Theory Announcements: 2025

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

[DMANET] The Second International Workshop on Secure Edge Networking and Applications (SENA) in conjunction with BCCA 2025, Dubrovnik, Croatia

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*The Second International Workshop on Secure Edge Networking and
Applications (SENA)*

*In Conjunction with*

*IEEE Seventh International Conference on Blockchain Computing and
Applications *

*(IEEE BCCA 2025)*

14-17 October 2025 (Dubrovnik, Croatia)

https://bcca-conference.org/2025/Workshops/SENA.php

Edge networking plays a significant role in shaping the future of Internet
of Things (IoT) networks by processing high volumes of data at the network
edge and meeting the desired latency demand. Although edge computing is
regarded as a promising technology for these features as well as its
decentralization and supportive functionalities, there is a need to develop
systems to protect data security and privacy since users can face the risk
of data leakage when they offload data to the edge/cloud server. Secure
edge networking is continuously becoming a top strategic technology that
connects the physical and blockchain-secured worlds, assisted by
next-generation networks. Moreover, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Digital Twin (DT) driven secure edge-network can deliver seamless analysis,
monitoring, and predictions when it is used together with next-generation
mobile communications (5G/6G), Internet of Things (IoT), Software-Defined
Networking (SDN), Federated Learning (FL), distributed computing, and
intelligent smart city applications.

The workshop will invite authors to submit papers presenting new research
related to all aspects of secure edge networks and applications. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:

● IoT-based secure edge networking for real-time communication systems

● Real-time communication protocols for secure edge networking

● Resource management and network optimization for secure edge network

● Secure edge networking and industrial IoT applications

● Digital twin (DT)-enabled secure edge networking

● Real-world Digital Twin (DT) simulations, prototypes, and testbed
demonstrations for secure edge networks

● Attack detections/defences for secure edge networking

● Blockchain-driven secure edge networking

● Energy efficient secure edge networking

● Federated learning-based secure edge networking

● Modeling and performance analysis of secure edge networking

● Software-defined network (SDN) controlled secure edge networking

● AI as a service (AIaaS) for secure edge networking

● Wireless communications for cyber-physical edge network applications

● New security and privacy concepts within edge network applications

● LLMs in secure edge network

● Trustworthy secure edge network applications

● Secure edge network applications for smart cities

● AI-driven applications for secure edge networks

● Autonomous and context-aware secure edge networks

● Self-organizing secure edge networks and applications

● Sustainable AI-based secure edge network

● Secure edge network design for enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB),
massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC), and Ultra Reliable Low Latency
Communications (URLLC) applications

*General Chairs:*

· Müge Erel-Özçevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey
(muge.ozcevik@cbu.edu.tr) <muge.ozcevik@cbu.edu.tr>

· Elif Bozkaya-Aras, National Defence University Turkish Naval
Academy (elif.bozkaya@msu.edu.tr)

*Honorary Chair:*

· Berk Canberk, Edinburgh Napier University, (B.Canberk@napier.ac.uk)

*Industrial Chair: *

· Gökhan Yurdakul, GM of BTS Group (yurdakulg@btsgroup.com)

*Technical Program Chairs*

· Tuğçe Bilen, İstanbul Technical University (bilent@itu.edu.tr)

· Elif Ak, Memorial University, Canada (elif.ak@mun.ca)

· Engin Zeydan, Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
(CTTC) (engin.zeydan@ieee.org)

· Yusuf Özçevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University (
yusuf.ozcevik@cbu.edu.tr)

· Abdullah Aydeğer, Florida Tech, (aaydeger@fit.edu)

*Publicity Chairs*

· Kübra Duran, Edinburgh Napier University (kubra.duran@napier.ac.uk)

· Yağmur Yiğit, Edinburgh Napier University (yagmur.yigit@napier.ac.uk
)

*Important Dates:*

* Submission Deadline:* 30 July 2025

* Notification of Acceptance:* 30 August 2025

* Camera Ready:* 15 September 2025

*Submission:*

Prospective authors are invited to submit a long paper (7-8 pages), short
paper (5-6 pages) and poster (1-2 pages) including results, figures, and
references in the standard IEEE two-column conference format.

Papers should be submitted via the submission link: https://edas.info/N33458

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Monday, July 7, 2025

[DMANET] CFP: IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Quantum Networks [Aug 1st]

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IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Quantum Networks

We invite researchers to contribute to our forthcoming special issue on Quantum Networks. Quantum networks are poised to revolutionize how information is transmitted and secured, enabling capabilities such as quantum key distribution, distributed quantum computing, and ultra-sensitive sensing. As the field moves from theoretical promise to practical realization, there is a growing need for interdisciplinary research that bridges quantum physics, computer science, and network engineering.

This special issue of IEEE Internet Computing will spotlight advances in the design, implementation, and application of quantum networks. We invite submissions that explore theoretical models, systems architectures, network protocols, software platforms, and practical deployments that contribute to the development of scalable and interoperable quantum network infrastructures.

See https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/ic/cfp-quantum-networks for more details.

Important Dates:
• Submission Due: 1 August 2025
• Publication date: March/April 2026

Guest Editors:
• Qun Li, Lead Guest Editor, William & Mary
• Marcello Caleffi, University of Naples Federico II
• Yu Wang, Temple University

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[DMANET] Liverpool Discrete Mathematics Colloquium, 2-3 September, Liverpool, UK

Dear colleagues,

We are organising the 2nd Liverpool Discrete Mathematics Colloquium on
the 2-3 of September 2025. This year's addition spans topics including
structural and algorithmic graph theory, extremal combinatorics, plus
logic and foundations of computer science. In addition to invited talks
there is a 4-hour tutorial by Andrei Krokhin on Constraint Satisfaction
Problems.

Date: 2-3 September 2024

Location: University of Liverpool (Room TBC)

Website: https://j-sylvester.github.io/LDMC25.html

Registration: https://forms.gle/sEdSRnYA5VwJn4B38

All are welcome and the event is free of charge, however registration is
required by 25th of August in order to arrange the coffee breaks and
dinner. For more details consult the website.

Invited speakers:

- Candida Bowtell (Birmingham)

- Linda Cook (Amsterdam)

- Jan Dreier (TU Wien)

  - Maximilien Gadouleau (Durham)
  - Andrei Krokhin (Durham)
  - Karolina Okrasa (Oxford)
  - Jakub Opršal (Birmingham)
  - Sebastian Ordyniak (Leeds)
  - Katherine Staden (Open)
  - Standa Živný (Oxford)

The event is supported by
- Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research
- UKRI/EPSRC Additional Funding Programme for Mathematical Sciences
- School of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Liverpool

Best wishes,
John Sylvester, Linglong Yuan, & Viktor Zamaraev

[DMANET] Real-Time Intelligent Systems 2025

Seventh International Conference on Real-Time Intelligent Systems (RTIS 2025)
Macau Millennium College, Macau
October 13-14, 2025

Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology
November 05-06, 2025
Ho Chi Minh. Vietnam
https://www.socio.org.uk/rtis

Authors can participate in Macau or in Vietnam.

The International Conference on Real-time Intelligent Systems (RTIS) has travelled from Beijing, China (2016), to Macau. The seventh edition will take place at the University of Macau, Macau and at the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Ho Chi Minh, in Vietnam.

