CyberC promotes in-depth exploration of the most recent research and developments in the fields of AI/ML, NLP, knowledge discovery, computational semantics, Deep Learning, autonomy, intelligence, mobile computing, information system, cloud, distributed computing, computer vision, image processing, privacy, security, cybersecurity, and other cyber-based technologies. Professors, scientists, engineers, and students in these areas are encouraged to participate. CyberC welcomes industrial participations.


Track 1: NLP, knowledge discovery, computational semantics

  • NLP, lexical semantics, compositional semantics
  • Semantic parsing, textual inference, entailment
  • Question answering, event learning, causal and temporal relations,
  • Knowledge mining and acquisition
  • Text & data streaming, scalable computing, task deployments
  • Information extraction, retrieval, and learning
  • Multilingual and cross-lingual semantics
  • Word sense disambiguation and induction
  • Formal approaches to semantics
  • Semantics in NLP applications and higher level NLP applications
  • Text and speech processing
  • Morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, lexical semantics, and discourse
  • High performance computing, and intensive data networks
  • Discourse, pragmatics, and dialogue
  • Social media and social network analytics
  • NLP computing security and information assurance
  • Graph learning, mining, and opinion mining
  • Cloud and high performance computing for big data

Track 2: AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Autonomy, and Intelligence

  • AI & machine learning theory, architecture, and system
  • Soft computing, neural network, convolutional neural network, and deep learning
  • Intelligence computing, inductive learning, reasoning
  • Ensemble and evolutionary computation
  • Data analytics, social media, and web mining
  • Fuzzy set theory, fuzzy controls and systems
  • Feature engineering, feature learning, and feature fusion
  • Web computing, intelligent and knowledge based systems
  • Distributed and parallel systems & algorithms
  • Database and data mining and analytics
  • Pattern recognition and multimedia
  • Data streaming and storage, and data analytics

Track 3: Cloud computing, information system, and distributed computing

  • Parallel and distributed algorithms, resource allocation, and load-balance
  • Public and private cloud, mobile cloud, mobility-aware cloud data/streams
  • SOA, web services, and mobile services (software, infrastructure)
  • Cloud resource management and allocation
  • Cloud utility models and service pricing
  • New parallel / concurrent programming models for cloud computing
  • Scientific computation and other applications in the cloud
  • Mobility modeling, management and measurement for mobile clouds
  • Mobile multimedia content delivery, transferring, and migration
  • Content delivery networks using storage clouds
  • User experience and cyber security
  • Performance evaluation, measurement and optimization
  • Communications and network security
  • Information security, software security, system security, or cryptography
  • Cloud tools, test-bed, simulations, and experimental environments
  • Collaborative and cooperative environments
  • Cloud QoS, autonomic, reliability, and fault-tolerance
  • Web services and internet computing
  • Web-caching, content delivery systems and data distribution systems
  • Distributed applications, modeling language, and software engineering
  • Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence

Track 4: Computer Vision and Image Processing

  • AI for computer vision and image processing
  • NLP, image, vision learning, and deep learning
  • Texture image representation and classification
  • Image filtering and enhancement
  • Image segmentation
  • Object detection and recognition
  • Tracking and motion analysis
  • Image synthesis, 3D reconstruction and modeling
  • Stereo vision and depth estimation
  • Face recognition and biometrics
  • Scene understanding and semantic segmentation
  • Image and video compression
  • Image and video restoration and super-resolution
  • Optical character recognition
  • Medical image analysis and processing
  • Document analysis and recognition
  • Video analysis and summarization
  • Augmented reality and virtual reality
  • Color, multispectral, and hyperspectral imaging
  • Medical image computing
  • Sensing, representation, modeling, and registration
  • Stereoscopic, multiview, and 3D processing
  • Biometrics, forensics, and security

Track 5: Mobile Computing, Communications, 5G and Beyond

  • Spectrum sensing, fusion, decision-making and allocation
  • Signaling process, PHY/link layer protocols and optimization
  • Resource optimization, network, and distributed network computing
  • Dynamic spectrum access, spectrum sharing, spectrum management
  • AI/ML for cognitive radio network
  • VNF/SDN (NFV, VIM, VNFs, service function chaining, network slicing, and Open Flow)
  • Quantum communications, and network computing resources
  • Sensor networks, mesh networks, MIMO and 6G
  • Edge computing, IoT connectivity, and energy harvesting
  • Industrial IoT, e.g., manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain
  • Industry control network, networking theory and algorithms
  • Wireless embedded sensor systems, body sensor, smart cities & security
  • Cognitive radio and Soft defined radio
  • Future generation communications and pervasive computing
  • Peer-to-peer network computing and overlaying networks
  • Directional antenna and networking
  • FDMA/OFDMA modulations, synchronization, and power optimization
  • Security & privacy, attacking models, confidentiality & security in communications
  • Services, middleware, and multimedia on wireless networks
  • QoS, reliability, performance, and communication theory
  • Wireless network simulations, implementation, and applications

Track 6: Privacy, Security, and Cybersecurity

  • Privacy enhancing, policy, access control, and regulation
  • Privacy with surveillance, big data, machine learning, and IoT
  • Privacy for healthcare, human-computer interaction, and other applications
  • Network security, cybersecurity risk assessment, malware analysis
  • Cryptography, cryptographic algorithm, post-quantum cryptography
  • Attacks, DDoS, ransomware, and cybersecurity attacks and detection
  • Cyber network, configuration, cloud, IoT, and wireless communications
  • Multistage attacks, data security, AI and intrusion detection
  • Risk assessment, management, and network monitoring
  • Blockchain, cryptocurrency, smart contracts, identity management, and voting
  • Blockchain applications, e.g., smart grid, healthcare, industrial control systems
  • Cyber authentication and access control
  • Deep learning for attack behavior, prediction, and game theory
  • AI/ML and deep learning for security and privacy
  • Cybersafety and privacy, standardization, compliance and forensics