GENERAL INFORMATION
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Following the distinctive success of IMTIC '08 published by Springer CCIS series and indexed by DBLP, IMTIC '12 will continue its tradition in Education Hub of Pakistan. IMTIC '12 is jointly organized by Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan, Aalborg University, Denmark and Erasmus Mundus, Mobility for Life program. It is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding novel aspects of technology, application and service development within the multidisciplinary fields of Information and Communication Technologies.

IMTIC '12 aims to bring together a wide spectrum of international experts to facilitate a creative environment for the promotion of collaboration and knowledge transfer. In particular it will facilitate a dialogue between major industry players, entrepreneurs and academia to help create a roadmap for the development of tangible research environment in the country.

The conference programme will consist of keynote speakers from both industry and academia and panel discussion. There will be opportunities to attend interactive, high quality, peer reviewed sessions which will provide detailed insights from forward thinkers working in the themes of the conference. Additionally, there will be an exhibition for both international and niche market to display their latest products and services and to undertake a range of networking opportunities.

The proceedings of IMTIC 2012 conference will be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series by Springer.
Additionally, the extended version of selected papers will be published as especial issue in reputed indexed journals.

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IMTIC'12 TOPICS
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Authors are solicited to submit complete unpublished papers in the following, but not limited to, topic areas:

- Computing and Wireless Communication
- Computer Systems and Networks
- Signal Processing, Speech and Pattern Recognition
- Data/Web mining and knowledge discovery
- Data and information quality Control
- Deep Web
- Digital libraries
- Emerging Web technologies
- Heterogeneous systems
- Information retrieval and security
- Multimedia information systems
- Parallel and distributed database systems
- SW/HW Support for Parallel Processing
- Autonomous/Multi-agent Systems
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Neural Networks
- FPGA & ASICS
- Intelligent Systems
- Robotics
- Simulation and Modelling
- Optical Wireless and Communications
- Brain Computer Interface
- Semantic Computing
- Security, privacy and trust
- Wireless Sensor networks
- Mobile adhoc networks
- Vehicular adhoc networks
- Service-oriented computing
- Spatial and temporal databases
- Social networking
- Web search and meta-search
- Human Computer Interaction
- Power Electronics
- Energy Management
- Electrical Machines
- Power Quality
- Model Checking and Model-based diagnosis
- Electronic Systems and Devices

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
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Authors are invited to submit a full paper electronically as PDF files through Easy Chair (http://www.easychair.org/). The direct link for paper submission is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imtic11. Details about the submission process including formatting instructions will be available at the conference website, http://www.muet.edu.pk/imtic. All submitted papers are subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members. Accepted papers for presentation in the conference will appear in the proceedings which will be available to the participants during the conference. More details will be made available in subsequent announcements and on our website. There will be Best Paper Awards for outstanding contributed papers. The proceedings of IMTIC'12 conference will be published by Springer (pending for approval). Additionally, the extended version of selected papers will be published as especial issue in reputed indexed journals.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for paper submission: 15th November, 2011
Notification of acceptance: 09th December, 2011
Camera-ready manuscript submission: 13th January, 2012
Early bird Registration: 29th February, 2012
Conference: 28-30 March, 2012


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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TPC Chair(s):
Dr. Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry, MUET, Pakistan
Dr. Faisal Karim Shaikh, MUET, Pakistan
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TPC Co-chair (North America)
Prof. Dr. Roshan Shaikh, Aisoft Inc, United States of America

TPC Co-chair (Europe)
Dr. Abdelmajid Khelil, Technische Universit�t Darmstadt, Germany
Dr. Nick Harris, Uni. of Southampton, United Kingdom

TPC Co-chair (Middle East)
Prof. Dr. Shakeel Laghari, UAE University, United Arab Emirates

TPC Co-chair (Australia)
Dr. Margaret Lech, RMIT University, Australia

TPC Co-chair (Asia Pecific)
Prof. Dr. Mukhtiar A. Unar, MUET, Pakistan
Prof. Dr. Assadullah Shah, Int. Islamic Uni. of Malaysia, Malaysia

TPC Co-chair (Africa)
Prof. Bigomokero Antoine BAGULA, Uni. of Cape Town, South Africa.

For full list of TPC Members kindly check here http://muet.edu.pk/imtic/committees/tpc

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Please send any enquiry regarding IMTIC'12 to imtic-helpdesk@admin.muet.edu.pk