<p><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">** Final Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">colleagues and networks **</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">-- </span><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">13th World Congress on Information and Communication<br>Technologies (<span class="il">WICT</span>'23) </b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">--</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">* Onsite and On the World Wide Web *</b><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.org/wict23" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://www.mirlabs.org/wict23</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/wict23" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://www.mirlabs.net/wict23</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span class="il">WICT</span> 2023 Theme:</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> ICT in the Generative AI World</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">==============================</span><wbr style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">=================</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">* Venue details and accommodation details are now published *</b><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Onsite Venues: </b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Olten, Switzerland; Porto, Portugal; Kaunas, Lithuania; Kochi, India</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Please visit: </b><a href="https://mirlabs.org/wict23/venue2.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://mirlabs.org/wict23/<wbr>venue2.php</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">December 14-15, 2023</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Organized Special Sessions and Workshops Details:</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </span><a href="https://mirlabs.org/wict23/cfss.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://mirlabs.org/<wbr>wict23/cfss.php</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span class="il" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">WICT</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> 2023 will be a hybrid conference that will run fully in-person</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">and fully virtually to take advantage of the best the two modalities offer. Besides regular paper presentations, the technical programme will include 8-10 plenary lectures and poster</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">sessions. </span><span class="il" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">WICT</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> 2023 Organising Committee also recognizes the benefits</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">of virtual conferences allowing participation at a cheaper rate. This</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">allows a higher number of research scholars and students to attend.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Selected authors can attend and present the papers</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">virtually or in one of the three venues in Europe and Asia.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Proceedings of <span class="il">WICT</span>'23 </b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">will be published with Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. (</span><a href="https://www.springer.com/series/15179" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://www.springer.com/<wbr>series/15179</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">)</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Proceedings of </span><span class="il" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">WICT</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">'22: </span><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-27499-2" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://link.springer.com/<wbr>book/10.1007/978-3-031-27499-2</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>Indexed by:</b> SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, DBLP, EI Compendex, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), SpringerLink<br><br><b>History of <span class="il">WICT</span> series</b>: <a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/wict23/previous.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.mirlabs.net/wict23/<wbr>previous.php</a><br><br><b>**Important Dates**</b><br>---------------------<br>Paper submission due: September 30, 2023<br>Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2023<br>Registration and Final manuscript due: November 10, 2023<br>Conference: December 14-15,2023<br><br><b>**About <span class="il">WICT</span> 2023**</b><br>---------------------------<br><br>After the success of the 12th World Congress on Information and<br>Communication Technologies (<span class="il">WICT</span> 2022), we are organizing <span class="il">WICT</span> 2023<br>to provide an opportunity for the researchers from academia and<br>industry to meet and discuss the latest solutions, scientific results<br>and methods in the usage and applications of ICT in the real world.<br>The conference programme will include workshops, special sessions and<br>tutorials, along with prominent keynote speakers and regular paper<br>presentations in parallel tracks.<br><br>In the past century, our society has been through several periods of<br>dramatic changes, driven by innovations such as transportation systems,<br>telephone etc. Last few decades have experienced technologies that are<br>evolving so rapidly, altering the constraints of space and time, and<br>reshaping the way we communicate, learn and think. Rapid advances in<br>information technologies and other digital systems are reshaping our<br>ecosystem. Innovations in ICT allow us to transmit information quickly<br>and widely, propelling the growth of new urban communities, linking<br>distant places and diverse areas of endeavor in productive new ways,<br>which a decade ago was unimaginable. Thus, the theme of this World<br>Congress is "Innovating ICT For Social Revolutions".<br><br><b>**Topics (not limited to)**</b><br>---------------------------<br>Bioinformatics and Computational Biology<br>Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality<br>Data Mining<br>e-Learning<br>e-Business<br>e-Government<br>Artificial Intelligence<br>Web Services and Semantic Web<br>Grid and Cloud Computing<br>Ambient Intelligence<br>Body Sensor Networks<br>Computational Finance and Economics<br>Cybercrime (Legal and Technical Issues)<br>Computer Network Security<br>Data Mining for Information Security<br>Academic Integrity, Plagiarism Detection and Software Misuse<br>Intrusion Detection and Forensics<br>Scheduling For Large Scale Distributed System<br>Nature Inspired Optimization Algorithms And Their Applications<br>The Role of Technology in Education and Health<br>Data Management<br>Collaborative Design in Knowledge-based Environment<br>Software Engineering<br><br><b>**Submission Guidelines**</b><br>------------------------------<wbr>------<br>Submission of paper should be made through the submission page<br>from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website<br>for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.<br><br><b>Paper format templates:</b><br><a href="https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636#c3324" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.springer.com/de/<wbr>authors-editors/book-authors-<wbr>editors/manuscript-<wbr>preparation/5636#c3324</a><br><br><b><span class="il">WICT</span>’23 Submission Link:</b><br><a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WICT2023" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://cmt3.research.<wbr>microsoft.com/WICT2023</a><br><br><br>**Plenary Talks**<br>------------------------------<wbr>----------<br>You are welcome to attend 12 Keynote Talks offered by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information is available on conference website.<br><br>Speaker 1: Christine Zarges, Aberystwyth University, UK<br>Speaker 2: Theresa Schmiedel, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland<br>Speaker 3: Ke Feng, Singapore-ETH Centre, The National University of Singapore, Singapore<br>Speaker 4: Stefka Fidanova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria<br>Speaker 5: Diego Oliva, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico<br>Speaker 6: Sebastian Ventura, University of Cordoba, Spain<br>Speaker 7: Ana Maria Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal<br>Speaker 8: Nuno Bettencourt , Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal<br>Speaker 9: Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt<br>Speaker 10: Milan Tuba, Singidunum University, Serbia<br>Speaker 11: Dalia Kriksciuniene, Vilnius University / Kaunas University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania<br>Speaker 12: Kusum Deep, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India<br><br><br><b>**<span class="il">WICT</span> 2023 Organization**</b><br>-------------------------<br><br><b>General Chairs</b><br>Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA<br>Thinakaran Perumal, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia<br>Virgilijus Sakalauskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania<br><br><b>Program Chairs</b><br>Dalia Kriksciuniene, Vilnius University, Lithuania<br>Yunchuan Sun, Beijing Normal University, China<br>Ryotaro Kamimura, Tokai University, Japan<br><br><b>Publication Chair</b><br>Anu Bajaj, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India<br><br><b>Web Services Chair</b><br>Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China<br><br><b>Publicity Chair</b><br>Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, India<br><br><br><b>Note:</b> If you would like to propose a special session, please email Dr. Anu Bajaj <<a href="mailto:er.anubajaj@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">er.anubajaj@gmail.com</a>> with a CC to Ms. Mabrouka Salmi <<a href="mailto:salmimabrouka7@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">salmimabrouka7@gmail.com</a>><br><br><b>**Technical Contact**</b><br>---------------------<br>Dr. Ajith Abraham<br>Email: <a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ajith.abraham@ieee.org</a></div><img src="https://images.drmerge.com/logo.png?a675d53d-909b-403f-be78-4b585b53795e.860a0319-b9cd-4cce-a572-2f611f981cf7.365b9ea24c7d06c63f40ae7aa7f6a4efe296aaa3d51f802e4e841d6832c134c1" width="1" height="1" alt="beacon" style="display:none!important;">