The conference will be held from the 2nd to the 4th of February 2015 at Muscat, Oman. The conference provides a forum for discussions among professionals from industries, academia and research institutions. The conference offers an excellent opportunity for scientists, innovators, and engineers to interact, share experiences and present their latest research with peers in a multidisciplinary engineering background. This conference also includes tutorials and workshops as well as industrial exhibitions. The tutorial sessions will be held on the first day of the conference. Special industrial track is also included.
Papers are invited in all areas of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and include tracks focusing on (but not limited to) the following topics:

Power Systems and Energy:
Power Systems Dynamics and Control
Power System Quality
Energy and Demand Side Management
Electric Machines and Drives
Power Electronics and Energy Conversion
Renewable Energy
Power System Protection
Smart grid & Smart Meters
FACTS Devices
Wide Area Monitoring
High Voltage Engineering

Communications & Signal Processing:
Wireless & Mobile Communications and Networks
Optical Communications and Technologies
Electromagnetic, Propagation and Antennas
Information Theory
Digital Signal Processing
Audio, Image and Video Processing and Coding
Reliability and Performance Modeling
Next Generation Communications Networks
Remote Sensing
Parallel and Distributed Processing

Computing and IT:
Data Management and Data Mining
Arabic Language Technologies
Computer and Data Security
Cloud Computing
Multi-Core and Parallel Processing
Social Computing
Internet and Web Technologies
Computer Networks

Electronics and Instrumentation:
Nanotechnology
Embedded systems
Analog and Digital VLSI design
Biomedical Engineering
Sensors and Sensor Systems
Avionics & Automobile Electronics
Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation

Control & Industrial Technology:
Security, process control and optimization
Instrumentation, control and asset management
Mechatronics and robotics
Dynamic modeling and adaptive control
Factory Automation and Industrial Informatics
Electric and hybrid vehicles
Smart/Intelligent Buildings

Engineering Education & Development
Curriculum Development and Accreditation
Ethics and Soft Skills
Advanced Teaching and Learning Technologies
Continuing Professional Education
Role of industry in engineering developments
Role of research in Knowledge Economy

Industrial Challenges & Applications
The conference welcomes contribution from the industry in a form of short papers or abstract and to be presented in a special session during the conference. The topics may include challenges, recent trends, latest technologies, and lessons to learn in the area of:

Electrical Power Generation & Transmission
Energy Policies & Economics
Electrical Power Distribution & Supply
Oil & Gas Applications
Wireless & Mobile Communications
Cyber Security

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and IEEE Xplore. The conference will have special student poster sessions. During the closing ceremony, best paper awards will be presented in three categories: student, academia and industry. All queries and concerns on the technical program, the tutorial and the special sessions should be directed to the technical committee chair (email: hnashash@aus.edu.ae)

Conference Secretariat and General Queries:
8th IEEE GCC Conference Secretariat
P.C. 133 P.O. Box 100
Muscat – Sultanate of Oman
Phone: +968-24583580
Fax: +968-24583582
e-mail: arnold.santos@ieee.org