The International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT) is specialised conference that is held regularly in the Arab homeland and focuses on technical and scientific research. The Colleges of Computing and Information Society (CCIS) from the Association of Arab Universities has a major role to play in ACIT. The ACIT 2011 will be held at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from December 11 – 14, 2011, under the supervision of Naif Arab University for Security Science (NAUSS), Riyadh.
ACIT 2011 invites researchers to submit papers that will be presented at the conference and published at appropriate journals.
About ACIT’2011
ACIT’2011 is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research, results, ideas, developments, and applications in all areas of information technology. This conference is considered the official scientific conference for the Colleges of Computer and Information Society. ACIT’2011 will include presentations to contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. Panel sessions on current issues related to information technology will be organized. Tutorials on current issues and special sessions on new trends related to information technology and software industry could be organized.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: AI & Expert Systems; Algorithms & Applications; Natural Lang. Processing (Arabic); Bioinformatics; Computer Architecture; Computer Ethics; Computer Graphics; Computer Networks; Computer Simulation; Database Systems; Decision Support Systems; Digital Telecommunications; E-Commerce; E-Learning; Geographic Information Systems; Human Computer Interaction; Information Security; Information Systems; Web semantics; IT & Society; Machine Learning; Multimedia & Image Processing; Neural Networks; Parallel & Distributed Systems; Pattern Recognition; Reliability & Fault-Tolerance; Remote Sensing; Software Engineering; Virtual Reality Systems; and Pervasive & adaptative systems.
Submission of Papers
Researchers should submit a full paper describing their work, maximum of 8 single-spaced double column pages that also include illustrations. The first page should include the paper title, a brief abstract, a set of keywords, and text. Be sure not to include the authors’ names in your paper. The abstract should be concise and not longer than 250 words. Immediately following the abstract, no more than six keywords are to be supplied for subject indexing. Keywords should not simply be taken from the title of the paper, but should be representative of the content of the whole paper and characteristic of the terminology used within the particular field of study. The introduction of the paper must be clearly written and should explain the nature of the problem, previous work, purpose and the contribution of the paper. The introduction is assigned number “1”, and following sections are assigned numbers as needed. A conclusion section must be included and should indicate clearly the advantages, limitations, possible applications, and future work. The references section is not assigned a number. References should be numbered in alphabetical order by the first author’s last name. Citations in the text should be by number and enclosed in square brackets.
The authors of best papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in an appropriate journal.
Evaluation Process
The evaluation of submitted papers is based on the importance and usefulness of the research topic. Technical merits, novelty of the approach, soundness of results, and clarity of presentation are also considered as factors of the evaluation process. Each article will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees.
Last date for submitting the applications is July 30, 2011.
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