Sessions and Themes

Theme 1: Technology and Infrastructure

  • Approaches to Applications development
  • Mobile and Ubiquitous devices and pervasive environment
  • Application design
  • Data mining
  • E-Business
  • E-Learning
  • Semantic Web
  • Distributed Knowledge Management
  • Technology and Platform analysis
  • Global Pervasive computing issues
  • Emerging trends
  • Other related topics
 

Theme 2: Human-Computer Interaction

  • Global Pervasive computing issues
  • Trends in  HCI techniques
  • Usability evaluation
  • Personalisation of interfaces
  • Interface designs for pervasive technologies
  • Aesthetics and emotions in computing
  • Online and Pervasive communities
  • Interface design implications
  • Human psychology and social aspects of  computing and applications
  • Other related topics
 

Theme 3: Applications and Services

  • Education and training
  • Entertainment
  • Shopping
  • Work
  • Innovative advertising
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Health services
  • Business intelligence
  • Other related applications and services
 

Theme 4: Management

  • Theory and Practice
  • Technology Management
  • Technology Transfer
  • Change management
  • Marketing Management
  • Financial Management
  • Human resource management
  • Knowledge management
 

Theme 5: Business Models and Structures

  • Emerging business models
  • Changing Industry structures
  • Organisation structures
  • Job structures
  • Transaction Processing
  • Effect on different functional areas like Marketing, accounting etc.
  • Other related topics
 

Theme 6:Assistive technology for independent living and healthcare

  • Smart homes and buildings
  • Domotics
  • Wearable computing
  • Pervasive computing in home
  • Personal environments for independent living and health care
 

Theme 7: Pervasive Computing in Scientific Research and Production

  • Bio-informatics
  • Genetics
  • Micro-biology
  • Agriculture sciences
  • Health sciences
  • Engineering
  • Animal sciences
  • Soil sciences
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Other areas
 

Theme 8: Marketing and Advertising

  • Innovative marketing and advertising approaches
  • Value driven marketing
  • Measurement of Marketing effectiveness
  • Pervasive services
  • Brand management in online and pervasive environment
  • Online presence
  • Measurement of effectiveness of new mobile media, the web and digital marketing
  • Measuring Effectiveness of new- mobile media, the Web and Digital Marketing
 

Theme 9: Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management

  • Pervasive business intelligence
  • Data interpretation tools
  • Data mining
  • Performance management tools
  • Data integration tools
  • Designing and delivering rich reports at different levels
  • Knowledge management
  • Other related topics
 

Theme 10: Privacy, Security, Integrity, Ethics and Legal Issues

  • Privacy in ubiquitous environment
  • Security of resources
  • Development of secure systems
  • Corporate fraud
  • Corporate secrecy
  • Contemporary cultural, social, political and legal aspects
  • Importance of data integrity
  • Computer crime
 

Theme 11: Topics not Covered in other Tracks Like

  • Project management
  • Auditing
  • Feasibility study
  • Intellectual property
  • Business process re-engineering
  • E-business
  • Quality management
  • Operations management
  • Technology transfer
  • E-governance
  • Small-medium enterprises
  • Home-based industry
  • Other topics
 

Theme: 12 Workshop on “Academic Writing and Research Skills".

Workshop on “Academic Writing and Research Skills".
  • Academic writing styles
  • Importance of Citation in academic writing
  • Enhancing Creativity and innovation in research writing Methods.
  • Writing research papers/theses/dissertations
  • Research methods6. Comparing various citation methods