Welcome to the 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM) 2021, the first virtual IMCOM. It is tremendous to see the great leaps of technology in the last two decades and making this virtual conference a possibility.
IMCOM 2021 aims to provide a platform for promoting new visionary approaches and interdisciplinary researches. 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 5 outstanding speeches from distinguished keynote speakers, 14 regular sessions, 6 short-oral sessions, and 3 lightning sessions. This year we received 260 submissions from many contraries and 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 93 papers are accepted based on significance of contribution, relevance to the conference scope, and review scores (35.7% 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.