Dear All, The 4th National Conference of Institute of Scientometrics on " Scientometrics and Internet of Things (ioT) - SIOT 2015 - is just 2 days away (www.scientometrics.asia) SIOT 2015 team is happy to share with you the conference agenda in brief. Inaugural Address by Dr. ABHINANADA SARKAR. Dr. Abhinanda is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Taught at MIT (USA), served in GE and IBM and who is currently supporting a number of start-up organizations in management education, analytics, and medical diagnostics - as Associate Dean at the MYRA School of Business, as Data Scientist for Compegence, and co-founder of OmiX Labs. His patents, publications, and project leadership have been in applying statistical models and methods in science (e.g. experimental physics, clinical trials), technology (e.g. computer vision, wireless networks), engineering (e.g. gas turbines, wind energy), and business (e.g. credit risk, brand management). Abhinanda is looking forward to a brave new world of rapid diagnostic tests and the Internet of Things. Keynote speech by: Dr.GUIDO ZOSIMO-LANDOLFO , Publishing Editor, Scientometrics (A Springer Journal) PLENARY TALKS: 1. "Scalable IoT" by: Francis daCosta (USA), Founder/CTO, MeshDynamics. 2. "Usage Metrics and Their Applications" by Tahseen Afroz Khanday, Elsevier 3. "Internet of things (IoT)' as socio-technical dimension - 'Scientometric 3.0" by Dr. HS Siddamallaiah 4. "Regression and Functional Optimization models in Scientometric analysis" Snehanshu Saha,Ph.D ( Univ. Of Texas-Arlington), IEEE Senior Member PANEL DISCUSSION on " Scientometrics and IoT - Synergies, Opportunities & Challenges to LIS" Moderated by NV Sathyanarayana, CMD, Informatics In addition to 50 plus papers presentations, we have Preconference Tutorials on Altmetrics and Tool for Scientometrics Research will be done by Prof. SL Sangam, Dr. Shyam Pujar, Dr. Satish Munnoli, Dr. IRN Goudar and Ms. Tahseen Afroz Khanday To add power to your learning experience at SIOT conference, the organising team is bringing in www. http://www.storywallahs.com storywallahs.com for the evening of 25th September. We welcome you to register and experience the 'conference of a difference." at Hotel Solitaire on 25th-26th September.visit conference website for more details: www.scientometrics.asia Anand Byrappa On behalf of the organising team of SIOT 2015 Bangalore, INDIA www.scientometrics.asia -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.