Computers and information technology (IT) are the key factors influencing the growth of the modern world by accelerating innovations in almost all sectors of life. Introduction of new computational methodologies and architectural optimizations in the hardware and software arena is leading to more powerful automations in both industrial and public sectors shaping economic, social and cultural growth. The optimum use of emerging technological developments in the area of computers and information technology also play an important role in supporting human health care and medical sciences. The availability of advanced modelling methodologies with high performance algorithms and data processing techniques provides an appropriate platform for understanding natural phenomena and environmental issues. These are becoming possible due to outcomes of various research and development activities being conducted by scientific communities around the world. These research findings should be shared with the public for enabling further developments. Since 1997 the series of IEEE International Conferences on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT) being organized by different public and private universities in Bangladesh has been successful in bringing together academics, researchers, IT professionals and IT managers to disseminate state of the art research activities and outcomes in these fastest growing fields.
    This Special Issue presents selected papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2010) held at the Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST), Dhaka, Bangladesh during December 23-25, 2010. The first one of this conference series was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1998, which evolved from the National Conference on Computer and Information Systems (NCClS) held in 1997 at the Dhaka University, Bangladesh. Since then the conference has grown to one of the largest computer and IT related research conferences in the South East Asian region, with participation of academics and researchers from many countries around the world. Authors are required to submit full length papers to the conference for review. A double blind review process is followed whereby each paper is reviewed by at least two independent reviewers of high international standing. The acceptance rate of papers in recent years has been around 33% or less. This is an indication of the quality of work in the papers accepted for the conference. The proceedings of ICCIT have been included in IEEExplore since 2008, enhancing the visibility of research activities of the participating researchers with possible citations in a wider sense.

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