Conference Topics

Contributions related, but not limited, to the following topics of interest are welcome:

Communication theory
Communications switching and routing
Communications modeling
Communications security
Computer communications
Distributed communications
Signal processing in communications
Multimedia and multicast communications
Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks)
Next generation networks [NGN] principles
Storage area networks [SAN]
Access and home networks
High-speed networks
Optical networks
Peer-to-peer and overlay networking
Mobile networking and systems
MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks
GRID networks
Broadband networks
Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]
Reliability, availability, serviceabiliy [RAS]
Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring
Voice over IP services
Performance evaluation, tools, simulation
Network, control and service architectures
Network signalling, pricing and billing
Network middleware
Telecommunication networks architectures
On-demand networks, utility computing architectures
Applications and case studies
NGN protocol design and evaluation
NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3GPP, IETF, etc]
NGN Device Instrumentation
Network Management, scheduling and policy
NGN policy-based control
Networks policy-based management
Management of autonomic networks and systems
Vehicular Networks
Systems design methodologies and techniques
Formal methods to specify systems’ behavior
Online and offline systems
Open and closed systems
Centralized and distributed systems
Proactive and reactive systems
System robustness
Systems scalability
Fault-tolerant systems
Feedback systems
High-speed systems
Delay tolerant systems
Real-time systems
Systems requirements
Systems modeling
Systems development lifecycle
System-of-systems
Systems ergonomics
Subsystem interactions
Systems decomposition
Systems integration
Metering embedded sensors
Composing multi-scale measurements
Monitoring instrumentation
Smart sensor-based systems
Calibration and self-calibration systems
Instrumentation for prediction systems
Real-time embedded systems Programming embedded systems
Controlling embedded systems
High speed embedded systems
Designing methodologies for embedded systems
Performance on embedded systems
Updating embedded systems
Wireless/wired design of systems-on-the-chip
Testing embedded systems
Technologies for systems processors
Migration to single-chip systems
Micro/nano structures and systems
Information systems
Real-time systems
Software systems
Hardware systems
Emulation systems
Simulation systems Prediction systems
Sensor-based systems
Biometrics systems
Mobile and fixed systems
Ubiquitous systems
Nano-technology-based systems
Multimedia systems
Diagnosis assistance systems
Test systems
Validation systems
Performance measurement systems
Maintenance systems
Security systems
Vulnerability detecting systems
Intrusion detection systems Intrusion avoidance systems
Presence detection systems
Monitoring systems
Management systems
Alert systems
Defense systems
Emergency systems
Expert systems
Tutoring systems
Highly interactive systems
Anticipative systems
On-demand systems
GRID systems
Autonomic systems
Autonomous systems
Self-adapting systems
Adjustable autonomic systems
High performance computing systems
Mission critical systems
Web-cashing systems
Content-distributed systems
Accounting and billing systems
E-Health systems
E-Commerce systems
Radar systems
Navigation systems
Systems for measuring physical quantities
Earthquake detection and ranking systems
Financial systems
Robotics systems
Vehicular systems
Entertainment systems
Gaming systems
Speech recognition system: Fundamentals on system safety
Safety of software systems and software engineering
Safety requirements
Safety for critical systems
Engineering for system robustness and reliability
Control of mission critical systems
Safety-oriented system design
Human tasks and error models
Hazard analysis
Cost and effectiveness of system safety
Verification and validation of safety
Safety tools
Evaluation of safety data, and mitigation and prevention strategies
Safety control and management
System Safety Implementation Guidelines and Standards
Transferring safety knowledge
Metrics for Risk Assessment
Contingency Planning and Occurrence Reporting
Preparedness Activities
Industry specific safety systems (Medical devices, Aerospace, Chemical industry, Nuclear power plants, Public health, Biological Safety): Theory of complex systems
Ontologies for complex systems
Chaos and complexity
Design and integrate complex systems
Complexity and simulation
Simulation and datamining
Artificial intelligence and soft computing in complex systems
Multi-agent based simulation
Systems of systems
Intelligent agent architectures
Evolutionary programming
Uncertainty reduction and classification
Monitoring and managing complex systems
Case studies of complex systems [vehicular, avionic, health, emergency, sensing, etc.]
