The Eighth International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST 2018) will be held in
Cordoba, Granada, and Seville, three pearls of Andalusia in Spain during June 30-July 6, 2018, following
the successes of previous events. ICIST 2018 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists,
engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of research and applications in related fields. The
conference will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad
coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics.
Call for Papers and Special Sessions
Prospective authors are invited to contribute high-quality papers to ICIST2018. In addition, proposals for
special sessions within the technical scopes of the conference are solicited. Special sessions, to be organized
by internationally recognized experts, aim to bring together researchers in special focused topics. Papers
submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the contributed papers.
Researchers interested in organizing special sessions are invited to submit formal proposals to ICIST2018.
A special session proposal should include the session title, a brief description of the scope and motivation,
names, contact information and brief biographical information on the organizers.
Topic Areas
Topics of contributing papers include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Computer Science and Engineering
Computer networks, computer vision, pattern recognition, virtual, reality, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing,
artificial intelligence, computer graphics, big data, and cloud computing, data base management systems, mobile agent computing, quality
of services and communication protocol, mobile computing for e-commerce, cryptography and information security, scientific and
engineering computing, hybrid computational methods, data visualization and virtual reality, web- and grid-based computing and
simulation, possibility theory, Bayes network and hidden Markov models, computational intelligence, granular computing
Control and Automation
Autonomous systems, linear and nonlinear control, robust control, learning and adaptive control, intelligent control, optimization-based
and optimal control, model predictive control, fault detection and identification, hybrid intelligent systems, neural control, fuzzy logic
control, networked control, industrial automation, process control, robot control, mechatronic systems, vehicle control systems,
intelligent transportation systems, environmental monitoring and control, intelligent manufacturing systems, microprocessor-based control,
motor control, power control, vehicle control, aerospace control applications.
Signal Processing and Telecommunications
Adaptive filtering & signal processing, audio/speech processing and coding, compressive sensing and sparse representation, higher-order
spectral analysis, nonlinear & blind signal processing, neural signal processing, component analysis, array signal processing, parallel and
distributed processing, time series analysis, multimedia signal processing, design and implementation of signal processing systems, DSP
Implementations and embedded systems, image and multidimensional signal processing, image processing & understanding, multimedia
communications, next generation wireless/wireline communications, communication signal processing, modulation and channel coding,
network coding, sensor networks
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering
Micro-array data analysis, gene regulation, network, and pathway analysis, identification and classification of genes, protein structure
prediction, next-generation sequencing and metagenomics, protein, DNA/RNA structure, function, and interactions, functional genomics
and proteomics, molecular evolution and phylogeny, neuroinformatics, brain-computer interface, clinical engineering, rehabilitation
engineering, neural engineering, biomedical signal analysis and modeling, bio-imaging, sensing, and data fusion, biomarker discovery,
healthcare data acquisition, analysis, and modeling, biomedical data knowledge extraction, biomedical data integration, modeling, and
preprocessing, biological data mining, knowledge sharing, visualization, and knowledge utilization, biomedical data mining systems and
computing platforms, electronic health record acquisition, analysis, and decision support, high performance computing for biomedical data
analysis, smart clinical diagnosis and decision systems
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (8 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the
online submission system. Special session organizers are also invited to enlist six or more papers with
cohesive topics to form special sessions. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has
not been submitted under review or is not copyright-protected elsewhere and will be presented by an author
if accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality,
significance, quality, and clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise their
papers and take consideration of the referees' comments and suggestions. The Proceedings has been
contracted to be included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library and will be submitted for EI indexing.