Call for Papers
Pan African Conference on Science, Computing and Telecommunications PACT 2015, Kampala, Uganda
July 27 – 29, 2015
Fairway Hotel, 1-2 Kafu Road, Kampala
Technically Sponsored by IEEE
Co-Hosted by
Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology,Tanzania,
University of Zambia, Lusaka
Technically Sponsored by
International Institute of Engineering and Technology
PACT Objectives
The objective of PACT is to support and stimulate active productive research which could strengthen the technical foundations of engineers and scientists in the continent, develop strong technical foundations and skills and lead to new small to medium enterprises within the African sub-continent. We also seek to encourage the emergence offunctionally skilled technocrats within the continent.
We invite research papers, workshop proposals, and panel proposals on the following topics listed here. The list is not exhaustive. Tutorials and Sessions which will impact on and enhance post graduate research within the continent will be considered. Training Workshops on research software tools such as Matlab, Scilab, Althium, Genesys, COMSOL Multiphysics and others are welcome. The conference also provides a forum for students to compete for best papers and receive an award. Registration fees for student authors are also discounted
Technical Program Tracks
The conference will accept paper submissions in areas related to the following broad themes:
1. Devices and Mobile Phone Applications and Software
2. Wireless Mobile Communications (3G, 4G and 5G)
3. Sensors and Remote Sensing
4. ICT, e-Learning and e-Education
5. ICT for Development
6. Smart Grid and Energy Harvesting
7. elecommunications
8. Applied Mathematics
9. Computer Networks
10. Scientific Computing
11. Computational Intelligence and Forensics
12. Environmental and Sustainability
13. Radio Frequency and Microwave Engineering
14. Cloud Computing
15. Food Security (Policies & Technical aspects)
Post Conference Publications:
All papers accepted and presented at the conference will be submitted to Compendex and SCOPUS for indexing. If and when we secure the IEEE technical sponsorship, reviewed papers which meet the IEEE requirements and presented during the conference will be forwarded to the IEEE for consideration for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore. Papers will also be submitted to iqproceedings.org for inclusion in their conferences database for worldwide access and indexing.
Despite the above undertaking, authors whose papers are found to be technically relevant and suitable as possible journal publications will be invited to extend their PACT conference papers to full length journal papers of not less than 12 pages. Such extensions must ensure that the extended paper is clearly significantly different in contents from the paper presented during the conference. They will be further reviewed and if the extended papers are accepted by the Journals they will be included in special 2015 issues of:
a) African Journal of Information and Communication Technology;
b) African Journal of Informatics
c) Journal of Machine to Machine Communications (River Publishers, Denmark; 2016 Issues);
Local Organising Committee/Contact details:
Dr Gilbert Maiga, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (Chair, Local Organising Committee).E-mail: gilmaiga@gmail.com
Mr Henry Seregunda (Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda). E-mail: hserugunda@cit.mak.ac.ug
Dr Reza Malekian, University of Pretoria (South African contact)
Dr Paul Okuthe Kogeda (TUT, Pretoria)
Dr Yaw Nkansah-Gyekye (NM-AIST, Arusha, Tanzania)
Ms. Mampilo Phahlane, University of South Africa
Dr Vitalis Ndume, Arusha, Tanzania
Dr Jackson Phiri, UNZA, Lusaka, Tanzania
Technical Committee
Prof Ito Atsushi (Utsunomiya University, Japan)
Ms. Dina Machuve; (NM-AIST, Arusha, Tanzania)
Mr Vitalis Ndume (NM-AIST, Arusha, Tanzania)
Mr Ramadhani Sinde (NM-AIST, Arusha, Tanzania)
Dr Jackson Phiri (University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia)
Dr Paul Kogeda (Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa)
Prof Karim Djouani (Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa)
Prof Johnson I Agbinya (Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
Dr Zaipuna O. Yonah (Chairperson IEEE Tanzania Section)
Dr Yaw Nkansah-Gyekye (NM-AIST, Arusha, Tanzania)
Mr David Zulu (University of Zambia, Lusaka)
Dr Sam Anael (Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science & Technology, Tanzania)
Prof. Ryszard Klempous (Wroclaw, Poland)
Prof. Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres (University of Malaga, Spain)
Prof Taan Elali, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Christian Omlin, South Africa
Dr. Douglas Kunda, Mulungushi University, Zambia
Mr. Collins Chinyama, The University of Zambia
Dr Yesufu Thomas (OAU, Nigeria)
Dr Khalid Aboura, University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Dr Frank Jiang, ADFA, Australia
Dr Rashed Saeed, IIUM, Malaysia
Dr Theophile K. Dagba, University of Benin, Bénin Republic
Prof. Marc Lobelle, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
Prof. Jerzy Surma, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Prof. Olgierd Unold, Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland)
Dr Daton MEDENOU, University of Abomey-Calavi, Bénin
Honorary Committee
To be constituted with more honorary persons
Conference Chairs
Associate Professor Johnson I Agbinya, Chair Technical Program Committee, Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (j.agbinya@ib2com.org)
Dr Jackson Phiri, University of Zambia, Lusaka ((jackson.phiri@unza.zm)
Dr Reza Malekian (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Dr Gilbert Maiga, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
