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Sustainability Strategies and Green Economy Programme with National University of Singapore School of Computing | Accepting Applications
March 2nd, 2023
Daniela Lopez de Luise 7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023): Fourth Call for Papers
March 2nd, 2023
Daniela Lopez de Luise |
7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023)
September 13-15, 2023, 5* St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus
Submissions due: May 1, 2023 (AoE)
(Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS; Best Paper Award
sponsored by Springer with 300 EUR)
“Internet for Survival”: How the effective and democratic evolution of the
Internet towards an infrastructure/ecosystem supporting resilience and
equality depends on deeply intertwined considerations rooted in technological,
social and economic sciences.
INSCI is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and practitioners
at the intersection of technological, social and economic sciences seeking to learn
how the Internet can be used to make our world a better place. Its insights are
expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we
call “Internet”, for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities
for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the
innovation and social ecosystems it supports.
INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy-
oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role
of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective
intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for
a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation
quests.
INSCI welcomes works done in interdisciplinary teams that may include computer
scientists, sociologists, policy makers, economists, designers and artists, or complex
system scholars, among others, preferably uniting expertise from social, economic
and technical sciences. This kind of work is expected to close the gap between
societal / economic impact and requirements and technological developments, seen
as both drivers and consequences of each other.
Thus, INSCI 2023 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics including but not
limited to the following list.
TOPICS
Green, Sustainability, and Innovation
• The challenges of Responsible Research and Innovation on Internet solution
• The technological, social and economic benefits of Transnational and Inter-Cultural
Projects
• Internet solutions supporting Environmental policies related to Climate Change
• Green Computing in a holistic perspective: trade-offs of computing power, social
benefits, economic and environmental impacts (e.g. blockchains)
• Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Novel Platforms for alternative distributed
economic models
• Distributed environmental awareness: creating a collective consciousness of
environmental issues and possible solutions at individual and collective level.
Collective intelligence, sensing and action
• Energy optimisation from from networked production to shared consumption,
relying on top-down and bottom-up approaches
• Networks for circular economy models: conceiving and putting in place platforms
and solutions effectively supporting circular and social economy models,
collaborative making, art and creativity.
Enabling Technologies, Applications and Infrastructures
• Social implications of Reinforcement Algorithms, Machine Learning and Intelligent
Systems
• Feasibility and social /economic aspects of Algorithms for mediation content
• Data Sovereignty and inclusion aspects of Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing
• Recommender, Adaptive and Context Aware Systems: design, social and inclusion
aspects, feasibility and adoption
• Networking and Wireless Systems as enablers: inclusion, health, privacy and
pervasiveness aspects
• People-driven Internet Technologies and Applications, including Collaborative
Platforms & Social Search, Open Data and New Interfaces
Societal Structures
• How will Internet of Things change Society and interaction models
• Digital Competences and Participation
• Virtual Communities and Behavioural Patterns: how are they affected by the
technological platforms being used
• Knowledge, Education, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Societal Web Impact on
Internet Evolution
• Offline and Online Human Behaviour with Emphasis on Social Media and Online/ER/
VR Interactions
Digital Politics and Governance
• Internet and Political Participation
• Online Political Freedoms in Policing and in Effect: Regional and Local Perspectives,
technological impacts and requirements
• Citizen Involvement into Decision-Making: Platforms, Actors, and Experiences
• Political Discussions Online: Issues and Groups Behind Them, technical and
collaborative solutions to moderate them
• E-governance Practices of Today’s Authorities across the world
• Internet regulation: Security vs. Openness
Free Communication Patterns and Democracy
• Freedom of Speech Online: a Contested Area of Policing
• Algorithms as New Total Communicative Power
• Extremist and Radical Talk Online and Policies or socio-Technical solutions to
counteract it
• Universal Internet Freedoms vs. Dark Web
• Participatory Democracy and Budgeting: citizens’ involvement in democratic
processes, for more equal and inclusive resource allocation
• Cognitive, Psychological Aspects and Incentive Mechanisms for online Engagement,
Collaboration and Participation (smart citizenship, e-literacy, participation skills,
decision support and recommendations for informed citizens and collective actions)
• E-Democracy and E-Participation: risks and opportunities, lessons learnt from
currently deployed solutions (e.g. e-voting, Decidim)
• Reliable online information: collaborative models and processes to produce/qualify
online information (e.g. post-truth Practices Online, filter bubble and fact checking),
for health (e.g. vaccination), democracy (international decision-making, political
campaigns, opinion and sentiment modelling, governmental censure and influence),
economy (product labelling, ethical marketing), safety of online ecosystems (children
protection, fake news, digital rebels)
• Crowdsourcing: implications, enablers
Sustainable Network Economy
• Legal, economic, technological and innovation hurdles related to Intellectual
Property and the Digital Commons
• New Collaborative Markets Analytics
• Economic Power of Online Platforms: Expropriation of Digital Labour, Open Data
solutions and their applicability
• Digital Corporations: World Leaders and Regional Alternatives
• Analogous Elites, Technological Precariat