Over the past few years, real-time intelligent computing has revolutionised the human lifestyle. Research on real-time intelligent systems is multi-disciplinary, exploiting concepts from diverse areas such as big data processing, computational intelligence, location-based services, recommendation systems, and multimedia processing. In today's highly dynamic environment, analysing data in real-time is necessary to understand how systems process data, reason the outputs, and anticipate trends in intelligent computing. To this end, this conference will serve as a platform to manifest the ongoing research in the field. Thus, RTIS welcomes theoretically grounded, methodologically sound papers that address aspects related to the following topics.

CALL FOR PAPERS (Virtual/Physical)

Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining
Streaming data, streaming engines
Trace-based intelligent real-time services
Adaptive vision algorithms
Location-based services
Intelligent Robotic Systems
Collaborative Intelligence

Data capture in real-time
Data quality and cleansing
Intelligent Data Analysis
Intelligent Database Systems
Knowledge representation and reasoning
Intelligent information fusion
Large Language Models, cognitive methods, sequential inference, data mining, pattern/behavioral analysis
Big Data systems and applications for high-velocity data
Intelligent Information Systems
Privacy and security in Intelligence
Software Engineering Solutions

Intelligent Soft Computing
Real-time multiprocessor systems
Internet of Things
Architectures for Intelligence
Real-time distributed coding
Smart services and platforms
Real-time modelling user information needs
Wireless Communication

Real-time intelligent communication
Real-time intelligent network solutions
Mobile Smart Systems
Broadband Intelligence
Cloud Computing and Intelligence
Collaborative Intelligence
Analysis in domains such as energy, sensors

Decision support systems in real-time
Multi-agent Intelligent Systems
Multilingual information access
Recommendation systems
Real-time intelligent alert systems
Real-time remote access systems
Intelligent Transportation Systems

Autonomous systems (incl. autonomous vehicles and drones)
Distributed systems
Cloud/edge computing/fusion
Defence/security, robotics, aerospace, intelligent transportation
Mining/Manufacturing
Environmental monitoring
Critical Real-time Applications

Real-time noise removal systems
Event-driven analytics
Intelligent Fuzzy Systems
Machine translation in real-time
OLAP for real-time decision support
Crowdsourcing and crowd intelligence
AI in Agriculture
Smart Agriculture Systems

User experience in Real-Time Systems
Anomaly Detection
Predictive Maintenance
Image and Video Recognition
Natural Language Processing
Vulnerability Management
Healthcare
Customer Analytics

Submission, proceedings
Papers must be submitted online through OpenConf. Author instructions and LaTex2e (preferred) and Word macro files are available on the submission page. Submitted papers should be at most 14 pages (long papers) and 8 pages (short ones), including figures, tables and references (in the Springer template). Authors of accepted papers are required to transfer their copyrights. For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors MUST register for the conference by the camera-ready submission deadline with a full registration.

Springer's Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) (https://www.springer.com/series/15179) will publish the accepted papers and be indexed in SCOPUS, EI Compendex, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, and SCImago. All the papers published in the series are submitted for consideration in the Web of Science.

Important Dates

Submission of Papers: August 25, 2025
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: September 20, 2025
Camera-ready: October 05, 2025
Registration: October 05, 2025
Conference Dates: October 13-14, 2025

General Chair
Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau

Program Chairs
Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs, India
Zehan Tan, Macau Millennium College, Macau

Program Co-chairs
Kenneth Chan, Macau Millennium College, Macau
Duong Van Hieu, Tien Giang University, Vietnam
Ricardo Rodriguez-Jorge, Technological Centre Ceit, Spain
Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Contact: stm@socio.org.uk

[DMANET] Postdoctoral research position at Inria-Bordeaux

Dear colleagues,

We are accepting applications for a 1-year postdoctoral research position within the project ANR-DROI funded by the French government. The project concerns primal and dual bounds for adjustable robust optimization problems (a detailed description can be found here: https://edge.gitlabpages.inria.fr/projects/droi/).

We are searching for highly motivated candidates with a strong background in mixed-integer programming who can accommodate a start date in October 2025. Knowledge and expertise in optimization under uncertainty approaches such as robust optimization and/or stochastic programming is highly appreciated and experience in decomposition methods and numerical implementation is a plus.

The postdoctoral researcher is additionally expected to integrate the team EDGE (https://team.inria.fr/edge/) at Inria-Bordeaux and the Mathematics Institute of Bordeaux, France. Team EDGE is composed of 6 full-time members working around reformulation and decomposition techniques for mixed-integer programming as well as optimization under uncertainty approaches (stochastic and robust optimization). We are also very active in terms of industrial collaborations working with some of the industrial leaders in France such as EDF and Saint-Gobain.

If you have any questions regarding the team, the project or the position please do not hesitate to contact me directly at ayse-nur.arslan@inria.fr <mailto:ayse-nur.arslan@inria.fr>.

Best regards,

Ayse N. Arslan
Junior researcher (Chargée de recherche)
Inria-Bordeaux
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[DMANET] PostDoc position at KIT in group "Exascale Algorithm Engineering"

You like discrete algorithms (for graphs and related structures) and the
whole algorithm engineering cycle of design, analysis, implementation,
and experimental evaluation?

The computer science research group "Exascale Algorithm Engineering"
headed by Henning Meyerhenke at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
advertises a fixed-term PostDoc position:

Starting date: Sep 1st, 2025 or later
Duration: until Oct 31, 2027
Applic. deadline: July 28th, 2025
Pay grade: TV-L 13, 100%

Within pay grade 13, the concrete gross salary depends on experience and
personal circumstances [1]. A PostDoc base salary usually starts in
column 3 (or better).

Topic area: Development of novel algorithmic methods at the interface of
discrete algorithms and high-performance computing.

We are located on "Campus South", close to Karlsruhe's city center.
There are ample opportunities to collaborate within the KIT Department
of Informatics and beyond. More details, including the submission link
for applications, can be found on KIT's job website [2].

Informal inquiries can be directed until July 19th to me via email.

Henning Meyerhenke

[1]
https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/allg?id=tv-l-2025&matrix=1

[2]
https://jobs.pse.kit.edu/en/jobs/168794/postdoc-fmd-in-computer-science-academic-employee-with-phd-degree-for-the-research-group-exascale-algorithm-engineering

[DMANET] [CFP] Foundations and Future of Change in Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) - Deadline Extended - Workshop @ ECAI

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FCAI 2025 @ ECAI 2025
Foundations and Future of Change in Artificial Intelligence

October 25/26, Bologna, Italy
https://fcai2025.machine-reasoning.org/

Deadline: July 20, 2025 (extended)

Workshop co-located with the
28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2025)
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Changing information transversely affects nearly any task and process
that we aim to formalize computationally. Consequently, making sense of
how to change information is a central aspect and precursor for further
advancements in many domains. Naturally, approaches to describe changes,
to deal with change, and to conduct changes have been developed in very
different areas of artificial intelligence. These approaches generally
consider changing from different angles and highlight diverse aspects
that sometimes complement each other. For instance, in database theory,
much work has been devoted to transactions as the main representation of
change and the study of how that affects the computational complexity of
querying such databases. On the other hand, researchers in belief change
investigated the axiomatic and semantics of different kinds of changes
in formal theories. Recent advancements in Machine Learning pose new and
exciting challenges in formal approaches to change, which seem
conceptually different from classical approaches to change.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different areas of
AI and beyond who work on change in their respective areas and see
potential in bridging approaches or for radically advanced existing
approaches to change to be combined with new ideas and perspectives. We
also invite works that provide general insights on change that are
important for multiple areas of artificial intelligence or even for
computer science in general.

