Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from logic-based artificial intelligence, nature-inspired soft computing, social-oriented agent technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing. PICom-09 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom), previously held as PCC-03 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2003), PCC-04 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2004), PSC-05 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2005), PCAC-06 (Vienna, Austria, April 2006), PCAC-07 (Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007), IPC-07 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-08 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008).

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

     Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Computing

AI models & theories, ontology, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, robots, game theory, expert system, knowledge discovery and management, reasoning, learning rule, distributed AI, tools, applications, etc.

     Nature-inspired Intelligence & Soft Computing

Nature-based models & theories, probabilistic computing, fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithm, evolutionary computing, chaotic system, collected intelligence, swarm computing, information fusion, biologic computing, tools, applications, etc.

     Social Intelligence & Agent-based Computing

Agent models & theories, agent language, agent negotiation & cooperation, multi/massive agents, Web agents, agent-based systems, ethic computing, emotional computing, social computing, social networks, tools, applications, etc.

     Ubiquitous Intelligence & Cyber-Physical Computing

Cyber/Web intelligence, physical things' intelligence, smart object, space & environment, cyber-physical integrated system, activity recognition, contextual information models & semantics, context-aware applications, etc.

     Embedded Hardware, Software & Systems

Pervasive computers and devices, wearable computers, RFIDs, sensor technology, embedded computer architecture, embedded software and middleware, system-on-chip, system test, power management, middleware, tools, applications, etc.

     Pervasive Networks & Communications

Broadband network, cross-layer protocol, sensor network, wireless network, ad hoc network, wearable network, PAN, BAN, P2P network, power-aware communication, communication middleware, intelligent traffic/spectrum management, etc.

     Pervasive Services & Systems

Web service, semantic Web, ubiquitous service, P2P service, trusted service, service safety and assurance, service science, engineering & management, EaaS including SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, Grid and Cloud, QoS, service-oriented architecture, systems, applications, etc.

     Multimedia Technologies & Applications

Multimedia modeling and semantics, pervasive multimedia database and management, pervasive media privacy and protection, VR/AR, intelligent multimedia sensing, processing, coding, indexing, mining, analyses, interfaces, tools, systems, applications, etc.