Call for Postdoctoral Researchers, Research Assistants and Research Interns
We, at the Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) - Tokyo, are looking for postdoctoral researchers, research assistants and research interns. The candidate is expected to work in one of the following directions:
1) Scalable and distributed graph processing / dynamic graphs / stream processing of graphs.
The applicant is expected to work on the research and development related to distributed, scalable and real-time graph processing. A background in graph processing and big data processing platforms is desirable.
2) Robust AI by Integration of Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning.
The applicant is expected to work on the development of innovative fundamental technologies that combine symbolic reasoning and statistical learning. A background in Artificial Intelligence is expected, in at least one of the two areas of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, and/or Machine Learning. Themes of research may include but are not restricted to: robust / explainable AI, opinion diffusion, belief change, fact checking, logic programming.
3) Big spatial data / real-time data integration and processing.
The applicant is expected to work on the research and development related to distributed and scalable spatial data processing using state of the art big data processing platforms. A background in big data processing platforms is desirable.
4) Graph analysis and graph learning, with emphasis on accelerating, scaling up these technologies and applying them to large-scale data.
The topics include but not limited to: (a) Graph neural network (GNN); (b) Graph embedding; (c) Graph analysis community detection, graph/node classification, link prediction, node ranking, centrality); (d) Knowledge Graph (KG); (e) Temporal-spatial graphs; (f) Fairness, interpretability and explainability for graph learning; (g) Differentially private analysis of graphs; (h) Federated graph machine learning; (i) AutoML for graphs; (j) Various types of graphs (bipartite graph, multi-layer graphs, signed graphs, heterogeneous graphs); (k) large-scale graph visualization; (l) Applications of these technologies, such as recommender systems, point clouds, anomaly detection, text classification, image classification, sentiment analysis, question answering, emergency behaviors modeling and prediction, drug discovery, social influence prediction, traffic forecasting, neural machine translation, etc.
Desired candidate attributes (satisfying a few of the attributes is enough):
- Database concepts
- Knowledge of distributed and parallel computing
- Knowledge of machine learning / deep learning / graph learning / data mining
- Good coding skills in java and/or python
- Experience of version control system
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Interested candidates may send their resume to the following email address: shaikh.salman(a)aist.go.jp
AIRC homepage: https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/en/teams/
Thank you very much.
Best Regards,
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Salman Ahmed Shaikh (Ph.D.)
Senior Researcher
Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC)
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Tokyo Waterfront 2-4-7 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064 JAPAN
Email: shaikh.salman(a)aist.go.jp
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情報検索国際会議のトップカンファレンスSIGIRの
Asia-Pacific版、SIGIR-AP (Asia-Pacific) が立ち上がります。
記念すべき第一回は今年11月に北京でハイブリッド開催されます。
SIGIRで不採録となった論文も復活できるチャンスがあります。
詳しくは下記CFPとホームページをご覧ください。（一部under constructionです。。。）
ご投稿をお待ちしております。
SIGIR-AP 2023 First Call For Papers
Details: http://www.sigir-ap.org/sigir-ap-2023/call-for-papers/
SIGIR-AP (Asia/Pacific) is a new regional IR conference whose scope is the same as that of SIGIR. It will be hybrid, so authors of accepted papers can either present their work in-person or remotely.
The conference adopts double-blind, single-track reviewing, and allows submissions of papers that are commensurate with contribution size. There are two types of SIGIR-AP submissions: Regular submissions and SIGIR-Revise-and-Resubmit submissions.
Regular submissions:
These are new, original contributions that have not been submitted elsewhere before. We also welcome Resource papers and Reproducibility papers. Resources papers consider test collections and labelled datasets, designs and protocols of evaluation tasks, and software tools and services for information access. Reproducibility papers repeat, reproduce, generalize, and reexamine prior work, for example analysing to what extent assumptions of the original work are valid, or identify error modes and unexpected conclusions; typically these papers involve a new team and a new experimental setup, that is, they go beyond replication.
Page length: (A) Paper body + (B) references.
(A) Paper body length should be 2-9 pages, and be commensurate with contribution size.
(B) No page limit for the references section.
SIGIR-Revise-and-Resubmit (SIGIR-RR) submissions:
These are revised versions of either full or short papers that were not accepted at the immediately preceding SIGIR conference. (This option is not available for other SIGIR paper tracks, e.g., perspectives, resource, or reproducibility.) In addition to the revised paper, the authors must include in the submission file a text explaining the revision based on the SIGIR reviews, as well as the original SIGIR submission.
