ICTer2014
10th to 14th December 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka.


We are pleased to announce that this year’s International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer2014) will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 10th to 14th December 2014. ICTer2014 is co-sponsored by IEEE Sri Lanka Section and is the successor to the seminal International Information Technology Conference (IITC) held in Sri Lanka since 1998. It provides an ideal platform to the researchers and practitioners alike to showcase research and development activities carried out in ICT and CS domains. Proceedings of ICTer2014 will be published in both book and submitted to IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be invited for publication in the special issue of ICTer Journal (www.icter.org/journal). And from 2012, ICTer has been indexed by Thomson Reuters and the only Sri Lankan academic conference to have had the opportunity be indexed by Thomson Reuters.

The main conference will take place on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th December 2014 at BMICH, Colombo. In addition to the presentation of selected papers, several keynote addresses by leading personalities in the IT world will be made. The conference will also include pre-conference (10th) and post-conference (13th) high quality tutorials/workshops in areas of current interest in Information and Communication Technology. Among the social activities is a conference tour organized on 14th December.

ICTer2014 conference will focus on important problems and potential solutions in areas of ICT including but not limited to the following:

Wearable Computing and Internet of Things
Cyber Physical Systems
Smart Environments
Machine Learning for Big Data Analytics
IaaS, SaaS, PaaS and XaaS
ICT Applications in Bio Science, Transportation and the Public Sector
Cyber Security
Nature Inspired Computing
Multi-agent and Intelligent Systems
Web Ontologies and Semantics
3D Modeling and Simulation, Graphics and Augmented Reality
Natural Language Technology
Agile and Collaborative Software Development
ICT Enabled Education
E-Governance and ICT for Society

The organizing committee requests you to submit full papers of completed research and development or related projects including cutting-edge technology deployment work or abstracts of ongoing research work in ICT with a significant component of achievement for consideration for presentation. All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international review committee. Accepted submissions will be invited to be presented at the conference either as full or short presentations or as posters.