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