Industrial systems [robotics, production, accounting and billing, e-commerce, etc.]
Mobility (IEEE 802.11 standards, engineering, smart devices)
Mobile communications
Hardware/software systems for mobile communications
Evolution from 3G to 4G and beyond
Mobile networking
Wireless networking
Wireless access (WPAN, WLAN, WLL)
Mobile IP, VoIP, IPTV, etc.
Satellite technologies for e-learning
Next generation of mobile technology
User-oriented device interfaces
Adaptable student/device interaction
Wearable devices: Architecture of learning technology systems
Informal learning
Formal/informal exploratory and serendipitous learning
Advanced uses of multimedia and hypermedia
Integrated learning and educational environments
Remote and wireless teaching technologies
Anytime/anywhere e-learning and wearable network devices
Adaptive e-learning and intelligent applications/tools
Agents technology
Intelligent tutoring systems
Training e-learning teachers
Practical uses of authoring tools
Application of metadata and virtual reality: eL&mL learning tools (basic infrastructure, content management, cross-media publishing, social & cooperative learning, lecture recording)
Tools and architectures for mobile/ubiquitous e-learning
SOA for e-learning
Web 2.0 and social computing for learning
Ontologies and semantic Web standards for e-learning
Adaptive and personalized educational hypermedia
Peer-to-Peer learning applications
Social software for collaborative learning
Socially intelligent agents
e-Learning platforms, portals and virtual learning environments
Embedded systems education
Wearable computers and education
Multimedia environment for teaching
Web-based learning, including Wikis and Blogs
Learning content management systems:
Content engineering (authoring, standards, metadata, process models)
Internet based systems
Navigational aspects for on-line learning
Virtual spaces for learning communities
Internet supported ubiquitous learning
Mobile eLearning applications
Pervasive eLearning scenarios
Multi-agent technology applications in Web-based education
Semantic social networks
Community discovering in social learning systems
Social structure exploitation in e-learning
Advanced teaching and learning technologies for mobile learners
Advanced software and hardware systems for mobile learning and teaching
Virtual mobile learning environments
Adaptive learning strategies Advanced curriculum and courseware for mobile learning and training
Security issues of mobile learning
Learning management systems for mobile learning
Ontologies and pedagogical models
Testing, assessment and quality issues of mobile learning
Faculty and professional development on mobile teaching and learning Infrastructure, administrative and organizational issue of mobile learning
Applications of mobile technology in open, distance, and corporate education
National and international projects, strategies, and policies on mobile learning
Didactics of eL&mL (informal learning, ambient and augmented learning, cooperative learning)
Teacher-centric and student-centric approaches
Self-learning integrated methodology
Learner autonomy
Interactive hybrid learning
Assessment strategy for hybrid learning
Collaborative learning/groupware
Content management for hybrid learning
Digital libraries for hybrid learning
Effective content development experiences in hybrid
earning
Improved flexibility of learning process
Institutional policies
Instructional design issues
Organizational framework for hybrid learning
Outcome based teaching and learning
Pedagogical issues
Tutoring eLearning applications and services
Teaching eLearning methodologies and technologies
National and international projects on e-learning
e-Learning industry and universities programs
Application of instructional design theories
Reflection in learning software and hardware
Social impact metrics on distance learning
Methodologies and processes for education
Curriculum projects and experiences
Educating the educators
Simulated communities
Online mentoring
Cultural, social, and gender issues
Personalization
Corporate training
Organization of eL&mL (quality management, learning networks)
Cost models for eLearning
E-market place for higher education
Evaluation of eLearning
Social benefits of eLearning
e-Learning effectiveness and outcomes
Global trends in eLearning
National/international strategies
Evaluation of learning technology systems
Emerging and best practices
Managing quality in eLearning
Standards related activities
Foundations and architectures
Design features (data quality, performance, robustness, scalability, security, privacy, parallel and distributed approaches, mobility, etc.)
