-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies for cross-postings! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third International Symposium on Women in Computing and Informatics (WCI-2015) August 10-13, 2015, Kochi, Kerala, India http://icacci-conference.org/web/wci-home Submission Deadline: March 31, 2015 All accepted Papers will be published by ACM - International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) and will be available in ACM Digital Library. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------- The International Symposium on Women in Computing and Informatics (WCI-2015) will serve as a platform to explore the opportunities as well as the diverse challenges facing women in computing and allied areas. WCI-2015 provides a great opportunity to network with students, professionals, and researchers. Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to WCI 2015. Papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. At least one author should be a woman. We welcome submissions in the following areas and not limited to: Connectivity and Communications Technologies for Remote Locations Disaster Warning, Avoidance, and Response Agricultural Technologies Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities Cloud and Big Data Analytics Frugal Innovations Health Informatics Computer Education and Learning Technologies Human Computer Interaction Assistive Technologies Autonomous Systems and Robotics Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing Online Communications, Collaborative Systems, and Social Networks Computational Complexity and Cryptography Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Control and Automation Systems Natural Language Processing Data Engineering and Data Mining Real Time and Embedded systems Multimedia Systems Green Computing Image, Video, and Signal Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Intelligent Systems Systems and Software Engineering High-Performance Computing Security, Trust and Privacy e-Commerce, e-Business, e-Government Bioinformatics Social Informatics Women in Informatics Management of Computing and Information Systems Information Ethics Legal Aspects of Computing WCI-2015 COMMITTEE -------------------------------- General Chair Sushmita Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Program Chairs Suzanne McIntosh, New York University and Cloudera Inc., USA Punam Bedi, University of Delhi, India Rajasree M.S, IIITM-K, Trivandrum, India Organising Chair Indu Nair, SCMS, Kochi, India TPC Members ---------------- Ljiljana Šeric, University of Split, Croatia Malamati Louta, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Kanwalinderjit Gagneja, Southern Oregon University, USA Neena Thota, University of Saint Joseph, Macao Suparna De, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Mihaela Albu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania Lakshmi Boppana, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India Maryam Davoudpour, Ryerson University, Canada Susan Donohue, University of Virginia, USA Hanen Idoudi, National School of Computer Science - University of Manouba, Tunisia Chen Liu, UtopiaCompression Corporation, USA Yali Liu, AT&T Labs, USA Soma Pande, Pan India Utilities Distribution Company Ltd., India Cathryn Peoples, University of Ulster, United Kingdom Fadzilah Siraj, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia Afroza Sultana, McGill University, Canada Amiza Rasmi, TM Research & Development, Malaysia Yogita Thakran, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India Liza A. Latiff, University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia Nur Abdul Razak, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia Afrand Agah, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA Cristina Alcaraz Tello, University of Malaga, Spain Najla Alfaraj, College of Technological Studies, PAAET, Kuwait Ghada Amer, Faculty of Engineering - Benha University, Egypt Teh Aris, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Bahareh Asadi, Azad University, Iran Minakshi Atre, Pune University, India Valentina Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania Hema Banati, University of Delhi, India Banani Basu, Thapar University, Patiala, India Wanda Benesova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Leila Boulahia, University of Technology of Troyes, France Lin Cai, Huawei, USA Nessrine Chakchouk, National School of Computer Science, Tunisia Jayasree Chakraborty, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India Sudipa Chauhan, Amity University, India Kalaivani Chellappan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia Yuanfang Chen, Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France Monica Chis, Frequentis AG, Romania Paromita Choudhury, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, India Silvana Costa, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba, Brazil Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal Shanmugapriya D, Avinashilingam Institute for Women, India Aaradhana Deshmukh, University of Pune, SKNCOE Computer, Pune, India Vydeki Dharmar, Easwari Engineering College, India Maya Dimitrova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Imtiez Fliss, ENSI, Tunisia Najmeh Forouzandehmehr, University of Houston, USA Geethakumari G, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India Chen Gao, Tufts University, USA Vaithianathan Geetha, Pondicherry Engineering College, India Ida Giriantari, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia Sukriti Goel, Infosys Technologies Limited, India Poornima Govindaswamy, BMS College of Engineering, India Yi Gu, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Nisha Gupta, Biral Institute of Technology, Mesra, India Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands Lanis Hicks, University of Missouri, USA Xin Huang, Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab USA, USA Anca Daniela Ionita, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Amudha J, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India Isabel Jesus, Institute of Engineering of Porto - ISEP, Portugal Josephine Eskaline Joyce Justin, IBM, India Katerina Kabassi, TEI of the Ionian Islands, Greece Kira Kastell, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany Damandeep Kaur, Thapar University, India Prabhjot Kaur, ITM University, India Nishtha Kesswani, Central University of Rajasthan, India Atefeh Khosravi, University of Melbourne, Australia Hyon Hee Kim, Dongduk Women's University, Korea Chung-Hsien Lan, Toayuan Innovation Institute of Technology, Taiwan Sookyoung Lee, Ewha Womans University, Korea Helen Leligou, TEI of Chalkida, Greece Zsofia Lendek, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Jenila Livingston, VIT Chennai, India Clarissa Marquezan, Paluno - Duisburg-Essen University, Germany Dulani Meedeniya, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Deepti Mehrotra, AMITY School of Engineering and Technology, India Afaf Merazi, Djillali Liabès University of Sidi Bel-Abbès, Algeria Agapi Mesodiakaki, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Mariofanna Milanova, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Marie-Jose Montpetit, MIT Media Laboratory, USA Hajar Mousannif, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco Rajeswari Mukesh, Hindustan University, India Vaidehi Nedu, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, India Asako Ohno, Osaka Sangyo University, Japan Rosaura Palma-Orozco, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Anitha Pillai, Hindustan University, Chennai, India Geetha Ramani R, Anna University, India Kamatchi R, K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, India M Rajasree, IIITMK, India Priti Ranadive, KPIT Cummins Infosystems, Team Member, India Sheeba Rani, IIST Trivandrum, India Uma Rao, R V College of Engineering, India Selva Rivera, Cuyo National University, Argentina Sriparna Saha, IIT Patna, India Beatriz Sainz, University of Valladolid, Spain Roselina Sallehuddin, University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia Sameena Shah, Thomson Reuters, India Tripty Singh, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India Iouliia Skliarova, University of Aveiro, Portugal Maria-Estrella Sousa-Vieira, University of Vigo, Spain Roberta Spolon, UNESP - State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Shivani Sud, Intel Labs, USA Ling Tang, Aletheia University, Taiwan Ciza Thomas, College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India Beatrice Tomasi, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA Shikha Tripathi, Amrita School of Engineering, India Suma V, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, VTU, India Wantanee Viriyasitavat, Mahidol University, USA Liang Xiao, Xiamen University, P.R. China Yang Yi, University of Kansas, USA Marina Yusoff, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia Hang Zhao, Columbia University, USA Li Zhao, Microsoft Corporation, USA Jovana Zoroja, University of Zagreb, Croatia Anjana Gosain, Indraprastha University, India Urmila Shrawankar, RTM Nagpur University, India Lizy Abraham, LBS Institute of Technology for Women, India Eiman Al-Shammari, Kuwait University, Kuwait Ayesha Choudhary, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Balasubramanian Meenakshi, Sri Sairam Engineering College, India Preety Singh, LNM Institute of Information Technology, India Nimmy John, Siemens Technologies and Services Private Limited, India Preetha K G, Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, India Deepa Krishnan, Pillai Institute of Information Technology, India Aditi Misra, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India Francesca Paradiso, University of Florence, Italy Anitha Varghese, ABB Research, India