Conference Areas

AREA 1 :Big Data

- Big data mining
- Big data scalability and reliability
- Big data security
- Big sensor data management
- Managing and mining data in cloud computing
- Managing and mining social networking data
- Privacy in big data
- Others

AREA 2 : Biomedical Engineering

- Biosignal sensors and signal processing
- Body Area Network (BAN) for medicine and healthcare
- eHealth systems and pervasive healthcare
- Preventive care & long-term patient management
- Privacy and security issues for biomedicine
- Smart textiles for wearable BAN
- Telemedicine and Telemonitoring
- Wearable and implantable devices/systems
- Others

AREA 3 : Cloud Computing

- Access Control
- Cloud Computing Security
- Intrusion Detection Methodologies and Applications
- Reliable Computing
- Trust Model and Trust Management Policy
- Trusted Computing
- Others

AREA 4 : Information Systems

- Applications of Information Theory
- Business Process Change
- Deductive vs Inductive Approaches
- Enterprise Application Integration
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Ethical, social, privacy, security and moral issues in an e-society
- IS and Change Management
- IS and Organisation Development
- IS Quality Management and Assurance
- Knowledge Management
- Multi-Terminal Information Theory
- Organisational IS Roles
- Outsourcing Risks, Barriers and Opportunities
- Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods
- Risk Management in IS Design and Development
- Others

AREA 5 : Multimedia

- Compression algorithms
- Crowdsourcing in multimedia systems and applications
- Human-centered approaches to mobile and multi-device interaction with multimedia
- Mobile augmented and mixed reality
- Mobile multimedia services
- Novel multimedia interfaces and technologies for multi-device interaction
- Novel multimedia service architectures
- Others

AREA 6 : Security and Internet of Things

- Communication networks
- Future networks and architectures
- Green the IoT
- IoT applications and services development
- Learning Automats Methodologies and Applications
- Machine-to-machine communications
- Metrics, Measurement and Evaluation of the IoT
- Modelling and simulation of communications networks
- Network architecture and system design for the IoT
- Algorithms and data analysis techniques for the IoT
- Security, Trust and Privacy in the IoT
- Sensor and Actuator Networks
- Wireless and mobile networking
- Others

AREA 7 : Robotics

- Cognitive Approach for Robotics
- Collective and Social Robots
- Engineering Applications
- Humanoid Robots
- Human-Robots Interfaces
- Industrial Networks and Automation
- Intelligent Transportation Technologies and Systems
- Mechatronics Systems
- Physical Sensors
- Grasping and Manipulation
- Mobile Robots and Intelligent Autonomous Systems
- Network Robotics
- Surveillance, Fault detection and Diagnosis
- Others

AREA 8 : Software Engineering and Applications in Business and Social Sciences

- Next frontiers of Software Engineering: use of big data
- Rapid Application Development for Mobile
- Service Oriented Architectures
- Software Architectures and Engineering for Novel Systems
- Software Engineering for Mobile Systems
- Software Engineering for the Web
- Software testing
- System Software for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems
- Others

AREA 9 : Applications in Business and Social Sciences

- Applications using human-computer interaction
- Business engineering
- Business intelligence
- Business studies of applications and technology
- Crowd sensing
- Enterprise computing and applications
- Mobile phone sensing
- Opinion mining
- Pervasive computing
- Social and Community Intelligence
- Social aspects and issues of applications and technology
- Social Behaviour Modelling
- Social engineering
- Social network analysis
- Social Opinion Representation
- Others

AREA 10 : Industry Relations

- Venture Capital Model' and 'willingness to invest' in the presented proposals
- Fiji industry, academia and students have a mechanism to participate as equal partners and in harmony
- Showcasing of technology and science needs, wants and capabilities
- An 'international' perspective' with the context being 'Fiji
- External concepts and partnerships are able to be fostered ( e.g. conference attendees: industry, academia, students etc) to progress Fiji items to in the evening which are not expensive
- Opportunities for venture capital initiatives are able to be showcased
- Technology transfer through leadership and management