Recent rapid advancements in information and computer science present both challenges and opportunities for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. New methods, techniques, and tools proposed from areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining help address challenging and complex problems more accurately and efficiently. On the other hand, challenges in handling and exploiting a huge amount of available data, in data security, and in realizing these advancements to serve societies, just to name a few, remain to be resolved. There are also needs for realizing these advancements in information and computer science to support the digital transformation efforts around the world.

NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS) is an international forum for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to present and discuss recent advancements and future directions in addressing challenging problems in the field of information and computer science. NICS is organized annually by the Vietnam’s National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED).

NICS 2020 is jointly sponsored by IEEE, NAFOSTED, and Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh city (VNU-HCMC). The conference will be hosted by the University of Science, VNU-HCMC on November 26-27, 2020 and in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

Objectives And Topics

You are invited to contribute your original work to NICS 2020. Topics of interest belong to 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

Computational Intelligence

    Language and speech processing
    Soft computing
    Computer vision
    Bioinformatics
    Knowledge discovery
    Data mining
    Machine learning & Deep learning
    Computational biology
    Agent-based systems
    Semantic web
    Information extraction and retrieval

Software Engineering

    Agile software development
    Mining software engineering repositories
    Program analysis, synthesis, repair, and comprehension
    Component-based, model-driven software engineering
    Software process, modeling, design, and architecture
    Multi-core programming, real-time systems
    Software testing, validation, and verification
    Software services and cloud computing services
    Software tools and environments
    Programming languages
    Human-computer interface and interaction
    Requirements and reverse engineering

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