a.next-generation sequence analysis

b.genotype/phenotype simulation

c.machine learning for treatment/outcomes prediction

d.enterprise software architectures for collaborative biomedicine

e.scalable -omics tools (genome, proteome, transcriptome, etc)

f.health information systems

g.patient-driven health records

h.segmentation and image processing

i.image registration

j.medical visualization

k.medical and surgical simulations

l.image-guided surgery and computer-based clinical tools

2.Cloud and Grid Computing

a.intelligent and autonomic management of cloud resources, monitoring, asset management, process automation

b.ensuring agile, elastic scalability

c.scalable data management strategies (heterogeneity, consistency, availability, privacy, security, data protection, control of data distribution

d.techniques for infrastructure virtualization, cross platform execution, service composition, heterogeneous environments

e.cloud interoperability,  portability, latency

f.energy efficiency and sustainability for software and services in the cloud

g.architectures and technologies supporting integration of computing and networking environments (cloud computing on networks)

h.open source implementations of a software stack for clouds

i.programming models, applications and middleware for dynamic cloud environments, architecture agnostic software

j.toolkits to support legacy systems on the cloud

3.Computer Architecture

a.processor, cache, and memory architectures

b.interconnect and networks interface architectures

c.multi-core and multi-threaded architectures

d.thermal efficient architectures and techniques

e.reliable and secure architectures

f.embedded and heterogeneous architectures

g.innovative hardware/software trade-offs

h.emerging technologies, systems and applications

i.performance modeling, simulation, and projection techniques

4.Computer Networks and Security

a.delay/disruption tolerant networks

b.energy-efficient networks

c.mobility models and mobile networks

d.network applications and services

e.network performance measurement, simulation and emulation

f.peer-to-peer, overlay, and virtual networks

g.traffic engineering and control

h.network and distributed systems security, and risk analysis

i.mobile and wireless security

j.peer-to-peer and VOIP security

k.key, identity, privilege, and trust management

l.intrusion detection and prevention techniques

m.access control, accountability, anonymity, authentication

n.privacy-preserving systems

o.network security and privacy policies

5.Energy Efficient Computing

a.power management in real time systems

b.memory and cache power management

c.performance of energy-efficient computing

d.energy-aware fault tolerance

e.thermal-aware computing

f.power-aware operating systems

g.energy-efficient data management

h.power-aware communication and routing

i.power-aware distributed computing

j.power/energy-aware mobile computing

k.power/energy-aware scheduling and resource management

l.power-aware computing simulation, emulation, and modeling

m.software for power-aware computing

n.estimation and validation of power usage in computing

6.Information Retrieval, Database, and Data Mining

a.retrieval models and ranking

b.web search, advertising, adversarial, blogs and social search

c.architectures for scalable data management systems

d.information filtering and recommender systems

e.mining graphs, semi structured, and text data

f.mining on emerging architectures

g.data mining in temporal and spatial databases

h.access methods and indexing

i.mobile databases and distributed data management

j.semantic web

7.Parallel, Distributed, and High Performance Processing

a.decentralized resource management

b.data intensive and I/O computing

c.parallel and distributed architectures

d.cluster computing

e.applications of parallel and distributed computing

f.scalability towards exascale computing environments

g.heterogeneity in computing

h.performance modeling and evaluation

i.middleware for high performance computing

8.Reconfigurable and GPU Computing

a.algorithms and mathematical applications

b.languages and system software

c.hardware implementation and supporting technologies

d.theoretical models and performance estimation

e.simulation environments and prototyping

f.case studies and comparisons of real-life technologies

g.run time reconfiguration

h.energy efficiency

i.architectural issues and tradeoffs

j.hybrid GPU/reconfigurable systems

k.hardware accelerators

9.Software Systems

a.file and storage systems

b.fault tolerance and reliability

c.systems management

d.virtualization: hypervisors and operating systems.

e.advances in compiler technologies

f.programming languages and supporting systems: scripting languages, functional languages, object-oriented languages, application-specific languages, dynamically typed languages, java virtual machines, perl parrot, etc.

g.debuggers and debugging systems

h.performance tools

i.commercial middleware

j.software characterization

10. Wireless Systems and Sensor Networks

a.bio-inspired sensor networks

b.localization in sensor networks

c.QoS provisioning

d.architectural issues

e.topology control and management

f.incentive issues

g.security and privacy issues

h.physical layer and cross-layer designs

i.MAC protocols

j.performance evaluation and modeling

k.dynamic spectrum sharing

l.opportunistic networking