ICENCO'2008

Information technology forms the basis of an entirely new era in professional practice and delivery of services. The ICENCO conference is a major collaboration among researchers and practitioners around the world, to discuss the major new frontiers in the information technology area, and to present cutting edge research in various fields within that area. This year theme aims at peeking into the near future of information society technology advance. Authors are kindly encouraged to include one paragraph along with their submissions as to show the impact of their work on existing IT related applications. Topics covered include but are not limited to:

1. Machine Intelligence and Web Applications

Intelligent Agents, web mining, neural networks, computational intelligence, cooperative systems and rough set theory, Internet services and applications, wireless internet applications for distance education, e-commerce, e-government, security, adaptive human-computer interfaces, search engines, distributed databases and smart cards.

2. Communications and Computer Networks

Wireless, cellular and mobile communications, ad hoc networks, high performance networking, intelligent networks, network design, control and optimization of communication systems, network reliability and quality of service, network analysis and management, optical systems, network security, and grid computing.

3. Signal and Image Processing

Multimedia signal processing, signal processing for wireless communications, RF and analog integrated circuits, speech, image and video processing, data and image compression, computer graphics, and visualization, and biomedical signal processing.

4. Computer Hardware and Embedded Systems

Computer Architecture design, microprocessors, VLSI, parallel and distributed processing, Embedded systems, and robotics.

5. Data and Software Engineering

Software requirements engineering, software architecture and design, software testing and analysis, software processes and workflows, reverse engineering and maintenance, software tools, Database integration and interoperability, query processing and optimization, data structures, data warehousing and data mining.

Full Paper submission starts by the first of February 2008 and ends August 31, 2008.

Acceptance notification will be sent within one month of the date of paper submission so that submitted papers by the first of February will receive notification by the first of March.

Authors are kindly requested to classify their submission into one of the above categories (1-5).

Important Dates: Submission Deadline: September 1, 2008. Conference Chair Samir Shaheen (Cairo U) Egypt.

Conference Co-Chair Nevin Darwish (Cairo U) Egypt

conference's website: http://www.icenco2008.eng.cu.edu.eg/