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Call for Contributions

1 International Conference on Accessibility to Digital World

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ICADW-2016

December 16 December 18

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2016, Guwahati, India

www.icadw.org

Researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry are invited to present their research
findings on various topics of IT and its applications. Three types of submissions are solicited: regular papers,
short papers and poster papers. Regular and short papers will be published in IEEE Xplore (pending
approval) and indexed in the Scopus Database.
Conference Tracks:
ICADW encourages submissions in all the areas of information and Communication technology. However, the
papers in the following seven tracks will be the primary focus of the conference. The submissions in each
track could be on any of the topics listed, but are not limited to followings:
1.
ICT enabled services: ICT in Business Administration, Finance and Economy; ICT in Governance
and Government Policy Making; ICT in Education, Humanities, Social Sciences and Research; ICT
in Medicine and Health Care
2.
Bio informatics and its usability: 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.
Linguistic issues in multilingual setup: Corpora and Language Resources; Speech Recognition;
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech; Speech and Spoken Language Generation;
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech; Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing;
Automatic Dialogue Systems.
4.
ICT infrastructure in adverse scenario: Managing Big Data and Linked Open Data; Data
Analytics and Business Intelligence; Knowledge Models, Languages, and Representations;
Ontologies: Engineering, Alignment, and Evolution; Machine Learning and Reasoning Methods;
Service-Orientation and Large-scale Distributed Computing Cloud Computing; Model Driven
Architectures / Software Development; Infrastructures, Tools and Framework Conditions for
Cooperation and Knowledge Transfer; Advances in and Tools for Technology Enhanced Learning;
ICT Competence Design and Development; Infrastructures and Framework Conditions for ICT
Education.
5.
Signal processing and its applications: Array Signal Processing; Biomedical Systems;
Compressive Sensing; DSP Algorithms and Architectures; Detection and Estimation; Image/Video
Processing; Language Identification; Machine Learning; Pattern Recognition; Speech and Audio
Processing.
6.
Internet of Anything: Smart utility grids; Smart mass transportation; Smart buildings, factories &
homes; Smart medical technologies; Next-generation air traffic control; Robots and drones;
Advanced retail and commerce; Advanced vehicles; IoA and cloud computing; IoA and mobile
computing; IoA and big data analytics; IoA technological trends; IoA impact of policies, standards,
and regulations; Impact of IoA on IT industry and IT professionals; IoA education and training; IoA
case studies.
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Information security and privacy: Authentication, Access control and Authorization;
Accountability and Anonymity; Cloud and Distributed systems security; Computer and Cyber
Forensics; Hardware and Embedded systems security; Internet of Things Security and Privacy;
Intrusion detection and Malware analysis; Network and Systems security; Privacy technologies
and mechanisms; Security and privacy metrics and policies; Social Networks Analysis and
Security; Usable security and privacy.
Authors must submit their papers using the conference website on or before the submission deadline. All
papers will be reviewed for technical content and scope by a technical program committee. All accepted and
presented papers would be digitally archived through IEEE Xplore. The page limits are SIX pages for the long
paper track and THREE pages for the short paper track. Papers should be in PDF format, two columns, font
size 10 or greater and compliant with other IEEE manuscript guidelines. Submitted papers must be
unpublished and not currently under review for any other publication. Authors of accepted papers must sign
an IEEE copyright release form and also present their paper at the conference for the paper to be included in
IEEE Xplore. A small number of papers may be accepted for poster presentation instead of oral presentation.
One best paper in each track will be awarded.
Tutorial: Proposals are invited for tutorials on topics in recent development in accessibility to the Digital
World. Each tutorial will be of duration 3 hours. A tutorial proposal should include the abstract of the tutorial
and a brief biography of the speaker(s). Interested speakers are encouraged to send a proposal to
tutorial@icadw.org.
PhD Forum: ICADW 2016 also provides a platform to students and research scholars working in all areas of
ICT to present their on-going research works and interact with the fellow research scholars. Interested
students and research scholars are encouraged to submit the report on their on-going research works to
phdforum@icadw.org.
Workshop: Considering ICADW being a brand new Conference, satellite workshop proposals in line with the
conference theme on a specific topic are invited. Interested parties are requested to submit their proposal to
workshop@icadw.org.
Exhibition: Companies and R&D laboratories are encouraged to exhibit their products and recent
developments at the conference. Additionally, a half day of Industry presentations is planned. Interested
parties are requested to submit their proposal to exhibition@icadw.org.

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline
Tutorial Submission deadline
Panel, Exhibits/Demos, PhD
Forum Submission deadline
Notification of acceptance
Workshop proposal
submission deadline
Notification of acceptance for
workshop proposal

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Jul 24, 2016

Jul 15, 2016

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Aug 31, 2016

Sep 15, 2016

Jul 15, 2016

July 31, 2016

Patron
Principal, Assam Engineering College

Advisory Committee
Directors of all Centrally Funded Technical Institutes in NE
states
Vice Chancellors of all NE state and central Govt. funded Univ.
Gautam Baruah
Anupam Ananda Bharali
Pranab Bharali

Program Committee
General Co-Chairs:
Jugal Kalita, University of Colorado
Sukumar Nandi, IIT Guwahati
Program Co-Chairs:
Dipankar Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Nityananda Sarma, Tezpur University
Program Vice-Chairs:
Diganta Goswami, IIT Guwahati
Ashish Anand, IIT Guwahati
Partha Pakray, NIT Mizoram
T Vekatesh, IIT Guwahati
Mangalam Singh, NIT Manipur
Debadatta Pati, NIT Nagaland
Ashok Singh Sairam, IIT Patna
Abhijit Sarma, Gauhati University
Plenary Co-Chairs:
Benjamin Passow, Demontfort University
Anjana Kakati Mahanta, Gauhati University
Organizing Chair:
Maushumi Barooah, Assam Engineering College
Publication Chair:
Firdous Ahmed Barbhuiyan, IIIT Guwahati
Website Co-Chairs:
Diganta Bhushan Das, Loughborough University
Nelson R. Varte, Assam Engineering College
Finance Co-Chairs:
Santosh Biswas, IIT Guwahati
Debashis Borthakur, Assam Engineering College
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Dhruba Bhattacharyya, Tezpur University
Phalguni Gupta, IIT Kanpur
Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Lipika Deka, De Montfort University
Sudipta Roy, Assam University
Kabita Thaoroijam, Manipur University
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Krishnamachar Sreenivasan, CIT Kokrajhar
Sangram Ray, NIT Sikkim
Navajit Saikia, Assam Engineering College
Sponsorship Co-Chairs:
Kandarpa Kr. Sarma, Gauhati University
Lipi B. mahanta, IASST
Sangita Baruah, Cotton College
Exhibition Chair:
Krishna Lal Baishnab, NIT Silchar
PhD Forum Chair:
Hemangee Kapoor, IIT Guwahati
Industry Co-Chairs:
Prabir Kumar Das, STPI
Dinesh S. Pegu, AMTRON
Bijoy Bora, ZALONI