SKIMA 2014 - 8th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA 2014)

The 8th International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA 2014) is going to be held from 18 to 20 December 2014 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The conference aims to bring together researchers and experts in Knowledge Management, Software Engineering and Information Systems to share their ideas, experiences and insights. This conference series was started in an international collaboration context between research professionals in Western and Asian countries in Chiang Mai, Thailand 2006. Subsequently, the next SKIMA conferences were organized in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2008; Fez, Morocco in 2009; Paro, Bhutan in 2010; Benevento, Italy in 2011, Chengdu, China in 2012, Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2013. We welcome researchers and practitioners from research institutions, R&D enterprise services and governmental organizations to exchange innovative contributions around the conference topics. It will feature plenary speeches, industrial panel sessions, funding agency panel sessions, interactive sessions, and invited special sessions. Contributions are expected from academia, industry and government funding councils. Technical topics of the conference include but are not limited to:
Agile and Complex systems
AI, Decision support systems & optimisation
Medical Informatics & eHealth
Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
Business ecosystems modeling & simulation
Business intelligence
Cloud computing
Collaborative systems
Complex system management
Data engineering & mining
Distribution systems & strategies
E-Learning & technology enhanced learning
Enterprise interoperability
E-strategy & e-Business models
e-Tourism
Future Internets
Fuzzy, GA & neural systems
Human factors
Human adaptive mechatronics
Information search & retrieval
Information interfaces & presentation
Information systems & infrastructure
Intelligent control and robotics
Intelligent manufacturing systems
Internet of things
KM techniques & Multi-agent systems
Knowledge based entrepreneurship
Life-cycle engineering and PLM
Mobile technology
Modern production management&mechatronics
Multi-level multi-objective optimization
Network-based computing systems
Network management & security
Next generation of infrastructure
Ontology and mapping mechanisms
Representation techniques to semantic modeling
Research informed learning & teaching
Robotics and mechatronics
Sensor design, integration & fusion
Service oriented architecture
Signal, image and video processing
Smart sensors networks
Smart home environments
Smart vision and image processing
Software engineering
Supply chains & logistics management
Technology enhanced learning
Travel search & meta-search
Web 2.0 & Web 3.0 & website design/evaluation
Wireless & telecommunications