Special Session at IJCNN, “Digital Twinning in Smart Applications”

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Call for Papers –  “Digital Twinning in Smart Applications”

At the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

June 30 – July 5, 2025 Rome, Italy

Submission deadline: January 15, 2025  January 30, 2025 

About The Special Session
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The advent of digital twins has revolutionized the simulation and optimization of real-world scenarios. Digital twins are comparable virtual replicas of real-world systems, assets, or processes that allow for real-time optimization, simulation, and monitoring. Through a complete or semi-complete digital replication of a physical object, they provide performance analysis, problem prediction, and scenario testing without affecting the real system. When combined with deep learning, these virtual replicas gain the ability to learn from extensive data, adapt to changing conditions, and predict future states with exceptional precision. This integration enables digital twins to not only reflect their physical counterparts but also anticipate issues, enhance performance, and autonomously support decision-making processes. The applications are extensive: in manufacturing, it leads to smart factories where production lines optimize themselves for efficiency; in healthcare, patient-specific digital twins can forecast health trajectories and tailor treatments; in urban planning, city-wide digital twins can model traffic and energy use to improve sustainability. Deep learning allows digital twins to become dynamic entities that change in tandem with their physical counterparts, creating interesting prospects for innovation in a variety of research and application areas.

Topics
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The topics of interest are inspired by the themes above and include, but are not limited to: 
• Healthcare and Personalized Medicine
• Predictive Maintenance and Anomaly Detection
• Smart Agriculture, Autonomous Systems and Robotics, Smart Cities and Infrastructure Management, Simulation and Virtual Environments, as well as Supply Chain Optimization
• Scalability and Federated Learning for Distributed Digital Twins
• Natural Language Processing for Human-Digital Twin Interaction
• Deep Learning in Digital Twin Cybersecurity and Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning
• Data Fusion and Multi-modal Learning into Digital Twin systems
• Generative Models for Synthetic Data Generation in Digital Twins
• Continuous Learning and Adaptation in Digital Twins
• Explainable AI (XAI) for Digital Twins
• Transfer Learning for Digital Twin Customization
Submission Information
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Manuscripts related to the Special Session shall be submitted through the CMT paper submission website as a regular paper (Main Track) by selecting this special session “Digital Twinning in Smart Applications” as primary Subject Area. All submitted papers will be reviewed in the same process as the regular papers. Accepted contributions will be part of the conference proceedings.
In order to prepare your submission, please follow the guidelines of the main conference at https://2025.ijcnn.org/authors/initial-author-instructions.

Special Session Co-Chairs
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Imad Rida, University of Technology of Compiegne, France (imad.rida@utc.fr)
Carmen Bisogni, University of Salerno, Italy (cbisogni@unisa.it) 
Lucia Cascone, University of Salerno, Italy (lcascone@unisa.it)
Fei Hao, Shaanxi Normal University, China (fhao@snnu.edu.cn)

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RSS2025 – LA wildfires and “soft” extension of the RSS 2025 submission deadline

January 21st, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Dear Robotics Colleagues,
As you know, RSS 2025 will be held in Los Angeles this June. The entire organizing team, including our amazing local organizers at USC, has been devastated by the terrible news of the LA wildfires. Our thoughts are with the people, families, and communities impacted by this disaster.In light of these events and as a gesture of support for the robotics researchers in the area, we have decided to adjust the RSS 2025 paper submission timeline. Specifically, we will allow authors to edit their initial submissions until the supplementary material deadline on January 31.We still require researchers to submit their title/abstract by January 17, and to submit a semi-complete paper by the January 24 deadline, but we will allow authors to keep editing the pdf of the paper until January 31. The initial submission should be semi-complete, such that we can start assigning area chairs and reviewers  (and issuing initial desk-rejections), but hopefully this “soft” extension should give the authors extra time to polish their papers. Also note that the title, abstract, authors’ list, and keywords cannot be changed after January 24 (the authors can only update the pdf).The revised timeline is as follows:
  •  Abstract deadline: January 17th, 11:59PM AoE
  • Initial paper deadline: January 24th, 11:59PM AoE (this requires a semi-complete pdf of the paper, final title and abstract)
  • Final pdf submission deadline: January 31st, 11:59PM AoE
  • Supplementary material submission deadline: January 31st, 11:59PM AoE
We know that this extension provides just a little help for the folks impacted by the wildfires. Nevertheless, we felt it was important for RSS to stand in solidarity with the LA community that will so generously host us this June. While we recognize that this adjustment adds complexity to the review process, we believe it is the right thing to do.If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to the RSS 2025 Program Chair at lcarlone@mit.edu.Take care, and best of luck with your RSS submissions!Warm regards,The RSS 2025 Organizing Team

