Draft paper submission deadline：2017-08-30

Draft paper acceptance notification：2017-10-10

Final paper submission deadline：2017-10-30

Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

AREA 1 :Big Data

• Big data mining

• Big data scalability and reliability

• Big data security

• Big sensor data management

• Managing and mining data in cloud computing

• Managing and mining social networking data

• Privacy in big data

• Others

AREA 2 : Biomedical Engineering

• Biosignal sensors and signal processing

• Body Area Network (BAN) for medicine and healthcare

• eHealth systems and pervasive healthcare

• Preventive care & long-term patient management

• Privacy and security issues for biomedicine

• Smart textiles for wearable BAN

• Telemedicine and Telemonitoring

• Wearable and implantable devices/systems

• Others

AREA 3 : Cloud Computing

• Access Control

• Cloud Computing Security

• Intrusion Detection Methodologies and Applications

• Reliable Computing

• Trust Model and Trust Management Policy

• Trusted Computing

• Others

AREA 4 : Information Systems

• Applications of Information Theory

• Business Process Change

• Deductive vs Inductive Approaches

• Enterprise Application Integration

• Enterprise Resource Planning

• Ethical, social, privacy, security and moral issues in an e-society

• IS and Change Management

• IS and Organisation Development

• IS Quality Management and Assurance

• Knowledge Management

• Multi-Terminal Information Theory

• Organisational IS Roles

• Outsourcing Risks, Barriers and Opportunities

• Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods

• Risk Management in IS Design and Development

• Others

AREA 5 : Multimedia

• Compression algorithms

• Crowdsourcing in multimedia systems and applications

• Human-centered approaches to mobile and multi-device interaction with multimedia

• Mobile augmented and mixed reality

• Mobile multimedia services

• Novel multimedia interfaces and technologies for multi-device interaction

• Novel multimedia service architectures

• Others

AREA 6 : Security and Internet of Things

• Communication networks

• Future networks and architectures

• Green the IoT

• IoT applications and services development

• Learning Automats Methodologies and Applications

• Machine-to-machine communications

• Metrics, Measurement and Evaluation of the IoT

• Modelling and simulation of communications networks

• Network architecture and system design for the IoT

• Algorithms and data analysis techniques for the IoT

• Security, Trust and Privacy in the IoT

• Sensor and Actuator Networks

• Wireless and mobile networking

• Others

AREA 7 : Robotics

• Cognitive Approach for Robotics

• Collective and Social Robots

• Engineering Applications

• Humanoid Robots

• Human-Robots Interfaces

• Industrial Networks and Automation

• Intelligent Transportation Technologies and Systems

• Mechatronics Systems

• Physical Sensors

• Grasping and Manipulation

• Mobile Robots and Intelligent Autonomous Systems

• Network Robotics

• Surveillance, Fault detection and Diagnosis

• Others

AREA 8 : Software Engineering and Applications in Business and Social Sciences

• Next frontiers of Software Engineering: use of big data

• Rapid Application Development for Mobile

• Service Oriented Architectures

• Software Architectures and Engineering for Novel Systems

• Software Engineering for Mobile Systems

• Software Engineering for the Web

• Software testing

• System Software for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems

• Others

AREA 9 : Applications in Business and Social Sciences

• Applications using human-computer interaction

• Business engineering

• Business intelligence

• Business studies of applications and technology

• Crowd sensing

• Enterprise computing and applications

• Mobile phone sensing

• Opinion mining

• Pervasive computing

• Social and Community Intelligence

• Social aspects and issues of applications and technology

• Social Behaviour Modelling

• Social engineering

• Social network analysis

• Social Opinion Representation

• Others

AREA 10 : Industry Relations

• Venture Capital Model' and 'willingness to invest' in the presented proposals

• Fiji industry, academia and students have a mechanism to participate as equal partners and in harmony

• Showcasing of technology and science needs, wants and capabilities

• An 'international' perspective' with the context being 'Fiji

• External concepts and partnerships are able to be fostered ( e.g. conference attendees: industry, academia, students etc) to progress Fiji

• Opportunities for venture capital initiatives are able to be showcased

• Technology transfer through leadership and management