International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT) is a premier international forum for high quality research in the areas of Information Technology. The 13th ICIT, ICIT-2014 is being jointly organized by the Orissa Information Technology Society (http://www.oits.org) and Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India (http://www.silicon.ac.in). Researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry are invited to present their research findings on various topics of IT and its applications.

ICIT-2014 encourages submissions in all the areas of information technology. However, the papers in the following 7 tracks will be primary focus of ICIT-2014:

1)Sequential, Parallel and Distributed Computing (SPD): Analysis and Design of exact and approximation algorithms, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Load balancing and partitioning, Cloud Computing, Parallel and Distributed algorithms in Data Mining.
2)Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB): Novel applications in Bioinformatics, Data Mining and Statistical Modeling of biological data, Visualization of Biological Processes and Data, Management, Migration and Integration of Biological Databases, Biological Database search, indexing and access.
3)Communication Networks and Protocols (CNP): Broadband Multimedia Communications, Wireless Ad hoc/ Sensor Networks, Wireless and Mobile Communications, Emerging Information Technology Networks, Vehicular ad-hoc network, Optical Fiber/ Microwave communication, Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks, Energy- and power-aware communication.
4)Language Processing and Industry Applications (LPA) : Character recognition, text to speech conversion, speech synthesis, Signal and Image Processing, requirements engineering, human-computer interface, software testing, real time software, Web services, search engine design, page ranking algorithms, web-page prediction, ontology, agent technology, crawler design, Multimedia Systems and Applications.
5)Information Security, Content Protection, and Digital Rights Management (DRM): Watermarking, Steganography, Cryptography, Biometrics, Digital Libraries, Network Security, Computer Security, Ontologies and Reasoning, Applications of Semantic Web and Linked Data, Semantic Web Architecture Social Semantic Web, Biometric Authentication.
6)Databases, Information Warehousing and Data Mining (DWM): Intelligent Databases, Query and Constraint-based Data Mining, Mining Spatial and Temporal Data, Mining of Data Streams, Feature Extraction, Collaborative filtering/personalization, Cost-based Decision making, Visual Data Mining, Privacy Sensitive Data Mining, graph Data mining, Metadata and Meta modeling.
7)Application Specific Software and Hardware Systems (ASH): Embedded Information Systems, Hardware/Software/Firmware issues, Nanotechnology and Applications, Quantum Information Processing, application specific systems, hardware design, electronic design automation, network-on-a-chip.

PAPER SUBMISSION: Manuscripts offering high quality original and unpublished research, case studies and implementations are solicited. The manuscripts need to be formatted as a double column conference format. The maximum length of the manuscript needs to be of 6-pages. All submitted papers will undergo DOUBLE-blind-review by the program committee. Authors need to prevent identity disclosure by: (1) not listing names and affiliations of the authors on the manuscript, (2) not saying "my work" or "our work" in the text while citing self-references, and (3) not writing acknowledgments in such a way that identity of authors are implied. Author information should only be included in the submission form. Manuscripts not following this requirement or exceeding 6-page length will be rejected without review. Authors need to submit a single pdf file of their manuscripts at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icit2014. ICIT 2014 will follow strict no-show policy, i.e. an accepted paper needs to be registered and presented, and otherwise the paper will be removed from the proceedings.

Important Deadlines
Paper Submission: 25th June, 2014
Authors Notification: 25th August, 2014
Camera Ready and Registration: 8th September, 2014

Organizing Committee
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General Chairs:
Saraju P. Mohanty, University of North Texas, USA
R. K. Patnaik, Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar

Program Chairs:
Mahadevan Gomathisankaran, University of North Texas, USA
B. S. Panda, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi

Publication Chairs:
Prasun Ghosal, Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology, Shibpur
Niranjan Ray, Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar

Finance Chairs:
Ajit K. Behera, Orissa Information Technology Society (OITS)
Rudra Mohan Tripathy, Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar

Web Chair:
Umasankar Das, Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar

Publicity Chairs:
Souvik Ray, ShareThis Inc., USA
Shanq-Jang Ruan, National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Taiwan
Bijan Bihari Mishra, Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar

Local Arrangement Chairs:
Dipak K. Misra, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar
Ashok K. Tripathy, Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar

Registration Chairs:
Debasmita Pradhan and Debabrata Kar
Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar

Advisors
S. P. Misra, Orissa Information Technology Society
S. Padhy, The Institute of Mathematics and Applications (IMA) Bhubaneswar
Durga Mishra, New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, USA
Prasant Mohapatra, University of California Davis, USA
L. N. Bhuyan, University of California Riverside, USA
Srikanth Sundararajan, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar
B. K. Das, NM Institute of Engineering & Technology (NMEIT), New Delhi
Debatosh Guha, IEEE Kolkata Section

Patrons
N. Gour Dhall, S. K. Nayak, and R. Mishra
Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar


Technical Program Committee
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Track - Sequential, Parallel and Distributed Computing (SPD)
Nabanita Das (Track Chair), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), India

Track - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB)
Ananth Kalyanaraman (Track Chair), Washington State University, USA

Track - Communication Networks and Protocols (CNP)
Bighnaraj Panigrahi (Track Chair), TCS Innovation Labs, Bangalore, India

Track - Language Processing and Industry Applications (LPA)
Niladri Chatterjee (Track Chair), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Track - Information Security, Content Protection, and Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Sriram Chellppan (Track Chair), Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Track - Databases, Information Warehousing and Data Mining (DWM)
Prashant Kumar Patra (Track Chair), College of Engineering & Technology Bhubaneswar, India

Track - Application Specific Software and Hardware Systems (ASH)
B. Venkataramani (Track Chair), National Institute of Technology Trichy, India