Under the theme, “Towards economic prosperity through advancements in Computing,” the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) will be hosting the 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC 2022) from December 9-11, at the Malabe campus as a virtual event.
Initiated by the Faculty of Computing of SLIIT, ICAC was first held in December 2019. The event is an open forum for academics and industry professionals to present the latest issues and trends in the broader domain of computing.
This year the conference received more than 270 manuscripts from local and international authors. These manuscripts were submitted under 9 tracks capturing the emerging research areas in Computing: Data Science and Data-Driven Approaches, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Communication and Networked Services, Cyber Security, Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems, Technology-Enhanced Learning, Information Systems and Computing for Business and Society.
All submitted papers were carefully reviewed by a panel of more than 150 well-experienced reviewers from local and international contexts. The reviewing process was double-blind, where the reviewers provided extensive constructive feedback to the authors to further improve their manuscripts. From the reviewing process, 85 manuscripts were selected for oral presentations on the conference dates. “Main objectives of ICAC are to provide a platform for both local and international researchers to disseminate knowledge, network and collaborate,” said Dr. Anuradha Karunasena, General Chair of ICAC 2022.
“We received a large number of manuscripts related to the application of Information Technology in the areas of agriculture, tourism, education, and health-related to our conference theme, which could assist in gaining economic benefits for the country and improve the quality of life of citizens.”
ICAC 2022 is technically co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and papers presented at the conference will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library, the research database with the highest international access. While SLIIT is the academic sponsor, Creative Software and Fortude are the financial sponsors for the event. SLASSCOM Sri Lanka is providing the industrial partnership for the conference. The publicity chair of ICAC 2022, Dr. Dilshan De Silva said, “Being an internationally recognised conference, ICAC creates an opportunity for the Sri Lankans to take their novel ideas and research findings to the international research community.”
The conference programme is available on the conference website: https://icac.lk/. The main event of the conference will be graced by keynote speeches of two eminent researchers; Prof. Hossein Sarrafzade, Director of the Center of Excellence in Cyber Security Research, Education and Outreach and Prof. Janaka B. Ekanayake, Chair Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Peradeniya.
A series of workshops will be held on December 10-11, on the topics ‘Machine learning in health-informatics’ by Dr. Dinindu Harshanath, Data Scientist, Sonder, Australia; ‘Applications of smart-contracts’ by Priyal Walpita, CTO, ZorroSign Inc; ‘Compiler design – A case study with Ballerina’ by Manuranga Perera, Senior Technical Lead, WSO2 and “Graph neural networks theory and applications” by Dr. Dharshana Kasthurirathna, Assistant Professor, SLIIT.