The NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS) is a series of scientific activities supported by the National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) to build a durable, innovative and conducive environment for research activities at universities and institutes, improve the research ability of young scientists and establish research groups that meet international standards. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from Vietnam and overseas in an academic forum to present and discuss recent advancements and future directions in the field of information and computer science. NICS 2017 will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam during November 24-25, 2017, sponsored by IEEE, and hosted by University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM
The conference program will run for two days with the regular tracks, special sessions. For the tracks and special sessions, we invite you to contribute your original work on topics in the following, but not limited to, areas:

Foundations of Computer Science
-Theory of computation
-Algorithms and data structures
-Programming language theory
-Applied computer science
-Computer security and cryptography
-Computational science
-Concurrent, parallel and distributed systems
-Health informatics

Computational Intelligence
-Language and speech processing
-Soft computing
-Computer vision
-Bioinformatics
-Knowledge discovery
-Data mining
-Machine learning
-Computational biology
-Agent-based systems
-Semantic web
-Information extraction and retrieval
-Natural Language Processing

Software Engineering and Information Systems
-Software development methods
-Software system modeling
-Component-based, model-driven, grid-based, automated software engineering
-Open source software development
-Software process, testing and verification
-Embedded system testing and verification
-Multi-core programming
-Real-time systems
-Web services
-Human-computer interface and interaction

Communication and Networking
-Wireless Communications
-Signal Processing for Communications
-Network architecture
-Network protocols and security
-Parallel and distributed computing
-Grid computing
-Cloud computing
-Mobile and ubiquitous computing
-Quantum communications
-Network Security

Multimedia
- Multimedia content analysis
- Multimedia activity and event understanding
- Multimedia search and retrieval
- Image/video coding and compression
- Multimedia signal processing and enhancement

Special Sessions
- LSI design and IoT Applications

DEADLINE
Manuscript submission: June 30, 2017
Notification of acceptance: Aug 15, 2017
Camera-ready submission: Sep 1, 2017

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit papers of up to 6 pages, written in English, in PDF format and compliant with the IEEE standard (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). The proceedings will be published by IEEE and be available at the conference. All papers must be original contributions and not previously published, nor currently under consideration, for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted through the EDAS conference submission system at https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23672.

We highly encourage all researchers supported by NAFOSTED to submit high-quality papers to the NICS conference!