Page length: (A) Paper body + (B) references + (C) explanation (with SIGIR paper ID) + (D) SIGIR submission
(A) Paper body length should be 2-9 pages, and be commensurate with contribution size.
(B) No page limit for the references section.
(C) Explanation (1-3 pages, no style requirements): a SIGIR paper ID, plus a text that explain how the authors addressed the points raised by the SIGIR reviewers after the SIGIR rejection.
(D) SIGIR submission: please include the original anonymised SIGIR submission as is in the SIGIR-AP submission.
IMPORTANT DATES (Timezone: Anywhere on Earth)
June 26, 2023 Abstract submissions due
July 3, 2023 Paper submissions due
September 10, 2023 Paper decision notifications
September 26, 2023 Camera ready papers due
November 26-29, 2023 SIGIR-AP conference (tutorial2 + 2-day conference + workshops)
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Xuanjing Huang, Fudan University, P. R. China
Tetsuya Sakai, Waseda University, Japan
Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne, Australia
sigirap2023pcchairs(a)easychair.org
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お世話になっております。
先日CFPの案内をお送りした国際会議IEEE SERA2023の
論文〆切が延長されましたのでお知らせ致します。
重複して受信された場合はご容赦ください。
21st IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research,
Management and Applications (SERA 2023)
May 23-25, 2023, Orlando, Florida and Virtual (Hybrid format)
https://acisinternational.org/conferences/sera-2023/
新しい〆切は3月12日となっております。
開催地は米国のオーランドで、オンラインとのハイブリッド開催との事です。
投稿のご検討をよろしくお願い致します。
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Masato OGUCHI, Dr.Eng.
Department of Information Sciences
Ochanomizu University
https://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~oguchi/https://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~oguchi_lab/http://ogl.is.ocha.ac.jp/
oguchi(a)is.ocha.ac.jp
日本データベース学会の皆様
早稲田大学の山名です。
日本データベース学会の皆様
早稲田大学の山名です。
2023年6月26日〜30日の間、米国テネシー州ナッシュビル市で開催されるIEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP) 2023に併設実施される４つ
のワークショップについて論文を募集しておりますので、お知らせします。
いずれも、4月1日が論文投稿締切（以下では一部3/20となっておりますが、4/1となる予定です）となっております。
ナッシュビルは、米国の中でも早くからスマートシティ化を進めている都市です。
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ワークショップ一覧：
The 7th IEEE International Workshop on Big Data and IoT Security in Smart Computing
The 2nd International Workshop on Smart Agriculture for the environmental emergency
The 8th IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems
The 9th IEEE International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities - SSC 2023
********* This is a joint CFP of SMARTCOMP 2023 Workshops ************
CALL FOR PAPERS - The 7th IEEE International Workshop on Big Data and IoT Security
in Smart Computing
During SMARTCOMP 2023 (June 26, 2023, Nashville, Tennessee)
https://www-yama-info-waseda-ac-jp/en/bits2023
Call for Papers
Smart computing aims at improving the quality of life and experience in modern society and
represents the next wave of computing- Key technologies for realizing smart computing
include sensing, IoTs, mobile and pervasive computing, cyber-physical-social systems, big
data, machine learning, data analytics, and social and cognitive computing- Smart
computing helps to solve a wide variety of societal challenges related to transportation,
energy, healthcare, finance, disaster management, and so on-
At the core of all such systems and applications, critical issues include security, privacy,
reliability, resiliency, robustness, and efficiency- Indeed, to boost the development of big
data applications in smart computing, data security, data traceability as well as efficiency are
extremely important-
After successful previously holding three IEEE International Workshops on Big Data and
IoT Security in Smart Computing (IEEE BITS 2017/2018/2019/2020/2021/2022), the 7th
workshop, IEEE BITS 2023, will be held focusing on theories and implementations of
security, privacy, reliability, resiliency, and robustness secure computing and efficient data
management in Cloud/IoT environment- BITS is a full-day workshop that is going to be
organized in conjunction in conjunction with the 9th IEEE International Conference on
Smart Computing (SmartComp2023) in June 2023-
The topics to be addressed at BITS2023 will include but are not limited to, theoretical or
practical aspects of big data and IoT in smart computing and cyber-physical systems- Papers
describing experience on real prototype implementations are also welcome- Submissions
should be targeted to one of the following sub-topics:
- Anonymity for big data
- Big data management and its efficiency in Smart Computing
- Cloud security and privacy policies
- Data traceability for big data
- Distributed systems security
- Encryption theory and its implementations for big data
- IoT services and applications in Smart Computing
- Legal study for big data
- Machine learning in Smart Computing
- Privacy risk assessment
- Secure computation for big data
- Security management
- Side-channel attacks in Smart Computing
- Trust, security, privacy, and data provenance issues in Smart Computing
- Privacy issues for big data
- Security and privacy issues in various smart computing applications such as transportation,
energy, environmental, smart city, healthcare, and social media
Submission Guidelines:
