FIT 2009, commencing on 16th December 2009 for three days, promises to be another exciting event that will broaden the research horizons by providing international research collaborations. FIT 2009 will have the honor to host leading IT researchers not only from Pakistan but also from rest of the world. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following;

* Communication and Networking
* IT Security
* Internet Governance
* Grid Computing
* Artificial Intelligence
* Software Engineering
* Computational Science
* Computer Graphics
* Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
* Natural Language Processing
* Semantic Web and Intelligent Agents
* Distributed and Grid Computing
* Machine Intelligence

The proceedings will be included in the ACM digital library (ISBN 978-1-60558-642-7). The extended versions of the selected papers will be published in the following journals;

* International Journal of Arts and Technology, Inderscience Publisher
* International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing (IJCVIP), IGI Global
* Journal of Software, Academy Publisher
* The International Journal of Computer Graphics and CAD/CAM, International Scientific Publishers
* The International Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications, Hindawi Publishing Corporation
* The International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, International Scientific Publishers
* Transaction on Computational Science, Springer

IT researchers and practitioners with interest in any of the above stated research areas are invited to submit their original unpublished work as per ACM format latest by July 31, 2009. Submitted paper will go through intensive peer review process on the criteria of originality and relevance of work.

Important Dates
Draft Paper: July 31, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2009
Camera Ready Copy: October 10, 2009
Conference: December 16-18, 2009