Focus and Scope

• Generation Systems
• Modelling and Simulation
• Load Modelling
• Power Quality and Grounding
• Maintenance and Operation
• Distribution System Planning and Reliability
• Flexible AC Transmission Systems

Smartgrids Technologies & Applications

• Smart grid for distributed energy resources
• Smart grid in interdependent energy infrastructures
• Smart grid for intelligent monitoring and outage management
• Smart grid aplications and technologies
• Smart grid for plug-in vehicles and low-carbon transportation alternatives
• Smart grid for cyber and physical security systems
• Distributed and Co-Generation Systems
• Hydro Power Plants

Power Systems and Applications

• Power Market and Power System Economics
• Soft switching converters
• Hard-switching and soft-switching static converters
• Multilevel converters
• Matrix converters
• Power Converters Modelling
• Simulation and Control
• Power Factor Correctors (PFC)
• EMI and over-voltage protection
• Active Filters and Harmonics
• Power Supplies
• High Voltage Engineering and Insulation Technology
• Power Delivery
• Illumination
• Power Electronics Components and Packaging
• Inverter and Converter Technology
• Electric Drivers and Application
• Electronic Materials
• Education and Training for Electrical Engineers
• Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)
• Power integrated circuits (PIC)
• Power engineering related technologies
• Power System & Energy Engineering
• Power System Protection, Operation and Control
• Transmission & Distribution System and Apparatus
• Power System Stability
• Power System Modeling, Simulation and Analysis
• Electromagnetic Transients Programs (EMTP)
• FACTS Power quality issues, harmonic problems and solutions

Circuits and Electronics

• Analog Circuits
• Digital Circuits
• Mixed Signal Circuits
• Nonlinear Circuits and Systems
• Filters and Data Conversion Circuits
• RF and Wireless Circuits
• Photonic and Optoelectronic Circuits
• Low Power Design and VLSI Physical Design
• Biomedical Circuits
• Assembly and Packaging
• System Test and Reliability
• Electromagnetic Compatibility
• Optoelectronic photonic devices
• Power semiconductors, passive components and packaging technologies
• Switch-mode power supplies and UPS
• Advanced Technologies (i.e. MEMS and Nano-electronic Devices)

Power Electronics and Drives,

• Power electronics in traction and automotive
• Bearingless drive technologies
• Applications of power electronics in home appliance,
• Modeling and simulation in power electronics
• Power electronics education/professional development
• Telecommunications power supplies
• Electronics, Information & Control Systems
• Electrical Machines and Adjustable Speed Drives
• AC and DC Machines and Drives,
• Reluctance machines and drives
• Permanent magnet machines and drives
• Linear machines and drives
• Sensorless control
• Piezo and electrostatic actuators,
• Maintenance and Fault Diagnosis
• Electrical Vehicles
• EMC related phenomena
• Electrical Machines
• Control Theory and Applications
• Intelligent Systems and Approach
• Motor drives and motion control
• Analysis and design of electrical machines

Digital Signal, Image and Video Processing

• Acoustic and vibration signal processing;
• Advanced circuit and system design and implementation
• Biomedical imaging and image processing;
• Biomedical signal processing; Biometrics;
• Communication signal processing;
• Data processing;
• Detection and estimation;
• Digital signal and data processing;
• Diverse functionalities and services
• Earth resources signal processing;
• Efficient media sharing schemes in distributed environments;
• Emotion detection;
• Environmental signal processing;
• Facial recognition systems;
• Fast and complexity-reducing mechanisms to support real-time systems;
• Feature extraction;
• Image processing:
• Speech and audio coding;
• Speech and speaker recognition;
• Speech based emotion recognition;
• signal processing for audio;
• Video processing;
• Visual and performance arts;

Telecommunication System and Technology

• Communication Networks
• Wireless Communications
• Mobile Communications
• Infrastructure for Next Generation Networks
• Information & Communication
• Optical Communications
• Internet Technologies
• Communication Software
• Ad-Hoc
• Sensing and Sensor Networks
• Antenna and Microwave
• Modulation and Signal Processing for Telecommunication
• Information Theory and Coding
• Radar Imaging
• Communication Network and Systems,
• Telematics Services
• Security Network and Radio Communication
• Satellite and Space Communications
• Emerging Communication Technology and Standards