• Digital Professions and Reshaping of Online Labour Markets
• New decentralised economic models: enabling and sustaining a distributed
ecosystem of platforms and solutions intrinsically respectful of privacy, self-
disclosure and digital sovereignty
• The consumer perspective: unlawful profiling, discrimination and lock-in,
automated contracts and warranties
Global Access Opportunities
• Internet Resilience: Defining/Comparing non-disconnection Technologies,
Monitoring Approaches and Internet Governance Models ensuring resiliency and
citizens’ empowerment and sovereignty
• Global and Local Faces of Today’s Digital Divide
• Comparing existing and future Open Distance Education and Life-long Learning
Environments on online/Virtual Reality Platforms, Practices Around the World
• Global Media Online: Translation and Language Divide
• Empowerment of Disabled with New Body Extensions
• Post-human and Tech-human Individuals and Societies
Data Sharing and Protection
• Data Openness vs. User Protection: tech and social aspects of open data policies
• Limits of Privacy and Anonymization, their dependance on technological solutions
and intended applications
• Clouds, Big Data and Data Protection Regulation vs. knowledge sharing and open
innovation
• Global Tech Powers and Alternative Solutions based on decentralisation
• Open Science and Access to Scientific Production: technological enablers, platform
governance, economic and innovation aspects
IMPORTANT DATES
• Submission of Papers: May 1, 2023 (AoE)
• Notification of Decision: July 1, 2023
• Camera-Ready Submission: July 15, 2023
• Author Registration Deadline: July 15. 2023
PAPER REQUIREMENTS
All submitted papers must:
• Describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication
elsewhere
• Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format
• Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses
• Be formatted according to the Springer’s LNCS format Proceedings template:
• Contain three to seven keywords characterizing the paper, to be indicated at the
end of the abstract
• Be submitted via the conference system in EasyChair, using the submission link:
Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages (including all text, figures,
references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers. The
Program Committee reserves the right to accept a submission as a short paper.
Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding the submission page
limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without
review.
SELECTION
All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international
Program Committee, with a mix of social, economic and technological expertise.
The review process will be single-blind.
Selection will be based on:
• Degree of interdisciplinarity (between social, economic and/or technical sciences)
• Novelty and technical merit
• Relevance of the generated insights for the future Internet development
The best paper will be sponsored with 300 EUR by Springer.
CAMERA-READY
Camera-ready submissions should be corrected by following the remarks of the
reviewers and submitted using the same submission link in zip format including:
• The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in pdf format
• The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in editable sources format
• The Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file
PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be presented at INSCI2023 and published in the conference
proceedings volume, which will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected best papers from the conference will
be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers
for publication in a special issue to be organised with an accredited journal (under
negotiation).
ORGANISATION
General Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Chairs
• Vasileios Mezaris, Information Technologies Institute, Greece
• Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium
Steering & Program Committees
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Special Session on “Advanced Image Analysis for Biomedical Applications”
March 2nd, 2023
Daniela Lopez de Luise Applications” in “The Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial
Intelligence and Neural Engineering” (IEEE MetroXRAINE 2023) conference
which will take place on OCTOBER 25-27, 2023 in Milano, Italy.
The Special Session is open to receive submissions for peer-review and
possible publication. All contributions will be peer-reviewed and
acceptance will be based on quality, originality and relevance.
Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore
Digital Library.
Website: https://metroxraine.org/special-session-6
Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2023
Abstract Acceptance Notification: March 30, 2023
Full paper submission deadline: April 30, 2023
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2023
Final paper submission: July 31, 2023
*Special Session on “Advanced Image Analysis for Biomedical
Applications” description*
Medical images contain plenty of information about the anatomical
structures that are important for a valid diagnosis, and then can be
helpful to doctors for determining the most adequate treatment. The
analysis and processing of biomedical images is an interdisciplinary
and dynamic area of specialization, covering biology, physics,
medicine, engineering, and computer science. The main objective is the
application of image processing and analysis techniques to biological
or medical problems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to, the following:
– Image enhancement, segmentation, registration, and fusion for
biomedical applications;
– Reconstruction, motion, and deformation analysis for biomedical
applications;
– Application of machine learning and artificial intelligence in
medicine;
– Sparse representation and dictionary learning-based methods for
medical image processing and understanding;
– Natural language processing for biomedical image analysis;
– Deep learning for biomedical image analysis;
Special session chairs:
Andrea Apicella – Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Esther Dura Martinez – Universitat de Valencia, Spain
Further information can be found on
https://metroxraine.org/special-session-6
*Manuscript Guidelines*
Authors should prepare an Abstract (1 – 2 pages) that clearly indicates
the originality of the contribution and the relevance of the work. The
Abstract should include the title of the paper, names and affiliations
of the authors, an abstract, keywords, an introduction describing the
nature of the problem, a description of the contribution, the results
achieved and their applicability.
