Recent rapid advancements in information and computer science present both challenges and opportunities for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. New methods, techniques, and tools proposed from areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining help address challenging and complex problems more accurately and efficiently. On the other hand, challenges in handling and exploiting a huge amount of available data, in data security, and in realizing these advancements to serve societies, just to name a few, remain to be resolved. There are also needs for realizing these advancements in information and computer science to support the digital transformation efforts around the world.

NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS) is an international forum for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to present and discuss recent advancements and future directions in addressing challenging problems in the field of information and computer science. NICS is organized annually by the Vietnam’s National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED).

NICS 2020 is jointly sponsored by IEEE, NAFOSTED, and Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh city (VNU-HCMC). The conference will be hosted by the University of Science, VNU-HCMC on November 26-27, 2020 and in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

Objectives And Topics

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