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*** List of Topics ***

The workshop welcomes contributions on every topic related to the formal
treatment of change, the evolution of representations in artificial
intelligence, and approaches that implement such approaches. The
following lists potential topics (but is not limited to these):

• Position papers on the foundations and future of change
• Logics for the representations of changes or reasoning about changes
• Belief change theory
• Repair in databases and ontologies
• Database update and querying
• Dynamic complexity theory
• Approaches to the meaning and semantics of change, e.g., conditionals
and plausibility
• Alternative meanings of change
• Theories of aspects and kinds of changes, like inconsistency, time or
ontologies of change
• Foundations of editing, retraining or learning of subsymbolic
representations
• Learning as a change process
• Algorithms to compute changes
• Approaches to track changes
• Philosophical aspects of change
• Updating incomplete information
• Dynamics of logic and database systems
• Evolution and versioning
• Reasoning about update programs

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*** Deadlines and Submission ***

• Paper submission: July 20, 2025 (extended)
• Notification: August 10, 2025 (extended)
• Workshop: October 25/26, 2025 (tentative)

There are two types of submissions:

• Full papers. Full papers should be at most 18 pages (one column
format), excluding references and acknowledgments. Papers already
published or accepted for publication at other conferences are also
welcome, provided that the original publication is mentioned in a
footnote on the first page and the submission at FCAI falls within the
authors' rights. In the same vein, papers under review for other
conferences can be submitted with a similar indication on their front page.

• Extended Abstracts. Extended abstracts should be at most 5 pages
(one column format), excluding references and acknowledgments. The
abstracts should introduce work that has recently been published, is
under review, or is ongoing research at an advanced stage. We highly
encourage attaching to the submission a preprint/postprint or a
technical report. Such extra material will be read at the discretion of
the reviewers. Submitting already published material may require
permission by the copyright holder.

Submission will be through the EasyChair conference system:

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fcai2025

The accepted papers will be made available electronically in the CEUR
Workshop Proceedings series as informal proceedings
(http://ceur-ws.org/). The copyright of the papers remains with the
authors. Full papers will be indexed by dblp.org; but extended abstracts
published on CEUR proceedings will not be indexed by dblp.org.

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*** PC Chairs ***

• Maria Vanina Martinez (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
(IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain)
• Nina Pardal (University of Huddersfield, UK)
• Kai Sauerwald (FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany)

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*** Programme committee ***

• Theofanis Aravanis (University of the Peloponnese, Greece)
• Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany)
• Giovanni Casini (CNR - ISTI, Italy)
• Thomas Eiter (TU Wien, Austria)
• Eduardo Fermé (University of Madeira, Portugal)
• Giorgos Flouris (FORTH-ICS, Greece)
• Laura Giordano (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)
• Miika Hannula (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Andreas Herzig (IRIT,Université Paul Sabatier, France)
• Anthony Hunter (University College London, UK)
• Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Dortmund, Germany)
• Phokion Kolaitis (University of California, USA)
• Juha Kontinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Arne Meier (University of Hannover, Germany)
• Tommie Meyer (University of Cape Town and CAIR, South Africa)
• Rafael Penaloza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
• Leon van der Torre(University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
• Matthias Thimm (University of Hagen, Germany)
• Ivan Varzinczak (Université Sorbonne, France)
• Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool, UK)

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*** Further Information ***

For further information, please visit the FCAI webpage:

https://fcai2025.machine-reasoning.org/

Please feel free to contact the organizer of FCAI 2025.

Information on the venue and registration can be obtained from the ECAI
2025 website:

https://ecai2025.org/

[DMANET] [CFP][ISIC 2025] Deadline extended: International Semantic Intelligence Conference

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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC 2025)

October 06-08, 2025, Universitaet zu Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
Paper Submission (Second Round): July 31, 2025

Web: http://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic
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** Call for Full Length paper **

** Topics **

We are interested in all issues concerning Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Semantic Web such as the following:
* Agentic Artificial Intelligence (Agentic AI)
* Generative AI
* Applications, Opportunities, Challenges
* Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
* Computational Linguistics
* Computational Paradigms and Computational Intelligence
* Contributions of Semantic Web Technologies (SWT) to the Society
* Cyber-Physical Systems
* Data Analytics
* Distributed and Mobile Systems
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Intelligent Computing and Applications, Case Studies and Tools
* Knowledge Extraction and Ontology Learning from the Web
* Knowledge representation and Engineering
* Large Language Models (LLMs)
* Large Scale and Complex Information Management
* Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Global Epidemics
* Machine to Machine Communications and Interoperability
* Mapping Knowledge bases
* Multimodal and Multilingual Access
* Multimodal and Multilingual Approach to Computing
* Ontology-based Data Access
* Reasoning and Intelligent Processing (Semantic Search Paradigms, Semantic Web Mining, Semantic Sentiment Analysis, Semantic Web Services, Visualization, Query Answering, Semantic Information Access)
* Security Issues in Semantic Web
* Semantic Web Engineering
* Social Networks
* Any other related topic...

** Submission Guidelines **

Every paper will be assessed by reviewed by at least three program committee members. The contributions should be related to any one of the three disciplines namely Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or Semantics for Data and the Web; or their intersection.
* Submissions must be in English with the following page length (pages of around 400 words each):
* Full papers (12-16 pages including references)
* Short papers (6-8 pages including references)

* Submitted papers must follow the guidelines and templates provided by Springer:
* Springer LNEE Guidelines and Templates: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings

* All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
* The references should include all published literature relevant to the paper.
* The review process will be Single-Blind review.
* Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=isic-2025

** Call for Workshop/Special Session Proposals **

The International Semantic Intelligence Conference 2025 (ISIC 2025) invites proposals for workshops/special sessions on the emerging topics related to the general theme of the conference. The acceptance of the proposal will be subject to the link, its specific theme is able to have with the conference major theme, i.e., Semantic Intelligence. New as well as established workshops/special sessions are welcome to send their proposals.

The proposals should be in a pdf file of maximum two pages long and to be submitted via email to fatmanas@pau.edu.tr (mailto:fatmanas@pau.edu.tr) and anshuparashar@nitkkr.ac.in (mailto:anshuparashar@nitkkr.ac.in), cc to general chairs (jasarika@nitkkr.ac.in (mailto:jasarika@nitkkr.ac.in), groppe@ifis.uni-luebeck.de (mailto:groppe@ifis.uni-luebeck.de)). The proposals must include the following:
* Workshop/special session title.
* Chairs with their affiliations and contact information.
* A description of the workshop's/special session's topic and its goals specifically mentioning the connection of the proposal to the conference theme.
* The scope of the topic chosen as an answer to why do you think it can attract researchers in the field.
* A very brief statement on diversity commitment for the submissions.
* Plans for publicity.
* Potential (or accepted) program committee members.
* Information about the most recent previous editions of the workshop/special session (if any), like the affiliated event, date, venue, and the number of submitted and accepted papers.
* Plans for disseminating the results of the workshop/special session.

Guidelines specifically for the Workshops:
* The workshop chairs may structure workshops as they see fit, possibly including one keynote or/and invited talk, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress papers, peer-reviewed papers, doctoral consortiums, demonstrations, programming challenges, tutorials or some combination; the proposed workshop format is to be submitted along with the proposal.
* The workshops can propose to have their own proceedings with some publisher.
* The workshops should tell, if they have any plans for seeking sponsorship.