Paper submissions should be no longer than 6 pages and formatted according to the IEEE
conference template- Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files through EDAS
by selecting the BITS2023 track-
All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee
members and other experts in the field- All presented papers will be published in the
SmartComp2023 conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library-
All accepted papers will be EI indexed-
IEEE conference template
Submissions must be made via EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php
c=30638&track=116287
General Co-Chairs
Hayato Yamana, Waseda University, Japan
Sajal K- Das, Missouri Univ- of Science and Technology, USA
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Shameek Bhattacharjee, Western Michigan University, USA
Keiichi Yasumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Technical Program Committee
TBA
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2023
Accepted Notification: May 3, 2023
Camera Ready Deadline: May 10, 2023
Workshop Date: during SMARTCOMP 2023
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CALL FOR PAPERS - 2nd International Workshop on Smart Agriculture for the
environmental emergency (SmartAgr)
June 26, 2023
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
https://smartagr.santannapisa.it/
In conjunction with IEEE Int. Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP
2023)
The global environmental emergency, due to the fast climate changes, is heavily impacting
on human activities and life. Agriculture, as one of the main human activities, is directly
involved in meeting the needs of the growing population. It is responsible of around the 70%
of total water consumption and has heavy effects on the environment and on the land use,
increasing the pollution of natural resources (air, water, soil). Recently, agriculture was
addressed by a technology evolution where the new paradigm of Smart Agriculture guided
the introduction of technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks,
wireless communications, remote monitoring to sustain and make more efficient the
agriculture production. The global environmental emergency solicits a further evolution of
Smart Agriculture to provide scientific and technological solutions suitable to make
agriculture more resilient to climate changes and to better address the issues related to the
protection of natural resources and to the increased need of food.
In this context, Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is where smart and precise agriculture can
converge to provide scientific and technological solutions in support of the planet, human
life, and agricultural production, with a continuous attention to the environmental
emergency. Climate-Smart Agriculture can guide the evolution of agriculture, make the
intensive production more efficient and cope with the growth of a starving population,
especially in the most populated and environmentally stressed areas and where natural
resources (soil, water and biodiversity) are drastically jeopardized.
Smart Agriculture, treasuring the technology evolution in the field of Pervasive Computing,
IoT, Artificial Intelligence, embedded systems etc. and the new perspective introduced by
CSA can answer the aforementioned needs, improving the productivity and the
environmental sustainability and preserving natural resources. It can drive the evolution of
the agriculture and reorienting the focus on the Three Pillars of CSA as stated by the FAO:
- sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes,
- adapting and building resilience to climate change,
- reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions, where possible.
These pillars outline the direction of action regarding the FAO Strategic Framework
2022-2031 based on the Four Betters: better production, better nutrition, a better
environment and a better life for all, leaving no one behind.
The 2nd International Workshop on Smart Agriculture for the environmental emergency
(SmartAgr) investigates the design, implementation, and assessment of innovative
technological solutions, including new paradigms, methods, systems, and tools to ensure the
implementation of Smart Agriculture to face off the environmental emergency.
SmartAgr is an interdisciplinary, multi-national initiative to gather electrical and
telecommunication engineers, computer scientists, agronomists, biotechnologists to present
new pervasive computing and embedded systems, communication and networking solutions
and devices to meet the aforementioned challenges. The workshop invites and calls for
participation both representatives of academia and industry across the world interested in
discussing on the last evolution of Smart Agriculture with a focus on the environmental
emergency. From this point of view the workshop can provide a place where to profitably
exchange ideas, present applications and solutions taking advantage from the heterogeneity
of the contributors to encourage the cross-fertilization of ideas and competencies.
The papers should address forefront research and development in Smart Agriculture with a
particular focus on, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Pervasive computing and embedded systems solutions enabling Smart Agriculture
to face off environmental emergency.
