IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (IEEE SPICES 2015)
An International Conference by IEEE Kerala Section and National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC)
Date: February 19-21, 2015
Venue: National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC), Kozhikode(Calicut), India
Conf. URL: http://ieeespices.org

We cordially invite you to submit your recent research papers to the International Conference on “Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (SPICES)” to be held at Kozhikode, Kerala, India. It is intended to be a forum for technical exchange amongst researchers from academia, research laboratories, and industries in various emerging fields of Signal Processing, Communication, Computer Science, Power Systems, Power Electronics and Control Systems spanning across six tracks. The technical program includes keynote lectures, plenary lectures, regular technical sessions, and special sessions.

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Important Dates

Last date for paper submission : September 30, 2014
Acceptance notification : November 15, 2014
Last date for camera ready copy submission : December 15, 2014
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The conference will be conducted in six parallel tracks. Topics of interest in each track include, but not limited to, the following:

Track 1: Communication & Networking: Antennas and propagation, Cross-layer designs, Cognitive radio systems and networking, Green communication, Distributed resource allocation and scheduling, Mobile ad-hoc networks, Modulation, Coding and Diversity, Multicarrier Communication Systems, Next generation networking and wireless systems, Routing protocols and QoS scheduling, Cooperative communications, Secure communications and Cryptography, Space-Time Codes, MIMO and Adaptive antennas, Underwater wireless communications

Track 2: Signal Processing: Audio, Speech, Image & Video signal processing, Signal processing for communications, Sparse signal processing, Human-computer interfaces, Remote sensing, Array processing, Multidimensional signal processing, Wavelets and Filter banks, VLSI signal processing systems., Non-linear and Biomedical Signal Processing, Learning theory and Pattern recognition

Track 3: Power System & Power Electronics: Distributed generation, Microgrid and Smart grid, Power system modeling and simulation, Power system planning and operation, Power quality and FACTS Technologies, Energy conversion techniques, Power electronics and Drives, Modeling, Simulation and Control of power converters, Power converters for Renewable Energy Systems, Power semiconductor switches and soft switching, DC/DC converters

Track 4: Instrumentation & Control: Adaptive/Robust systems and control, Aerospace / Flight Control and Surveillance systems, Biomedical instrumentation and control, Emerging control theory and applications, Fractional order systems and control, Hybrid systems, Intelligent control and instrumentation, Process control and industrial automation, Robotics and automation, Sensors and instrumentation systems

Track 5: Theoretical Computer Science & Software Systems: Algorithmic information theory, Computability theory , Cryptography , Theory of computation, Analysis of algorithms, Mathematical logic and Formal languages , Type theory, Compilers, Programming languages, Operating systems, Database systems, Computer architecture, Computer networks, and Information security

Track 6: Applied Computing & Big Data: Image processing, Pattern recognition, Big data, Data mining, Artificial intelligence, Natural language processing, Computer vision, Computer graphics, Cloud computing, Distributed computing, Bioinformatics, Semantic web, Software engineering, Web technologies, E-Learning and E-Governance

Submission Guidelines:
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (maximum of 5 pages in IEEE conference template) in PDF format. The IEEE conference paper template can be downloaded from the link http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
All papers must include title, complete contact information of all the authors, abstract and key words on the first page. Papers are to be submitted through EDAS conference management system using the link http://edas.info/N18359. All the accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings and archived in IEEE Xplore digital library.

Please see the conference website http://ieeespices.org for more details.

Please Contact the following address for more enquiries:
IEEE SPICES Secretariat
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
National Institute of Technology Calicut
NIT Campus (PO), Calicut
Kerala State, India
PIN 673 601

Direct your questions to the Organizing Chairs, Sameer S. M. (sameer@nitc.ac.in), S. D. Madhukumar (madhu@nitc.ac.in) and Rijil Ramchand (rijil@nitc.ac.in) or to the Conference Secretariat (ieeespices@gmail.com)

Kind Regards,
Organizing Committee
IEEE SPICES- 2015