Welcome to Hanoi, Vietnam and to the 2013 Third World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2013) during December 15-18, 2013. 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 2013 is Co-Organized by Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) and Le Quy Don Technical University, Hanoi, Vietnam. WICT 2013 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society – Spain and and Technically Supported by IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society, Technical Committee on Soft Computing.
Many people have collaborated and worked hard to produce a successful WICT-2013 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’13 submissions from over 25 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 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 Programme Chairs along with the entire team cordially invite you to attend the 2013 Third World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2013) to be held on December 15-18, 2013 in Hanoi, Vietnam.
General Chairs
Long Thanh Ngo, Le Quy Don University, Vietnam
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA
Sankar Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Program Co-chairs
Vaclav Snasel, VSB- Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Lam Thu Bui, Le Quy Don University, Vietnam
Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain