INDIACom – 2015

11^th– 13^th March, 2014

The 09^th edition of INDIACom i.e. INDIACom - 2015, 2^nd 2015 International Conference on “Computing for Sustainable Global Development” was organized by Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi during 11^th – 13^th March, 2015. The conference was technically sponsored by IEEE Delhi Section and was patronized by CSI Region – I and CSI Divisions – I, II, III, IV & V.  IETE Delhi Centre, IET (UK) Delhi Local Networks and ISTE Delhi Section were also supporting and promoting the event.

The inauguration of the three days conference was done on 11^th March, 2015.  Dr. Anurag Mishra, Conference Chair, welcomed the audience and all the dignitaries. Prof. M. N. Hoda, Director, BVICAM, New Delhi & General Chair,  INDIACom-2015 briefed the audience about the history of past 09 editions of INDIACom, since its inception in the year 2007 and presented a brief report of INDIACom - 2015.  Shri R. K. Vyas, RVP (Region-1), CSI, acknowledged the presence of all the dignitaries and talked about how CSI has been associated with INDIACom since its inception and is open to honest feedback for further improvement. Prof. Mini Thomas, Chairman, IEEE Delhi Section, appreciated the huge success of the event and also acknowledged the contributions of BVICAM, New Delhi towards the activities of IEEE Delhi Section. Dr. Rajendra Pratap Gupta, Co-Chair Innovation Working Group, Asia, was the key note speaker. He discussed, at length, different dimensions of sustainable computing, particularly issues related to carbon footprints, healthcare and their related future innovations. Dr. Omkar Rai, Director General, STPI, Ministry of Communications and IT, Govt. of India, was the Chief Guest. During his inaugural address, he shared his thoughts upon the Digital India initiatives and the Make in India Campaign initiated by the Government of India along with appreciating India’s growth as the largest outstanding hub for research and development. The Inaugural Session was presided over by Mr. Stefanus Botes, Minister Counsellor for Economics, South African High Commission, who introduced the audience with the growing business and tourism relationship between India and South Africa and encouraged new investments in his country and the scope of Business Partnership with India. The Inaugural Session was chaired by Prof. K. K. Aggarwal, Former founder Vice Chancellor, GGSIP University, New Delhi, Past President and Fellow of CSI, who expressed his appreciation to see the event growing immensely over the years. He shared his views on the importance of computing in a students’ life and that the education system should be open to accept students’ alternatives of solutions to encourage logical thinking. He also expressed his concern on how the focus is always laid upon the finances involved in the introduced innovation related projects rather than analyzing their cost benefits and savings in the future. The amount and quality of shared ideas and life stories kept the audience hooked and inspired at the same time. The pre-conference hard copy of the proceedings for INDIACom-2015; in two volumes; were released by the dignitaries during the inaugural session. Dignitaries also released the soft copy of the conference proceedings.  Also, an advanced version of the Conference Management Portal, developed in-house by the students of BVICAM, New Delhi under the supervision of the faculty, was released along with Mobile Applications for INDIACom - 2015 for Windows, Android and iOS platforms. During inaugural session, members of National ExecCom, Computer Society of India (CSI); Prof. Anirban Basu, Vice President-cum-President Elect, Shri R. K. Vyas, Treasurer, Shri Sanjay Mohapatra, Hony. Secretary, Prof. A. K. Saini, Prof. A. K. Nayak, Prof. M. N. Hoda, Prof. Durgesh K. Mishra, Shri Shiv Kumar were felicitated.  Mrs. Anukiran Jain, Convener of the Local Organizing presented vote of thanks. The inaugural session concluded on the Cultural Evening having series of nerve breaking cultural items performed by the students of BVICAM, New Delhi. The session was anchored and co-ordinated by Mrs. Parul Arora, Asstt. Professor, BVICAM, New Delhi.

INDIACom – 2015 attracted over 1500 papers from all over the world, in both regular and special sessions. Out of this, 1360 papers were considered worth reviewing, remaining papers were rejected out-rightly. Based upon the review reports, 508 papers were accepted to be presented in 39 different technical sessions under 08 parallel tracks, having four tracks (1, 2, 3 & 4) of regular papers and four tracks (5, 6, 7 & 8) of special sessions. Turnitin was used to check the plagiarism of the papers, exhaustively. Professors / Researchers, from different parts of the world, collaborated together and convened Special Sessions in the conference, All the 508 papers have been published as a Pre-Conference Proceedings on DVD having ISBN and ISSN serials. A further shortlisted set of 289 papers, out of 508 accepted papers, have been published in the Hardcopy of the Pre-Conference Proceedings in two volumes; one each for Regular and Special Sessions, having ISBN and ISSN serials, which was released during the inauguration. Track # 1 was on Sustainable Computing; Track # 2 dealt with High Performance Computing; Track # 3 for High Speed Networking and Information Security; Track # 4 on Software Engineering and Emerging Technologies. Track # 5 was for Digital Life; Track # 6 was for Next Generation Computing; Track # 7 was for Next Generation Networking while as Track # 8 was devoted to Emerging Technologies. A total of 471 papers out of 508 accepted papers were presented in 39 technical sessions under 08 parallel tracks over 03 days of the conference. Proceedings of the papers, which were presented during the conference, will be published and indexed by IEEE Xplore.

A Panel discussion was organized on the evening of 12^th March, 2015 based on the theme “Digital India”; an initiative undertaken by the Government of India, which includes creation of digital infrastructure, delivering services digitally and digital literacy.  The Panel Discussion was  moderated by Mr. Ibrahim Ahmad, Group Editor, Cyber Media, Gurgaon. Other panelists for the session were, Mr. Shiv Kumar, Technical Director, NIC, MC&IT, Govt. of India, Justice Talwant Singh, District and Sessions Judge, Govt. of NCT of Delhi, Mr. V. K. Gupta, IET (UK) and Mr. Viksit Nijhawan, AVP (Engineering), Aricent, Gurgaon. The Panel Discussion was chaired by Mr. Sanjay Mohapatra, Hony. Secretary, Computer Society of India.

Over 900 guests from different parts of the country and abroad, including 110 session chairs and invited speakers participated in 03 days of the conference.  Paper presentations, key note addresses, invited talks showcased the solid research base built by the experts and participants. The skill with which the event was executed, welcomed positive feedback from all visiting dignitaries. Different tracks of the events were co-ordinated by the faculty members, Dr. Anupam Baliyan, Mrs. Anukiran Jain, Mrs. Shalini Singh Jaspal, Mrs. Parul Arora, Dr. Shivendra Goel, Mr. Vishal Jain, Mr. Nitish Pathak, Mrs. Ritika Wason, Mrs. Vaishali Joshi, Mrs. Narinder Kaur Seera, Mr. Vinod Kr. Chauhan, Mr. Imran Khan and Mr. Manish.  

Finally, on the last day of the conference, 13^th March, 2015; the Valedictory Session was concluded on Kavi Sammelan, which was enjoyed by all the guests and students of BVICAM, New Delhi.