- Artificial intelligence in Smart Agriculture with attention to the environmental
emergency.
- Communications and networking technologies supporting Smart Agriculture
systems and solutions to preserve natural resources and improve productivity.
- New solutions, systems, models, applications to reduce CO2 emissions.
- Technologies and applications to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and
resilience to climate changes.
- Technologies and application to preserve natural resources (soil, water, and
biodiversity).
Each accepted paper requires a full SMARCOMP registration and will be included and
indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore) and in Scopus Database.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2023
Acceptance Notification: May 3, 2023
Camera Ready Submission: May 10, 2023
Submissions must be made via EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php
c=30639&track=116549
Organizers and Workshop Chairs
Anna Lina Ruscelli, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Gabriele Cecchetti, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Technical Program Committee
Mohammad Banat, Jordan University of Technology, Irbid, Jordan
Carmelo Di Franco, Aitronik, Italy
Anil Kumar Gupta, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune University
Campus, India
Yining Liu, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China
Mukhtar Mohamed Edris Mahmoud, University of Kassala, Sudan and Puntland State
University, Somalia
Joel Onyango, Climate Resilient Economies Programme, African Centre for Technology
Studies, Kenya
Ana Paula Silva, Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco - Escola Superior de Tecnologia,
Portugal
Daniele Sarri, University of Florence, Italy
Nicola Silvestri, University of Pisa, Italy
Lina Stankovic, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
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CALL FOR PAPERS - Eighth IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys 2023)
Co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP
2023)
Nashville, Tennessee, USA, June 26th, 2023
http://smartsys2023.dii.unipi.it/
Technology succeeds when it provides benefits to the society either directly or indirectly.
Understanding the societal and economic impact and human-centered aspects of a smart
system or technology in advance and designing the system a priori with potential
value-added services help spur the discoveries of new tools, methodologies and innovative
services. Smart service systems span across a variety of socio-technical facets comprising of
devices, people, organizations, environments and technologies to sense, actuate,
control and assess the physical, cyber and societal artifacts of the human service systems.
Besides the systems being self-adaptive and fault-tolerant, need to be designed in such a way
that it can continuously increase the quality and productivity, the compliance and
sustainability of the smart services it offers. While human-centered perspective and
cognitive learning help create multi-facet value added services and catalyze the sustained
economic growth of smart service systems, understanding the multi-modal sensing,
control, heterogeneity and interdependency between different physical, virtual and logical
components of such a complex system will enable the realization of new transformative
smarter service systems. If successful, this can help improve the quality-of-experience
of the customers, quality-of-life of the citizens and quality-of returns of the stakeholders and
investors.
Nurturing the development of smart service systems seeks for inter- and trans-disciplinary
crosscutting research threads from system and operational engineering, computer science
and information systems, social and behavioral science, computational modeling and
industrial engineering etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and
researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and
technical presentations on the fundamental knowledge and principles of smart
service systems that enable the value co-creation in sensing, actuating, data analytics,
learning, cognition, and control of human centric cyber-physical-social systems and future of
work.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Innovative tools, methodologies and solutions for smart service systems; example includes
personalized healthcare, smart energy,
smart cities, smart manufacturing, intelligent transportation, education, precision
medicine and agriculture, national security etc.
- Information extraction and interpretation from sensors, actuators, smart phones, wearable
devices (e.g., smart watches), and humans
- Context and situational awareness of smart service systems.
- Design of people-centric services and technologies for providing better services such as
food, transportation and places to live.
- Novel architectures and interoperable solutions for Internet of Things.
- Models and methodologies for designing systems of systems.
- Big data analytics approaches for providing better customer services, and innovating new
types of sustainable services.
- Modeling, analysis, co-production, and co-evolution of human activity, behavior and
interaction for the effective adaptation and
percolation of longitudinal smart service systems.
- Role of machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, pervasive computing, blockchain,
control theory, information and
communications technologies.
- Role of formal methods in computer networks, cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things
and machine learning.
- Design and developments of intelligent systems, intelligent enterprises and
cyber-physical-social-systems.
- Design of inter-dependent complex global systems such as healthcare, smart grid,
computer networks, logistics and supply-chains,
financial markets etc.
- Smart infrastructure and testbed to support the integration of autonomous systems and
innovative applications.
- Design and implementation of analytical methods, simulation software and experimental
testbeds to evaluate the key performance
indicators of smart services.
