Welcome to the 17th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM) 2023. It is tremendous to see the great leaps of technology in the last two decades making this hybrid conference a possibility.

IMCOM 2023 aims to provide a platform for promoting new visionary approaches and interdisciplinary research. New evolving technology and futuristic ideas in the areas of information management, interaction management, communication technologies, and their implications for social interaction, lays the firm foundation of the conference. The conference has served as a vital platform for researchers to exchange innovative ideas and significant research achievements, and provides a unique opportunity in which both technology and social science meet. Two main tracks for information processing management and communication will be held, covering both research and application works of information management, intelligent information processing, interaction management, networking /telecommunications, and social interaction.

This year's conference contains 4 outstanding speeches from distinguished keynote speakers, 4 regular sessions, 4 short-presentation sessions, and 4 online presentation (poster style) sessions. This year we received 260 submissions from 22 countries and 83 institutions around the world, resulting in a very competitive and rigorous review process. The program committee has dropped several good papers to deliver a very strong and pivotal conference program. Total of 105 papers are accepted based on the significance of contribution, relevance to the conference scope, and review scores (40.4% acceptance rate). All the accepted papers not only consist of novel ideas, new results, work in progress, and state-of-the-art techniques but also provide us with the directions and stimulation for future research activities in the area of information management and communication technologies.

Conference website: IMCOM 2023