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CFP: The NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS)
September 14-16, 2016, Danang City, Vietnam.
www.nafosted-nics.org
Hosted by The University of Danang (UD)
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The NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS) is a series of scientific activities supported by the National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) to build a durable, innovative and conducive environment for research activities at universities and institutes, improve the research ability of young scientists and establish research groups that meet international standards. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from Vietnam and overseas in an academic forum to present and discuss recent advancements and future directions in the field of information and computer science. NICS 2016 will be held at Danang City during September 14-16, 2016 and hosted by The University of Danang.
***Important Dates***
- Manuscript submission: March 5, 2016
- Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2016
- Camera-ready submission: June 30, 2016

***Submission Guidelines***
Authors are invited to submit papers of up to 6 pages, written in English, in PDF format and compliant with the IEEE standard (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html). All papers must be original contributions and not previously published, nor currently under consideration, for publication elsewhere.
Papers should be submitted through the EDAS conference submission system at https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21642

Submitted papers (for both regular and special sessions) are subject to a blind reviewed process handled by an international technical program committee. An author of an accepted paper must be registered at full rate (member or non-member of the IEEE) prior to uploading the camera-ready version. The maximum length of the camera-ready version is 6 pages.

The conference program will run for three days with the regular tracks, tutorials and special sessions. For the tracks and special sessions, we invite you to contribute your original work on topics in the following, but not limited to, areas:
***Foundations of Computer Science
- Theory of computation
- Algorithms and data structures
- Programming language theory
- Applied computer science
- Computer security and cryptography
- Computational science
- Concurrent, parallel and distributed systems
- Health informatics
***Computational Intelligence
Language and speech processing
- Soft computing
- Computer vision
- Bioinformatics
- Knowledge discovery
- Data mining
- Machine learning
- Computational biology
- Agent-based systems
- Semantic web
- Information extraction and retrieval
- Natural Language Processing
***Software Engineering
- Software development methods
- Software system modeling
- Component-based, model-driven, grid-based, automated software engineering
- Open source software development
- Software process, testing and verification
- Embedded system testing and verification
- Multi-core programming
- Real-time systems
- Web services
- Human-computer interface and interaction
***Communication and Networking
- Wireless Communications
- Signal Processing for Communications
- Network architecture
- Network protocols and security
- Parallel and distributed computing
- Grid computing
- Cloud computing
- Mobile and ubiquitous computing
- Quantum communications
- Network Security

***Organization Committee***
General Chairs
- Do Tien Dung, The National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED)
- Tran Van Nam, The University of Danang (UD)
- Dinh Dung, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU)

Program Chairs
- Ho Tu Bao, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
- Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT)
- Le Hoai Bac, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM)
- Nguyen Le Hung, The University of Danang (UD)

Local Arrangement Chairs
- Vo Trung Hung, The University of Danang (UD)
- Tran Xuan Nam, Le Quy Don Technical University (LQDU)

Publication Chair
- Tran Trung Duy, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT)
Finance Chair
- Huynh Thi Tam Thuong, The University of Danang (UD)