All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by the Technical Committee. Please follow provided paper templates: MS Word or LaTeX. Please note the following major changes in the templates: The size of page should be Letter (21.59 cm × 27.94 cm). If you are using Word margins must be: top - 1.9 cm, bottom - 1.6 cm, left - 1.57 cm and right - 1.57 cm. Please note that all Full Paper submissions shall have at least 6 full pages and the last page cannot contain only Acknowledgments and References (at least some text of the main paper, e.g., part of Conclusions, shall be on page 6).

The list of conference topics (we welcome you to propose new R&D topics):

    Bioinformatics, e-Health and Wellbeing
    Internet of Things and enabling technologies
    Smart Spaces, Linked Data and Semantic Web
    Big Data and Data Mining, Data Storage and Management
    Knowledge and Data Managements Systems
    Location Based Services: Navigation, Logistics, e-Tourism
    Context Awareness and Proactive Services
    Sensor Design, Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking
    Natural Language Processing, Speech Technologies
    Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation Systems
    Open Source Mobile OS: Architectures and Applications
    Software Design, Innovative Applications
    Smart Systems and Embedded Networks
    Security and Privacy: Applications and Coding Theory
    Next Generation Networks, Emerging Wireless Technologies, 5G
    Computer Vision, Image and Video Processing
    Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence
    Intelligence, Social Mining and Web

All conference papers and abstracts will be published Open Access in FRUCT proceeding (available for free download from FRUCT proceedings catalog). In addition Full papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore and submitted for indexing to Scopus, WoS, ACM, DBLP, RSCI/РИНЦ (as journal publication), Google Scholar, etc. Proceedings of FRUCT conference Full Papers are included into Scimago Journal Rank. FRUCT proceedings are included to DOAJ.
The selected papers get invitations to publish extended papers in the partner journals. For example, in case of successful presentation and recommendation by the session chair some papers will be invited to make free of charge publication of an extended version of the paper in IJERTCS journal (indexed by Scopus, Q2 quartile). Another option is to get invited to to publish extended version of the paper in the special issue of Electronics journal (ISSN 2079-9292, impact factor 1.677, Q1 quartile).

FRUCT conference is a recognized high quality scientific event. FRUCT has good rating in national systems, e.g., Finnish (JUFO=1, JufoID: 72707), Norwegian (NSD=1), Danish (BFI=1, ID: 8782540).

N.B. Please note that we cannot guaranty indexation in Scopus for Short Papers and papers from ACM section. If Scopus indexing is mandatory for you then make sure that your paper is accepted as Full Paper. Authors of all accepted papers must register to the conference, pay registration fee by author's deadline and present paper at the conference, as otherwise the paper will get technical reject.

Authors of top Short or Work in Progress papers get invite to make free of charge extended versions of the paper in the partner journal, which is included in all major indexes.