Welcome to the 3rd International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology - SoICT 2012!

Following the successes of SoICT 2011, the School of Information and Communication Technology - Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) organizes the third edition SoICT 2012.

SoICT 2012 is a scientific symposium for research in all major areas of computing. The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government for technical discussions and interactions on specific computing topics. Interested authors are invited to submit both research and tool papers in the following topics:

• Computing Algorithms and Paradigms
• Knowledge-based and Information Systems
• Computer and Communication Engineering
• Image Processing and Computer Vision
• Software Engineering
• Applications

The proceedings of SoICT 2012 will be published as a volume in ACM ICPS ( ISBN:978-1-4503-1232-5) and indexed by ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Selected papers will be invited to extend their work for submission to a special issue of Computing and Informatics (SCIE indexed) journal.

Your participation in SoICT 2012 is surely to be a great experience and one that you will long remember with many benefits to your future technical knowledge and your preparations to enhance your career and for embarking into the future. We look forward to seeing you in Halong.