As an alternative to the traditional abstract, it is possible to submit
a Graphical Abstract. Read the paragraph below for further
information.
When the first review process has been completed, authors receive a
notification of either acceptance or rejection of the submission. If
the abstract has been accepted, the authors can prepare a full paper.
The format for the full paper is identical to the format for the
abstract except for the number of pages: the full paper has a required
minimum length of five (5) pages and a maximum of six (6) pages.
Full Papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee.
Authors of accepted full papers must submit the final paper version
according to the deadline, register for the workshop, and attend to
present their papers. The maximum length for final papers is 6 pages.
All contributions will be peer-reviewed and acceptance will be based on
quality, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be submitted
for inclusion into IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Further information and templates can be found on
https://metroxraine.org/initial-author-instructions
*Registration and fees*
Information about the registration and the fees will be available at
https://metroxraine.org/
Invitation to participate in the 4th Verification of Neural Networks Competition (VNN-COMP)
March 2nd, 2023
Daniela Lopez de Luise
Conferences: CASA 2023 Call for Papers DEADLINE EXTENDED TO March 10
March 2nd, 2023
Daniela Lopez de Luise CALL FOR PAPERS
Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2023)
Limassol, Cyprus, May 29-31, 2023
https://cyprusconferences.org/casa2023
The 36th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2023) will be held on May 29-31, 2023, in Limassol, Cyprus. The conference will be in HYBRID format (authors will have the option to present their paper either in person or online) and is organized by the University of Cyprus and CYENS – Centre of Excellence. CASA is the oldest international conference in computer animation and social agents in the world. It was founded in Geneva in 1988 under the name of Computer Animation (CA). In the past few years, CASA was held in Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, UK, etc.), Asia (Korea, China, Singapore) and the United States. CASA 2023 will provide a great opportunity to interact with leading experts, share your own work, and educate yourself through exposure to the research of your peers from around the world.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission for Special Issue of Computer Animation and Virtual World (CAVW)
Submission: March 10, 2023 (23:59 GMT)
Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2023
Camera ready: April 21, 2023 (23:59 GMT)
Author Registration: April 21, 2023
Workshops and Tutorials proposal
Submission: March 31, 2023
Notification of acceptance: April 21, 2023
Posters and Demos
Submission: March 31, 2023
Notification of acceptance: April 21, 2023
PAPER SUBMISSION
We invite submissions of research full papers, short papers, and posters on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to Computer Animation, Embodied Agents, Social Agents, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Visualization (see below for a detailed list).
Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee and papers of high quality will be referred for publication in the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW) journal published by Wiley. The papers accepted as is or with minor revision will be in a special issue. Those with major revision will be given a chance to resubmit and reviewed again by the conference PC for acceptance in a subsequent issue of CAVW. The rest will be either rejected or recommended for publication in conference proceedings. Authors will have to register and present the papers at the conference.
More details in terms of submission can be found in the Paper Submission section of CASA2023 website.
SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS
CASA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
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Computer Animation |
Social Agents |
Other Related Topics (in VA/AR) |
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Motion Control Motion Capture & Retargeting Path Planning Physics-based Animation Vision-based Techniques Behavioral Animation Artificial Life Deformation Facial Animation Image-based Animation Multi-Scale Models Knowledge-based Animation Animation Compression & Transmission Machine Learning for Animation AI-based Modeling and Animation Game-Based Learning |
Social Agents and Avatars Emotion and Personality Virtual Humans Autonomous Actors AI-based Animation Social and Conversational Agents Inter-Agent Communication Social Behavior Crowd Simulation Machine learning Social Robots
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Deep Learning methods Artificial Agents in Virtual Reality Mixed and Augmented Reality Population Generation for Virtual Worlds Virtual Cities Virtual humans and avatars Anthropometric Virtual Human Models Digital clones VR health applications Shared Virtual Environments Semantics & Ontologies for Animation in VR Anthropometric Virtual Human Models Acquisition & Reconstruction from Big Data Cultural Heritage Applications 3D Physiological Humans 3D Telepresence Haptics |
Conference Co-Chairs
Andreas Aristidou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Panayiotis Charalambous (CYENS CoE, Cyprus)
Nuria Pelechano (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – UPC, Spain)
Program Co-Chairs
Daniel Thalmann (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL, Switzerland)
Andreas Aristidou (University of Cyprus)
Jungdam Won (Meta AI, Pittsburgh, USA)
Jury Chairs
Yiorgos Chrysanthou (CYENS CoE)
Kfir Aberman (Google Research, CA, USA)
For more information, please visit the CASA 2023 website: https://cyprusconferences.org/casa2023







