The 8th Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA)
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18-20 December 2014
Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://www.uiu.ac.bd/skima2014/




Paper submission: 31 July, 2014




The 8th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Intelligent Management and Applications will provide an opportunity for the academic and industrial community to ad dress new challenges and share solutions, and discuss future research directions. It will feature plenary speeches, industrial panel sessions, funding agency panel sessions, interactive sessions, and invited special sessions. Contributions are expected from academia, industry and government funding councils.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


- Agile and complex systems
- AI, decision support systems & optimisation
- Medical informatics & eHealth
- Systems biology and bioinformatics
- Business ecosystems modeling & simulation
- Business intelligence
- Cloud computing
- Collaborative systems
- Communication engineering
- Complex system management
- Data engineering & mining
- Distribution systems & strategies
- E-Learning & technology enhanced learning
- Enterprise interoperability
- E-strategy & e-Business models
- e-Tourism
- Future Internets
- Fuzzy, GA & neural systems
- Human factors
- Human adaptive mechatronics
- Information search & retrieval
- Information interfaces & presentation
- Information systems & infrastructure
- Intelligent control and robotics
- Intelligent manufacturing systems
- Internet of things
- KM techniques & Multi-agent systems
- Knowledge based entrepreneurship
- Life-cycle engineering and PLM
- Mobile technology
- Modern production management&mechatronics
- Multi-level multi-objective optimization
- Network-based computing systems
- Network management & security
- Next generation of infrastructure
- Ontology and mapping mechanisms
- Representation techniques to semantic modeling
- Research informed learning & teaching
- Robotics and mechatronics
- Sensor design, integration & fusion
- Service oriented architecture
- Signal, image and video processing
- Smart sensor networks
- Smart home environments
- Smart vision and image processing
- Software engineering
- Supply chains & logistics management
- Technology enhanced learning
- Travel search & meta-search
- Web 2.0&Web 3.0 & website design/evaluation
- Wireless & telecommunications




Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or a journal. Full papers (up to 8 camera-ready pages, 10 pt font in IEEE format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings and IEEE Xplore. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page.Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Note that, even if the conference content are accepted to be included into IEEE Xplore, authors must present their papers at the conference. IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at
the conference.




Paper submission
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Papers must be registered on EasyChair and submitted in PDF format. Detailed submission instructions are available
at the conference website.




Important dates
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Special session proposal: 30 June 2014
Paper submission: 31 July 2014
Tutorial proposal: 31 August 2014
Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2014
Camera ready copy due: 31 October 2014




Committees
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General Co-Chairs:
Prof Alamgir Hossain, Northumbria University, UK
Prof Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, UIU, Bangladesh


Technical Program Committee:
Chair:
Prof Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, UIU, Banglades
Members:
Dr. Pran Kanai Saha, BUET, Bangladesh
Dr. Mia Siddiqui, University of Ulster, UK
Dr. Khawza I Ahmed, UIU, Bangladesh
Dr. Shaikh Anowarul Fattah, BUET, Bangladesh
Dr. Salekul Islam, UIU, Bangladesh
Dr. Dewan M. Farid, UIU, Bangladesh
Dr. Swakkhar Shatabda, UIU, Bangladesh
Dr. Mohammad Rakibul Islam, IUT, Bangladesh
Dr. Md. Kawsar Alam, BUET, Bangladesh




Organizing Co-Chairs:
Prof Hasan Sarwar, UIU, Bangladesh
Prof Saiful Alam, DU, Bangladesh




Contact information
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Secretariat, SKIMA 2014
Dept. of CSE, United International University
House# 80, Road# 8/A, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Tel: +88 02 9125912, +88 02 8156911
Email: skima2014@uiu.ac.bd
Conference Web site: www.uiu.ac.bd/skima2014