Approved Special Sessions and Workshops

SS1: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Technologies for Rural and Agricultural Systems
Organizers:
Leisa Armstrong, School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Amiya Tripathy Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
Rajni Jain, National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi, India
Information contact: Leisa Armstrong <l.armstrong@ecu.edu.au>

SS2: Intelligent techniques for Social Media Analytics
Organizers:
Punam Bedi, Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, India
Hema Banati, Dyal Singh College, Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, India
Shikha Mehta, Department of CSE/IT, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India
Information contact: Punam Bedi <pbedi@cs.du.ac.in>

SS3: Soft computing techniques for Betterment of Society
Organizers:
Shilpa Srivastava, Raj Kumar Goel Institute Of Technology, Ghaziabad, India
Ritu Agarwal, Raj Kumar Goel Institute Of Technology, Ghaziabad, India
Information contact: Shilpa Srivastava <shilpa.srivastava2015@gmail.com>

SS4: Cyber Security
Organizers:
Shruti Mantri, Department of CS and IT, DES’s Society’s Kirti M. Doongursee College, University of Mumbai, India
Namrata Agrawal, National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad, India
Vineet Kumar, President, Cyber Peace Foundation, New Delhi, India
Information Contact: Shruti Mantri <shrutimantri@gmail.com>

SS5: Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence
Organizers:
Nikhil Rajput, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi, India
Niketa Gandhi, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA
Information Contact: Nikhil Rajput <nikhilrajput@gmail.com>

SS6: Advances in Web Analytics and Security
Organizers:
Gagandeep Kaur, Department of CSE-IT, JIIT, Noida, India
Neetu Sardana, Department of CSE-IT, JIIT, Noida, India
Information Contact: Gagandeep Kaur <gagandeep.kaur@jiit.ac.in>

Call for Special Sessions & Events 
We kindly invite you to propose Workshop/Special Session in the 7th The World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2017) to be held in Delhi, India, from December 14 - 16, 2017. WICT 2017 is intended to be a major international conference bringing together researchers, engineers, and practitioners who work in the areas of intelligent systems and its applications in industry and the real world.
Session organizer(s) will be responsible for advertising, promoting, and chairing the parallel special session during the conference. Papers will be reviewed by the panel reviewers from the Session Program Committee and approved by the General Conference Program Committee. Each Special Session is expected to have at least 5 papers and at least one author of each paper must register for the paper present during the session. Special Session paper submission will be done through WICT’2017 submission management system and been evaluated with the same standards as the regular conference paper. 
All proposal submissions will be reviewed by the WICT’2017 special session chair and the general conference committee. The following criteria will be considered:

• Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to WICT’2017 attendees.
• Complementarity to the WICT’2017 program provided by the other tracks.
• Completeness, clarity, and quality of the session proposal.
• Qualification of the submitter(s) to organize the SS.
• Likely success of the proposed session.
• Overlap with other proposal or pre-selected activity.

It is expected that all accepted papers will be included in the WICT’2017 conference proceedings published by Springer.