ICOMP 2016 - 17th International Conference on Internet Computing and Internet of Things

The conference is composed of a number of tracks, tutorials, sessions, workshops, poster and panel discussions; all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 25-28, 2016.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Internet Computing:
- Social networks
- Data traffic models and statistics
- Electronic commerce and internet
- Design and analysis of internet protocols and engineering
- Web mining
- Network architectures and network computing
- Internet and emerging technologies
- Internet security and trust
- Internet law and compliance
- Internet based decision support systems
- Internet and enterprise management
- Internet banking systems
- Internet and video technologies
- Caching algorithms for the internet
- Grid based computing and internet tools
- Cooperative applications
- Tele-medical and related applications
- Mobile computing
- The WWW and intranets
- Digital libraries
- Web interfaces to databases
- Cloud computing
- Alternative web lifestyles, role-playing, chat, ...
- Server space/web server performance
- Web monitoring
- Web site design and coordination
- Other aspects and applications relating to internet-based computing Internet of Things (IoT):
- Next generation networks
- Sensor systems and devices
- Smart environments
- Social networks and analytics
- Software architecture and middleware
- Mobile services; including, mobile APIs and Apps
- Smart city and supporting technologies
- Intelligent guidance systems
- Data and knowledge management
- Context- and location-awareness
- Iot Security, privacy and trust
- e-Government, e-Commerce, e-Science, ...
- Performance evaluation and modeling
- Intelligent systems for IoT and services computing
- Energy-aware technologies - Social impact of IoT
- Predictive modeling and patterns
- Scheduling methods
- IoT emerging applications
Computer Games Design and Development:
- Managing gaming communities
- Augmented reality games
- Special-purpose hardware for games
- Computer games and education
- Threading technologies for games
- Assessment of new generation of computer games
- The impact of art and culture in game design
- Game theory as it relates to internet
- Artificial intelligence and computer games
- Tools for game development on the internet
- Grid computing and games
- 3D hardware accelerators for games on the internet
- Audio-video communication tools for network 3D games
- Virtual actors - Virtual world creation
- Holographic displays and games
- Computer graphics and virtual reality tools for games
- Innovative products for game development
- Case studies
Big Data (in the context of internet computing)
- Algorithms for enhancing data quality
- Models and frameworks for Big Data
- Graph algorithms and Big Data
- Machine learning
- Natural language processing
- Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity and Value
- Cloud based infrastructures (storage & computing resources)
- Grid and stream computing for Big Data
- HPC, including parallel & distributed processing
- Programming models and environments to support Big Data
- Emerging architectural frameworks for Big Data
- Web search technologies
- Cleaning Big Data (noise reduction), acquisition & integration
- Big Data as a service
- Big Data analytics in e-Government and society
- Applications in science, engineering, healthcare, visualization, business, education, security, humanities, bioinformatics, health informatics, medicine, finance, law, transportation, retailing, telecommunication, all search-based applications, ...
Semantic Web:
- Machine learning approaches for semantic web
- Semantic web for e-Business and e-Learning
- Semantic web mining
- Semantic web trust, privacy, and security
- Tools, languages, and techniques for semantic annotation of web data
- Semantic searching
- Hypermedia and semantic web
- Software agents for semantic web
- Community web portals
- Semantic interoperability
- Ontology creation, evolution, reconciliation, and mediation
- Semantic web
-based knowledge management and extraction
- Service discovery, description, composition and invocation
- Intersection of Big Data and semantic web
- Case studies
Web Services:
- Web Service Technologies and Research Directions: Enhancements to the basic web services platform such as SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, ...; advanced web service technologies including security, workflow and process management, transactions, mobile and wireless, portals, services management, quality-of-service (QoS); novel web service architectures; development and modeling frameworks for web service applications; composite web services, enabling technologies and support infrastructure; data structures and models.
- Practices for Developing Enterprise-class Web Services and Applications: Design patterns; architecting for customization, maintenance, and management; architecting for easy integration or service "consumption"; fault-tolerant architectures; service mediation systems and architectures.
- Case Studies of Web Service Development and Deployment: e-Commerce applications using web services; Business-to-Business (B2B) applications using web services; mobile and wireless applications using web services; utility and on-demand computing using web services; government applications using web services; applications of web services in developing countries.
- Multimedia applications using web services - Interactive TV applications using web services - Big Data: Scalable web services for Big Data; services for data integration; web services for mapping data to information and to knowledge. - Novel applications, case studies, and emerging technologies