RACS 2012 will provide an excellent forum for addressing research issues of concern within the applied computing area. Applied computing concentrates on innovative solutions to complex problems in all areas of industry and sciences using advanced techniques in computer science and engineering. It involves programming, software engineering, graphics, databases, wireless networks, security, distributed systems, operating systems and so on.

Authors are invited to submit original papers in all areas related to the applied computing. Topics will include, but not be limited to, the following areas:
- Agent Systems and Applications
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Signal Processing
- Data Mining
- Database Systems
- Distributed and Parallel Systems
- Embedded Systems
- Fault Tolerance and Reliability
- Grid Computing
- Intelligent Systems
- Mobile Networks
- Multimedia
- Object Orientation
- Operating Systems
- Security and Trusted Computing
- Sensor Networks
- Smartphone Platform and Applications
- Software Engineering
- Technologies for E-Learning
- WWW Applications and Technologies