The International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions - ICTer2012 13th & 14th December 2012

MESSAGE FROM THE CONFERENCE CHAIR

The International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer) is the

successor to the International IT Conference IITC, the major IT Conference in Sri Lanka since 1998. It

is a forum for the sharing of knowledge through the presentation of research carried out on various

aspects of ICT in the region. This year particular effort was made to establish the conference web site

and to include all its past conference papers as well as to index them in Google Scholar. Publicity for

the conference was made through many conference promotion sites which led to more site access from

over 100 countries. Conference also attracted around 15 international submissions in addition around 60

local papers.

Due to the acceptance of a larger number of high quality papers two parallel sessions have been

organized. This year we have selected three international keynote presentations, seven invited talks, 19

full papers, 15 short papers and 12 poster papers. Due to non-availability of some authors to present

their papers final schedule consists of 34 author presentations in addition to the keynotes and invited

talks. The proceedings of ICTer2012 are published both printed proceedings and as well as in electronic

form and subsequent inclusion with IEEE Explore. The best research work presented in the conference

will be invited to be published in an expanded form in the International Journal on Advances in ICT for

Emerging Regions.

In addition to the main conference programme, there are also three high quality Workshops and

two Tutorials on topics of current interest internationally.

ICTer2012 being the prestigious international forum on ICT to be held in Sri Lanka, and will no

doubt contribute in taking the research presented to the global ICT research and innovation space. It is

also expected to form a firm foundation for future ICTer activity in the region, through both its annual

meetings as well as its more formal publication, the International Journal on Advances in ICT for

Emerging Regions.

Prof. Gihan Wikramanayake

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