INFORMATICS & COMPUTING: Agricultural Informatics and Communication; Algorithmic Engineering; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Audio and Speech Processing; Autonomic Computing and Agent-based Systems; Bioinformatics and Systems Biology; Biomedical Computing and Communications; Business Informatics; Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics; Computational Intelligence and Applications; Computer Architecture and VLSI; Computer Graphics, Simulation and Modeling; Control and Systems Engineering; Cryptography and Applied Mathematics; Data Management, Exploration and Mining; Digital and Embedded Systems; Digital Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, GIS and GPS; E-Governance, E-Commerce, E-Business; Educational Computing; File and Storage Technologies; Fog/Edge Computing; High Performance Cloud Computing; Human Computer Interaction and Interface; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Information Ecology and Knowledge Management; Intelligent Circuits and Systems; Intelligent Control and Automation; Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing; Medical Informatics; Metaheuristic Techniques and Applications; Multicore Computing; Natural Language; Processing and Machine Translation; Nature Inspired Computing; Neuroinformatics; Pattern Recognition and Analysis; Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing; Power-Efficient and Reconfigurable Architectures; Public Safety and Emergency Management; Recommender Systems; Reconfigurable Systems and Architectures; Robotics and Intelligent Control; Software Engineering and Services Computing; Visual and Multimedia Computing; VLSI Circuit Design and CAD Tools.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING: Autonomic Communications; Big Data Computing and Clouds; Security, Trust and Privacy; Cellular and Mobile Communications; Cloud Communications and Networking; Cognitive Radio and Cognitive Networks; Communications Software; Cooperative Networking; Cross-layer Optimization; Cyber-Physical Systems and Social Computing; Data Centers and Storage Area Networks; Delay-Tolerant Networks; Dependable Wide, Local, and System Area Networks; Digital Signal Processing and Communication Systems; Disaster Warning, Avoidance, and Response; Embedded Networks; Energy-efficient Computation and Communication; Fault tolerance, Reliability and Survivability; Future Internet and Next-Generation Networking Architectures; Intelligent and Secure Transportation Systems; Interconnection Networks and Architectures; Internet Computing; High Performance Switching and Routing; Large-Scale Networking; Link technologies; Load Balancing, Scheduling and Resource Management; Local-Area and Metropolitan-Area Networks; Near-Field Communications; Network Management, Reliability and QoS; Network Protocols and Algorithms; Network Simulation and Emulation; Opportunistic Networking; Overlay and Peer-To-Peer Networks; Parallel and Distributed Algorithms; Remote Area Communications; Satellite and Space Communications; Smart Antenna Based Networking; Smart Grid Communications; Social Networks, Crowdsourcing, and Crowdsensing; SDN and Network Function Virtualization; Vehicular, Underground and Underwater Networks; Wireless Ad-Hoc, Sensor and RFID Networks; Wireless Multicasting and Broadcasting.

HYBRID INTELLIGENT MODELS & APPLICATIONS: Ant Colony for Neural Network Optimization; Chaos Theory in Genetic Algorithms; Genetic Algorithm for Fuzzy System Optimization; Genetic Algorithms for Hybrid Intelligent Systems Design; Genetic Algorithms for Neural Network Optimization; Genetic Fuzzy Systems; Genetic Neural Systems; Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms; Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Data Analysis and Data Mining; Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Pattern Recognition; Hybrid Modular Neural Networks; Hybrid optimization techniques; Nature-inspired Smart Hybrid Systems; Neuro-Fuzzy Models and Applications; Neuro-Fuzzy-Genetic Approaches.

INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT): Cloud Computing and IoT; Crowd-Sourcing and Opportunistic IoT; Data Analytics and Decision Automation; Data Management in IoT; Efficient Resource Management Based on IoT; Emerging E-Health IoT Applications; End To End/Machine to Machine (M2M) Protocols; IoT Application Scenarios; IoT Architectures, Protocols, and Algorithms; IoT Big Data Analysis; IoT Device and Network Domain Technologies; IoT Sensing Things Technology and Applications; Knowledge-Based Discovery of Devicesin the IoT; Localization in IoT; Modelling and Communicating Transparency in IoT; Ontologies Describing IoT Devices and Their Use; Performance Evaluation of IoT Technologies; Provenance and Usage in the IoT; Scalability and Robustness for Internet of Things; Security, Trust, Privacy and Identity in the IoT; Situational Awareness through Context Modeling In IoT; Transportation Systems, Smart Homes and Cities; User-Oriented, Context-Aware IoT Services; Wearable Devices.