CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

AREA 1: SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES

- Business Process Modelling
- IT Service Management
- Interoperability and Service-Oriented Architecture
- Business Intelligence and Big Data
- Decision Support Systems
- Intelligent Problem Solving
- Virtual and Network Organizations
- Trust, Security and Privacy
- Business Process Coordination and Synchronization

AREA 2: INFORMATION SYSTEM PROJECT MANAGEMENT

- Project Management Software
- Scheduling and Estimating
- Software Metrics
- Project Planning, Monitoring and Control
- Agile Methodologies
- Performance Evaluation
- Risk Management
- Quality Control and Assurance
- Software Standards and Certification

AREA 3: SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

- Requirements Elicitation and Specification
- Software and Systems Integration
- Software Testing and Maintenance
- Model-driven Engineering
- Software and Systems Quality
- Software and Information Security
- Service-oriented Software Engineering
- Programming Languages
- Middleware Technologies
- Human- Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering
- Software and Systems Development Methodologies
- Software Process Improvement
- User-centered Software Engineering
- Service-oriented Software Engineering
- Software Product Line Engineering
- Responsive Web Design (RWD)
- Big Data and Software Engineering
- Architectural Design and Frameworks
- Software Quality Management
- Software Change and Configuration Management
- System Complexity
- Design Thinking
- Requirements Engineering
- Application Integration Technologies
- Geographically Distributed Software Engineering
- Formal Methods
- Model-driven Engineering
- Agile, Aspect-oriented and Agent-oriented Software Engineering
- Meta Programming Systems and Meta Modeling

AREA 4: DISTRIBUTED AND MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

- Distributed Architectures
- Cloud Applications
- Mobile Technologies and Applications
- Ambient Intelligence and Digital Ecosystems
- Agents and Multi-agent Systems
- Communication Networks and Protocols
- Parallel and High Performance Computing
- Social Web Applications
- Innovative Mobile Applications for Enterprises
- Internet of Things and Wearable Computing
- Context-aware Technologies
- Configuration and Multi-tenancy in Mobile Systems
- Data Management for Service-Oriented Mobile Applications
- Mobile Security, Authorization and Privacy
- Mobile Cloud Computing
- Quality in Use and User Experience Evaluation
- Multidevice Testing and Verification
- Mobile Marketing and Payment
- Mobile Healthcare Support
- Mobile Ambient Assisted Living
- M-Learning
- Mobile Game Development

AREA 5: SERVICE SCIENCE AND BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS

- Value Chains and Co-Creation in Service Systems
- Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA)
- Semantic Web Services
- Delivery, Deployment and Maintenance of Service Systems
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Quality of Service (QoS)
- Cost of Services (CoS) and Service Revenue Models
- Service-centric Business Models
- Enterprise Integration Strategies and Patterns
- Business Process Management and Engineering
- Business Process Mining
- e-Business Technologies and Interoperability
- Knowledge Management and Engineering
- Document and Workflow Management
- Collaborative Requirements and Processes
- Business Impacts and Business Models of Cloud Computing
- Governance, Risk and Compliance Management
- Software Ecosystems

AREA 6: Big Data and Smart Computing

- Techniques, models and algorithms for big data
- Tools and systems for big data
- Machine learning and AI for big data
- Data mining, graph mining and data science
- Web search and information retrieval
- Infrastructure and platform for smart computing
- Models and tools for smart computing
- Big data analytics and social media
- Cloud and grid computing for big data
- Hardware software infrastructure for big data
- Security and privacy for big data
- Mobile communications and networks
- Smart devices and hardware
- Smart location-based services
- Big data applications, bioinformatics, multimedia, smartphones, etc.