Once accepted, the workshop/special session will be responsible for
* inviting papers with titles focused on the theme of the workshop/special session.
* publicizing workshop/special-session in the relevant communities.
* for setting up an easy chair account for the submission of papers in the same manner as it is for the main conference.
* creating and maintaining the workshop/special-session website.
* for quality control over the papers in their sessions, for enforcing deadlines and for submitting all materials by the deadlines.
* creating the Program Committee and getting the submitted papers reviewed by at least three reviewers of repute. The final decision of acceptance/rejection of papers and publication in the proceedings lie with the conference committee.
* scheduling the workshop program timeline. For the special sessions, the deadlines will be same as for the main conference.

Further,
* The logistics (facilities like rooms and hardware, catering like coffee breaks and lunches, and registration) of the workshops/special sessions will be handled by the ISIC 2025 local chairs.
* Workshop/special session paper registration fees are the same as regular conference fees. All registered participants are entitled to attend all keynotes, sessions, workshops, panels, tutorials and social events. The workshop/special session papers are also candidates for best paper awards.
Should you have any queries regarding your Workshop/Special Session proposal, please contact the Workshops/Special Sessions chairs at fatmanas@pau.edu.tr (mailto:fatmanas@pau.edu.tr) and anshuparashar@nitkkr.ac.in (mailto:anshuparashar@nitkkr.ac.in). We look forward to seeing you at the Conference!

** Call for Technical Program Committee **

Researchers and practitioners from all over the world, from academia, industry, and the government are invited to participate in the conference and share their perspectives, experiences, and vision by joining the Technical Program Committee. Kindly email your interest to the general chairs, in case you are interested.

** Chairs **

General Chairs:
- Sarika Jain, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India
- Sven Groppe, University of Luebeck, Germany

Advisory Committee:
- Maria-Esther Vidal, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany
- Veljko Milutinovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
- Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, IBM Research AI Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Organizing Chairs:
- Akasha-Leonie Kessel, Universitaet zu Luebeck, Germany
- Thomas Sievers, Universitaet zu Luebeck, Germany

Program Committee Chairs:
- Valentina Janev, The Mihajlo Pupin Institute, Belgrade, Serbia
- Jinghua Groppe, Universitaet zu Luebeck, Germany

Workshops and Special Sessions Chairs:
- Fatmana Senturk, Pamukkale University, Turkey
- Anshu Parashar, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra, Haryana , India

Proceedings Chairs:
- Valter Uotila, University of Helsinki & Aalto University, Finland

Publicity Chairs:
- Thomas Sievers, Universitaet zu Luebeck, Germany
- Yang Lu, Loughborough University, UK

Website Chairs:
- Akasha-Leonie Kessel, Universitaet zu Luebeck, Germany

** Program Committee **

- Aadil Lawaye, Department of Computer Science, BGSB University, J&K, India
- Aakash Ravindra Shinde, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Ahmed Elngar, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Beni-Suef University, Egypt
- Aleksei Rozhnov, Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences (ICS RAS), Russia
- Archana Patel, National Forensic Sciences University, India
- Cong Yu, Aalto University, Finland
- Dana Rad, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
- Gagandeep Singh Narula, GGSIPU, India
- Iurii Prokopchuk, Institute of Technical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
- Jon Stammers, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Kai Wussow, SAP SE, Germany
- Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA
- Mohammad Atikur Rahman, San Francisco Bay University, USA
- Neama Abdulaziz Dahan, Sana'a University, Yemen
- Neetu Sardana, JIIT, India
- Prajay Podder, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh
- Priti Jagwani, Ram Lal Anand College, India
- Rahul Autade, 3Itek LLC, USA
- Ramakrishna Ramadugu, Finastra, India
- Sanjay Misra, Institute For Energy Technology, Nigeria
- Sachin Gengaje, WIT, Solapur, India
- Shilpa Laddha, Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad, India
- Shridevi S, VIT, India
- Suparna Biswas, West Bengal University of Technology, India
- Tameem Ahmad, Aligarh Muslim University, India
- Vinay Gautam, Chitkara University, India

** Important Dates **

Full length Papers (Second Round): July 31, 2025
Full length Papers (First Round): June 30, 2025
Workshop Proposals (Second Round): July 31, 2025
Workshop Proposals (First Round): June 30, 2025
Paper notifications (Second Round): Sept 01, 2025
Paper notifications (First Round): Aug 15, 2025
Workshop Proposals Notifications (Second Round): Aug 05, 2025
Workshop Proposals Notifications (First Round): July 05, 2025
Workshop Papers Submission: Aug 15, 2025
End of Early Registration for main conference: Sep 20, 2025
Camera-ready submissions for all events: Sep 30, 2025
End of Standard Registration for all events: Sep 30, 2025
Main Conference: Oct 06-08, 2025

** Submission **

We describe manuscript preparation and submission procedure at http://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic/calls

[DMANET] FLLM2025 (Co-Sponsored by IEEE): The 3rd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models, 25-28 November, 2025 | Vienna, Austria

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation]

The 3rd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models
(FLLM2025)

*https://fllm-conference.org/2025/*

25-28 November, 2025 | Vienna, Austria

Hybrid Conference and Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Austrian Section

*FLLM 2025 CFP:*

With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models
(LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to
a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is
experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B,
Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new
applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and
from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of
starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment
with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of
next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding
its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the
resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in
industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their
training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time
industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI,
Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite
the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a
comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and
what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities.
To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs
and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given
their essentially social and technical structure.

The International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM)
addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and
future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all
topics with special interest in but not limited to:

- *Architectures and Systems*
- Transformers and Attention
- Bidirectional Encoding
- Autoregressive Models
- Massive GPU Systems
- Prompt Engineering
- Multimodal LLMs
- Fine-tuning
- *Challenges*
- Hallucination
- Cost of Creation and Training
- Energy and Sustainability Issues
- Integration
- Safety and Trustworthiness
- Interpretability
- Fairness
- Social Impact
- * Future Directions*
- Generative AI
- Explainability and EXplainable AI
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Federated Learning for FLLM
- Large Language Models Fine-Tuning on Graphs
- Data Augmentation
- * Natural Language Processing Applications*
- Generation
- Summarization
- Rewrite
- Search
- Question Answering
- Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning
- Clustering and Classification
- * Applications*
- Natural Language Processing
- Communication Systems
- Security and Privacy
- Image Processing and Computer Vision
- Life Sciences
- Financial Systems

*Call for Workshop Papers:*

- The Artificial Intelligence Models and Systems Symposium (AIMS)
<https://aims-conference.ai/2025/>
- The 2nd International Workshop on Advances of GenAI in Software
Engineering (GenAISE)
<https://fllm-conference.org/2025/Workshops/GenAISE2025>
- The 2nd International Workshop on Large Language Models for
Cybersecurity (LLMCS)
<https://fllm-conference.org/2025/Workshops/LLMCS2025/>
- The 2nd International Workshop on Prompt Engineering Large Language
Models (PromptEng)
<https://fllm-conference.org/2025/Workshops/PromptEng2025/>
- The 2nd International Workshop on Generative AI for Textual Document
Analysis (GENAIDOC)
<https://sites.google.com/view/genaidoc-workshop-fllm-2025>
- The 2nd International Workshop on Sustainable AI for Natural Language
Processing (SusAI)
<https://fllm-conference.org/2025/Workshops/SusAI2025/>
- The 2nd International Symposium on Generative Artificial Intelligence
(GenAI) <https://fllm-conference.org/2025/Workshops/GenAI2025/>
- The 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for
Cybersecurity (AICS)
<https://fllm-conference.org/2025/Workshops/AICS2025/>

*Journal Special Issue:*

Selected high quality papers will be invited for special issue submission
at the *Information Processing & Management (impact factor : 6.9)*

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-processing-and-management

*Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings*

Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11"
two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted
electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages
(including all figures, tables and references). Extra pages (up to 4 pages)
can be purchased for a fee. Submitted papers must present original
unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other
conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be
rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date,
exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be
considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information
or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three
reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the FLLM Proceeding, and be
published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and
be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include
original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference
or journal. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work
at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but
that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short
papers.

