AREA 1: INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS (IIOT) FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS
¡¤ Software Architecture and Middleware
¡¤ Context-Awareness and Location-Awareness
¡¤ Performance Evaluation and Modeling
¡¤ Networking and Communication Protocols
¡¤ Machine to Machine Communications
¡¤ Energy Efficiency
¡¤ Software Engineering for IoT and IoE
¡¤ Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches Data Analytics
¡¤ Technological Focus for Smart Environments
¡¤ Smart City Examples and Case Studies
¡¤ Architecture for Secure and Interactive IoT
¡¤ Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems for Vehicles, Green Systems and Smart City
¡¤ Sensor Networks, Remote Diagnosis and Development
¡¤ 5G, NVF, SDN and APIs for IoT
¡¤ Transportation Management Traffic Theory, Modeling and Simulation
¡¤ Social Implications for IoT Intelligent
¡¤ Systems for IoT and Services Computing
¡¤ Resilient and Secure IoT with real-world solutions
AREA 2: BIG DATA RESEARCH AND MULTI-DISCIPLINE SERVICES
¡¤ Big Data Fundamentals: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity and Value
¡¤ Modeling, Experiments, Sharing Technologies & Platforms
¡¤ Analytics, Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering
¡¤ Data Center Enabled Technologies
¡¤ Networking and Social Networks
¡¤ Data Management for Large Data
¡¤ Software Frameworks (MapReduce, Spark Etc) and Simulations
¡¤ Social Science and Implications for Big Data
¡¤ Smart City and Transportation
¡¤ Education and Learning
¡¤ Business, Finance and Management
¡¤ Social Networks Analysis, Media and eGovernment
¡¤ Risk Modeling, Simulation, Legal Challenges
¡¤ Case Studies of Real Adoption
¡¤ Biomedical Experiments and Simulations
¡¤ Healthcare Services and Health Informatics
¡¤ Security, Privacy, Trust and Risk
AREA 3: SUPPLY CHAIN FUNDAMENTALS
¡¤ Strategic supply chain management
¡¤ Sustainable supply chain management
¡¤ Green supply chain management
¡¤ Global supply chain management
¡¤ Lean/ flexible/ agile supply chain
¡¤ Supply chain risk management
¡¤ Supply chain management in an uncertain environment
¡¤ Supply chain cooperation and integration
¡¤ Supply chain project management
¡¤ Business logistics/ Logistics hubs
¡¤ Transportation/ distribution management
¡¤ Human resource management in supply chain
¡¤ Economics and financial management
¡¤ Marketing and Supply/ demand management
¡¤ Manufacturing or service systems design/ analysis
¡¤ Case studies of manufacturing/ service industries (including Automotive, Food, Tourism, Petroleum, Healthcare, Insurance and Banking, military supply chain, etc.)
AREA 4: ADVANCED SUPPLY CHAIN AND IIOT-BD INTEGRATION
¡¤ Optimization and decision making: methods and algorithms
¡¤ Inventory control, production planning and scheduling
¡¤ Artificial Intelligence and Expert System
¡¤ The role of information technology in supply chain management and decision making
¡¤ Big data and data mining in logistics and supply chain management
¡¤ Blockchain in logistics and supply chain management
¡¤ Internet of Things (IoT) in logistics and supply chain management
¡¤ Quality and productivity control and management of the supply chain manufacturing/ service processes
¡¤ Operations management and research
¡¤ Analysis of successful supply chain practices
¡¤ Supply chain 4.0 and Logistics 4.0
AREA 5: EMERGING AREAS
¡¤ Integration of high-tech and services (in any of AI, IoT, Big Data, Blockchain etc)
¡¤ Latest development in Blockchain
¡¤ Latest development mobile payment technologies with AI, IoT, Big Data and Blockchain
¡¤ 5G/6G and Fog/Edge Computing with AI, IoT, Big Data and Blockchain
¡¤ Facial recognition
¡¤ Emerging and Future Business Models, Operations, Case Studies and Recommendations
¡¤ Industry 4.0 and 5.0