Authors are being invited to submit their original work in Communication, Computing and Information Sciences/technologies including, but not limited to, in the following areas. All submissions will be subjected to at least two blind reviews. Acceptance will be based entirely on quality, relevance and originality:

Energy Efficient Communication Methods and Models:
• Energy-efficient transmission technologies
• Cross-layer optimizations
• Energy-efficient switch and base station architectures
• Low-power sleep mode
• Exploitation of passive network elements
• Architectures and frameworks
• Hierarchical and distributed techniques
• Remote power management for terminals
• Context-based power management
• Instrumentation for energy consumption measurement
• Operator experiences
• Mobile and wireless/wired access networks
• Broadband access networks
• Management of home and office networks


Seamless Wireless Mobility:
• Architecture, system, and protocol design for seamless roaming support in wireless networks
• Spectrum cognition and agility associated with mobility
• Vertical handoff and seamless integration of heterogeneous networks
• Location tracking, positioning, and address management
• Mobility modeling and theoretical/experimental validation
• Mobility impact on routing, resource/power/QoS management
• Adaptive and resilient protocols for seamless mobility support at all layers, as well as cross-layer approaches
• Security and privacy issues under mobility and network access
• Emerging standards and applications on mobility


Service-Oriented Internet:
• Architecture for future service-centric networks
• Scalability of future service-centric networks
• Modeling and simulation issues and methodologies
• Overlay, peer-to-peer and content delivery services
• Design for location and social awareness
• Design and implementations for ubiquitous services
• Reliability and availability of future service-oriented Internet
• Management of services and service-oriented networks
• Service selection, composition, and delivery platforms
• Management of event driven architectures
• Distributed complex event processing systems
• Cognitive networks and services
• Application-aware routing and forwarding
• Optimization and cross-layer design of service-oriented systems
• Service-oriented network experimental trials, tools and testbeds
• Economics, pricing and charging of emerging services
• Distributed/market-based and game-based control of service-centric networks
• Analytic and simulation components of service-oriented networks and systems
• Workload characterization and distribution fitting
• Scheduling in multi-tiered environments
• Network architecture design for supporting large-scale social applications and services
• Quality-of-service in large social networks
• Privacy issues in online social networks
• Internet measurement and analysis of social applications and services
• Challenges posed by the emergence of online social networking


e-Service:
• e-Business
• e-Government
• e-Learning
• Ethics / Society
• Trust, Recommendations, Evidence, and other
• Legal / Professional Issues


Intelligent Systems:
• Artificial Intelligence
• Expert System
• Machine Learning
• Soft Computing
• Mobile Agents


Platform Technology:
• Distributed System
• GRID computing
• Open Source Technology
• Operating System
• Programming & Integrative Technology
• System Administration and Maintenance
• WWW Applications and Technologies
• Virtual Reality
• Sensor Networks