Data quality, data structures, and data modeling
Advanced indexing methods
Advanced ranking algorithms and uncertainty
Physical organization and performance
Federated choreographies
Temporal conformance
Evolutionary clustering and dynamic hierarchical clustering
Databases and other domains
Leading-edge database technology and applications
Heterogeneous databases interoperability and mediation
Databases and Web services
Databases and artificial intelligence
Databases and agents
Advances in database management systems
Advanced transaction and workflow management
Advances on XML and databases
Self-managing databases
Mobile databases
Database access
Embedded databases
Very large scale databases
Spatial and spatio-temporal databases
Data warehousing
Multimedia databases
Semantic databases
Data integration resources on the Internet
Object-oriented databases
Web-based databases
Deductive and active databases
Databases content processing
Mining for complex data
Mining for text, video, and pictures
Knowledge discovery and classification
Process mining
Scalable data extraction
Query processing and optimization
Query rewrite rules
Navigational path expressions
Load-balancing in accessing distributed databases
Incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty
Storage and replication
Patterns and similarities in data streams
Fast matching
Multiple views
Knowledge and decision bases Knowledge representation and management
Knowledge discovery (business intelligence)
Semantic information
Ontology and advanced knowledge search
Heuristics and meta-heuristics
Intelligent knowledge querying
Feature sampling and feature selection
Context-aware knowledge base
Blogs and social relationship search
Deductive reasoning
Reasoning databases
Ontology-based reasoning
Specifics on application domains databases Database applications in Life Sciences
Advanced database applications
Bioinformatics databases
Healthcare databases
Finance and marketing databases
Telecom databases
Geospatial databases
Census databases
Meteorological databases
Business intelligence databases
e-Business databases
XML-driven data, knowledge, databases
Data dissemination, distributed, processing, management
XML-data storage, exchange, compress, metadata
XML-data and metadata management
XML repositories
Knowledge discovery from XML repositories
XML-data processing queries, indexing, management, retrieval, mining
XML data and knowledge representation, discovery, mining, orchestration
XML-data in advances environments clouds, P2P, multimedia, mobile, finance, biotechnologies, geospatial, space
XML-data and process data warehouse, workflow, web, learning, control
Data privacy
Privacy models
Privacy metrics
Privacy preservation
Watermarking
Data Hiding
Background knowledge
Privacy data streams, social networks, databases, semantic web
Privacy mechanisms cryptography, privacy-aware access control, generalization-based algoritm, perturbation-based algorithm, preservation, sequental releases
Practical studies privacy leaking, privacy breach, threats to privacy, privacy in outsourcing
Data quality and uncertainty
Models, frameworks, methodologies and metrics for data quality
Quality of complex data documents, semi-structured data, XMLs, multimedia data, graphs, bio-sequences
Uncertain and noisy data
Uncertain data representation
Processing uncertain data querying, indexing, mining
Mining uncertain dataprobabilistic, spatially- and temporally- uncertain, uncertain streams Data lineage and provenance
Data profiling and measurement
Data integration, linkage and fusion
D uplicate detection and consistency checking
D ata mining and data quality assessment
Quality methods and algorithms data transformation, reconciliation, consolidation, extraction, cleansing
User perception on data quality and cleansing
Data querry, access, mining, and correlation
Data access technologies, Query optimisation, Discovering multi-modal correlations
Mining structural data from non-structural mixed-media documents
Data stream mining frequent patterns, bursty event detection
Profile mining
Corelation and anomaly in multi-modal-data social networks, web traffic logs, sale transactions
Information retrieval on a mixed collections
Multimedia data mining
Data mining system for medical multimedia data
Contents-based imagevideo retrieval systems
Data and process provenance
Provenance architectures and algorithms
Provenance modelling
Information management for provenance data
Provenance ontology and semantic
Provenance querying
Provenance annotation
Security, trust, and privacy for provenance information
Case studies and practice
Reasoning over provenance
Provenance analytics, mining and visualization
Data management
Distributed Query Languages
Query processing and optimization
Adaptive query processing
Management of mobile data
Managing data privacy and security
Data storage and management
Data stream systems
Data locating
Data warehouse management
Management of dynamic data
Workload adaptability
Transaction management
Performance evaluation and benchmarking or data management