*Important Dates:*

- *Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2025 (Extended)*
- Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2025
- Camera-ready Submission: October 10, 2025

*Contact:*

Please send any inquiry on FLLM to: <emergingtechnetwork@gmail.com>
info@fllm-conference.org

Sunday, July 6, 2025

[DMANET] CPAIOR 2025: Call for Participation (Early registration ends 3 September)

CPAIOR 2025, the 22nd International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming (CP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Operations Research (OR), will be held in Melbourne, Australia, November 10-13, 2025. It will be co-located with ICAPS and KR.

Registrations for CPAIOR 2025 are now open. Please visit the conference website at

https://sites.google.com/view/cpaior2025

for the registration link as well as more information on the conference venue, travel, visas, and accommodation. Early registration will close on 3 September 2025.

Registration includes access to all CPAIOR and ICAPS sessions on the selected days, as well as coffee/tea breaks, a joint welcome reception and the CPAIOR conference dinner.

We also want to use this opportunity to advertise the Optimisation and Planning Summer School 2025, which will take place near Melbourne during the week before ICAPS/CPAIOR:

https://opss25.pathfinding.ai/

We hope to see you in Melbourne later this year!
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[DMANET] The Fastcode Seminar: Renato Werneck on Last Mile Deliveries at Amazon

The Fastcode Seminar [1] is a monthly series of virtual talks that
covers the latest research topics in the theory, practice, and teaching
of performance engineering.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- algorithm design and implementation;

- techniques for improving parallelism and locality;

- high-performance programming languages and frameworks;

- compilers for parallel code;

- tools for analyzing performance;

- hardware techniques for improving performance;

- parallel and concurrent data structures;

- models and algorithms for emerging technologies;

- high-performance solutions for databases, operating systems,
networking, and artificial intelligence;

- and just plain clever hacks.

Our next seminar is Monday July 14, 2025, and features Renato Werneck
(Amazon) speaking on:

🎯 "Last Mile Deliveries at Amazon"
🗓️ Monday, July 14, 2025, 12PM EDT
🔗 Zoom registration required: [4]

Abstract
Amazon delivers tens of millions of shipments worldwide on a daily
basis. Planning the last-mile routes that reach final customers requires
solving massive combinatorial optimization problems at scale. This talk
discusses the many challenges associated with planning these routes,
including the crucial role played by performance optimization.

Bio
Renato Werneck is a Senior Principal Scientist at the Modeling and
Optimization team at Amazon, working on algorithms to optimize Last Mile
deliveries. Before joining Amazon in 2014, he was at Microsoft Research
Silicon Valley for eight years. His research interests include Algorithm
Engineering, Data Structures, and Combinatorial Optimization, with a
focus on the design, analysis, implementation, and experimental
evaluation of practical algorithms. He holds a doctoral degree in
Computer Science from Princeton University, a master's degree in
Informatics from PUC-Rio, and a bachelor's degree in Computer
Engineering from Unicamp.

The seminar organizing committee includes Jakub Łącki, Roberto Palmieri,
Christian Schulz, Julian Shun, Yihan Sun, and Bruce Hoppe. If you'd like
to nominate a speaker for the Fastcode Seminar, please let us know [3].
To receive seminar announcements, sign up in [2] for the Fastcode
mailing list.

[1] https://fastcode.org/events/fastcode-seminar/
[2] https://fastcode.org/get-involved/instructors/join/
[3] https://fastcode.org/events/fastcode-seminar/#organizing-committee
[4] https://fastcode.org/events/fastcode-seminar/renato-werneck/
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Saturday, July 5, 2025

[DMANET] The 2nd Workshop on Systems and Technologies for IT/OT Integration in Industry 4/5.0 Environments (SITE 2025)

Apologies for cross-posting.

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Call for Papers
SITE 2025

The 2nd Workshop on Systems and Technologies for IT/OT
Integration
in Industry 4/5.0 Environments (SITE 2025)

Co-located with IEEE CAMAD 2025

October 14-16, 2025 – Tempe, AZ, United States
On-site event

website: https://site2025.spilab.es

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Technically co-sponsored by IEEE & IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)

Recently, the Industry 4.0 revolution claims the need for a paradigm shift
consisting of a massive adoption of Information and Communication
Technologies by all factory departments (from business to production
lines), to transform production and product delivery processes radically.
I4.0 fosters a deep change in the rigid organization model of the factory.
The multiple implications of the "connected factory" concept will lead the
production environments to unexpected developments, impacting both OT and
IT layers. Connected and interacting objects will populate the factories of
the future.
In the prospected landscape, a progressive and decisive integration of the
IT and OT layers is expected to occur, which practitioners are used to
refer to as IT/OT convergence, stressing the shortening of the gap (both
physical and conceptual) between the manufacturing processes running at the
OT layer, and storage, networking, computing resources, and
business-oriented software suites populating the IT layer.
In this context, emergent paradigms, approaches, and technologies like
artificial intelligence (AI), privacy-enhancing technologies (PET),
cybersecurity, blockchain (BC), Cloud Continuum, Zero Defect Manufacturing
(ZDM), Zero Waste Manufacturing, Industrial Sustainability, IIoT Platforms,
Advanced Service Orchestration in industrial deployments, 5G/6G
communication, Digital Twins (DT), and metaverse are key enablers shaping
the development of an IT/OT convergent smart factory.

The focus of SITE is on the convergence of IT and OT layers within the
modern Industry 4/5.0 compliant factories, and the systems and technologies
that ease or enable this revolutionary integration.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
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- Application of Industrial Cloud Continuum.
- IIoT Platforms and Service Orchestration.
- 5G/6G communication for industrial deployments.
- Computing continuum for smart cities services.
- Digital Twins for industrial process or product monitoring.
- Edge data center deployment in industrial environments.
- ML- and AI-based approaches cloud/edge-based smart
city applications.
- AI-driven models, architectures, and frameworks for edge computing.
- Reliable communication protocols in industrial production lines.
- Design and evaluation tools for scalability and efficient resource
allocation in Industry 4/5.0.
- ML-evaluation for automatic road anomaly detection and predictive
maintenance.
- Models and paradigms for the management of cloud/MEC services
within/between industrial data.
- Blockchain solutions for secure and reliable transactions between
counterparts in data sharing/trading.
- Security and privacy techniques for IT/OT convergence in smart factory
applications.
- Post-quantum security and privacy for Industrial applications.
- Zero Waste/Defect Manufacturing.
- IIoT for the sustainability of modern industrial production plants.
- Green Manufacturing in Industry 5.0 deployments.
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks in Industry 5.0 environments.
- Interoperability of Digital Twins in the manufacturing industrial process.

Submission Guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit original technical papers for publication in
SITE 2025. Manuscripts must be written in English, in the IEEE
double-column proceedings format, and their length should not exceed 6
pages (including tables, figures, references and appendices).

