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The following topics are dealt with: communication systems and networks; computer architecture and VLSI; computer science, information science; control systems; intelligent systems; data mining, data warehousing and database; image processing and pattern recognition; image, acoustic, speech and signal processing; information management systems; intelligent agent technology; agent based systems; Internet technology and applications; e-commerce; knowledge discovery; artificial intelligence, neural networks; middleware architectures and techniques; mobile computing; wireless computing; parallel and distributed computing; programming languages, compilers and operating systems; software metrics and project management; software engineering and information engineering; software reuse, design patterns; software testing and tools; UML, OO modeling and simulation; Web engineering; e-activity.