Updates

- 5th December 2023 - Conference Publications [Publications]
- 9th September 2023 - Programme Book [download]
- 7th August 2023 - Presentation Schedule [download]
- 6th August 2023 - Call For Participants/Listerners [Register here]. Listerners' Fee is RM300
- 1st August 2023 - Online Payment Guideline [download]
- 15th May 2023 - Submission date is extended to 31st May 2023
- 29th April 2023 - Submission date is extended to 15th May 2023
- 6th April 2023 - Submission date is extended to 30th April 2023
- 5th April 2023 - Keynote address by Prof. Atreyi Kankanhalli on 14th September 2023 is confirmed
- 4th April 2023 - The venue is confirmed atSama-sama Hotel KLIA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- 2nd April 2023 - Keynote address byProf. Alan Dix on 13th September 2023 is confirmed    
- 13th March 2023 - Conference Proceeding will be published inCommunications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) by Springer Nature
 - 15th Jan 2023 - Submission Guideline [click here] , Paper Template [click here]
 - 13th Oct 2022 - Launching of the ICOCI 2023's  website
 - 14th Oct 2022 - Call for collaborators [brochure]
 - 14th Oct 2022 - Call for International Technical Committee [brochure | registration form]

About   ICOCI 2023

Life today has changed drastically as a result of Covid-19. Many aspects of life have shifted from the traditional ways to automation using electronic and communication devices. Digitalization is the main keyword emphasized everywhere to keep society resilient and adaptive to disasters. As a result, a digital society emerges, in which people use information and communication technology at home, work, school, and socialize to keep going with the businesses and life. 

Back in 2009, United Nations promoted “inclusive society”, which was defined by the Expert Group Meeting on Promoting Social Integration, Helsinki (July 2008) as: 

“ … a society that over-rides differences of race, gender, class, generation, and geography, and ensures inclusion, equality of opportunity as well as capability of all members of the society to determine an agreed set of social institutions that govern social interaction.” 

As the digital society emerges, the term is extended to the society’s current values and behaviours. Therefore, the United Nations of Economic and Social Commission for Asia and The Pacific (ESCAP) promotes an “inclusive digital society” focusing on making the society e-resilient in recovering from the disaster. 

From the aspect of computing and informatics, a question arises: What are the features of technology that would enable an inclusive digital society? Specifically, how the major computing fields of study like artificial intelligence, IoT, and cybersecurity would assist in achieving an “inclusive digital society”? Therefore, ICOCI 2023 would like to invite you to discuss this topic and share your thoughts and works. Together, we could nurture an inclusive digital society for the sustainability of our nation and the universe.  

School of Computing (SOC), Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) organises the 9th International Conference on Computing and Informatics 2023 (ICOCI 2023) from 13 to 14 September 2023. ICOCI has continuously been the platform for researchers and practitioners to share the finding of their studies since 2006. The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth events were held in 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021.

Programme Schedule

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Keynote Address

Prof. Dr. Alan Dix
Director, Computational Foundry, Swansea University, Wales

Prof. Atreyi Kankanhalli
Provost's Chair Professor, School of Computing, National University of Singapore

Call for Paper

Nurturing an Inclusive Digital Society for a Sustainable Nation

ICOCI 2023 invites researchers and practitioners to submit manuscripts in the field of computing that can foster an inclusive digital society toward a sustainable nation. The scope of the topic is as follows (but not limited to)

Topics of interest

• Intelligent Systems
• Smart Technology
• Cybersecurity
• Green Computing
• Data Analytics
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Sustainable Computing

Publication Opportunity

• ALL ACCEPTED papers will be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) by Springer Nature
• SELECTED GOOD PAPERS will be invited to submit an extended version to be published in peer-reviewed journals

Call for International Technical Committee Members

Join us now

Submission

Format for paper submission

Authors must prepare the manuscript using Microsoft Word. The manuscript should be written between 4,000 to 6,000 words or a minimum of 12 pages. However, the manuscript shall not exceed 14 pages at the maximum. It should strictly follow the ICOCI2023 Template. Please upload and submit TWO(2) manuscript files (1) A manuscript with complete authors’ names and their affiliations and the acknowledgement, and (2) A manuscript WITHOUT authors’ names, affiliations, and acknowledgement for the double-blind review process. All submissions are subjected to a double blind review process. The double blind review is a normal standard practice applies in many conferences. The main reason is to conceal the identity of the authors to the reviewers in order to avoid any bias judgement during the reviewing process. Read the ICOCI   Authors Guideline and please comply to the Springer's Guideline .

The followings are several guidelines for preparing a double blind paper:

• In the place of the authors' names on the front page, please do not put authors details.
• Avoid from referring to your university, campus or faculty by name, use generalities.
• Please avoid statement like 'In the previous work, we...'
• Please omit the acknowledgment section. This section can be added in the final version of your paper.

Submissions containing any of these information will be returned for modification. Once you have received the acceptance notification from the reviewer committee, you can always add the above information in your paper.

How to submit

Authors can submit their papers through our online submission system starting from 1 January 2023

Pre-review checklist

In general, all manuscript submitted will be vetted by ICOCI Technical Committee for quality. Please ensure that your manuscript fulfils the following requirements:
1. Title – relate with the conference theme.
2. Structures – Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Related Work, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion.
3. Pages – between 12 to 14
4. Figures, diagrams, charts, tables – visible, readable, clear, and comply to template style.
5. Language & mechanics.
6. References – please check the formatting in the Springer template given.
7. Acknowledgement – please include funding agencies (if any).
8. Submit TWO (2) versions of files; (1) With author names and affiliations, (2) Without author names and affiliations.

Registration

Fees

	Local	International
Presenter	RM 1800	RM 1800
Additional Paper	RM 1500	RM 1500
Listener	RM 300	RM 300
Extra Pages (per page)	RM 100	RM 100

Authors must make the payment by 15^th August 2023 or your article will not be published in the proceedings.

• Standard rate registration fees (presenters) include conference admission, e-proceedings and e-program book.
• Each presenter (author) is allowed to register for only ONE additional paper and will receive only one set of conference materials.
• Accommodation fee is not included. You have to arrange your own accommodation.
• There will be no refund for withdrawal made after 15^th August 2023. A management fee of 6% from the total fee will be charged for refund made before or by 15^th August 2023.

How to pay

Important: Please forward a scanned copy of the bank slip/telegraphic transfer receipt to ICOCI 2023 Secretariat (icoci@uum.edu.my and cc to anizamd@uum.edu.my) for us to verify the transaction. Please kindly write down the participant's name, date and time of the transfer and country & city of origin.

Upon receiving the registration form and full payment, the Secretariat will send a letter of confirmation.

Publication

UPDATES ON THE PUBLICATIONS
1.Springer CCIS Conference Proceedings [Vol 1] [Vol 2]
2.Taylor & Francis Book Chapter

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ALL ACCEPTED papers will be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science published by Springer Nature; a series indexed in SCOPUS. 

SELECTED GOOD PAPERS will be invited to submit an extended version of the papers for publication in the Journal of Information and Communication Technology