Six research areas

Find the right home for your paper.

The topics below are indicative rather than exhaustive. Authors should select the track that most closely matches the primary contribution of their work.

Digital learning and services illustration

Track 01 · Previously IC3e

e-Learning, e-Management and e-Services

  • Technologies and platforms
  • Technology architecture, infrastructure, and portals
  • Authoring and content-management tools
  • Delivery and ethical issues
  • Security, privacy, and trust
  • Future issues and trends
  • Pedagogical models and strategies
  • Evaluation and effectiveness models
  • New and innovative business models
  • Issues and opportunities in e-Government
  • Industry applications including e-Health and e-Banking
Graphics and interactive media illustration

Track 02 · Previously GAME

Graphic and Interactive Media

  • Animation
  • Computational imaging
  • Computer games and gamification
  • Computer graphics applications
  • Computer vision
  • Data visualisation and simulation
  • Display technology
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Image processing
  • Rendering and modelling
  • Virtual and augmented reality
Open computing systems illustration

Track 03 · Previously ICOS

Open Systems

  • Smart, adaptive, and intelligent open-systems technologies
  • Cloud, edge, and fog computing
  • Software requirements engineering for open systems
  • Critical-systems specification and integration
  • Software testing and analysis
  • Open-systems development processes and paradigms
  • Usability, scalability, maintainability, and quality
  • Open-systems applications and evaluation
  • Standards and infrastructure
  • Business models, strategies, and innovation in open systems
Big data analytics illustration

Track 04 · Previously ICBDA

Big Data Analytics

  • Novel theoretical and computational models
  • Frameworks for data understanding and quality
  • New data standards and programming models
  • Infrastructure, architecture, and platforms
  • Big-data management and applications
  • Algorithms and techniques for real-world applications
  • Visualisation analytics
  • Multimedia and multi-structured data
  • City-scale data mining and machine learning
  • Issues, problems, and opportunities in big data
Networking and cybersecurity illustration

Track 05 · Previously AINS

Networking and Information Security

  • Security models and protocols
  • Application and software security
  • Platform and operating-system security
  • Cryptography and identity management
  • Security in IR 4.0, including cloud, IoT, and blockchain
  • Cyber-threat intelligence and digital forensics
  • Intrusion detection, firewalls, and packet filtering
  • Malware and anti-malware
  • Information theft, data leakage, and privacy
  • Security management, business continuity, and disaster recovery
Wireless and sensor networks illustration

Track 06 · Previously ICWiSe

Wireless, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

  • IoT wireless networking
  • Software-defined mobile and wireless networks
  • Routing and congestion in wireless networks
  • Performance analysis and protocol simulation
  • Architectures, protocols, and algorithms
  • Resource allocation, services, QoS, and fault tolerance
  • Self-configuring and self-healing intelligent networks
  • Deployments and implementations
  • Evaluation and deployment in real-world scenarios
  • Sensor and systems applications