ICDAR 2025 Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking

January 21st, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise


Call for participants

ICDAR 2025 Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking

Website: https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=32

Contact: icdar25-maptext-contact (at) googlegroups.com

Updates: https://groups.google.com/g/icdar25-maptext-news

Submission deadline: April 1st, 2025 (train/val sets available now)


Important dates

  • 2024-12-10: Website live, train/val sets available

  • 2025-01-14: Accepting submissions for val set., evaluation tools released

  • 2025-03-01: Test set available, submissions are open

  • 2024-04-01: Final submission deadline, including short reports

Task Overview

The competition encompasses four tasks:

  1. word detection

  2. phrase detection

  3. word detection and recognition

  4. phrase detection and recognition.

Detailed descriptions of each task can be found on the official web page.

ICDAR25 MapText Challenge: Call for Participation 

Dear colleagues,

After a successful 2024 edition, we are pleased to announce the 2025 edition of the ICDAR Competition on Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking. This edition still focuses on text detection and recognition in challenging historical map images, and introduces several new features:

  • expanded data for the French Land Registers dataset

  • addition of a new Taiwanese maps dataset from the GIS Center at Academia Sinica, featuring Chinese characters

  • release of large synthetic training data for each dataset

  • improved evaluation metrics and indicators for better feedback

We would like to invite you to register and participate using the following links:

You can start developing and evaluating your method right now thanks to our public training and validation data, as well as our public evaluation platform. You can also run our open evaluation code offline.

This competition is organized by experienced competition organizers from the following organizations: University of Minnesota (USA), Grinnell College (USA), Univ Gustave Eiffel, ENSG, IGN, LASTIG (France), EHESS (France), EPITA (France), Academia Sinica (Taiwan).

Looking forward to benchmarking your innovative solutions!

— ICDAR 2025 MapText Organizers

FMEC 2025 CFP: The 10th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, Tampa, Florida, USA. May 19-22, 2025

January 21st, 2025 Daniela Lopez de Luise


The 10th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2025)

https://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2025/index.php

Tampa, Florida, USA. May 19-22, 2025

Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Florida West Coast Section

FMEC 2025 CFP:

Cloud computing provides a large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources for users. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life such as the case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitate the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network closer to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices.

Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). FMEC 2025 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigate Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2025 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). FMEC 2025 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Florida Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to the following:

  • Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in unmanned aerial vehicle communications and applications
  • Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in mission-critical systems
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Edge-cloud computing architectures, frameworks and platforms
  • Edge-cloud networking and communication
  • Quality of Service (QoS) improvement techniques
  • Network virtualization for Edge-to-cloud systems
  • FMEC and IoT Data Communication Protocols
  • Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications
  • Mobile Cloud Computing Systems and Applications
  • FMEC in Environmental Sustainability
  • Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing
  • Security and Privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing
  • Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC
  • Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform
  • Federated learning and distributed machine learning in the fog and on the edge
  • 5G and fog/edge computing
  • Middleware and runtime systems for fog/edge infrastructures
  • Energy-efficient fog/edge computing
  • Edge/fog-to-cloud APIs and protocols
  • Mobility, connectivity, heterogeneity support for edge/fog services
  • Load balancing/scheduling in fog/edge computing
  • Crowdsourcing and establishing trust on data sources
  • Decision support systems for Edge-cloud computing
  • AI-based or data-driven orchestration of workflows in Edge computing
  • Automatic scheduling and deployment of workflows and services in Edge computing
  • Distributed management of Edge computing
  • Mechanisms and data structures for the governance of Edge computing
  • Interfaces, orchestration and optimization of the Networking-Computing continuum
  • In-network computing for the edge-cloud continuum
  • Novel programming models for Edge computing
  • Dynamic Edge/Fog environments
  • Automatic deployment and continuous dynamic composition of Edge services
  • Semantic annotation of Edge/Fog services
  •  AI in Autonomous Urbanism

 

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). 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 FMEC 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. Submission of regular papers up to 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and email address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. 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. Length of short papers can be between 4 to 6 pages.

Important Dates:

Submission Date: 15 Feb 2025 (Extended)
Notification to Authors: 1 Apr 2025
Camera Ready Submission: 21 Apr 2025

Contact:

Please send any inquiry on FMEC to Sadi  Alawadi at: Sadi.alawadi@bth.se

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