Media Release
Mangaluru, Jan 4: As part of the diamond jubilee year celebrations of NITK Surathkal, the School of Management and Department of Information Technology jointly organized an 8th international conference on 'Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA 2020), from January 4 to 5.
The conference received an overwhelming response from the research community and received about 573 submissions to the main conference and the co-located special sessions, from Indian and foreign universities. More than 30 papers were received from countries like Saudi Arabia, United States, South Africa, Russia and China. The submitted manuscripts were reviewed by a Technical Program Committee consisting of 150 qualified academicians and researchers, and 153 outstanding papers were selected based on novelty and contribution to the advancement of research in Intelligent Computing. Three outstanding papers will be conferred with best paper awards from Springer Nature, with prizes worth Euro 200.
FICTA 2020 conference aims to bring together prominent speakers, industry experts, researchers under one roof and to this end, the conference schedule is organized in six different tracks. Five co-located special sessions are organized, focusing on emerging trends in cognitive computing and deep learning, healthcare analytics and language processing, recent trends in machine learning using IoT, medical image examination with recent techniques, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications.
On the first day of the conference, the inaugural ceremony was conducted at the Lecture Hall Complex-C, with Prof Venkat N Gudivada (East Carolina University, USA) as the chief guest, Prof Ganapati Panda (former deputy director, IIT Bhubaneswar) and Prof Suresh Ch Satapathy (dean research and Prof Dept of Computer Science Engineering, KIIT deemed-to be university) as guests of honour, Aninda Bose, senior editor, Springer and Prof Aloysius Sequeira (director-in-charge, NITK) presiding over the function.
Dr Ritanjali Majhi, associate professor, organizing chair and editor for FICTA-2020 and Dr Sowmya Kamath S, organizing chair, department of Information Technology, were also present on the dais. At the inaugural event, the conference CDs and Proceedings were also released by the eminent personalities. The organizing chairs from the two organizing departments (School of Management and Department of Information Technology), Dr Rashmi Uchil, Dr Geetha V, Dr Suprabha K R, Dr Biju R Mohan, Dr Pradyot Ranjan Jena and Dr Nagamma Patil graced the occasion.
Later, Dr Venkat N Gudivada (professor and chair, department of Computer Science, East Carolina University, USA) delivered a keynote lecture on the topic 'Personalization of Learning', followed by another keynote by Aninda Bose (senior editor – Interdisciplinary Applied Sciences, Springer Nature) on 'Importance of Ethics in Research Publishing'.
On day 2, Prof Ganapathi Panda (former deputy director, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India) will deliver his keynote on the topic 'Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications'. Parallel sessions for accepted paper presentations by registered authors will be conducted after this, on January 4 and 5.
FICTA 2020 will create a platform for researchers from academia and industry to share their research findings of interdisciplinary nature and innovate in the interest of the society.
The organizers hope that the participants will take away immense research benefits from the knowledge dissemination of the eminent speakers, sessions and cutting-edge research work presented at FICTA 2020 and intensify research focus in the conference theme area of 'Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications'.