1. IT Infrastructure and Security (ITIS): Information Security and Privacy Digital Forensics Network Security Cryptography Cloud and Virtualization Emerging Technologies Computer Vision and Image Ethics in Information Systems Human Computer Interaction Wireless Sensor Networks Medical Image Analysis Internet of Things Mobile and Pervasive Computing Real-time Systems and Embedded Systems Parallel and Distributed Systems 2. Data Engineering and Business Intelligence (DEBI): Information Security and Privacy Business Intelligence Data Mining Intelligent Systems Artificial Intelligence Autonomous Agents Intelligent Agents Multi-Agent Systems Expert Systems Pattern Recognition Machine Learning Soft Computing Optimization Forecasting Meta-Heuristics Computational Intelligence Decision Support Systems 3. Data Acquisition and Information Dissemination (DAID): Open Data Social Media Knowledge Management Social Networks Big Data Web Services Database Management Systems Semantics Web and Linked Data Visualization Information Social Information Systems Social Informatics Spatial Informatics Systems Geographical Information Systems