2016 Conference on Computing, Analytics and Security Trends (CAST)

To ensure complete coverage of the advances in the field of computing, topics of interests include the following areas but, are not limited to:

TRACK 1: DATA ANALYTICS, BIG DATA AND BIOINFORMATICS

• Data Analytics Tools, Frameworks and Mechanisms

• Analytics Visualization, High-performance, Mechanisms and Features

• Scalable data analytics, Predictive analytics, Sentiment/opinion analysis, Application-oriented analytics, Target analytics

• Big Data Algorithms and Programming Techniques, Analytics and Metrics, Big Data Processing and Management, Search and Mining, Platforms, Big Data Persistence and Preservation, Social networks, Economics.

• NoSQL architectures

• Evolutionary Bioinformatics: Next Generation Sequencing and its applications, Structural Bioinformatics: Protein/RNA structure and function Emerging trends in Proteomics

• Systems biology in Bioinformatics: Microarray Data Analysis, Medical Informatics: Clinical data analysis, Electronic Health Records, biomedical intelligence

• Computational Biology: Biomedical text mining, Biological data mining and visualization, Genomics: Gene Expression Analysis, RNA sequencing, Genome Sequence Search and Alignment

• Health care information systems: data acquisition, analysis and mining

TRACK 2: INFORMATION SECURITY AND NETWORKING

• Access Control , Applied Cryptography, Biometrics, Certification and Audits, Data Outsourcing Security, Cryptographic Currencies, Cyber security, Data security and Privacy, Digital Cash and Payment Systems

• Electronic Commerce Security, Intrusion Detection Systems, Key Management, Trust Management, Usability and Security, Web Security, Systems Security

• Security in Parallel and Distributed Systems, Mobile Systems Security and Privacy, Social Networks Security and Privacy

• Protection, Integrity and Privacy, Security Applications for Big Data, cloud computing, Networking

• Network Applications, Services, QoS management, Cross-layer design, Network Architecture, Algorithms, Modeling and Evaluation, Energy-aware communication

• Wireless, Sensor and Actor Networks, Ad hoc and Opportunistic Networks, Vehicular Networks, Mobile Networks, Pervasive Computing

• Internet of Things (IoT), Multimedia and Real-Time Networking

• Software Defined Networking, Storage Area Networks

• Network Performance, Analysis and Evaluation

• Wearable Network and System

• Router and switch design

TRACK 3: DISTRIBUTED, PARALLEL AND CLOUD COMPUTING

• Analysis and Design of Parallel and Distributed Algorithms

• Languages/Operating Systems for parallel processing

• GPGPU computing

• Architecture of parallel/distributed systems, Tools for parallel computing, Parallel (distributed) database systems, Networking aspects of parallel/distributed computing, Parallel/distributed scientific computing Applications

• High-performance computing Applications in molecular sciences

• Multimedia applications for parallel/distributed systems

• Grid networks, services and applications

• Distributed File Systems

• Hyper Scale/Hyper Converged Distributed Storage Design, Storage I/O Protocols

• Cloud as a Service, Cloud Infrastructure, Management and operations, Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Virtualization, loud Provisioning Orchestration, Architecture support, Development Tools, Platforms and Applications, Legal aspects and Service Level Agreement, Mobile computing advances in the Cloud, Performance optimization

TRACK 4: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

• NL-based representations and knowledge systems, Syntax and Semantics, NL understanding and generation, Language Models

• Co-reference Resolution

• Word Sense Disambiguation

• Text Cohesion and Coherence

• NL-based Human-Computer Interaction and machine translation

• NL in Learning Environments

• Standardization, Language Resources, Corpora Building and Annotation Languages

• Semantic Web, Ontologies, Reasoning

• Machine Learning applied to NL problems

• Language-oriented information retrieval

• Language-oriented question answering, summarization and information extraction

• Electronic dictionaries

• Text mining

• Information and knowledge structures

• Information retrieval systems

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

• Knowledge acquisition

• Knowledge and information extraction and discovery techniques

• Knowledge classification tools

• Knowledge and information management techniques

• Knowledge extraction from images/pictures

• Knowledge mining

TRACK 5: SIGNAL PROCESSING, MULTIMEDIA AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

• Image and Video Processing

• Speech and Audio Signal Processing

• Biomedical Signal Processing

• Biometric Security

• Remote Sensing and Satellite Image Processing

• Pattern Matching and Computer Vision

• Multimedia Communication

• Multimedia Security

• Re-Configurable Computing

• Embedded System Application

• Internet of Things and Embedded Systems

TRACK 6: GREEN COMPUTING AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS

• Green Computing infrastructure, Energy efficient networking, communication and protocols, Energy efficiency in data centers and large-scale data processing, Measurement and modeling of energy consumption, Using IT to reduce carbon emissions

• Smart Energy metering infrastructure and technologies, Smart Grid and Micro-grids, Applications, Data fusion, Mining and Modeling

• Smart sensing systems, Smart city, Smart buildings

• Green design, Green datacenters