Foreword — Message from the general chairs

Abstract

AICCSA 2016 Conference, in collaboration with IEEE, continues its mission of covering all contemporary areas in computer systems and applications, and providing the latest results on theory, design, analysis, implementation, and application in these important and rapidly changing disciplines. Indeed, this edition addresses eleven areas and the technical program presents high-quality papers in: (1) IR, Big Data, Business Intelligence, & Knowledge Management; (2) Cloud, Parallel, Distributed, and High Performance Computing; (3) Multimedia, Computer Vision, and Image Processing; (4) Advances in Software Engineering; (5) Natural Language Processing and Applications; (6) Advances in AI, Agent Systems, and Ambient Intelligence; (7) Advances Networking and Sensor Networks; (8) Systems and Software Security; (9) Social and Mobile Computing; (10) Advances in Web Technologies, Semantics, and Future Internet; (11) Digital Living, including E-Learning, E-Government, E-Health. The breadth of the prominence of approaches in these areas is underlined by the topics of the four distinguished keynote speakers: Ahmed Elmagarmid and Jim Jansen, the Executive Director and senior research of Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) respectively; Athman Bouguettaya, professor and the head of School of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT University; and Abdella Battou, the Division Chief of the Advanced Network Technologies Division, within The Information Technology Lab at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).