Authors can find the IEEE double-column conference proceedings template at
the following link:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Paper Review and Publication
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All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least three
reviewers. Accepted papers must be presented by at least one of their
authors, who must also register for the conference. Only accepted and
presented papers will appear in the CAMAD 2025 proceedings and submitted
for inclusion to IEEEXplore.

Important Dates
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Submission deadline: August 5th, 2025
Notifications: August 15th, 2025
Camera Ready deadline: September 15th, 2025

Workshop Technical Program Committee Chairs (TPC Chairs)
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Riccardo Venanzi, University of Bologna
Kubra Duran, Edinburgh Napier University
Jaime Galán-Jiménez, University of Extremadura

[DMANET] AIces 2026: early registration July 25

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1st INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON THE COGNITIVE, ETHICAL AND SOCIETAL DIMENSIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

AIces 2026

Porto – Maia, Portugal

January 19-23, 2026

https://aices.irdta.eu/2026/

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Co-organized by:

University of Maia

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA
Luxembourg/London

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Early registration: July 25, 2025

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SCOPE:

AIces 2026 will be the first in a series of research training events aiming at updating participants on the most recent multidisciplinary discussions about the foundations, meaning, challenges and risks of AI.

The event will have a global scope along 3 thematic lines: cognition, ethics, and society. It will cover current debates about: AI and philosophy of mind; cognitive architectures; machine learning and cognitive development; large language models and visual information; robotics and embodied cognition; neuroscience-inspired AI; algorithmic bias and fairness; transparency and explainability; accountability and responsibility; privacy and surveillance; autonomy and control; AI impact on human values and social inequalities; the future of work and automation; governance, regulation and public policies; AI, human rights and democracy; AI and global development; information and AI education.

The event will consist of 13 courses, 2 keynote lectures, 1 round table, 1 symposium collecting short contributions from participants, and 3 open thematic debate sessions. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Face to face interaction and networking will be main ingredients of the event. It will be also possible to fully participate in vivo remotely.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students, postgraduate students and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees, so people less or more advanced in their career will be welcome as well.

Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses.

Overall, AIces 2026 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen to and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.

VENUE:

AIces 2026 will take place in Porto, the second largest city in Portugal, recognized by UNESCO in 1996 as a World Heritage Site. The venue will be:

University of Maia
Avenida Carlos de Oliveira Campos - Castêlo da Maia
4475-690 Maia
Porto, Portugal

https://www.umaia.pt/en

STRUCTURE:

2 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.

Full live online participation will be possible. The organizers highlight, however, the importance of face to face interaction and networking in this kind of research training event.

All lectures will be videorecorded. Participants will be able to watch them again for 45 days after the event.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Georgios B. Giannakis (University of Minnesota), Kernel-driven and Learnable Self Supervision over Graphs

Ming Lin (University of Maryland), Socially Responsible and Trustworthy AI

PROFESSORS AND COURSES:

Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), [introductory] Introduction to Responsible AI

Thomas Breuel (Nvidia Research), [introductory] Facts and Rules in LLMs

Carlos Castillo (Pompeu Fabra University), [introductory] Algorithmic Fairness in High-Risk AI Applications

Rachel Cummings (Columbia University), [introductory/intermediate] Differential Privacy beyond Algorithms

Alan Dix (Cardiff Metropolitan University), [introductory] AI for Social Justice

Brian D. Earp (National University of Singapore), [introductory] Credit, Blame, and Personalisation in Human-AI Cooperation

Elia Formisano (Maastricht University), [introductory/intermediate] Auditory Cognition in Humans and Machines

Marijn Janssen (Delft University of Technology), [introductory/advanced] Data and AI Governance - From Control to Trust

Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford), [intermediate/advanced] Probabilistic Verification for Neural Networks

Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate] Computational Cognitive Models of Human-AI Teaming

Catherine Pelachaud (Sorbonne University), [introductory/intermediate] Interacting with Socially Interactive Agents

Linda B. Smith (Indiana University Bloomington), [intermediate] Toddlers and Machines: Insights into Efficient Learning

Paul Smolensky (Johns Hopkins University), [intermediate/advanced] Symbol Processing in Transformers and Other Neural Networks

SYMPOSIUM:

A half-day symposium will collect 10-minute voluntary presentations by participants on any of the 3 thematic areas of the event. A 1-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the presentation must be sent to david@irdta.eu by December 19, 2025.

OPEN DEBATES:

A 3-hour open debate session will be organized for each of the 3 thematic areas of the school: cognition, ethics and society. Expressions of interest to lead the respective sessions will be accepted until October 19, 2025 at david@irdta.eu . A 2-page description must be sent including the topics to be debated as well as the structure, call for contributions and dynamics of the session.

SPONSORS:

Companies/institutions/organizations willing to be sponsors of the event can download the sponsorship leaflet from

https://aices.irdta.eu/2026/sponsors/

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Samuel Anjos (Maia, social networks)
José Paulo Marques dos Santos (Maia, local chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
Santiago Montes (Tarragona, webpage)
Sara Morales (Luxembourg)
José Luís Reis (Maia)
Luís Paulo Reis (Porto)
David Silva (London, organization chair)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

https://aices.irdta.eu/2026/registration/

The selection of 6 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For logistical reasons, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will have got exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.

FEES:

Fees comprise access to all program activities and lunches.

There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.

The fees for on site and for online participation are the same.

ACCOMMODATION:

Accommodation suggestions will be available in due time at

https://aices.irdta.eu/2026/accommodation/

CERTIFICATE:

A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of academic activities. This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

david@irdta.eu

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

Universidade da Maia

Universidade do Porto

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Luxembourg/London
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Friday, July 4, 2025

[DMANET] Call for papers for IEEE SISDL 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Second International Workshop on
Scalability, Interoperability, and Sustainability of Distributed Ledgers
for Networks of the Future (SISDL 2025)

In Conjunction with

IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications

(IEEE BCCA 2025)

October 14-17, 2025, Dubrovnik, Croatia

https://bcca-conference.org/2025/Workshops/SISDL.php

Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are poised to transform various
industries, but challenges in scalability, interoperability, and
sustainability must be addressed to unlock their full potential. This
workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts
to explore solutions and shape the future of DLTs within evolving network
environments. While DLTs offer decentralization and immutability, key
barriers, such as achieving scalability for widespread adoption, enabling
seamless cross-network interoperability, and ensuring environmentally
sustainable solutions, remain. This workshop aims to tackle these issues
and accelerate DLT development and adoption.

The workshop welcomes submissions on a broad spectrum of topics related to
distributed ledgers' scalability, interoperability, and sustainability for
the next generation networks. This includes original research ideas,
innovative solutions, fundamental methodological studies, and use
cases/application demonstrations, including but not limited to:

Scalability Challenges
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Interoperability Solutions
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Sustainability in Distributed Ledgers
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Novel consensus mechanisms for scalable and secure distributed ledgers
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Cross-chain communication protocols and interoperability standards
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Energy-efficient and sustainable blockchain architectures
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Impact of blockchain technologies on next-generation networks
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Decentralized applications (DApps) and their implications on network
structures
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Security and privacy considerations in scalable and interoperable
blockchain systems
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Governance models for sustainable and inclusive blockchain ecosystems
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Real-world use cases and case studies demonstrating scalable and
interoperable DLT implementations

Organizers

Murat Karakus, mrtkarakus@ankara.edu.tr, Ankara University, Ankara,
Türkiye
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Evrim Guler, evrimguler@bartin.edu.tr, Bartin University, Bartin, Türkiye
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Suleyman Uludag, uludag@umich.edu, University of Michigan - Flint,
Flint, MI, USA
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Öznur Özkasap, oozkasap@ku.edu.tr, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Publicity Chairs

Vahideh Hayyolalam, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye (
vhayyolalam20@ku.edu.tr)
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Abdulrezzak Zekiye, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye (
azakieh22@ku.edu.tr)

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 30 July 2025

Notification of Acceptance: 30 August 2025

Camera Ready: 15 September 2025

Submission:

Prospective authors are invited to submit a long paper (8 pages) and a
short paper (4 pages) including references in the standard IEEE two-column
conference format.

