Welcome to Melaka, Malaysia and to the 2014 Fourth World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2014) during December 08-11, 2014. In the past century, our society has been through several periods of dramatic changes, driven by innovations such as transportation systems, telephone etc. Last few decades have experienced technologies that are evolving so rapidly, altering the constraints of space and time, and reshaping the way we communicate, learn and think. Rapid advances in information technologies and other digital systems are reshaping our ecosystem. Innovations in ICT allow us to transmit information quickly and widely, propelling the growth of new urban communities, linking distant places and diverse areas of endeavor in productive new ways, which a decade ago was unimaginable. Thus, the theme of this World Congress is ?Innovating ICT for Social Revolutions?.
The four day World Congress is expected to provide an opportunity for the researchers from academia and industry to meet and discuss the latest solutions, scientific results and methods in the usage and applications of ICT in the real world. WICT 2014 is Co-Organized by Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) and Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia. WICT 2014 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society Malaysia and Spain Chapters and Technically Supported by IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society, Technical Committee on Soft Computing.
This year, we introduce additional academic activities, Editor-in-Chief's Panel Discussion, Student Symposium, Parallel Symposiums, and Research Product Exhibition. Editor-in-chiefs from world renowned journals in ICT will be gathered in a special forum to facilitate sharing session for tips and advice on journal publication. The Special Issues Journal Paper Inclusion for selected papers provides the opportunity for WICT 2014 proceedings authors to extend their manuscript for submission into the selected high impact journal. Besides that, Parallel Symposiums provide a discussion platform in more specific topics, while Student Symposium provides opportunity to student researchers to validate their work in progress with experts in the field. The highlight of Government program is the ICT Roundtable Discussion and Resolution Presentation on the critical issue of Big Data Technology. These activities play a role in preparing a discussion bowl for related parties to update the current status in ICT policy implementation. On the other hand, the industry program focuses on ICT Industry Product Exhibition and ICT paper presentation. Industry is welcomed to exhibit their leading-age solutions to promote their products and building up future collaboration network.
Many people have collaborated and worked hard to produce a successful WICT-2014 conference. First and foremost, we would like to thank all the authors for submitting their papers to the conference, for their presentations and discussions during the conference. Our thanks to Program Committee members and reviewers, who carried out the most difficult work by carefully evaluating the submitted papers. WICT 2014 received 147 submissions from over 30 countries. The themes of the contributions and scientific sessions range from theories to applications, reflecting a wide spectrum of coverage of the ICT topics. Each paper was reviewed by at least five reviewers in a standard peer-review process. Based on the recommendation by five independent referees, finally 65 papers were accepted for publication (43% acceptance rate) in the proceedings published by IEEE.
We hope that you will find this program interesting and thought-provoking and that the conference will provide you with a valuable opportunity to share ideas with other researchers, students, developers, and practitioners from institutions around the world. We look forward to your participation in the conference.
We greatly thank the organizing committee members for taking care of the registration, logistics, and local arrangements. It is due to their hard work that the conference was made possible.
The General Chairs and the Program Chairs along with the entire team cordially invite you to attend the 2014 Fourth World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2014).
General Chairs
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA
Ahmad Zaki A Bakar, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Program Chairs
Azah Kamilah Muda, University Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Emilio Corchado, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Calgary