- Design of approaches for trustworthiness of human-centered smart systems and algorithms.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Manuscript submission: 20 March 2023
- Paper acceptance notification: 20 April 2023
- Camera-ready paper submission: 10 May 2023
- Workshop: 26 June 2023
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are invited to submit regular (full) papers for presentation at the workshop,
describing original, previously unpublished work,
which is not currently under review by another workshop, conference, or journal. Regular
papers should present novel perspectives within
the general scope of the workshop.
Papers may be no more than 6 pages in length. Papers in excess of page limits shall not be
considered for review or publication.
All papers must be typeset in double-column IEEE format using 10pt fonts on US letter
paper, with all fonts embedded. The IEEE LaTeX and
Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE
Computer Society website.
Papers must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file on US Letter size paper (not
A4), with all fonts embedded (the PDF-A standard
complies with that). Prior to submission, ensure that any running headers/footers, page
numbering, as well as blue underlining for URLs
and email addresses has been removed.
Submissions must be made via EDAS: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php c=30637
Please note that each accepted paper will require a full SMARTCOMP registration (no
registration is available for workshops only).
ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
Workshop Co-Chairs:
- Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
- Carlo Vallati, University of Pisa, Italy
- Gurdip Singh, George Mason University, USA
Technical Program Co-Chairs:
- Giovanni Nardini, University of Pisa, Italy
- Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy, Bowie State University, USA
Publicity Co-Chairs:
- Kuldeep Kurte, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Raffaele Zippo, University of Pisa, Italy
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CALL FOR PAPERS - Ninth IEEE International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities -
SSC 2023
June 26, 2023, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
http://ssc2023.unime.it
To be held in conjunction with
Ninth IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2023)
A smart city represents an improvement of today’s cities both functionally and structurally,
that strategically utilizes many smart factors, such as information and communications
technology (ICT), to increase the city’s sustainable growth and strengthen city functions,
while ensuring citizens’ quality of life and health. Cities can be viewed as a microcosm of
“objects” with which citizens interact daily: street furniture, public buildings, transportation,
monuments, public lighting and much more. Moreover, a continuous monitoring of a city’s
status occurs through sensors and processors applied within the real-world infrastructure.
The Internet of Things (IoT) concept imagines all these objects being “smart”, connected to
the Internet, and able to communicate with each other and with the external environment,
interacting and sharing data and information. Each object in the IoT can be both the
collector and distributor of information regarding mobility, energy consumption, air
pollution as well as potentially offering cultural and tourist information. As a consequence,
cyber and real worlds are strongly linked in a smart city. New services can be deployed when
needed and evaluation mechanisms will be set up to assess the health and success of a smart
city.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together innovative developments in areas related to
sensors and smart cities, including but not limited to:
computing and sensing infrastructures
cost (of node, energy, development, deployment, maintenance)
communication (security, resilience, low energy)
adaptability (to environment, energy, faults)
data processing (on nodes, distributed, aggregation, discovery, big data)
self-learning (pattern discovery, prediction, auto-configuration)
deployment (cost, error prevention, localization)
maintenance (troubleshooting, recurrent costs)
applications (both new and enjoying new life)
smart users experience
trust and privacy
crowdsourcing, crowdsensing, participatory sensing
cognition and awareness
cyber-physical systems
smart tourism
Both review articles and original research papers relating to sensors and smart cities are
solicited. There is particular interest for papers with advances towards practical experiences
and services overcoming the adoption barriers for sensors and smart cities.
Submission Guidelines
Paper submissions should be no longer than 6 pages with a font size of 10 using the IEEE
conference template (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html).
Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files. All submitted papers will be subject to
single blind peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in
the field. All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the
conference and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors are requested to first
register their submissions and submit their manuscripts in PDF format via EDAS. Note that
at least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present
the paper. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the
paper from the Proceedings.
Submissions must be made via EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php
c=30637&track=116283
Important dates
Manuscript submission: 20 March, 2023
Paper acceptance notification: 20 April, 2023
Camera-ready paper submission: 10 May 2023
Contacts
Please feel free to contact the Workshop Co-Chairs (dbruneo(a)unime.it,
apuliafito65(a)gmail.com) for more information.
Workshop Co-Chairs
Dario Bruneo, University of Messina, Italy
Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
TPC Co-Chairs
Carlo Puliafito, University of Pisa, Italy
Fabrizio De Vita, University of Messina, Italy
Publicity Chair
TBA
Technical Program Committee
TBA
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