ICT4DA 2017 – International Conference on ICT for Development for Africa will take place in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia on 30-31 January, 2017.
The Conference will bring together technology experts, researchers, industry and international authorities contributing towards the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the fields of socioeconomic development, international development, and human rights.
The Conference welcomes research papers in the following topics of interest:
E-Services
- e-Health/ m-Helath
- e-Agriculture/m-Agriculture
- E-learning/m-Learning
- E-Government/m-Government
- E-Business/m-Business
Natural Language Processing
- Speech Recognition
- Speech Synthesis
- Dialogue systems
- Text processing
- Phonology
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Discourse
- POS Tagging
- Parsing
- Word Sense Disambiguation
- Machine translation
- Speech/Text Corpora
- Information Extraction
- Automatic Text Summarization
- Question Answering
Intelligent Systems
- Artificial intelligence
- Decision support systems
- Prediction systems in different application areas
- Autonomous multi-agent systems
- Computer vision
- Image processing
- Robotics
- Character recognition
- Knowledge Base Systems
- Data Mining
- Machine Learning
- Information Reterival
- Recommended systems
- Fuzzy logic
Mobile and Wireless Communication
- Wireless communication
- Wireless Sensor networks
- Wireless cognitive networks
- Cellular networks (LTE, LTE-Advanced, 5G)
- Wireless local area network (802.11, WiMAX, etc)
- Internet of every things
- Ad hoc Networks
- Energy Aware Mobile Computing
- Mobile Cloud Computing
- Semantic Web Technologies
- Vehicular Ad hoc Networks
- Energy efficient networking, communication and protocols
- Energy efficiency in networking, wireless networks and vehicular networks
- Energy efficiency in data centers and large-scale data processing
- Intelligent Transport Systems and control
- Wearable Computing
- Body Area Networks
- Social Network Applications to Mobile Computing
- Context and Location Aware Applications and Services
- Mobile Data Management and Analytics
- Mobile Multimedia
- Mobile User Interfaces and Interaction Technologies
- Mobile User Experience
Privacy and Security
- Identity and Trust Management
- Crypto-analysis and Cryptography
- Network and Wireless Security
- Operating Systems Security
- Biometrics
- Smart cards
- RFID
- Access control
- Intrusion detection
All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world’s largest scientific libraries. Proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: Elsevier (EI), Thomson Scientific (ISI), Scopus, Crossref, Google Scholar, DBLP. Authors of the Best Papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work through one of the EAI Endorsed Publications.
Important dates:
Workshops proposal deadline: 30 July 2016
Full Paper Submission deadline: 15 September 2016
Exhibits and Demos: 15 September 2016
Notification and Registration opens: 1 November 2016
Camera-ready deadline: 30 November 2016
For further information about ICT4DA 2017, visit the official website.