Papers should be submitted via the submission link: https://edas.info/N33458
.

Publication:

All accepted papers in the workshops co-located with BCCA 2025 will be
submitted to IEEE Xplore for possible publication.

—

Best regards,

Vahideh Hayyolalam

PhD Candidate

Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

[DMANET] HIIT Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow Positions in ICT

The Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Fellows. HIIT offers a HIIT Postdoctoral Fellow position up to three years. For more senior candidates, HIIT offers a HIIT Research Fellow position up to five years. The length of the contract as well as the starting and ending dates are negotiable.
All excellent researchers in any area of ICT can be considered, but priority is given to candidates who support one (or more) of the HIIT strategic focus areas<https://www.hiit.fi/about/research/>:

* Artificial Intelligence
* Computational Health
* Cybersecurity
* Data Science
* Foundations of Computing

The deadline for applications is August 31st, 2025 at 11:59 PM (23:59 UTC+03:00). By applying to this call, organized by Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, you use one application to apply to positions for both of our hosting institutions, Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. Aalto University and the University of Helsinki are the two leading universities in Finland in computer science and information technology. Both are located in the Helsinki Metropolitan area, and the employing university will be determined by the supervising professor. Aalto University and the University of Helsinki are both committed to fostering an inclusive environment with people from diverse backgrounds, and researchers from underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.

More information about the positions, including participating supervisors, can be found at https://www.hiit.fi/hiit-postdoctoral-and-research-fellow-positions/

Note: due to the holiday season, responses may be delayed.

Christina Sirviö
Coordinator
HIIT- Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
HIIT boosts IT research at Aalto University and University of Helsinki
HIIT<https://www.hiit.fi/>

[DMANET] [CFP] IEEE International Congress on Artificial Intelligence of Things (IEEE AIoT 2025), Osaka, Japan

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IEEE International Congress on Artificial Intelligence of Things

*(**IEEE AIoT** 2025), **Dec**. **3**-**5**, 2025,* *Osaka, Japan*

https://www.ieee-aiot.org/

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*Important Dates:*

Paper Submission Due: 1 August 2025 (Extended)

Notification of Acceptance: 3 October 2025

Final Manuscript (Camera Ready): 3 November 2025

*Submission Link:* https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeaiot2025

*Keynote Speaker 1: *Thomas Hou, IEEE Fellow, Virginia Tech., USA

*Keynote Speaker 2: *Hiroaki Harai, Director General, NICT, Japan

*Keynote Speaker **3**: *Yonggang Wen, IEEE Fellow, FSAEng,, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore

*Three accepted papers will be selected for best paper awards.* . Selected
papers will be recommended to IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health
Informatics (IF: 6.8) Special Issue, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine
(IoTM) Special Issue, and Digital Communications and Networks (IF:
7.5) for *potential
fast-track publications.*

IEEE AIoT 2025 aims at bringing together interested parties (universities,
research centers, industries and stakeholders) from around the world
working in the fields of AI and Internet of Things to exchange opinions,
discuss brand-new ideas, developing innovative and emerging solutions, and
establishing new collaborations.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two of
the most rapidly evolving and interdependent fields of technology. The
convergence of these two fields is leading to the creation of an emerging
interdisciplinary field, dubbed the Artificial Intelligence of Things
(AIoT). The AIoT represents the integration of AI technologies into IoT
systems and devices, enabling them to interact with their environment in
more sophisticated and intelligent ways. By combining IoT with AI, the data
collected by distributed nodes can be utilized by applying AI techniques
such as machine learning and deep learning. As a result, machine learning
capabilities are moved closer to the data source.

The IEEE AIoT Conference aims to explore the integration of artificial
intelligence (AI) technologies into the Internet of Things (IoT) systems
and devices, enabling them to interact with their environment in more
sophisticated and intelligent ways. The conference will focus on the
following areas:

l AIoT Architectures, Frameworks, and Algorithms: Developing novel AIoT
architectures, frameworks, and algorithms for deploying state-of-the-art
machine learning and deep learning algorithms on IoT and edge devices,
realising the so-called Edge AI or Edge Intelligence;

l AIoT Applications: Identifying and exploring new AIoT applications,
including healthcare, smart homes, industrial automation, transportation,
and digital agriculture;

l Standards and Interoperability: Developing standards and protocols for
AIoT systems and ensuring interoperability between different platforms and
devices; and

l Ethics and Security: Addressing ethical and security concerns related to
AIoT, such as privacy, transparency, and accountability.

Authors are cordially invited to submit their original papers within the
eHealth area. The topics include but are not limited to:

1. 1. Edge AI and Distributed Intelligence

2. Machine Learning for IoT Applications

3. Mobile deployment of LLMs

4. Generative AI and LLMs for IoT applications

5. AI-empowered Robotics and Sensing for IoT

6. Smart Cities: AI and IoT Solutions

7. Security and Privacy in AI-driven IoT Systems

8. 5G and its Impact on AI and IoT

9. Blockchain Technology for Securing IoT Devices

10. Human-Machine Interaction in IoT Environments

11. IoT Sensors and Actuators: Innovations and Advances

12. AI-driven Data Analytics and Decision-making

13. Energy-Efficient AI Algorithms for IoT Devices

14. IoT in Healthcare: Applications and Challenges

15. Industrial IoT (IIoT) and AI for Manufacturing

16. Smart Agriculture: AI and IoT in Precision Farming

17. Ethical Considerations in AI-powered IoT Systems

18. IoT Standards and Interoperability

19. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in IoT

20. AI-driven Automation in Supply Chain Management

21. IoT Analytics and Big Data Processing

22. AI in Edge Devices: Challenges and Solutions

23. Wireless Sensor Networks in AI and IoT

24. IoT for Environmental Monitoring and Sustainability

25. AI and IoT in Transportation and Logistics

26. Cross-domain Integration of AI and IoT Technologies

27. Privacy, Security, and Trustworthiness

28. Standardization and Interoperability

29. Demonstrations, Proof-of-Concepts, and Deployments

*Paper Format and Submission*

IEEE AIoT 2025 invites submission of manuscripts with original research
results that have not been previously published or posted on public
websites or that are not currently under review by another conference or
journal. Submitted manuscripts must be prepared according to IEEE Computer
Society Proceedings Format (double column, 10pt font, letter paper) and
submitted in the PDF format. The manuscript submitted for review should be
no longer than 8 pages. After the manuscript is accepted, the camera-ready
paper may have up to 10 pages, subject to an additional fee per extra page.
Reviewing will be double-blind. Submissions must not reveal the authors'
names and their affiliations and avoid obvious self-references. Manuscripts
should be submitted to one of the research tracks. Submissions not meeting
these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of their merits.
Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE AIoT 2025
Conference Proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore.

