Symposium on Emerging Topics in Computing and Communications (SETCAC'15)

Important Dates
Full Paper Due: September 30, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: October 25, 2015 Final Version Due: November 20, 2015 Conference Registration Due: November 15, 2015

The Symposium on Emerging Topics in Computing and Communications (SETCAC'15) aims to provide an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their original research results, practical experiences and thoughts on emerging topics in computing and communications. The Symposium is co-affiliated with first International Conference on Computing and Network Communications (CoCoNet'15). CoCoNet'15 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society.

Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality papers representing original results in the emerging areas of computing and communications. Acceptance of papers will be communicated to authors by email.

Authors should submit their papers online using EDAS. Unregistered authors should first create an account on EDAS to log on. Further guidelines for submission are posted at the Submisison page.

Major topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:

5G Mobile Wireless Internet
Architectures for Signal and Information Processing
Autonomic Communications
Cloud Communications and Networking
Computational Networks
Computational Paradigms and Architectures for Multicore Platforms
Data Analytics and Visualization
Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems
Digital Image and Video Forensics
Educational Computing
Enterprise Computing Systems
Genetics and Genomics
Hardware and Embedded System Security
Health-Care IT
Humanoid Robots
Intelligent Transportation Systems
IT for Green and Green IT
Location-Based Computer Systems
Low-Power Image Recognition
Massively Multiplayer Online Games Technologies and Applications
Morphic Computer Design
Multilingual Information Access Systems
Nano-Scale, Molecular and Quantum Networking
Near-Field Communications
Performance Modeling and Analysis
Photonic and Quantum Computing
Security and Information Assurance
Semantic Computing
Sensor-Centric Processing
Situation Management
Social/Occupational Computing
Surveillance Systems and Applications
Synthetic and Organic Computing Structures and Systems
Machine Learning
Biologically-inspired Computing
Neuroinformatics and bioinformatics
Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience
Computing with Words
Artificial Immune Systems
Memetic Computing
Software Agents and Multi-agent Systems
New Paradigms in Ad-Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks
Emerging Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems
Smart Grid Communications
Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization
Vehicular Networks and Telematics Applications
Internet of Things (IoT) and Mobile Edge Computing

All accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. At least one full paying author of each accepted paper must register for the Conference before the indicated deadline. All accepted papers MUST be presented at the conference by one of the authors, or, if none of the authors are able to attend, by a qualified surrogate.

Accepted Papers

SETCAC'15 - Regular Papers

Policy-based Monitoring and Energy Management for NFV Data Centers
Ram (Ramki) Krishnan (Dell & JnanaEdge, USA); Tim Hinrichs (Styra, USA); Dilip Krishnaswamy (IBM Research, India); Ruby Krishnaswamy (Orange Labs, France)

Pipelined Implementation of High Radix Adaptive CORDIC as a Coprocessor
Saharsh Oza (National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal, India); Ankit Shah (National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal & Graduate Engineer at ARM Embedded, India); Tarun Thokala (National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal, India); Sumam David (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India)

Electrocardiogram Signal Enhancement Using an Efficient Sign Regressor Error Normalized Variable Step Size Adaptive Algorithm
Thumbur Gowri (GITAM University, India); P. Rajesh Kumar (Andhra University, India)

Cloud Forensic Investigation: A Sneak-Peek into Acquisition
Bksp Kumar Raju (BITS Pilani Hyderabad, India); Meera G (Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India); Geethakumari G (BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, India)

Generalized and Constraint Specific Composite Facial Search Model for Effective Web Image Mining
Kapil Juneja (IEEE Member, India)

Secure Transmission of Data by Splitting Image
Jitha T (University Of Calicut, India); E Sivadasan (University of Calicut, India)

Secure and QoS Aware Architecture for Cloud Using Software Defined Networks and Hadoop
Abhijeet Desai (PESIT, India); Ninikrishna T (CMRIT, Bangalore Visvesvaraya Technologival University & RVCE, Bangalore Visvesvaraya Technologival University, India); Nagegowda S (PESIT, India)

