited to, areas:
***Computer Science
- Theory of computation
- Algorithms and data structures
- Programming language theory
- Applied computer science
- Computer security and cryptography
- Computational science
- Concurrent, parallel and distributed systems
- Health informatics
***Computational Intelligence
Language and speech processing
- Soft computing
- Knowledge discovery
- Data mining
- Machine learning
- Computational biology
- Agent-based systems
- Semantic web
- Information extraction and retrieval
- Natural Language Processing
***Software Engineering
- Software development methods
- Software system modeling
- Component-based, model-driven, grid-based, automated software engineering
- Open source software development
- Software process, testing and verification
- Embedded system testing and verification
- Multi-core programming
- Real-time systems
- Web services
- Human-computer interface and interaction
***Communication and Networking
- Wireless Communications
- Signal Processing for Communications
- Network architecture
- Network protocols and security
- Parallel and distributed computing
- Grid computing
- Cloud computing
- Mobile and ubiquitous computing
- Quantum communications
- Network Security

***Organization Committee***
Steering Chairs:
- Tran Quoc Khanh, MOST
- Hoang Minh, PTIT

General Chairs
- Do Tien Dung, NAFOSTED
- Dang Quang A, Institute of Information Technology, VAST
- Tan Hanh, PTIT

Local Arrangement Chairs
- Tran Trung Duy, PTIT
Tutorial Chair
- Nguyen Van Duc, HUST
Workshop Chair
- Tu Minh Phuong, PTIT
Publication Chair
- Nguyen Quoc Dinh, Le Quy Don University
Finance Chair
- Pham Thi Dan Ngoc, PTIT

Program Chair
- Nguyen Ngoc Thanh, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Program Co-Chairs
- Le Hoai Bac, VNUHCM, Vietnam
- Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao, PTIT, Vietnam

Foundations of Computer Science
- Chair : Nguyen Xuan Hoai, Hanoi University, Vietnam
- Co-chair: Le Thi Hoai An, University of Lorraine, France

Software Engineering and Information Systems
- Chair : Nguyen Viet Ha, VNU Hanoi, Vietnam

Computational Intelligence
- Chair : Le Hoai Bac, VNUHCM, Vietnam
- Co-chairs: McKay Robert Ian, Seoul National University, Korea,
Hussein A.Abbass, University of New South Wales, Australia

Communication and Networking
- Chair : Tran Xuan Nam, Le Quy Don Technical University, Vietnam
- Co-chair: Nguyen H. Ha, University of Saskatchewan, Canada