PIC 2014 follows the successful PIC 2010 (held in Shanghai) and provides a forum for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry to discuss the progress, challenges, experiences and trends of the theoretical, technical and application issues in information science, computer science, software technology, and management engineering, to exchange ideas, share knowledge and promote future cooperation Submissions involving new progress are emphasized The topics of interest will include, but not limited to Artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, knowledge management, cloud computing, service computing, enterprise computing, natural language processing, computational linguistics, information retrieval, computer vision, image processing, multimedia systems, computer aided technology, management information systems, supply chain management, software engineering, human computer interaction, database systems, applied informatics. |