*Best Paper Award and Journal Special Issues:*

*Submission Link:* https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeaiot2025

*Important Dates:*

Paper Submission Due: 1 August 2025 (Extended)

Notification of Acceptance: 3 October 2025

Final Manuscript (Camera Ready): 3 November 2025

*Organization Committee *

*General Chairs:*

Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan

Albert Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia

Henry Leung, University of Calgary, Canada

*TPC Chairs:*

Houbing Herbert Song, University of Maryland, USA

Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Osaka University, Japan

Hung-Yu Wei, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Pietro Manzoni, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

*Keynote Chair:*

Reza Malekian, Malmö University, Sweden

*Workshop Chairs:*

Yutaka Arakawa, Kyushu University, Japan

Andrea Sciarrone, University of Genoa, Italy

*Poster Chairs:*

Takuro Yonezawa, Nagoya University, Japan

Chiara Garibotto, University of Genoa, Italy

*Publication Chair:*

Jia Hu, University of Exeter, U.K.

*Publicity Chairs:*

Zhengxin Yu, Lancaster University, U.K.

Mostafa Fouda, Idaho State University, ID, USA

Zhibo Wang, Zhejiang University, China

*Web Chair:*

Haihan Nan, George Mason University, USA

*Financial Chairs:*

Peiying Colleen Ruan, Nvidia, Japan

Ting Yang, Kanazawa University, Japan

Re: [DMANET] [CFP] Approaching deadline for ALGOCLOUD 2025: International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing

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ALGOCLOUD 2025 - 10th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of
Cloud Computing
Submission deadline: July 8th 2025 (FIRM)
September 15-16, 2025, Warsaw, Poland - part of ALGO 2025
https://algo-conference.org/2025/algocloud

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: July 8 2025
Notification to authors: August 1 2025
Conference: 15-16 September 2025

SCOPE
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The International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing
(ALGOCLOUD) is an annual event aiming to tackle the diverse new topics
in the emerging area of algorithmic aspects of computing and data
management in modern cloud-based systems interpreted broadly so as to
include edge- and fog-based systems, cloudlets, cloud micro-services,
virtualization environments, decentralized systems, as well as dynamic
networks.

ALGOCLOUD aims at bringing together researchers, students, and
practitioners to present research activities and results on topics
related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern
cloud-based systems. The 10th edition of this symposium (ALGOCLOUD 2025)
is co-located with ALGO 2025, a leading international event of
researchers working on algorithms and their engineering.

CALL FOR PAPERS
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ALGOCLOUD invites submissions covering theoretical, design, and
implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. It specifically
encourages novel algorithms related to cloud and edge computing, cloud
architectures, and the cloud-edge continuum. Experimental work
evaluating contemporary cloud-edge approaches and relevant applications
is of particular interest. Additionally, ALGOCLOUD welcomes
demonstration manuscripts showcasing successful system developments, as
well as articles discussing experiences, use cases, and high-quality
survey papers. Contributions may encompass a broad spectrum of
algorithms, practices, and techniques for modelling, building, and
evaluating operations and services across various systems, including
virtualized infrastructures, cloud computing platforms, edge computing
platforms, fog computing platforms, data centers, cloud storage options,
cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud,
HPC architectures, decentralized systems, and dynamic networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Algorithms for Decentralized Systems
Algorithms for Dynamic Networks
Cloud-Edge Continuum
IoT and Cloud Computing
Fog and Edge Computing
Mobile Edge Computing
Stream processing for Cloud-Edge continuum
In-network stream processing
Serverless Computing
Open datasets of Cloud-Edge workloads
Infrastructure optimizations for Cloud-Edge applications
Fault tolerance, reliability and resilience for Cloud-Edge Computing
AI & Machine Learning for Cloud-Edge
Federated Learning in Cloud-Edge Architectures
Resource Management and Scheduling
Resource Management in Mobile Edge Computing
Scheduling, orchestration and resource provisioning in Cloud-Edge Computing
Data Center and Infrastructure Management
Distributed Caching and Load Balancing
Distributed Storage management
Privacy, Security and Anonymization
Game-theoretic Approaches for Cloud-Edge Computing
Economic Models and Pricing
Cloud-Edge deployment tools and their analysis
Performance modelling and evaluation of Cloud-Edge applications

PROCEEDINGS
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The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer-Nature
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

PAPER SUBMISSION
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All papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair
submission system at:
Submissions website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud2025

Submissions must be in the form of a single pdf file prepared using the
LNCS latex templates and style files (available, together with
Springer's authors' guidelines, from
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
Springer's proceedings LaTeX templates are also available on Overleaf
(https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj#.WsdHOy5uZpg).

By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance
at least one of the authors must register at ALGO/ALGOCLOUD 2025 and
present the paper (this holds for all types of papers, including
accepted survey proposals).

Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In
addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of
all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a
Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright
form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the
files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of
the papers cannot be made. Accepted papers will be included in the
post-proceedings published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series.

AWARDS
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Awards will be given to the best regular paper and the best student
regular paper. A regular paper is eligible for the best student paper
award if at least one of the authors is a full-time student (Bachelor,
Master, or Ph.D.) at the time of submission and the student(s) must have
made a major contribution to the paper. The TPC can decide to decline or
to split the awards. Awards are sponsored by Springer.

COMMITTEES
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Program Committee Chairs

Domenico Garlisi, University of Palermo, Italy
Dimitris Chatzopoulos, University College Dublin, Ireland

Program Committee

Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Santaromita Giuseppe, IMDEA, Spain
John Byabazaire, University College Dublin
Tiziana Cattai, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Dimitrios Amaxilatis, Spark Works Ltd, Ireland
Giuseppe Piro, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
Antonio Skarmeta Gomez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Christos Kotselidis, University of Manchester, UK
Aris Leivadeas, ETS, Canada
Giacomo Vertical, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Ngo Trung Kien, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology,
Viet Nam
Francesco Gringoli, University of Brescia, Italy
Katerina Doka, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Raffaele Gravina, University of Calabria, Italy
Spyros Lalis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Christoforos Ntantogian, Ionian University, Greece
Ioannis Karydis, Ionian University, Greece
Krzysztof Grochla, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Poland

Steering Committee

Spyros Sioutas, University of Patras, Greece
Peter Triantafillou, University of Warwick, UK
Christos Zaroliagis, University of Patras, Greece (Chair)

_____________________________
Dr. Domenico Garlisi
Assistant Professor
University of Palermo

[DMANET] [CFP] Approaching deadline for ALGOCLOUD 2025: International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing

*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
Paper submission deadline: July 8 2025
Notification to authors: August 1 2025
Conference: 15-16 September 2025

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

PROCEEDINGS
---------------
The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer-Nature
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

PAPER SUBMISSION
---------------
All papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair
submission system at:
Submissions website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud2025

COMMITTEES
---------------
Program Committee Chairs

Domenico Garlisi, University of Palermo, Italy
Dimitris Chatzopoulos, University College Dublin, Ireland

Program Committee

Steering Committee

Spyros Sioutas, University of Patras, Greece
Peter Triantafillou, University of Warwick, UK
Christos Zaroliagis, University of Patras, Greece (Chair)

_____________________________
Dr. Domenico Garlisi
Assistant Professor
University of Palermo

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Re: [DMANET] [CFP] Approaching deadline for ALGOCLOUD 2025: International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing

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