ICICT 2014, the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies is a major interdisciplinary international conference to be held in Kochi, India, during 3-5 December 2014. The proceedings of ICICT 2014 will be published in Elsevier’s Procedia Computer Science [Confirmed] and is indexed by Scopus and Thomson Reuters CPCI index. The publication will be made available on sciencedirect dot com in perpetuity with a free access to the worldwide audience. ICICT 2014 invites research findings in the following topics:

CONFERENCE TOPICS

A. Intelligent Methods and Applications:
Decision Support Systems, Fuzzy systems and applications, Knowledge representation techniques , Artificial Neural Networks, Evolutionary algorithms, Genetic algorithms, Support Vector Machines, Rough sets, statistical methods and soft computing techniques, Autonomous Agents , Human-Machine Interfaces , Natural Language Processing, Image Processing, Signal, Speech and Video processing, Wearable Computing, Bio-informatics and Biochips.

B. Internet Based Systems:
Information retrieval and Search Engines, Database systems, Ontology, XML data, Data mining, Clustering, Cloud based systems, Big Data Analytics, Hadoop and Map Reduce techniques, Social media and networks, e-learning, e-commerce, e-business, e-finance, Key management and trust establishment, network and data security, Internet of Things.

C. Software Engineering:
Autonomic Requirements engineering, Software Design, Reuse, Evolution, Maintenance, Automated software Testing, Cloud/Service-oriented architectures, Mobile architectures, Reengineering and reverse engineering, Software metrics, Program comprehension , Model-driven software engineering, Advanced Software design techniques, Distributed, web-based and internet-scale SE.

D. Innovative Networking and Communication Techniques:
Cognitive networking , Protocol design, including cross-layer and opportunistic approaches., Delay tolerant networks, Routing Mobility management and seamless internetworking, Wireless and Ad-hoc networks, Networked smartphone applications, Mobile/digital communication, Antennas and Microwave, Optical Communication, Power-aware architectures, algorithms, and protocols design, QoS and Resource management, Reliability, resiliency and fault tolerance techniques, Vehicular networks, Coexistence of heterogeneous wireless networks.

E. Devices & Systems:
Analog, Digital and Mixed Circuit Design, VLSI, Application Specific Architectures, Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems, Advanced Computer Architectures, DSP architectures, MEMS and Nano-Electronic Devices, Sensors and Applications, Industrial Automation and Robotics, e-waste and Green Manufacturing, Industrial Applications, Technology and Industrial Management.

VENUE

ICICT 2014 is to be held at Kochi. ICICT 2014 is organized by School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India, with the support from TEQIP Phase II.

More details of ICICT 2014 are available at the conference web site

http://icict.cusat.ac.in/