SETCAC'15 - Short Papers

Performance of a STBC-CDMA System in a Fading Channel
Olanrewaju B Wojuola (University of KwaZul-Natal, South Africa); Stanley H. Mneney (University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa); Viranjay M Srivastava (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban & South Africa, South Africa)

A Novel Hybrid MPPT Algorithm Using Linear Extrapolation
Sivaramakrishnan S (Larsen and Toubro Limited, India)

Modeling and Analysis of Routing in IoT Networks
Sriram Sankaran (Amrita University, India); Ramalingam Sridhar (University at Buffalo, USA)

Random Grid Based Visual Cryptography Using a Common Share
Sruthy Joseph (MG University, India); Ramesh R (Asiet Kalady, India)

Automated Cervical Cancer Detection through RGVF Segmentation and SVM Classification
Sajeena A (MG University, India); Jereesh S (NIT CALICUT, India)

Application of Residue Number System in the Generation of PN-Sequences for CDMA Systems
Jilu James (Mahatma Gandhi University, India); Ameenudeen Pe (National Institute Of Technology Calicut, India); Sreejith Vasu (MG University, India); Vipin V (Choondacherry & St Josephs College of Engineering and Technology, India)

An Innovative Lemmatization Technique for Bangla Nouns by Using Longest Suffix Stripping Methodology in Decreasing Order
Alok Pal (College of Engineering & Management, Kolaghat, India); Niladri Sekhar Dash (Indian Statistical Institute & Chief Editor, Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies, India); Diganta Saha (Jadavpur University, India)

Dense Dielectric Patch Antenna with Parasitic Elements for Wireless Application
Bindhu S (Fisat, MG University, India); Basil Jeemon (Fisat, India); Manu CM (Fisat, MG University, India)

Platform LMDPRO: Contribution to the Quality, the Performance and the Follow-Up of the Learners in Higher Education in Senegal
Alassane Diop (University Alioune Diop of Bambey, Senegal)

A Low Area & low power SOC design for the Baseband Demodulator of an Indoor Local Positioning System
Sudhir Rao Rupanagudi, Varsha Bhat, Bhavana N, Anirudh Venkatesan and Supriya S (WorldServe Education, India); Shushrutha Raj N and Navyashree C (SJBIT, India); Ashuli Jairaj, Renu Devi and Shalini R (APSCE, India)

TPC Members/Additional Reviewers

Annie Gravey, Institut Mines Telecom - Telecom Bretagne, France

Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China

Gayathri Singh, Queen's University, Canada

Binod Kumar, JSPM's Jayawant Technical Campus, Pune, India

Go Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan

Francesco Carpine, Relatech Group, Italy

Aniruddha Bhattacharjya, Guru Nanak Institute of Technology (GNIT), India

Qammer Abbasi, Texas A & M University, Qatar

Biju Issac, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Eddy Caron, ENS-Lyon, France

Monish Chatterjee, Asansol Engineering College, India

Zbigniew Dziong, École de technologie supérieure, University of Quebec, Canada

Mohammad Rashed Iqbal Faruque, Senior Lecturer, Malaysia

Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Dimitrios Karras, Sterea Hellas Institute of Technology, Athens, Greece

Muhammad Khandaker, University College London, United Kingdom

Chu-Hsing Lin, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Marco Listanti, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy

Yusuke Nojima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

Antonio Pescapé, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy

Amir Rastegarnia, Malayer University, Iran

Gianluca Rizzo, HES SO Valais, Switzerland

Sandra Sendra, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Sanjay Singh, Manipal Institute of Technology, India

Viranjay Srivastava, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Ravi Subban, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India

Yue Wu, Sichuan University, P.R. China

Hong Xu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Chau Yuen, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Joy Bose, Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore, India

Nanda Kishore Chavali, Uurmi Systems Pvt. Ltd., India

Su Fong Chien, MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia

Wei-Chiang Hong, Oriental Institute of Technology, Taiwan

Mohammed Kaabar, Washington State University, USA

Amiza Rasmi, TM Research & Development, Malaysia

Ioannis Stiakogiannakis, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., France