Automation, Instrumentation and Control Engineering
Adaptive controls; Advanced computing for measurement; Advanced control techniques; Advanced manufacturing systems; Applications of control theory in industry; Automated guided vehicles; Automatic process control; Automation and controls; Automation industrial applications; Autonomous and vehicle systems; Biomechatronics biosensors; Complex adaptive systems; Control and automation; Control and intelligent systems; Control networks; Control stochastic; Control system; Control theory and applications; Correction elements; Digital control; Distributed control; Dynamic simulation Man/Machine interface; Fault detection and isolation; Fieldbus technology and interfaces; Frequency response; Hybrid and switching control; Image-based control; Industrial automation; Instrumentation system elements; Linear and nonlinear control systems; Manufacturing systems and automation; Mathematical control theory; Measurement techniques; Mechatronics; Modelling and identification; Optimization and optimal control; PLC system; Predictive control; Process automation; Process control and instrumentation; Process controllers; Process optimization and scheduling; Recent developments in automation and control; Recent trends in control systems; Robotics and applications; Robotics and controls; Robust control; Sampled-data control systems and digital control; Sensors; Stirling engine electric power generation programme; Stochastic control and filtering; System identification and control; System models; System response; Systems and automation; Transducer principles; Transfer function; Underwater echo and source location; Virtual instrumentation and control; Wireless sensor network for real-time device control;

Computer Science and Information Technology
Algorithms and bioinformatics; Algorithms and data structures; Algorithms and theory sequence; Analog computing; Anti-spam mail; Anti-virus issues; Approximate computing; Authentication or authorization issues; Bioinformatics; Blockchain; Business and technical communications; Business process; Case studies and experimental and theoretical evaluations; Cloud computing (runtime systems, parallel and distributed systems, virtualization, and software-hardware interactions); Cognitive systems; Computational complexity; Computational engineering, finance, and data science; Computational theory & mathematics, geometry, and linguistics; Computer architecture and engineering; Computer architecture; Computer components and interconnection networks; Computer graphics, visualization and computer-aided design; Computer network security; Computer networks and communications; Computer organizations and architectures (multicores, accelerators, application-specific, processing-in-memory, near-data processing, and datacenters); Computer science and game theory; Computer science applications; Computer security and cryptography; Computer security; Computer vision; Computer-human interaction; Concurrent, parallel and distributed systems; Cryptography and security; Data and knowledge level modelling; Data structures, algorithms, manipulation, retrieval, storage, transmission, communication and mining; Database systems, dependable, reliable and autonomic computing; Databases, digital libraries, discrete mathematics, distributed, parallel, and cluster computing; Data base management systems (DBMS); Dependable computing; Dependable, reliable and autonomic computing; Digital fabrication; Distributed and parallel systems & algorithms, embedded system and software; Distributed computing system; E-business applications; E-commerce; Edge computing; Ethics & professional practice; Firewall; Formal languages and automata theory; Functional programming; Game and software engineering; Game construction; Geographical information systems/global navigation satellite systems (GIS/GNSS); Graphics and human-computer interaction; Grid and scalable computing; High performance computing; Human-computer interaction; Human-machine interface; Implementation of computer languages; Information, coding theory and communications technology; Information management practices; Information retrieval; Information science; Information search engine; Information systems; Information theory, learning, logic in computer science, and mathematical software; Intelligent information & database systems; Internet service architectures; Internet trust and privacy; IT governance; IT infrastructure management; IT policy and business management, mobile and ubiquitous computing; IT project management; Knowledge based management system; Knowledge discovery in data; Management and information security; Mobile and ubiquitous computing; Mobile computing; Mobile processing; Mobile, wireless networks and mobile computing; Multiagent systems; Multimedia security; Multimedia systems and services; Network engineering; Networking and communications, parallel and distributed systems; Networking and internet architecture; Networking technology; Networks and distributed systems; Neuromorphic computing; New and important applications and trends; Next generation media; Next network generation; Numerical and symbolic computation; Object oriented systems analysis and design; Online multimedia; Operating systems, performance and programming languages; Parallel and distributed systems; Parallel computing; Performance, fault tolerance, reliability, security, and testability; Pervasive computing; Programming (programming methodology and paradigm); Programming languages; Quantum computing; Scientific computing; Scientific visualization; Security and cryptography; Security and information assurance; Server administration & maintenance; Software developments; Software engineering (software: lifecycle, management, engineering process, engineering tools and methods); Software engineering, web and internet computing; Software systems; Specification, design, prototyping, and testing methods and tools; Stochastic systems; Symbolic computation; Systems analysis; Theory of computation; User interface design and evaluation; Virtual and augmented reality; Web and internet computing; Web based information systems; Web development; Wireless security system;

Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
Agent systems; AI algorithms; AI in modelling, simulation, scheduling and optimization; Ant algorithm; Ant colony optimization; Approximate reasoning (possibility theory, mathematical theory of evidence, fuzzy common knowledge); Artificial intelligence (theory, tools and applications); Artificial neural network (ANN); Automated reasoning, inference, and logic programming; Autonomous reasoning; Bayesian network; Bayesian statistics; Bioinformatics; Bio-inspired systems; Biologically inspired computing; Brain emotional learning; Business intelligence; Chaos theory; Chaotic systems; Cognitive science; Complex systems theory; Computational creativity; Computational theories of learning; Computer vision and speech understanding; Data and web mining; Data mining and machine learning tools; Decision support system; Deep learning; Derivative-free optimization algorithms; Differential evolution; Distributed intelligent processing; Early cybernetics and brain simulation; Emotional intelligence; Evolutionary and swarm algorithms; Evolutionary computing; Expert system; Fuzzy logics (many-valued logics, type-2 fuzzy logics, intuitionistic fuzzy logics); Fuzzy mathematics (fuzzy differential equations, fuzzy real analysis, fuzzy topology, fuzzy algebra); Fuzzy modelling and control; Fuzzy optimization (possibilistic programming, fuzzy linear and nonlinear programming, fuzzy stochastic optimization); Fuzzy set theory; Fuzzy sets (fuzzy numbers, extension principle, fuzzy rough sets, fuzzy competence sets); Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic; Fuzzy statistical analysis (fuzzy random variables, fuzzy regression analysis, fuzzy reliability analysis, fuzzy times series); Fuzzy systems (fuzzy control, fuzzy neural networks, genetic fuzzy systems, hybrid intelligent systems); Genetic algorithm; Genetic programming; Heuristic and AI planning strategies and tools; Heuristics (ant colony optimization, artificial immune systems, genetic algorithms, particle swarm intelligence, simulated annealing, Tabu search); Hidden Markov model; Hybrid intelligent systems; Hybrid neural network; Hybrid systems (the fusion of fuzzy systems and computational intelligence); Hybridization of intelligent models/algorithms; Intelligent agents; Intelligent controller; Intelligent database systems; Intelligent information retrieval; Intelligent planning; Intelligent search; Intelligent system; Interval analysis (real interval arithmetics, complex interval arithmetics, interval equations); Interval computation (matrix computation with intervals, systems of interval equations); Interval mathematics (metric topology for intervals, interval integrals, interval differential equations); Kalman filter; Knowledge representation; Knowledge-based systems; Machine intelligence; Machine learning techniques; Metaheuristic; Miscellaneous (fuzzy data mining, fuzzy biomedical systems, pattern recognition, fuzzy clustering, information retrieval, chaotic systems); Morphic computing; Multi-agent systems; Multimedia and cognitive informatics; Multi-objective optimization; Nano and micro-systems; Natural intelligence; Natural language processing (NLP); Neural computing; Neural net systems; Neural network theory and architectures; Neural science; Neural systems; Neuro-informatics and bio-inspired models; Nouvelle AI; Operations research (fuzzy games, fuzzy inventory models, fuzzy queueing theory, fuzzy scheduling problems); Parallel and distributed realization of intelligent algorithms/systems; Parallel processing; Particle swarm optimization (PSO); Perceptron; Pervasive computing and ambient intelligence; Probabilistic models; Probabilistic reasoning; Randomized search; Reactive distributed AI; Reasoning and evolution; Recurrent neural network (RCN); Regression trees; Rough sets; Semantic web techniques and technologies; Soft computing theory and applications; Software agents; Superintelligence; Supervised and unsupervised learning; Support vector machines (SVM); Swarm intelligence and systems; Symbolic AI; Symbolic machine learning; Vision or pattern recognition; Vision recognition; Visual/linguistic perception;

Internet of Things, Big Data and Cloud Computing
Algorithms for energy-efficient, fast and secure computing in clouds; Application domains of data science and analytics in the cloud; Architectures for mobile cloud applications and services; Big data and internet of things (IoT) on the cloud; Big data applications and services; Big data computing; Big data management; Big data mining; Big data security; Business, legal, economic and operational aspects of cloud applications; Cloud applications performance and monitoring; Cloud architecture for big data; Cloud computing platforms, applications and management; Cloud federation and hybrid cloud infrastructure; Cloud foundations for connected devices and real-time analytics; Cloud infrastructure for social networking with big data; Cloud security and privacy management; Cloud traffic characterization, engineering, measurements and control-plane architectures; Cloud, utility, edge and serverless computing paradigms; Cloud-native applications and self-management in clouds; Clouds for big data and high-performance computing; Collaboration in mobile clouds; Content and service distribution; Data analysis and visualization for IoT; Data center network management, reliability, optimization; Data flow management and load balancing; Data storage in clouds; Disaster recovery in mobile clouds; Distributed data center architectures and services, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS; Distributed file storage system with cloud for big data; Economic, social and environmental impact of mobile clouds; Energy efficiency in clouds; Energy-efficient data centers and networks; Fault tolerance and reliability for big data processing on cloud; Green data centers and cloud networking; Green, energy-efficient models and sustainability issues in cloud for big data processing; Hybrid cloud computing; Innovative cloud data centre networking for big data; Inter-cloud technology for big data; Internet routing of cloud data; Intra-cloud vs. Inter-cloud management; IoT services and applications; Large-scale data intensive workflow in support of big data processing on cloud; Machine learning on big data; MapReduce with cloud for big data processing; Mobile cloud computing; Mobile cloud computing for rich media applications; Mobile cloud monitoring and management; Mobile cloud networking; Mobile cloud software architecture; Mobile device virtualization; Mobile networks for cloud computing; Mobile vehicular clouds; Modelling and simulation of large-scale cloud deployments; Multi-cloud management, aggregation and resource sharing; Multiple source data processing and integration on cloud; Network programmability, software-defined networks; Networking and communication protocols for IoT; Performance evaluation and modeling for IoT; Performance evaluation of mobile cloud computing and networks; Physical security and data location; Process offloading for mobile cloud computing; Resource scheduling and sla for big data on cloud; Scalability of mobile cloud networks; Scalable big data frameworks, platforms and visualisation solutions; Security and privacy in mobile clouds; Security, privacy and trust in big data processing on cloud; Security, privacy and trust in IoT; Security, privacy, and confidentiality in cloud networking; self-organizing mobile clouds; Sensor networks, remote diagnosis and development; Service discovery and interest matching in mobile cloud; Services computing; Software engineering for cloud-native applications and systems; Storage and computation management in cloud for big data; Storage area networks, optical interconnect, fiber channels; Technological focus for smart environments; Trends in mobile cloud applications and services; Unified user and machine mobility management; User friendly cloud access for big data processing; Virtual ethernet switching, data center bridging; Virtualization and visualization of big data on cloud; Virtualization, containerization and acceleration technologies; Virtualization of network equipment; Virtualization of resources in clouds; Wireless and mobility support in cloud data center for big data;