Events Overview
Being one of the largest organizers of scientific/technical/business events in the general ICT field and its applications, ICST sponsors annually over a hundred international symposiums, conferences and workshops covering dozens of ICT topical areas directly related to or impacted by information and communication technologies. Beyond traditional areas of computer science and engineering, ICST sponsored events address all walks of life with an ICT orientation, such as medicine, health, arts, immersive environments, simulation, modeling, entertainment, nanotechnology, social-networking, digital and electronic forensics, nano-comunications, robotics, virtual worlds, auction theories, bionetics, etc. Through workshops, demos, exhibits and tutorials, ICST is encouraging the exchange of ideas and the dissemination of research results in these cutting edge and emerging research areas as well.
ICST conferences are located on all five continents where the society maintains its world chapters. Countries hosting past and presently planned conferences include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong-Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Mozambique, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA among others.
The quality of scientific output at ICST conferences is ensured by a rigorous review process that is conducted by an international group of recognized experts at each conference. ICST features some of the most selective conferences in the ICT area starting at 10% acceptance rate. ICST's conferences are included in all major indexes and distributed to all major libraries.
ICST's close collaboration with the world's leading technical and professional societies, associations and research centers, such as ACM, Create-Net, IEEE, INRIA, IFIP, PANLAB, etc., provides a further guarantee of outstanding scientific quality. Current ICST conference proceedings are published in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST) series, a joint publication of ICST and Springer and in collaboration with other prestigious publishers and organizations, including ACM, Cambridge University Press, IEEE, and OMNIPRESS, and have been indexed in SCI, EI, DBLP, Google Scholar, ProQuest, SCOPUS, CPX, ISI, and ISTP.