The 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, ICICS 2013 Organized by Jordan University of Science and Technology April 23-25 2013, Irbid, Jordan http://www.icics.info/icics2013 IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Submission: Dec. 1st, 2012 Notification of Decision: Jan. 20th, 2013 Registration and Camera-Ready: Feb. 15th, 2013 Poster Presentation Submission: Feb. 15th, 2013 GENERAL INFORMATION ===================== The International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2013) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in all areas of Computer and Information Sciences. The topics that will be covered in the ICICS 2013 include, but are not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Networking, Information Security and Cryptography, Intrusion Detection and Computer Forensics, Web Content Mining, Bioinformatics and IT Applications, Database Technology, Systems Integration, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Telecommunications, and Human-Computer Interaction. TOPICS ======= Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: Databases and Information Systems Integration Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Bioinformatics Data Mining Robotics and Autonomous Systems Knowledge Management & Natural Language Processing E-Business E-Learning Health Information Systems Applications of Fuzzy Logic Applications of Neural Network Data Warehouses & Human Computer Interaction Systems Engineering Methodologies Embedded Systems Software Engineering Software Measurement Algorithms and Applications Computer Architecture Computer Graphics VLSI and its applications Computer Networks Wireless and Mobile Computing & Computer Simulation Information Security Information Systems Semantic Web Technologies Multimedia and Image Processing Parallel and Distributed Systems Cloud Computing Pervasive and Adaptive Systems Reliability and Fault-Tolerance Internet and Collaborative Computing Nano Technology INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS =========================== Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers following the guidelines posted on the conference website http://www.icics.info/icics2013. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and prospective authors are expected to present their papers at the conference. The papers that are accepted and presented at the conference will appear in CD proceedings, in the ACM Digital Library (pending approval) and in DBLP. Best paper and best student paper will be selected by peer reviews and will be announced during the social event at the conference. Please submit your paper in PDF format via the electronic submission system available in EasyChair:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icics13. Prospective authors are expected to present their papers at the conference. Extended version of selected papers will be published in Journals like: • Journal of emerging technologies in web intelligence (JETWI, ISSN 1798-0461) • Network Protocols and Algorithms (ISSN 1943-3581) Please send any enquiry on ICICS 2013 to icics@just.edu.jo