On July 28-29, 2023, the 12th Conference on Information technology and its applications – CITA 2023 was hosted by the Vietnam-Korea University of Information and Communication Technology (VKU) – the University of Da Nang and the Vietnam ICT Club of Faculties – Institutes – Schools – Universities (FISU Vietnam), along with the professional sponsorship and companionship of Springer Publishing House, IEEE SMC, Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland), Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Phenikaa University and Nam Long Technology Investment Group.

Delegates take souvenir photos at the 12th Conference on Information Technology and Applications in various fields – CITA 2023

Attending the Conference, on the side of the organizer – the Vietnam – Korea University of Information and Communication Technology, the University of Da Nang: Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Huynh Cong Phap – Rector, Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Nguyen Thanh Binh – University Council Chairman, Dr. Tran The Son – Vice Rector; and the co-organizer is Vietnam ICT Club of Faculties – Institutes – Schools – Universities (FISU Vietnam) with Prof. Ph.D. Nguyen Thanh Thuy – Chairman of FISU Vietnam.

Advisory and Professional Sponsoring Board, with: Prof. Ph.D. Nguyen Ngoc Thanh – University of Wroclaw, Poland; Prof. Ph.D. Le Minh Hoa – Northumbria University, UK; Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Le Khac Nhien An – University of Dublin, Ireland; Dr. Nguyen Quang Hung, Editor of Information and Communications Magazine, Ministry of Information and Communications.

Program Committee, with: Prof. Ph.D. Truong Ba Thanh, Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Le Manh Thanh, Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Tran Quoc Chien, Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Tang Tan Chien; along with the presence of authors/author groups of more than 60 articles in 2 national and international sessions.

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Huynh Cong Phap – Rector of VKU University, Head of the Organizing Committee of CITA 2023 Seminar giving opening speech

At the opening session, Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Huynh Cong Phap – Rector of VKU University, Chairman of the CITA 2023 Organizing Committee gave an opening speech, welcomed and thanked FISU Vietnam, the community of scientists, the network of training and research institutions, domestic and international enterprises and organizations that have accompanied and supported the University as well as the 12-year process of forming and developing the CITA Conference, and emphasized the role, position and responsibility of VKU University to the community and the development of science, technology, training in information technology and digital transformation of the Central – Central Highlands region and the country. VKU is one of the three major public universities in the country and the only one in the Central – Central Highlands region to provide intensive training and research in information technology, communication and digital economy with the orient operation in the international university model, advanced management to provide high quality human resources for the 4th industrial revolution and international integration, including: (1) Software Engineering; (2) Data Science & AI; (3) IoT & Robotics; (4) Cyber Security; (5) E-commerce; (6) Digital Marketing; (7) Finance – Digital Accounting; (8) Multimedia Communication; (9) Digital Arts.

Initiated in 2012, CITA (Conference on Information Technology and its Applications) is a series of scientific conferences on information technology and its applications held annually by VKU. The main objective is to create a forum that brings together and connects researchers, scientists, national and international experts to publish, discuss and share new issues in the fields of information technology and application.

CITA 2023 – the 12th time, there has been a great development in quality as well as quantity, especially an international session proceedings has been published in Lecture Notes in Network and Systems (Springer) of DBLP database, Scopus, Web of Science. This years conference, the Organizing Committee received 155 scientific articles from nearly 400 authors around the world such as Austria, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia. Myanmar, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam. After a very strict and serious review process, each article has 2-4 reviewers; Under the chairmanship and professional advice of prestigious scientists in the field of information technology and digital economy such as Prof. Ph.D. Nguyen Ngoc Thanh (Poland), Prof. Ph.D. Nguyen Thanh Thuy (Vietnam), Prof. Ph.D. Dosam Hwang (Korea), Prof. Ph.D. Le Minh Hoa (UK),… had 33 articles selected for publication on the international track at Volume 734 of Lecture Notes of Networking and Systems (acceptance rate is 21%) and 36 other quality articles published in the CITA 2023 National Conference Proceedings, among them, there were 06 quality reports selected for publication of the Journal of Research, Development and Applications, IT and Communication (ISSN 1859-3526), the prestigious Journal of Information and Communications of the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Professor Le Khac Nhien An from the School of Computer Science of University College Dublin, Ireland reported on issues related to Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics

In particular, at the CITA 2023 plenary session, a quality reported by the very prestigious and famous Vietnamese Prof. Le Khac Nhien An from the School of Computer Science, the University of Dublin, Ireland on issues related to “Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics”.

In addition, with the prestige and quality confirmed, since 2022, CITA Conference has received professional support and sponsorship from internationally prestigious journals such as the Journal of Information and Telecommunication (Scopus, eSCI) of Taylor and Francis (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tjit20/current) and the Vietnam Journal of Computer Science (Scopus, eSCI) of World Scientific Publishing. Both of these journals are quoted in the Scopus and e-SCI print databases. Accordingly, more good quality articles will be selected to expand and publish in the special above journals.

Reporting sessions with many interesting and thriving topics today in information technology, communication and digital economy

The Conference will take place in 11 parallel reporting sessions (6 national and 5 international sessions) with many good topics and current developments in information technology, communication and digital economy including:

·      Data science and artificial intelligence;

·      Image processing and natural language;

·      Software Engineering and Information Systems;

·      Communication networks

·      Digital economics

At the closing session, the Organizing Committee decided to award 3 author groups with the best paper: 1 article of the International Track for authors from Vietnam and Korea (title: Car Detector based on Yolov5 for Parking Management), 1 article of the National Track for authors from Vietnam and Canada (title: A Knowledge-based Framework for Developing Smart Interfaces for Smart Service Systems) and 1 article for students from Vietnam and Ireland (title: Building Legal Knowledge Map Repository with NLP Toolkits).

The organizers decided to award 3 groups of authors with the best paper (Best paper)

The 12th conference on information technology and its applications (CITA 2023) has once again affirmed the prestige and professional quality, which is a bridge between domestic and foreign scientists to contribute intelligence, science technology in the field of information technology, communication and digital economy to promote the scientific development and digital transformation of the country. Also at the CITA 2023 closing session, Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Huynh Cong Phap, Chairman of the Organizing Committee launched the CITA 2024 with the co-hosting of the Southeast Asian University Community (ACIR).

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