Jia-Chin Lin, National Central University, Taiwan

Shusuke Narieda, National Institute of Technology, Akashi College, Japan

Waleed Abdulla, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Arun Agarwal, University of Hyderabad, India

Javier Aguiar, University of Valladolid, Spain

Bahareh Asadi, Azad University, Iran

Bipin Balakrishnan, Amrita, India

Abdelkader Belkhir, USTHB University, Algeria

Philip Branch, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Prabhakar C j, Kuvempu University, India

Luca Caviglione, National Research Council (CNR), Italy

Rama Challa, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research, India

Uei-Ren Chen, Hsiuping University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Rohin Daruwala, V. J. Technological Institute, India

Ashok Kumar Das, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

Sunil Dhal, Sri Sri University, Cuttack, India

Alassane Diop, University Alioune Diop of Bambey, Senegal

Zhiyong Du, PLA Academy of National Defense Information, P.R. China

Humberto Fernandes, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Carlos Fernandez-Llatas, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

GianLuca Foresti, University of Udine, Italy

Na Gong, NDSU, USA

Rahul Gupta, Manipal Institute of Technology, India

Sofiane Hamrioui, USTHB, Algeria

Katiganere Siddaramappa Hareesha, Manipal University, India

Jer Lang Hong, Taylor's University, Malaysia

Hsiang-Cheh Huang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Mohammed Imran, University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Basil Jeemon, Fisat, India

Jayshri Joshi, Pune University, India

Oliver Juki?, Virovitica College, Croatia

Lukas Kencl, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Sibghatullah Khan, Amravati University, India

Yassine Khlifi, Umm Al-Qura University, KSA, Saudi Arabia

Ashwani Kush, IIT knapur and KUK India, India

Shilpa Laddha, Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad, India

Chun-Wei Lin, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China

Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, University of Munich, Germany

Jaime Lloret, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Behrouz Maham, University of Tehran, Iran

Amrita A Manjrekar, Shivaji University, India

Xavier Masip-Bruin, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Rejo Mathew, SVKMS NMIMS MPSTME Mumbai, India

Sébastien Monnet, University of Pierre and Marie Curie, France

Amad Mourad, University of Bejaia, Algeria

Mohamed Moussaoui, Abdelmalek Esaadi UniversitY, Morocco

Abhishek Parakh, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

Sanjeev Patel, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India

Vishal Patel, Gujarat Technologycal University, India

M. v. n. k Prasad, IDRBT, India

Sangeetha Rajesh, K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, India

Massimiliano Rak, Second University of Naples, Italy

Mohammad Razzaque, Trinity College, Ireland

Abdelmadjid Recioui, Universitry of Boumerdes, Algeria

Subarna Shakya, Pulchowk Campus, IOE, TU, Nepal

Patrick Siarry, University of Paris XII, France

Dhananjay Singh, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea

Tripty Singh, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India

Scott Smith, NDSU, USA

Roberta Spolon, UNESP - State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Ramakrishnan Srinivasan, Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, India

Kamal Srivastava, Gautam Budh University, India

Jose Tenreiro Machado, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal

Rajiv Tripathi, National Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

Elpida Tzafestas, University of Athens, Greece

Vipin V, Choondacherry, India

Athanasios Vasilakos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Luca Vollero, Universita' Campus Bio-Medico (Roma), Italy

Kapil Wankhade, G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering Nagpur, INDIA, India

Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University, USA

Santosh Majhi, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, India

Babu Mehtre, IDRBT - Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, India

Francisco Valera, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Stylianos Basagiannis, United Technologies Research Centre, Ireland

Ram (Ramki) Krishnan, Dell, USA

David Meyer, Brocade Communications, USA

Vijay Pande, Essel Adi Smart Grid Solutions Limited, India

Tadrash Shah, Bank of America, USA

Jih-Fu Tu, St. John's University, Taiwan

Atefeh Khosravi, University of Melbourne, Australia

Ajoy Mondal, Indian Statistical Institute, India

Seyed Rahman Soleimani, Islamic Azad University-Mashhad Branch, Iran

Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA