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1) Title: Information Technology for Business and Management
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Dorota Jelonek, Czestochowa University of Technology, Faculty of Management, POLAND
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
This special session constitutes a forum for the exchange of ideas for practitioners and theorists working in the broad area of IT solutions for business and management.
Our aim is to create an atmosphere of friendship and cooperation for everyone, interested in business and e-business information systems and other IT applications in enterprises. This session concerns also all types of decision support systems including Business Intelligence. We believe that our session will facilitate discussions of new research results in this area.

Topics
IT in Business
Business Information Systems
Enterprise Systems (ERP) and Industry Solutions
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Management of Information Systems in Business
Assessing Business Value of Information Technology
Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business
Business Intelligence
The Integration of Technology & Organizational Strategies
IT Governance Business-IT Alignment
Management Information Systems
Strategic Decision Support Systems
e-Business Models, applications and best practices
m-Business Models, applications and best practices
Collaboration and e-Services
Business Process Management
Enterprise modeling and virtual organisations
and other topics related to Information Technology for Business and Management

2) Title: Meshfree (Meshless) Methods Theory and Applications
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Ing. Vaclav Skala, CSc., University of West Bohemia, Centre for Computer Graphics and Visualization
Univerzitni 8, CZ 306 14 Plzen-Bory, Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
Meshfree (meshless) methods offer a now ways for computations, handeling, processing and evaluation of large unstructured data generally in n-dimensional space. The session aims to present new methods and applications together with experimental results of meshfree methods application in wide variety of relevant fields.

Topics
Meshless methods in computer graphics, vizualization and computer vision
Meshless methods in engineering problems
Meshless methods - theory and practice
Meshless interpolation and approximation of large data sets
Radial Basis Functions (RBF) in computer graphics, visualization, image processing and computer vision
Meshless methods and projective space
and other related topics

3) Title: Hybrid Modelling in Portfolio
Organizer-Chairman: Professor Nikos Loukeris, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki
Egnatias 156, Greece
&
Assoc. Prof. I. Eleftheriadis, Lecturer S. Livanis, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki
Greece

Aim
Artificial intelligence is a very efficienttool to solve complex problems of high dimensionality spaces such as the domain of the stock markets. Novell approaches such as the hubrid neuro-genetic models, deep learning, etc, are introduce to optimise solutions of higher efficiency and profitability to investors.

Topics
Finance
Portfolio Optimisation
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Computing
Heuristics
Hybrid models

4) Title: Knowledge Computing in Health Informatics
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Dr. Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem
Head of Bio-Medical Informatics & e-healt Group
Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Engineering Labs
Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
The field of knowledge computing (KC) has become the most challenging area in the last several years. It is a multidisciplinary field of research and includes: document engineering, knowledge engineering, machine learning and reasoning techniques. Current research in KC in health sciences is marked by its richness. KC is a fast moving research field in many areas of life sciences, biological and medical sciences.
KCHI 2015 workshop will bring researchers, practitioners, knowledge and software engineers to present their latest ideas and research in all areas of; brain informatics, bioinformatics,medical informatics, mental informatics,nurse informatics, telehealth technologies, bioengineering, machine learning and artificial intelligence in health and life sciences.

Topics
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- Computational Intelligence in life sciences
- Machine Learning in Big Biomedical Data Analytics
- Knowledge Engineering in Health Sciences
- Medical Informatics
- Bio-Informatics
- Brain Informatics
- Mental Healthcare with ICT
- Dentist Informatics
- Clinical Informatics
- Clinical Nutrition Informatics
- Medical Knowledge Management
- Mobile Health
- Bio-Medical Data Mining
- Ontological Engineering in Biology and Medicine
- Computational Biology
- Reasoning Methodologies in Health Care Planning
- Intelligent Medical Decision Support Systems
- Assistive Technologies to the Needs of the Elderly and Disabled
- Semantic Web in Biology and Medicine
- Healthcare Education Simulation
- Tele-health Activities and Technologies
- International Projects
- Nursing Informatics
- Machine Learning in Medicine
- International projects

5) Title: Mathematical Tools in Biological Systems
Organizer-Chairman: Profs. Vassilis Gekas & Antia Orphanides
Cyprus University of Technology
Faculty of Geotechnical Sciences and the Environment
Cyprus
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Aim
Biological systems present a big challenge for mathematical modeling. This is due to several factors. The nature of the biological systems themselves, i.e. being multiphase, multicomponent complex systems, often denying strict and deterministic mathematical modeling analysis.
Another factor is the attitude of the colleagues of Biology, an attitude shared also by Chemists. Without being innocent of Mathematics we could say that they don’t feel comfortable with this branch of Science appreciated so much in other field, as for example in Physics and Engineering.
This session has the ambition to fill , to some extent, of course the gap.

Topics
1. Computational Assessment of Antioxidant Capacity Assays, by Vlasios Goulas and Vassilis Gekas
2. Information Theory as a Potential Therapeutic Tool in Cancer Treatment, by Nikos Gikas and Marina Kardara
3. Multifactorial Analysis of the Effects of Drying on the Properties of Aromatic Herbs, by Antia Orphanides and V. Gekas
4. Synergy Effects in Abiotic- and biotic Plant Stress Procedures by Chrystalla Antoniou, by Antia Orphanides and Vassilis Fotopoulos

6) Title: Internet Computing, Knowledge Management, Security and Trust
Organizer-Chairman: Assoc. Prof. Antoanela Naaji, Ph.D
Vasile Goldis Western University Arad
94-96 Revolutiei Blvd., Arad 310025, Romania
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
Nowadays, one of the key topics in technology refers to programming the web applications for various fields, as well as the way in which they are developed, optimized, accessed and secured. One of the aims of this session is to bring together academic scientists, researchers and students to interchange knowledge and disseminate new ideas towards challenges raised by recent advances in Internet computing and cyber-security. Another aim is to analyze the challenges posed and opportunities offered by creating and managing internet-centered multi-party applications like, for example, crowd-sourcing activities and innovation contests. Here, identifying possible adversaries' "undermining" or "gaming" activities may become increasingly relevant. At a more general level, internet mediated knowledge discovery and management, also demands protective action whereby increasing both trust and the long run reputation for these internet-based services.

Topics
e-Activities (e-Learning, e-Communities, e-Commerce, e-Management, e-Marketing, e-Governance, e-Science, e-Health, etc.);
Multimedia applications and virtual reality;
Wireless and mobile computing;
Cloud computing and storage;
Network optimization and security aspects;
Web applications and services security;
Security solutions for virtualization;
Identity, access and authorization management;
GPS, Location-Based Services;
Encryption and interception of communications;
Cryptographic applications; TCP/IP protocol suite security, secure routing, secure transmission protocols;
VoIP, SIP, IP telephony and Wi-Fi security;
Secure directories, e-mail, DNS, and other network services security;
Firewalls, VPNs, intruder detection and prevention systems;
Threat identification, honey pots security, incident handling;
Delivery techniques, including spam, voice mail and rank manipulation;
Phishing, rogue-AV, pharming, click-fraud, crime-ware, extortion and emerging attacks;
Malware, botnets, criminal/phishing gangs and collaboration or money laundering;
Techniques to avoid detection, tracking and takedown;
Knowledge about security leaks;
Networks of mobile agents, knowledge formation and security concerns;
Anonymizing personalized data and knowledge formation;
Anonymizing personalized data and information loss;
Network dynamics and strategic games in networks;
Cooperation in networks and security enhancement in cooperative networks;
Trust formation in cooperative networks;
Reputation enhancement in cooperative networks;
Recommender systems for network cooperation & network security;
Recommender systems enabling knowledge formation in networks

7) Title: Metaheuristic Models of Industrial Artificial Social Systems
Organizer-Chairman: Assoc. Ph. D. Eng. Calin Ciufudean
Assoc. Professor, Department of Computers, Automatics and Electronics
Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava, 720225, Romania
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
A major consideration in designing a modern production system is its availability. When component of the system fails, the system reconfiguration is often less than perfect. To analyze the system with failure/repair processes, discrete event and metaheuristic models are used. As a manufacturing system includes a large number of components with failure/repair processes, the system-level conventional model becomes computationally intractable. We aim to discuss new formalisms for the diagnosis of such systems using a new production framework, e.g. Industrial Artificial Social Systems (IASoS).

Topics
Artificial Social Systems (ASoS)
Stochastic Petri Nets’s (SPN’s)
Basic Equivalent Transfer Functions for SPN’s
Perturbation Parameters Modelled with SPN’s
Application to a Queuing Network: practical example
Application to a Flexible Manufacturing System
Modelling Control and Hazards in Industrial Applications
Profile of a Production Crisis
Profile of a Managed Production Crisis
Quantity–oriented and Event–oriented Models
Pathways to Change Production Models
Application to a Flexible Cellular Transportation Model
Modelling Interaction Man-Machine in Industrial Artificial Social Systems
The covering factor of an Industrial Artificial Social System (IASoS)
Petri net model of an IASoS
Markov model of an IASoS
Tabu search diagnosis of IASoS
Simulated annealing models for developing IASoS
Genetic and memetic algorithms for modelling IASoS
Identification of IASoS models
Reversibility Controllers of IASoS
Practical example of IASoS models
Conclusion and future development of IASoS

8) Title: Security Issues and Challenges in Smart Computing
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Saravanan Kumarasamy
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Erode Sengunthar Engineering College
INDIA
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
The aim of the session is to provide a forum that, smart computing is emerging as an important multidisciplinary area, which effectively makes use of computer hardware, software, social media and communication networks together with digital sensors, smart devices, internet technologies, big data analytics, computational intelligence and intelligent systems to realize various innovative applications. Smart computing can be broadly classified into two major areas: how to design and build smart computing systems and how to use computing technology to design smart things and make human life better.

Topics
- Introduction to Smart Computing
- Advancement of Smart Computing
- Security Threats and Issues in Smart Computing Technologies
- Pervasive/ubiquitous computing
- Cloud computing
- Internet of things
- Big data analytics
- Security and privacy
- Social computing
- Cognitive computing
- Cyber-physical systems
- Smart buildings and cities
- Attacks in Smart computing
- Security challenges in smart computing

9) Title: Computer and Communication Security Challenges
Organizer-Chairman: Assistant Professor Ahmed Farouk Metwaly
Information Technology Department
Al-Zahra College for Women
Muscat, Oman
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
The aim of the session is to provide a forum for discussion the recent advancements for preventing and detecting unauthorized access, misuse, malfunction, modification, destruction, or improper disclosure of computing devices, computer network , Wireless Network ,cloud computing , IOT , big data and modern technologies. The session will focus but not limited for protocols, architectures, paradigms, new challenges…

Topics
• Authentication and authorization
• Biometric security
• Cloud security
• Computer and digital forensics
• Cyber-physical systems security
• Data and system integrity
• Database security
• Distributed systems security
• Electronic commerce security
• Key management and key recovery
• Security for mobile computing
• Security in wearable computing and Internet of things
• Security models
• Security protocols
• Secure Routing, Naming/Addressing, Network Management
• Security & Privacy in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, e.g., RFIDs
• Security & Privacy for emerging technologies: VoIP, peer-to-peer and overlay network systems
• Security & Isolation in Data Center Networks
• Security & Isolation in Software Defined Networking
• Quantum Cryptography and Protocols
• Post Quantum Communication
• Big Data Security
• Wireless Security
• IOT Security

10) Title: Sustainable Practices in Engineering
Organizer-Chairman: Dr. José Machado
Assistant Professor at Mechanical Engineering Department
University of Minho, Portugal
E-mail: [email protected]
&
Dr. Leonilde Varela
Assistant Professor at Department of Production and Systems
University of Minho, Portugal
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
This Special Session on Sustainable Practices in Engineering is focused, by one hand, in improving the sustainability of organizations and manufacturing systems and, on the other hand, in discussing sustainable practices by developing manufacturing systems’ controllers guaranteeing dependable behavior of manufacturing systems. In the first topic some subjects are developed, such as Smart factories and technologies, Flexible Industries, Interoperability; and, on the second hand, other subjects are presented dealing with domains such as modeling, design, analysis, synthesis, control of industrial manufacturing mechatronic systems, guaranteeing safe operation and sustainable resources.

Topics
• Smart factories;
• Smart technologies;
• Flexible Industries;
• Interoperability;
• Energy efficiency in manufacturing and services;
• Modeling of manufacturing systems;
• Simulation of manufacturing systems;
• Formal Verification of manufacturing systems;
• Design of manufacturing systems;
• Embedded systems;
• Networked systems;
• Software engineering

11) Title: Applied Geometric Science of Information and Computational Information Conservation Theory
Organizer-Chairman: Professor Rodolfo A. Fiorini, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano University, Milano, Lombardia, ITALY
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
This special session/workshop is aimed to the discussion of recent advancements and exchange of ideas for practitioners, scientists and theorists working in the broad area of Geometric Science of Information (GSI) and Computational Information Conservation Theory (CICT) for advanced engineering, bioengineering and wellbeing management applications. Our goal is to create an atmosphere of cooperation for everyone interested in GSI and CICT, and their applications in advanced enterprises and high reliability organizations. Our session/workshop will be structured to facilitate discussions of new research and applied results in this relevant area. The session will focus but not limited on the following topics.

Topics
• Computational Information Geometry
• Computational Information Conservation
• Optimal Transport Geometry
• Optimization on Manifold
• Optimized Exponential Cyclic Sequences Properties
• Machine/Manifold/Topology Learning
• Topology and Information
• Riemannian Geometry in Manifold Learning
• Uncertainty Quantification for Computer Modeling
• Differential Geometry in Signal Processing
• Signal Denoising
• Geometry of Time Series and Linear Dynamical Systems
• Quantum Information Geometry
• Quantum Decoherence Incomputability Modeling
• Lie groups in Structural Biology

12) Title: Emerging Topics in Networks
Organizer-Chairman: Professor Arshin Rezazadeh Department of Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
Iran
E-mail: [email protected]
&
Professor Ladan Momeni
Department of Computer Engineering
Sama Technical and Vocational Training School
Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz Branch
Iran
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
The field of Networks (large-scale networks, network-on-chip, interconnection networks, neural networks, sensor and ad-hoc networks) are an emerging topics in computer science and electrical engineering. This workshop includes all type of networks specially (but not limited to) on routing algorithms, performance, topologies, fault tolerance, reliability, power consumption, modelling and evaluation of such networks.
The goal of the Emerging Topics in Networks 2015 workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss innovative ideas and solutions related to networks.

Topics
- Routing algorithms and Router architectures
- Fault tolerance, reliability and testing issues
- Modeling and Evaluation
- Parallelism and Scalability
- Power and Energy Issues
- Guaranteed Throughput and Real-Time communication
- Quality of Service
- Industrial Case Studies of Designs
- New Architectures and Topologies
- Interconnection Networks
- Dynamic On-Chip Network Reconfiguration
- NoC and 3D NoC Issues
- Mapping of Cores to NoCs
- Neural Networks
- Sensor and Ad-hoc Network Issues
- Using Neural Networks to improve the performance of other networks
- Design Space Exploration and Tradeoff Analysis

13) Title: New Technologies and Social Community Awareness for Urban Environment
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Dora Foti
Polytechnic University of Bari
Via Orabona 4-70125 Bari
ITALY
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
The urban regeneration, in particular of building and energy infrastructures, is one of the basic steps for the development of a Smart City, where architectural and energetic innovative models and best practices can be tested. The urban center of the future, through the technological innovations, becomes a driving force for change, adapting its infrastructures for the efficiency and energy saving, for the environment, for the quality of life and the citizens welfare. The session examines the critical topics and the strategies for monitoring, risk assessment, innovative materials, in the urban areas, also analyzing aspects of seismic protections and building diseases.

Topics
- Identification and monitoring strategies for smart city infrastructures applications
- Seismic Retrofit of Structures and Protection of Historical Buildings
- Urban Risk Assessment, Emergency Management and Preparedness
- Smart grids & Smart cities
- Innovative materials for new and retrofitted constructions
- Small and large scale monitoring of urban centers
- Seismic protection of structures and urban centers
- Environment and building diseases
- Diseases in urban settlement

14) Title: Track and Trace, Mobility and Smart Cities
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Dr. Eduardo Mario Dias
Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo
Brazil
Editor in Chief of Transactions on Power Systems
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
The Special Session/Workshop proposal aims to analyze and propose solutions to problems that affect big cities in the world, both in the area of urban transport and ports, as in health and environment, using ITS (intelligent transport system) tools control, such as: RFID, mobile technologies for field monitoring, identification of people and vehicles within protected areas, among others. Also demonstrates the advantages of using open standards in major cities.

Topics
- Wireless and mobile computing
- Cloud computing and storage
- Optimization problems in telecommunications
- RFID
- Traffic signal control
- Open Standard Protocol
- ISPS-CODE
- Biometrics
- Track and Trace
- Mifare

15) Title: Fuzzy Systems, Fuzzy Modeling, Optimization and Decision Making
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Gia Sirbiladze
Head of chair of Applied Informatics
Department of Computer Sciences
Faculty of Exact & Natural Sciences
Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi St. University
Georgia
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
Fuzzy Systems, Fuzzy modeling, optimization and decision making is a very important instrument for solving business, economic, engineering, management, operations research and societal problems in non-probabilistic uncertainty. The aim covers all aspects of employing fuzzy technologies to see optimal solutions and assist in making the best possible decisions. Any theoretical, empirical, and experimental work related to fuzzy modeling, solution methods and systems is welcome. Works also may be address the suitability, validity and advantages of using fuzzy technologies to treat real-life problems.

Topics
- Fuzzy Systems
- Fuzzy Control
- Artificial Intelligence
- Neural Networks
- Genetic Algorithms
- Pattern Analysis
- Machine Intelligence
- Optimization
- Identification
- Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics
- Operations Research
- Modelling and Simulation
- Game Theory
- Real Time Systems
- Decision Making Analysis
- Multi-criteria Decision Making
- Decision Support Systems

16) Title: Informatics in Control Theory and its Applications
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Vladimír Vašek
Tomas Bata University in Zlín
Faculty of Applied Informatics
Zlín, Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
During recent decades, the role of informatics in system and control theory and practice has been rapidly increased. Both the realms, theoretical and application one are affected. Not only experts in the field can concur with us that products of computer technology are used in everyday life in a huge scale. In system, control, or process engineering, devices like PLC, IPC, microcontroller kits or intelligent computer boards with advanced operating systems constitute an integral part of manufacturing and industrial processes. Advances in theory of informatics have not been fully implemented in process control design until recently. However, many complex technological processes such as nonlinear, delayed, non-minimum phase ones, multidimensional or hybrid ones are hardly controllable by conventional control methods. Therefore, advanced modern control strategies including algebraic methods, optimal or predictive control principles, to name just a few, have been investigated to deal with the those problems. These methodologies, however, requires the utilization of elements of optimization or artificial intelligence - the role of which is naturally growing. Here is a space to implement the knowledge of e.g. neural networks, genetic algorithms, deterministic chaos etc. From this perspective, both, theoretical and application, contributions combining the informatics and system (control) issues are useful and desirable and highly welcome for the special session.

Topics
- Modeling and identification
- Control design
- Process control
- Process engineering
- Microcontrollers and programmable logic controllers
- Programming for system and control engineering
- Time delay, nonlinear, and multidimensional systems
- Predictive, adaptive, robust, multimodel, optimal and other advanced control methods
- Artificial intelligence
- Neural networks and genetic algorithms
- Fuzzy logic methods
- Deterministic chaos
- Applied informatics and control applications
- Advanced Diagnostic and Measuring Systems

17) Title: Computer Vision and Image Processing
Organizer-Chairman: Professor Ryszard S. Choras (DSc, PhD, Ing.)
Department of Telecommunications, Computer Sciences & EE
UTP University of Sciences and Technology, Bydgoszcz, POLAND
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
The objective of this special session is to present original developments that are useful in any application of Computer Vision and Image Processing techniques. This multidisciplinary session is for the presentation and discussion of current research in the sophisticated aspects of Computer Vision and Image Processing. High quality submissions are sought on topics including but not limited to: - image analysis and processing - medical imaging – pattern recognition - intelligent computer vision/image processing methods – biometrics etc.

Topics
- Image transformation,
- Segmentation, thresholding and edge detection,
- Feature extraction, pattern recognition,
- Multi-modal image analysis,
- Remote sensing,
- Classification and clustering,
- Shape matching,
- Object recognition,
- Object tracking,
- Scene understanding,
- Content-based retrieval,
- Visual inspection,
- Document image understanding ,
- Architecture of imaging and vision systems (including parallel architectures and algorithms),
- Multi-resolution and multi-spectral image processing,
- Image Security,
- Machine Vision,
- Pattern Recognition,
- Object Tracking,
- Image/Video Compression and Analysis,
- Image Analysis: edge detection, segmentation, pattern recognition, object recognition, interpretation,
- Image Enhancement: filtering, noise removal, enhancement, restoration,
- Image and video indexing and retrieval,
- Medical Image Processing,
- Mathematical morphology

18) Title: Special Session on Hybrid Intelligence
Organizer-Chairman: Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya
E-mail: [email protected]
&
Dr. Anirban Mukherjee
E-mail: [email protected]
Department of Information Technology
RCC Institute of Information Technology
India

Aim
Real life problems suffer from uncertainty, imprecision, vagueness to name a few. Conventional computing paradigms often fall short of offering solutions to them. Even latest soft computing paradigms are not too robust to handle the situations. Hybrid intelligent computing is a paradigm which addresses these issues to a considerable extent. Hybrid Intelligent Computing stems from the synergistic integration of the different soft computing techniques. Enhanced performance and more robust solutions can be achieved through proper hybridization.

Topics
Theoretical Foundation of Hybrid Intelligence:
(a) Computational Intelligence: foundations and principles; neural networks; fuzzy systems; near set; soft set; evolutionary computation; rough sets; swarm intelligence
(b) Hybridization of intelligent techniques

Hybrid Computational Intelligent Techniques:
(a) Algorithmic, experimental, prototyping and implementation
(b) Neuro-Fuzzy, Neuro-genetic, Fuzz-genetic, Neuro-fuzz-genetic architectures etc.
(c) Rough-fuzzy, Rough-neuro, Rough-neuro-fuzz architectures and the like
(d) Quantum inspired hybrid soft computing architectures

Applications of Computational Intelligence in:
(i) Mechanical Engineering - Production planning; scheduling and coordination; expert system design; cooperative control; dynamic system analysis; renewable energy systems; robotics and robotic vision engineering problems; process automation
(ii) Power Control and Optimization - Power control; future energy planning and environment; industrial Informatics and planning; scheduling and assignment problems; optimization
(iii) Total Quality Management - TQM intelligent methods; business excellence models; intelligent and virtual CMM
(iv) Machine Intelligence - Data processing, analysis and applications; intelligent systems; emerging computing paradigms
(v) Nanoscience and Nanoengineering - Artificial intelligence and soft computing techniques; parallel and distributed computing; grid computing and pervasive computing; adaptive reconfigurable architectures
(vi) Mining Engineering - Mine planning and modeling; mine safety methods using intelligent VR and HCI techniques
(vii) Modeling and Simulation - Modeling paradigms; simulation techniques; high performance computing
(viii) Signal Processing – Algorithms, architectures and applications; multidimensional signal processing; radar signal and data processing; adaptive QoS provisioning; VLSI for network processing; embedded reconfigurable architectures; evolvable systems; spread spectrum and CDMA systems; antennas and propagation; mobile ad hoc networking; sensor networks
(ix) Civil Engineering - Modeling and optimization of manufacturing systems and processes; computational fluid dynamics; flood forecasting; analysis of processing of GIS, GPS, remote sensing data; automated inspection
(x) Computer, Communication, Networking and Information Engineering - Intelligent network management; antenna design, information security; cross-layer optimized wireless networks; pervasive/ ubiquitous computing MEMS systems characterization; Intelligent compiler and interpreter design; expert systems; pattern recognition; image processing
(x) Optical Engineering - Optical computing; optical image processing; optical testing; optical communication systems and networks; intelligent photonics
(xi) Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering - Bio-molecular and phylogenetic databases; Biomedical engineering; biomedical robotics and mechanics; bio-signal processing and analysis; biometrics and bio-measurements
(xii) Ecology and Environmental Engineering - Green energy engineering; environmental pollution and remediation; environmental sustainability and restoration; hazardous substances and detection techniques; air pollution and control; solid waste management
(xiii) Engineering Management and Service Sciences - Engineering management; portfolio management; emergency management system; supply chain management; service sciences; converged network and services; e-commerce and e-governance
(xiv) Systems Engineering - Industrial automation and robotics; intelligent photonics and lighting systems; computer assisted medical diagnostic systems; unmanned aerospace systems; intelligent control systems; intelligent approaches in system identification/modeling
(xv) Innovative Computing Systems - Intelligent manufacturing systems; quantum inspired soft computing methodologies for signal, image and information processing; medical innovative technologies
(xvi) Adaptive Technologies for Sustainable Growth - Soft computing based power systems; bio-medical engineering systems; trends and development in nano technology; wireless sensors and networks
(xvii) Theoretical and Applied Sciences - Optimization and analysis of mathematical functions; statistical time series analysis; characterization of chaos theory; theory of fractals and applications to uncertainty management; applications of computational intelligence to atmospheric sciences

19) Title: Information Technology in Mathematics as an Effective Resource of Motivation Development
Organizer-Chairman: Professor Smirnov Eugeny
Department of Mathematics
Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University
Russia
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
The aim of the session is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas for practioners and educators in teaching and learning mathematics on applying and using IT. We would like to use the different IT resources in teaching and learning mathematics: computer algebra system, dynamic geometry, e-learning, distance learning and so on. This session concerns with real tasks ans life sciences and all types od decision support systems where mathematics and informatics are moved together.

Topics
Using IT in Mathematics is shortist way to understanding
Integration of Mathematics and Informatics Knowledge
Mobility and Efficiency of IT in Mathematics
Computer Algebra System in Mathematics
Dynamic Geometry in mathematics
Medical Informatics
Mathematics and Informatics Modeling in Real Life
Fractal Geometry
International Projects

20) Title: Product Innovation Management
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Dr. Satya Shah
Director of Technology Management Programmes
Faculty of Engineering and Science
University of Greenwich, London
United Kingdom
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
This special session aims to bring together practitioners and researchers to exchange ideas and new methods towards the Product Design and Innovation Management aspects. The aim for the session is to develop cooperation for future aspects of the community allowing the exploration of the research aspects of Innovation and Product Design in the Management enclave together.

Topics
- Innovation Management
- Innovative IT Systems
- Product Design
- Product Innovation
- User Experience Innovation
- User Collaboration
- Product Development
- Design to Value
- Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
- Operations Management
- Sustainability in Operations and Logistics
- Supply Chain Management
- Supplier Integration Systems
- Sustainable Supply Chain and Logistics
- Managing Innovation in Supply Chain
- Business Model Innovation
- Digital Business Models
- Service Based Business Models
- Service Design
- Service Development and Management
- Teaching and Learning in Product Innovation
- Technology Management
- Engineering Management
- Other areas relating to Product Innovation Management aspects

21) Title: Intelligent Systems and Applications
Organizer-Chairman: Professor José Machado
E-mail: [email protected]
Professor Filipe Portela
E-mail: [email protected]
Professor Manuel Filipe Santos
E-mail: [email protected]
Professor António Abelha
E-mail: [email protected]
Algoritmi Research Centre
Portugal

Aim
This workshop is focused on demonstrating how to take advantages of using Computer Intelligence, ensuring interoperability and security, overcoming local and temporal barriers in order to support the society needs and the development of innovative systems and applications.
ISA 2015 will bring together the researchers who are working in the area of Intelligent System. The cross-domain integration and appraisal of different fields related to Intelligent Systems and Applications provides an atmosphere to foster variety of perspectives and opinions.

Topics
• Topics of your Session, Workshop, Minisymposium;
• Business Intelligence and Data Mining;
• Data and Knowledge Engineering;
• Data Security and Protection;
• Information Systems Integration & Interoperability;
• Intelligent Decision Support Systems;
• Intelligent System and Big Data;
• Intelligent Systems and Applications applied to society solutions (e.g. Healthcare, Finances, Education, Government);
• Intelligent Systems based in Artificial Intelligence;
• Intelligent Systems in the storage, update, and transmission of data;
• Knowledge discovery, extraction and reasoning;
• Life-styling solutions;
• Mobile and ubiquitous solutions;
• Multi-Agent Systems;
• Pervasive Intelligent Systems and applications;
• Semantic Interoperability;
• Sensor-based systems;
• Simulation Systems;
• Standards for interoperability

22) Title: Modern Management Trends in Small Business
Organizer-Chairman: Assistant Professor Deniss Sceulovs
Riga Technical University
Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management
LATVIA
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
This special session covers interdisciplinary approach towards connection modern business management discipline and real business world. Contribution of this session ensures connection between small business managers, owners and scientists, researchers and everyone, who interested in development of modern small business, with the aim to bridge existing gap between them.

Topics
• Problems and Issues in Small Business Management
• Modern Business Models
• Strategies for Small Business
• Knowledge and innovative approaches in Small Business Management
• Innovations and Technology Transformation for Challenges un Small Business
• Using of E-environment for Small Business
• Impact of Human Capital Quality for Small Business
• Factors, which influencing Small Business long-term development

23) Title: Powertrain System: Experiments & Modeling
Organizer-Chairman: Eng. Montanaro Alessandro
Researcher Istituto Motori CNR
80125 Via Marconi 4 Napoli, Italy
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
This session is devoted to experimental and computational work in the area of fuel injection systems and sprays. Topics include: spray characterization, cavitation, multi-phase jet modeling, CFD models for spray processes, wall films and impingement, hydraulic circuit analysis, and dissolved gas effects. Studies of both gasoline and diesel fuel sprays and fuel injection equipment are encouraged.

Topics
• Fuel Injection and Sprays, Experiments
• Fuel Injection and Sprays, Modeling
• Injector Spray Measurements & Diagnostics
• Injector Hardware
• Alternative and Advanced fuels
• In-cylinder Mixture Preparation
• Combustion Diagnostics

24) Title: Special Solutions in Mathematical Physics
Organizer-Chairman: Igor Neygebauer
Professor of Mathematics
The University of Dodoma
Dodoma
Tanzania, P.O. Box 259
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
Equations of mathematical physics include the solutions which could be considered as “strange or exotic” one: for example, nonphysical singularities, bad behavior at infinity.
Any exotic or strange from some point of view solutions are welcome. Any exotic equations are welcome too.

Topics
• Exotic solutions and equations in any areas:
• Electrodynamics
• Quantum mechanics
• Relativity
• Fluid mechanics
• Heat transfer
• Elasticity
• Economics
• Finance

25) Title: Statistical Digital Signal Processing and Applications
Organizer-Chairman: Professor Benabdellah Yagoubi
Faculty of Sciences and Technology
University of Mostaganem 27000, Algeria
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim
Statistical digital signal processing is a branch of signal processing and applied mathematics that deals, meanly, with signals that have a random (or stochastic) component . Due to its very wide range of applications, Statistical digital signal processing is thought of as being a common field to many areas such as electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, biomedical, mathematics, physics and so on. Very important applications of statistical digital signals are almost in all scientific fields.
The aim of this session is to prepare a forum and to welcome researchers from all over the world to discuss new ideas in order to develop furthermore this very interesting field.

Topics
• Digital random processes
• Sparse signals (Sparse sampling, Sparse Fourier transform …)
• Digital image modeling and compression
• Detection, estimation, and time series analysis
• Digital System identification
• Digital system modeling
• Multivariate statistical processing
• Adaptive filters application to DSP
• Discrete wavelet (packet) application to DSP
• Communication discrete systems
• Statistical physics for engineering
• Statistical Biomedical signal processing
• Learning theory and pattern recognition
• Parametrical models (Neural networks, Autoregressive, ARMA …) for statistical analysis

 

26) Title: Alternative Human Computer Interfaces
Organizer: Prof. Robertas Damasevicius
Kaunas University of Technology
Faculty of Informatics
Lithuania
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
The emergence of alternative forms of Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) such as Natural, Perceptual, Affective, Tangible, Haptic, Gestural, Eye-Gaze Based, Brain-Computer and Neural-Computer Interfaces presents new challenges as well as opportunities for interface designers and users. Two communities of people are the main users of such interfaces. People with physical or cognitive impairments use alternative interfaces as primary or secondary pathways of communication in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) environments or for rehabilitation. Healthy people use novel interfaces for entertainment, learning or robot control. The Special Session will discuss all types of Alternative HCI, their design, implementation and usability evaluation, including but not limited to digital biosignal processing; computational intelligence methods and algorithms; software, hardware and service architectures for Alternative HCI, user interface modelling and intelligent control. Multidisciplinary contributions that bridge Alternative HCI and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with related domains such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, and the arts are also welcome.

Topics (not limited to):
- Affective and social interfaces
- Affective speech analysis, recognition and synthesis
- Alternative user interfaces for e-accessibility and e-inclusion
- Alternative user interfaces for ubiquitous and pervasive computing
- Applications of affective, gestural and neural interfaces for robotics
- Applications of alternative HCI for e-Learning, edutainment and entertainment
- Artificial intelligence techniques in alternative interfaces
- Augmented reality interfaces
- Brain and Neural Computer Interfaces
- Communication devices for impaired, disabled and aged people
- Computational models of intelligent user interfaces
- Design of biofeedback for adaptive human-robot interaction
- Evaluations of alternative user interfaces
- Example-and demonstration-based interfaces
- Eye tracking and eye gaze-based HCI
- Facial and body gesture recognition, modelling and animation
- Gestural, haptic and tangible user interfaces
- Human-Behaviour-Adaptive Interfaces
- Interface design for gamification
- Interfaces for Ambient Assisted Living Environments
- Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation
- Multi-modal user interfaces
- Natural language and speech processing
- Physiological and affective computing
- Predictive and proactive interfaces
- Psychology & cognition in natural user interfaces
- Psychophysiological human state recognition from alternative input modalities
- Smart and immersive interfaces
- Smart interaction and interfaces for wearable computing
- User-centred design of assistive interfaces
- Virtual environments for rehabilitation
- Visualization and animation for neuro-feedback in BCI and NCI

 

27) Workshop: Wireless Sensor Networks: Protocols to Applications (WSNPA’ 2015)
Organizer: Prof. Hiren Kumar Deva Sarma, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, East Sikkim, Sikkim, INDIA, PIN 737136.
Email: [email protected]


Aim of the Workshop:
The objective of this workshop is to exchange ideas, recent developments, research issues and current trends in the broad area of wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks have been very popular research domain in the past decade. It has tremendous scope regarding different applications that can make human civilization at least one step ahead. In this workshop, original research papers are solicited for presentation, discussion and subsequent publication that discuss the developments regarding different algorithms and protocols and applications of wireless sensor networks. Review papers on recent research issues are also welcome. This workshop also intends to create a common platform for academicians, researchers, engineers, practitioners and professionals having similar interests in the area of wireless sensor networks.

Topic (major topics but not limited to):
Information and Signal Processing in WSN
Software Engineering for WSN
Operating System issues in WSN
Middleware in WSN
Energy efficiency in WSN
Performance analysis in WSN
Optimization in WSN
Protocols and Algorithms for different layers of the Protocol Stack of WSN
Quality of Service (QoS) issues in WSN
Localization issues WSN
Mobility issues in WSN
Security issues in WSN
Cognitive WSN
Applications of WSN
WSN and Big Data Challenges
Sensor Data Stream Processing
Large-scale Information Processing, Mining and Analysis of Sensor Data

 

28) Title: Anticipation in systems, computers and models
Organizer-Chairmen: Professor Alexander Makarenko, Head of Applied Nonlinear Analysis Department, Institute for Applied System Analysis at National technical University of Ukraine (KPI), Ukraine
E-mail: [email protected] , [email protected]

Aim:
Anticipation is intrinsic for many systems, processes and software. The examples are brain,
individual and society. Many researchers have been investigated anticipation (for example
weak anticipation by R. Rosen and strong anticipation by D.Dubois). But only now the
ideas of anticipation expanded into the fields of circuits and systems, communication,
computers etc. So, the main idea of proposed session/workshop is to discuss the consequences of
anticipation for behaviour of systems and models, presumable interpretations of solutions
and design of different devices.

Topics:
Anticipation in systems
Anticipation in models
Anticipation in electronic devices
Interpretation of properties and solutions
Hardware and software implementations of anticipation
Prospects of anticipation for the theory and practice of computation
Nature inspired computation and devices

29) Title: Computer Art and Design Issues, Challenges and Emerging Topics for Environment
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Tania Fraga and Prof. Donizetti Louro, Institute of Mathematics and Art of Sao Paulo, R Haddock Lobo, 180, Cj. 21, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
E-mails: [email protected], [email protected]

Aim
This special session aims to look for convergences in art, design and architecture with
sciences by applying computer technologies for the future of life on Earth. It aims to bring
together practitioners and researchers to explore topics, strategies and even reasonable
speculations for innovative uses of smart materials, for the development of speculative
practices, for energetic models, for unveiling practices to be tested and used within the
environment aiming to diminish CO2 levels in Earth atmosphere.

Topics
- 3D visualization technology for simulations, representations and metaphors
- 3D printing in art, product design and architecture
- Ideas, concepts worth spreading related with novel creations and their potential for
emergency
- Using innovative materials in art, product design and architecture
- Small and largescale sensor networks in art, product design and architecture
- Environmental distributed sensor networks
- Biotechnology, bioinformatic and computer technology for novel creations
- Educational issues for innovative thinking
- Cutting edge theoretical formulations for future recursive self-improving intelligence
- Brain technology and Artificial Intelligence to re organize sensing systems
- Recursive self replications in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
- Internet of Things and novel possibilities for communication and interchange
- Technologies, connexions, synergies and new ecosystems
- Wearables and sensing systems
- Sensing systems of sensors for smart homes and environments

 

30) Title: Internet of things, cloud computer and business
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Oliva Maria Dourado Martins [email protected] , Prof. José Paulo Costa [email protected] Institute of Higher Studies of Fafe, Fafe, Portugal

Aim
Every day is new apps, to people and to business. Time is a scarce resource in the information age, and a competitive advantage for the business. This session aims to share experiences, know-how, business strategies, research results and methods in the field of IoT and cloud computing with practical applies to business and SME’s. The idea is to discusses cloud computing and IoT as well as their synergy based on the common background of distributed processing and connect the world to be a better place.

Topics
a) Business Information Systems and Business Intelligence
b) Technologies used in cloud computing environments
c) Architectural design of data centers,
d) Distributed application framework over clouds.
e) Knowledge-Based Technologies
f) Marketing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
g) Strategic and Innovation to Business
h) Strategic, Human Resource and Finance to Business
i) Production and Operation Management and Supply Chain Management (SCM)
j) e-Business
k) Internet of Things
l) Ubiquitous IoT Applications;
m) M2M: The Internet of Devices
n) RFID: The Internet of Objects;
o) WSN: The Internet of Transducers;
p) SCADA: The Internet of Controllers;
q) The DNA of IoT;
r) Protocol Standardization for IoT;
s) Architecture Standardization for WoT;
t) tHe CLoUD oF tHinGS;
u) Other topics related to IT and/or Business

31) Title: Modeling and simulation of power systems, a focus on smart grids
Organizer-Chairman:: Prof. Fredy Sanz, PhD. Researcher Professor. IUSH. Carrea 70 # 52-49 Medellin, Colombia. www.iush.edu.co [email protected]

Aim:
This special session aims to bring the latest advances in research on modeling and simulation of power systems, which provide solutions that have been raised from smart grids. Power systems face crucial challenges in the coming decades, hence, the socialization of results that leading to the solution of real problems, have a positively impact in our society, for these reason is important the dissemination and appropriation for all countries, enabling sustainable and sustainable energy systems.

Topics:
- Equipment for generation, conversion and storage of electrical energy
- Voltage stability
- Angle stability
- Devices and Systems
- Control of Power Systems
- Electronic transformers
- Protection devices
- Control devices
- Control techniques
 

32) Title: Remote Sensing
Organizer-Chairman: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexey Nekrasov, Southern Federal University, Per. 1 Krepostnoy 34, k. 249, 347922 Taganrog, Russia, e-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object and thus in contrast to on site observation. In modern usage, the term generally refers to the use of aerial sensor technologies to detect and classify objects on Earth (both on the surface, and in the atmosphere and oceans) by means of propagated signals (e.g. electromagnetic radiation). It may be split into active remote sensing or passive. The session is intended to represent new theoretical and practical achievements in Remote Sensing and Systems.

Topics:
All topics related to Remote Sensing.

33) Title: Smart Systems for a Smarter Planet
Organizer-Chairman: M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud, Department of Software Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [email protected]

Aim:
Vast penetration of different kind of sensors as well as recent advancements in network and cloud
technologies has opened a new era of capturing and sharing information, leading to the development of
efficient systems for situation awareness, decision making, monitoring and control. Different smart tools
and application services equipped with artificial intelligence technologies are expected to be developed
to meet the challenges of having different smart systems to make the world a better place to live in.
This special session aims at sharing recent advances and research results on different smart technologies for information gathering and decision making among the leading academicians, researchers and scholars coming from different corners of the world.

Topics:
The topics of interest of the special session include, but are not limited to, different technologies for
 Efficient data collection, storage and share
 Sensing and IoT
 Cloud computing
 Network infrastructure
 Big data
 Information fusion
 Monitoring
 Decision making
 Energy efficient computing
 Safety, security and privacy
to be used in surveillance, transportation, healthcare and other systems requiring continuous
supervision.

34) Title: Data Aquisiton, Geographical Information and Statistical Control Systems
Organizer-Chairman: Sorin Borza, University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu, Romania, [email protected],  [email protected]
& Carmen Simion, University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu, Romania, [email protected]

Aim:
This special session / workshop is aimed to the discussion latest trends in achieving integrated systems for Data Acquisition in Geographic Information Systems with Statistical Control. In this special session / workshop will present his research in the various categories of people: teachers, scientist, advancede engineers, practitioners, geographers, electronics. Our goal is to create an atmosphere of cooperation for everyone interested in GIS, Data Aquisition and Statistical Control. Our special session/ workshop, will be divided into categories of topics, so that each participant to present his own research, in interaction with other participants in this session.

Topics:
GPS and GIS technologies
Spatial Data: Analysis and Visualization
Applications: mapping & monitoring in GIS
New applications and usage areas in GIS
Education and Training in GIS
Web-based geospatial data and GIS services
Multi-dimensional (2D, 3D, and 4D) spatial data modeling and data quality
Integrated multi-sensor navigation systems
Spatial data fusion and integration algorithms
AHP and TOPSIS multicriterial decision methods in GIS
GIS and Data Aquisition Systems with MCDM methods
Integration of environmental modeling and GIS
Wireless GIS solutions for disaster management
Remote sensing for disaster monitoring, mitigation and assessment
Data and systems interoperability for handling emergencies
Project management
Natural Phenomena Data Acquisition
Spatio-temporal Data Acquisition
Geospatial Information and Technologies
Seismic Data Processing
Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
Geocomputation
Geospatial Architectures and Middleware
Performance Evaluation
Parallel and Distributed Computation
Real-Time Sensors
Decision Support Systems
Web Applications
Geographic Information Retrieval
Intelligent Data Fusion
Data Mining and OLAP
GPS and Location Detection
Location-based and Mobile Services
Spatio-Temporal Database Management
Spatial Data Quality and Uncertainty
Spatial Analysis and Integration
Image and Video Understanding
Big Data and GIS
Software for Data Aquisitions
Visual and graphic programming
Advanced Instrumentation and Data Acquisition Systems
Advanced Mathematical Methods for Data Acquisition and High Performance Computing
Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks for Advanced Data Acquisition and Computing Systems
Data Analysis and Modeling
Embedded Systems
Information Computing Systems for Education and Commercial Applications
Software Tools and Environments
Virtual Instrumentation Systems
Applied statistics
Data mining and machining learning
Statistical data analysis integrated with engineering models
Quality and reliability engineering
Optimal decision making
Optimal manufacturing and service enterprise systems
Statistical controls in semiconductor industry
Statistical Control in Mechanic Systems
Statistical Control in Engineering systems
 

35) Title: Planck distribution equation (PDE) applicable to Physics, Biology, Glotometrics, Econophysics, Drug Discovery, and Personalized Medicine.
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Sungchul Ji,, Rutgers University, USA
Email: [email protected]

Aim
In 2008, a new mathematical equation referred to as the Planckian distribution equation (PDE) was discovered at Rutgers [S. Ji (2012). Molecular Theory of the Living Cell: Concepts, Molecular Mechanisms, and Biomedical Applications. Springer, new York, Chapters 11 and 12, PDF at http://www.conformon.net under Publications > Book Chapters]. PDE was derived from the Planck's blackbody radiation equation by replacing its universal constants and temperature with 3 free parameters and has been found to fit long-tailed histograms generated in diverse fields of natural and human sciences (e.g., protein folding, single-molecule enzymology, genome-wide mRNA metabolism in yeast and human breast tissues, T-cell receptor diversity, fMRI signals from human brains, stressed-induced neuroanatomical changes in rat brains, decision-time measurements in humans, word-length frequency distributions in speech and written texts, and US annual income distributions in 1996 and 2013). In all cases studied so far,the rising phase of PDE has been found to coincide with the ascending portion of the associated Gaussian distribution law, indicating a close theoretical connection between the Gaussian and Planckian processes, the latter being defined as any physicochemicalc processes that generate numerical data fitting PDE. This conjecture is supported by the fact that PDE can be obtained from the Gaussian equation by transforming the random variable, x, of the latter non-linearly while keeping its y value constant. Since any deviation of PDE from its associated Gaussian distribution can be interpreted as a measure of non-randomness, or organization, the binary logarithm of the ratio between the AUC (area under the curve) of the Planckian distribution over the AUC of the Gaussian distribution has been postulated to be a new measure of organization called the Planckian information, IP, which may be viewed as the opposite of the Boltzmann- Gibbs entropy, S, a measure of disorder or disorganization. The ability of PDE to quantify organization or structure may find many important applications in basic biology and applied biomedical and social sciences, including drug discovery research, personalized medicine, and speech and text analyses.
In addition, PDE may contribute to resolving the current controversy concerning the interpretation of the polarized cosmological microwave background radiation, since PDE has been found to fit the polarization data only partially, perhaps because the polarization data were contaminated by the randomizing effect of the galactic dust.
The purpose of this special session is to bring together experts from various fields of sciences (to which PDE has been found to apply so far) in order to define the common principles, mechanisms, and theories underlying PDE processes in both natural and human sciences.

Topics
1. Polarized cosmological microwave background radiation.
2. Single-molecule enzymology
3. Protein folding free energies
4. T-cell receptor variable region sequence diversity
5. EEG and ECoG histograms
6. fMRI signal histograms pre- and post-infusion of drugs: Interpretation and applications
7. Genome-wide mRNA profiles in normal and cancer tissues
8. Drug discovery strategy based on the shape of gene expression profiles
9. Personalized medicine based on the shape of gene expression profiles
10. Decision-time measurements in humans
11. Neuroanatomical histograms fitting PDE: interpretation and applications
12. Word-length frequency distributions in speech, texts, and films.
13. Gene-length frequency distributions in genomes
14. US annual income distributions: characterization with PDE and its applications.
15. Family size distributions in the US and China

 

36) Title: Wireless Communications: Modern Approaches to Signal Processing and Technologies and Applications
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Vyacheslav Tuzlukov, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.  [email protected]

Aim
This Special Session deals with the problems considering the modern approaches to signal processing and technologies in wireless communications and their applications. Important issues are the signal processing, modulation, bandwidth, and QoS. Communication networks and Internet technologies play an important role in modern wireless and mobile communications, wireless sensor networks, cognitive radio networks, etc. Also, an architecture of wireless communication systems is an important aspect.

Topics of interest, but not limited to:
• Advanced high-speed wireless communications
• High-speed digital transmission links to databases and information networks
• Wireless and mobile communications
• Cognitive radio networks
• Architecture of wireless communication systems
• Signal processing and modulation techniques
• Channel modelling and equalization techniques
• MIMO wireless communication systems with array signal processing
• Wireless sensor networks
• Wireless network modelling
• Cooperative wireless networks
• Wireless traffic control and QoS

 

 

37) Title: Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers: a Technology Transfer State of Art.
Methodologies , Tools, Best Practices, Real Cases, Results, Impacts of University Research.
Organizer-Chairman: Ph. D. Eng. Stefano De Falco,
Chief of Technology Transfer Office, University of Naples "Federico II" Via Cinthia, 80126 Napoli, Italy, AICTT (Italian Association for Technology Transfer Culture promotion) President
Chief of CeRITT (Research Centre for Technology transfer and Innovation) Email: [email protected]

Aim:
With the growing competition in a globalized world, universities are seen as the key organizations and supporters in the national innovation system (Audretsch et al. 2006). Thus, national and regional policy makers try to set incentives for innovations and to increase the innovative potential of universities and to use it effectively. A large and diverse literature analyzes the importance of universities within the regional and national innovation system (Mowery and Sampat 2005; Cosh and Hughes 2010; Audretsch et al. 2011), often highlighting the necessity of separate and specialized organizational units to manage industry–university collaborations (Link et al. 2008; Fritsch and Lukas 2001). Within this process, TTO are seen as the institutionalized way to transport and canalize the ideas, inventions and innovations of academic researchers into the (regional) industry and society (van Ledebur 2008; Meoli et al. 2011; Gonzàles- Pernia et al. 2011). Thus, given the importance attached to Technology Transfer Office (TTO) within this process, policy makers and university management should be interested in the performance differences of TTO.
This special session constitutes a forum for the exchange of Methodologies, Tools, Best Practices, Real Cases, Results, Impacts of University Research, in the field of Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers for researchers, TT managers and managers of industries.

Topics:
Technology Transfer
Research Valorization
Entrepreneurship
Data envelopment analysis
Performance

38) Title: Emerging Technologies in Green Transport
Organizer-Chairman: Dr. Evgenia Adamopoulou and Dr. Konstantinos Demestichas, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) - National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, [email protected], [email protected]

Aim:
In our days, the transportation sector accounts for around a quarter of EU greenhouse gas emissions making it the second biggest greenhouse gas emitting sector after energy. For this reason, fuel economy and environmental sustainability are currently under the spotlight of research in the area of Intelligent Transport Systems and Electromobility. This workshop aims to host interesting presentations on novel approaches, innovative architectures and promising research outcomes in the area of Intelligent and Sustainable Transport Systems

Topics:
· Methods for calculating and reducing emissions
· Traffic management based on energy criteria
· Multimodal Route Planning
· Ecological Driver Assistance Systems
· Evolution and potential of Fully Electric Vehicles
· Energy conversion efficiency
· Algorithms approaches for energy efficient route management
· Driver profiling
· Electromobility and smart cities
· V2X communications
· Hybrid Vehicles
· Vehicle propulsion electrification
· Vehicle recharging policy optimization
· Electric vehicle simulators
· Vehicle consumption and emission modeling
· Battery management and technologies
· Vehicle recharging techniques
· Energy recuperation techniques
· Powertrain hybridization

39) Title: Parametric and State Estimation in Nonlinear Systems for Control Applications
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Samira KAMOUN, University of Sfax,
National School of Engineers of Sfax, Tunisia.
Email: [email protected]
&
Prof. Abdessattar CHAARI, University of Sfax, National School of
Engineers of Sfax, Tunisia.
Email: [email protected]

Aim
This special session constitutes a forum where an effective exchange of knowledge and
experience amongst active researchers in various theoretical and applied areas of parametric
and state estimation for nonlinear systems in control will take place. This event will provide
the opportunity, for worldwide researchers and practitioners, to share and discuss together the
latest progress achieved in main developments and trends on state estimation methods applied
to industrial processes control.
The state and parameters estimation is solved through system identification which aims to
build mathematical models of dynamical systems based on the knowledge of systems data.
Usually, the dimension of the vector of output signals is smaller than the dimension of the
corresponding vector of states; therefore it is necessary to develop estimation techniques,
known as observer design, dealing with on-line state estimation. These estimators or
observers of both, states and/or uncertainties, play key roles during monitoring and control of
processes. We hope that our session will highlight novelties in this research area.

Topics
Stochastic systems
Nonlinear systems
Mathematical models
Nonlinear system identification
Noisy measurements
Identification of discrete-time nonlinear mathematical models
Time-varying nonlinear system identification
Fuzzy logic and Neural networks for nonlinear system identification
Identification and state estimation based multimodal approach
Parametric estimation methods for nonlinear systems
Parameters estimation
Recursive state estimation methods for nonlinear systems
Unstructured uncertainty estimation
State estimation of nonlinear systems
Nonlinear observers
High gain observer
Sliding-mode observer
Adaptive observer
Kalman filter
Control applications
Robust control applications

40) Title: Diagnosis and Control Based on Complex Image Analysis
Organizer-Chairman: Professor Dan Popescu
Department of Automation and Applied Informatics
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, ROMANIA
E-mail: [email protected]
&
PhD Loretta Ichim
“Stefan S. Nicolau” Institute of Virology and Department of Automation and Applied Informatics
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, ROMANIA
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
The session aims to underline the intrinsic connection between complex image analysis, on one hand, and two important actions in different fields: diagnosis and control, on the other hand. The applications of complex images like texture and fractals in such domains like: industry, medicine, agriculture, environment, transportation and so on, needs interdisciplinary knowledge and effectively solve many problems encountered. This invited session at CSCC 2015 provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss advances in the research and development of intelligent systems for complex image analysis and interpretation in the field of diagnosis and control. All session papers have a high scientific level and were selected based on their relevance to the session topics. The included topics are the following (but not limited).

Topics:
-Monitoring and defect detection in industry
-Quality control based on image processing
-Traffic control based on images
-Medical diagnostic systems based on complex image processing
-Assistive technologies based on image processing
-Decision-support tools based on image processing in cancer detection
-UAV monitoring based on images for the critical infrastructures
-UAV and robot guidance based on image interpretation
-Camera systems in vehicles
-Parallel processing of images
-FPGA implementation of complex image processing
-Image processing for real time control
-Fractal analysis
-Texture analysis
-Distributed control based on multi-camera system

 

41) Title: Energy Management of Using Hybrid Renewable Energy
Organizer-Chairman: Asst. Prof. Dr. Sameer Al-Juboori
Head of Elect. & Control Engineering Dept. at Kirkuk Technical College, Iraq.
Currently Visitor Researcher at Lund University, Sweden.
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
Remote areas provide a big challenge to electric power utilities. Hybrid power systems provide an excellent solution to this problem as one can use the natural sources available in the area e.g. the wind, solar and hydro energy and thereby combine multiple sources of energy to generate electricity. Such a system offers better performance, flexibility of planning and environmental benefits compared to the diesel generator based stand-alone system. This workshop will focuses on the advantages of using renewable energy sources for generating power in remote areas because the cost of transported fuel is usually expensive for such locations. Further, using fossil fuel has many concerns on the issue of climate change and global warming. Also the participants will discuss the tools and programs such as HOMER, iHOGA, … etc. which are used to design hybrid power systems.

Topics:
• Energy Management Systems in Microgrid Operations.
• Application of Using Hybrid Renewable Energy.
• Optimium Planning of Hybrid Renewable Energy System.
• Renewable Energy Based Optimal Hybrid System For Distributed Power Generation.
• Design and performance of photovoltaic power system as a renewable energy source for residential.
• Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems: Design Optimization Analysis and Tools.
• OFF-GRID Electricity Generation with Renewable Energy Technologies.
• Stand-Alone hybrid energy systems.
• Cost Benefit Analysis of Hybrid Power Generation Relative To Utility Cost.
• Optimal Design of Hybrid Energy System with PV/ Wind Turbine/ Hydro/ Storage.
• Optimal Rural Microgrid Energy Management.
• Microgrids and Our Distributed Energy Future.
• Renewable Energy Opportunities.
• Control Strategies and Emissions for Isolated Hybrid Power System.
• Microgrid and Energy Storage Application.
• Optimal Sizing of Photovoltaic Systems.
• Renewable Energy Integration through Complimentary Demand-Supply.

 

42) Title: Miniature HV power supplies/devices & its circuitry - a widely used technology in near future
Organizer-Chairman: Muhammad Muktadir Rahman
Graduate Teaching Assistant & demonstrator at power lab at Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH
Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
E-mail: [email protected]
&
Prof. Nader N.Barsoum
Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH
Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
Saving energy is becoming more & more important. Saving energy can be done by reducing losses. An important factor to reduce losses is to minimize sizes of devices & equipments. But High Voltage with high frequencies is also difficult to handle properly, and there are a lot of technical problems to overcome to make handling of high voltage even more efficiently in a miniaturized form.

Topics:
Powering caps, coils, plasma
Studying fundamental particles
Explore atomic nuclei
Possible utilization in power engineering
HVDC links
High energy machines
Medicine- diagnostics & therapy
Industrial processes- ion implantation, cargo inspection
Source of radiation
Element analysis
Food preservation-radiation sterilization, large scale storage
Next generation IC
Superconductivity
Pulsed power

 

43) Title: Recent Trend in Computer Aided Manufacturing & Metrology
Organizer-Chairman: Dr. N. Rajesh Jesudoss Hynes,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College,
Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu,
India.
E-mail: [email protected]
&
Prof. J. Angela Jennifa Sujana,
Department of Information Technology,
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College,
Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu,
India.
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
Globalization is exerting an influence on the development of CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) and Computer Aided Inspection (CAI). Companies' operations, competition and markets have gone global, and in response, CAM and CAI are taking on more functionality and allowing for increased collaboration between departments. The major trends shaping the development of these tools need to be shared with the research fraternity. This would promote widespread of information exchange amongst experts, industrialists, and practitioners in the way of presentations.

Topics:
1. Cloud manufacturing
2. Virtual Manufacturing
3. Digital Prototyping
4. Electro-mechanical production devices
5. Transparent factory
6. Computer vision
7. Sensor fusion
8. Flexible Automation in Industries
9. Computer Aided Design
10. Computer Aided Process Planning
11. Computer Aided Inspection
12. Computer Aided Engineering Tools

 

44) Title: Communication and knowledge sharing in technology parks/research parks/business parks/science parks
Organizer-Chairman: Ing. Renata Stasiak-Betlejewska, PhD.,
Czestochowa University of Technology,
Faculty of Management,
POLAND
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
Cooperation of universities, companies and research institutions (including state organizations) within technology parks/research parks/business parks/science parks focuses on the constant communication, knowledge sharing, knowledge application and commercialization of the science research findings. It is aimed on new technologies seeking and creating a competitive advantages for companies, institutions and regions.
The session is aimed to present and discuss problems of communication and knowledge sharing within technology parks, what is basically related to the intellectual property protection issues. It includes also discussion on the cooperation development possibilities and IT solutions supportive for the communication in the mentioned environment with regard to science research findings transfer between institutions.

Topics:
Research parks/technology parks/science parks/technopolis/business parks
Clustering
Business models
Knowledge transfer
Networking
Consulting/Counselling services
Talent management
R&D centers
Business incubators
Knowledge management
Knowledge-based economy
Innovation
Effective information security systems
Intellectual property protection/Copyright protection
Problems of intellectual property protection in Internet environment
Licensing and transfer of technology
Strategies of the scientific research commercialization

 

45) Title: Recent Advances on Computational Methods for Ball and Roller Bearings
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Dr. Mario Cesar Ricci
National Institute for Space Research
Space Mechanics and Control Division
Sao jose dos Campos - Brazil
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
Ball and Roller bearings are used extensively in industrial rotating machinery. In last years there has been an increasing interest in modeling and simulation of ball and roller bearings systems due to the requirements of reduced maintenance costs, improved productivity and safety. The purpose of this mini-symposium is to bring experts in the area to discuss the latest developments in the field of modeling and simulation of all aspects involving ball and roller bearings systems.

Topics:
computer methods for vibrational and acoustical behaviors
computer methods for bearing capacity
computer methods for ball's and roller's motions
computer methods for ball's and roller's forces and moments
computer methods for fit and thermal deformations
computer methods for dry and wet lubrication
case studies
other bearings related topics

 

46) Title: Workshop on Attitude and Orbit Control Systems
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Dr. Mario Cesar Ricci
National Institute for Space Research
Space Mechanics and Control Division
Sao jose dos Campos - Brazil
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
Modern spacecrafts require precise attitude and orbit control. The attitude and orbit control subsystem aims to keep a satellite or spacecraft pointed in the right direction. The objective of this workshop is to bring experts working with attitude and orbit control to discuss problems and propose innovative solutions for new missions to come in the future.

Topics:
attitude and orbit control system design
dynamics and modeling systems
software design
other related topics

 

47) Title: Signal Processing Methods for Mechanical System Identification and Diagnosis
Organizer-Chairman: Professor Massimo Viscardi
University of Naples Federico II
Italy
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
Structural Health Monitoring SHM or continuous on-line monitoring of structural integrity is today a relevant topic in many engineering fields as industrial applications, automotive, aerospace, and large civil structures. The current inspection techniques can be, in fact, progressively replaced with new more advanced health monitoring systems. Nowdays advanced signal processing tools and algorithms make these techniques more and more effordable than in the past and open new perspective for this specific research field. This special session means to represent an opportunity for scientist involved in this field to share latest results of their researchs and to present the opportunities of these approaches to a new concept of predictive maintenance.

Topics:
Signal processing tools and alghoritms
Structural health monitoring methods and application
Mechanical system identification
Time-frequency analysis
Spectral estimation
Higher order spectrum analysis
Parameter estimation
Detection methods
All related topics to the aim of the Session

 

48) Title: Virtual Reality: Opportunities and Technologies
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Mohamed Mediouni
Department of Computer Science
Universite de Sherbooke
Quebec, Canada
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming a powerful tool which allows user to interact with the simulated environment. For that purpose, the aim of this session is to discuss the aspect of creating of virtual and augmented technologies, and to light the challenges of developing a better tracking system, a different ways of interaction and a high performance of tactile and haptic systems. Afterwards, we highlight the various applications of VR which range from academic research through engineering, business, design, and entertainment.

Topics:
Virtual environment
Augmented reality
Immersion and presence
Stereoscopic
Human Senses & Human Actions
3D User Interface
CAVE
Navigation
Interaction
Haptic
Games
Real Time
Parallelism

 

49) Title: Green and Secure Software and Systems
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Nikos Bardis, PhD, Eng.
Associate Professor on Informatics for Military Applications - Director of Informatics LAB
Hellenic Military Academy - Department of Mathematics & Engineering Sciences, Informatics LAB
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers and practitioners from various disciplines, working in the areas of Green and Secure Software and Systems. It aims to provide an integrated platform to present original methods, tools, techniques and innovative applications on IS&T. Therefore, the session serves as a forum enabling experience exchange between academia and industry, as well as between researchers working in different research branches.

Topics:
- Information Security
- Privacy and Security
- Security and greenness issues
- Cryptography
- Cryptanalysis
- Hacking and Cracking
- Cyber Warfare
- Cyber Defense
- Cyber Security
- IW and Information Infrastructure Protection
- Safety Critical Systems
- Robotics
- Digitized Battlefield and C4ISR
- Production Control, Control Systems
- Communication Networks
- Wireless networks
- Mobile Communications
- Markovian Chains
- Advanced signal processing for military applications
- Risk Analysis
- Vulnerability analysis
- Evolution of software quality
- Threat Assessment/Modeling
- Database Management
- Data Mining and Data Warehousing
- Knowledge Management
- Military Decision Making
- Military Systems Interoperability
- Early Warning Systems
- GIS Appllications
- Pattern Recognition Systems
- Computational Techniques
- Decision Analysis
- Risk Management and Risk Analysis

 

50) Title: Sustainable and Near-Zero Energy Buildings
Organizer-Chairman: Dr. Eng. Alicja Kowalska-Koczwara
Cracow University of Technology
Institute of Structural Mechanics
Poland
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
The aim of the session is to present the current state of knowledge in the field of sustainable and energy-efficient construction, comparison of the available energy efficient technologies existing in the world, to show their effectiveness and their influence on the environment. The aim of the session is also to analyze the influence of new energy-saving technologies in civil engineering on indoor environmental quality and the ability to ensure the comfort of living spaces.

Topics:
- Energy-effcient technologies and materials,
- Indoor environmental quality,
- Comfort of living spaces,
- Modern insulation materials,
- Sustainable building and renewable energy sources,
- Modernization of buildings for the purpose of energy-efficient construction,
- Environmental influences on buildings

 

51) Title: Process Analysis Technology in Life Science Applications
Organizer-Chairman: Dr.-Ing. Mohamed Hussein
Research Group Leader
Group of Bio Process Analysis Technology
Technische Universitat Munchen
Ingenieurwissenschaften fur Lebensmittel und biogene Rohstoffe
Freising, Germany
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
This session aims to addressing the new challenges in processing life science applications. Basically presenting the newest techniques and methods using Sensing, Modelling and Control for various life science applications such as: Pharmaceutical Industry Biotechnology Industry Food Industry Beverage Industry

Topics:
Optical Sensing
Spectral Sensing
Ultrasound-based Sensing
Process Holistic Modelling
Micro & Nano - Scale Modelling
Multi-Scale Modelling
Process Control and Automation
Process Artificial Intelligence
Heuristic & Meta-Heuristic Techniques
Food Processing
Pharma Processing
Beverage Technology

 

52) Title: The Image Processing in Remote Sensing 
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Jaqueline Maria Ribeiro Vieira
Military Engineering Institute - IME
Department of Defense Engineering 
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 
E-mail: [email protected] 

Aim:
The purpose of this session is to introduce the application of  techniques of image processing in remote sensing. It is a  multidisciplinary session where related topics are discussed using  satellite images to help solve important problems as the oil spill in  the sea, the location of lost boats and the location of waste floating  in the sea. Examples will be presented using techniques that aim at  satellite images highlight. 

Topics:
- Remote sensing 
- Digital filters
- High-pass Filters 
- Low-Pass Filters 
- Average Filter 
- Non-Linear Filtering in the Spatial Domain 
- Median Filter 
- Segmentation 
- Image Conversion RGB to IHS 
- Enhance Using decorrelation

 

53) Title: Dynamical Systems, Transport Problems and Computational Methods 
Chairmen: Prof. V. V. Kozlov
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS),  
director of  Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS,
Russia
E-mail: [email protected] 
and 
Prof. B. N. Chetvertushkin
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
Director of Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of RAS,
Russia
E-mail: [email protected]
Organizers:  
Prof. A. P. Buslaev
Head of mathematics department
Moscow Automobile and Road STU (MADI)
Russia
E-mail: [email protected] 
Prof. A. M. Valuev
National Univ. of Science and Technology (MISIS)
Russia
E-mail: [email protected]
Prof. M. V. Yashina
Head of mathematical cybernetics department
Moscow TU of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI)
Russia
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
Discussions and exchange of information on modern innovative approaches and methods in the field of dynamical systems, transport problems and modeling of traffic flows, as well as computational methods for studying complex socio-technical systems. 

Topics:
- Discrete dynamical systems 
- Nagel-Shrekenberg traffic flow model 
- Buslaev-Kozlov-Tatashev  transport-logistics model 
- Continuous models of mass transfer 
- Principles and methods of mathematical modeling of the dynamics and stationary distributions of traffic 
- High-capacity technology to handle large databases 
- Methods and models of optimization of the topology and structure of transport networks 
- Methods for routing public transport to ensure the safety and efficiency of traffic 
- Methods for strategic analysis of transport infrastructure projects 
- Methods for detection, prediction and management of transport demand, taking into account cost-effectiveness and risks 
- Methods and models of social behavior of the participants of the transport process 
- Methods of assessing the impact of transport infrastructure on the environmental situation in order to reduce damage to the environment 
- Information-computing technologies, focused on the use of high performance computing resources for modeling, analysis and forecasting of transport systems 
- Information-computing technologies designing real-time systems based on the use of geodata with space systems, video surveillance, and mobile devices for modeling, monitoring and management of transport processes.

 

54) Title: Computer Science for Education and in Education
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Polina Ananchenkova
Academy of labor and social and social relations
Moscow, Russia
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
The aim of the special session is to discuss innovative teaching technologies, opportunities and prospects for the use of computer systems in various fields of education and for various categories of pupils/students/trainees

Topics:
- Life Long Learning
- Mobile learning and mobility
- Jobs development and new skills
- Build the new eLearning system in academia
- Corporate education
- Social media as a tool of training
- Understanding, mapping and exploring pedagogy
- Course design and tools for e-content
- Competencies and new skills

 

55) Title: Monitoring and Security Issues in Complex Network
Organizer-Chairman: Assoc. Prof. Miroslav Voznak
VSB-Technical University of Ostrava
Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
The growing complexity of today's networks requires new approaches in domain of security and monitoring. Several quintillion bytes of data are created every day, in March 2014 was demonstrated an error-free rate of 800 Gbps in field trial and we expect terabit network capabilities in near future, nevertheless US Department of Defense specifies that any covert channel with bandwidth higher than 100 bps must be considered insecure for average security requirements and should be detected. Appropriate tools and techniques of monitoring can predict incidents, identify security threats and help to improve overall security of complex networks. The aim of this session is to provide a forum for researchers to present, discuss and share new ideas and recently achieved advances in domain of monitoring and security.

Topics:
- Life Long Learning
- Network monitoring
- Detection of security incidents
- Security of multimedia communications
- Watermarking technology and applications
- Network anomaly detection
- Aspects of Network and information security
- Cyber security

 

56) Title: Semantic and Probabilistic Methods in Computational Linguistics
Organizer-Chairman: Assistant Professor Mikhail M. Kucherov
Siberian Federal University,
nstitute of Space and Information Technology,
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
More and more attention is paid to research of computing in the presence of approximation and inexactness, in part because of inaccurate data (for example, sensors or machine learning methods), and partly because of the advantages in energy and area savings which arise from the deliberate use approximation. Semantic and probabilistic methods of coping with uncertainty offer efficient way for modeling, analysis, synthesis, processing, qualitative and numerical description of the natural language subsets, by using generative grammars, n-dimensional spaces, semantic classifications, artificial intermediate form languages.
The focus will be on the novel design and analysis together with experimental results of semantic and probabilistic computing methods, algorithms, and applications.

Topics:
- Epistemic reasoning systems and applications
- Studying semantics for meaningful phrases generation
- Semantics for generation of e-learning materials
- Semantics and probabilistic methods for educational process description
- Semantics for creating means, languages and algorithms for natural language generation
- Elaboration of semantic-based linguistic software

 

57) Title: Electric Vehicles and Renewable Energy (EVRE)
Organizer-Chairman: Associate Professor Souhir Tounsi
National School of Electronics and Telecommunications of Sfax (ENET'Com)
Tunisia
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
Electric Vehicles and Renewable Energy (EVRE) concern mainly the innovation of new robust methodologies dedicated to the design, control and optimization of electric vehicles and renewable energy systems. The main objective of this special session is to optimize the performances and the production cost Electric Vehicles and Renewable Energy Systems.

Topics:
1. Design of Electric Machines Dedicated to Electric Traction and Renewable Energy.
2. Design and Monitoring of Renewable Energy Systems.
3. Identifications of Electric Machines Dedicated to Electric Traction and Renewable Energy.
4. Electrical Machines and Drives.
5. Brushless DC Motor Dedicated to Electric Traction and Renewable Energy Systems.
6. AC Permanents Magnet Motors for Electric and Hybrid traction.
7. Modeling and Control of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles.
8. Optimal Control of Electric and Hybrids Vehicles.
9. Performance Optimization of Electric Traction and Renewable Energy Systems.
10. Optimization of Electric and Hybrids Vehicles.
11. Power Electronics Dedicated to Electric and Hybrid Traction.
12. Energy Conversion.
13. Electrical Transportation.
14. Electro-thermal modeling of Electric Vehicles Power Chain and Renewable Energy Systems.
15. Systemic Design approaches of Electric Vehicles.
16. Experimental Validations of Design and Control Approaches of Electric and Hybrids Vehicles.

 

58) Title: Data science for education improvement
Organizer-Chairman: Prof. Dijana Oreski
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Organization and Informatics
Croatia
E-mail: [email protected]
&
Prof. Bozidar Klicek
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Organization and Informatics
Croatia
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
Nowadays, education is distributed across space, time and media. Consequently, a large volume of data is generated. The questions are raising about what the utilization of this data may mean for education and society more broadly. The emerging field of data science is constantly developing new ways to analyze educational data. This session covers methods and technologies associated with the fields of data science, educational data mining, and learning analytics, and discuss the opportunities for education that these fields present and the opportunities that they may create in order to improve education. Our aim is to adapt existing or develop new approaches that are build upon techniques from a combination of areas, including but not limited to statistics, data mining, data science, machine learning, information retrieval, recommender systems and scientific computing.

Topics:
Educational Data Mining,
Learning Analytics,
Machine Learning,
Artificial Intelligence,
Data Science,
Big Data,
Data Mining,
Recommender Systems,
Intelligent Systems,
e-Learning

 

59) Title: Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Forensic Applications
Organizer-Chairman: Assistant Professor Steven Lawrence Fernandes
Dept of Electronics & Communication Engineering
Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management
India
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Forensic Applications are energetically pursued areas of research and there exists a large community exploring various aspects of these areas. Pattern Recognition mainly focuses on areas such as feature selection, feature extraction, large data problems, online learning, classifiers and perception models. Machine learning provides solid support via empirical studies, theoretical analysis, or comparison to psychological phenomena. Forensic Applications include forensic pathology, serology, psychiatry, anthropology, the physical sciences, investigations of value to public health, areas where science and medicine interact with the law. The primary goal is to bring together researchers working in the broad areas of Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Forensic Applications to promote community-wide discussion of ideas that will influence and foster continued research in the field.

Topics:
Pattern & Image Analysis
Feature Extraction & Classification
Artificial Intelligence & Neural Networks
Genetic Algorithms & Machine Vision
Machine Intelligence & Machine Learning
Information forensics & security
Pencil & composite sketching
Age progression & Forensic pathology
Skull reconstruction & Surveillance applications

 

60) Title: Big Data Management and Analytical Tools for Smart Digital Environments
Organizer-Chairman: Dr. Mohammed Saeed Jawad
Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering
Univeristy Technical Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)
Malaysia
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
The amount of data in the world has been exploding, about 50% a year and analyzing large data sets will become a key basis of competition, creating new waves of productivity growth, innovation. Researchers and policy makers are currently at the beginning to realize the potential for channeling the different type of data into actionable information that can be used to identify needs, provide services, predict and prevent crises. Action is needed by governments, development organizations and companies to ensure that “Big Data” helps the individuals and communities who create it.
Big data can be described as data sets so large and complex that traditional data processing is inadequate. 3Vs (volume, variety and velocity) are three defining properties or dimensions of big data. Volume is the amount of data, variety is the number of types of data and velocity is the speed of data processing. The challenges of big data management can be understood as the expansion of all three properties, rather than just the volume alone. This imposes many challenges include analysis, capture, data curation, search, sharing, storage, transfer, visualization, and privacy.

Topics:
1. Big data for smart metering applications.
2. Bid data for smart medical Bioinformatics applications.
3. Big data for smart digital banking.
4. Recent advances in big data analytical tools.
5. Security and Privacy Aspects in big data.
6. Stock Market Analysis using big data
7. Big Data in the Geosciences and disaster management.
8. Data Methodologies And Tools to Improve big data projects
9. Mining Big Data in Social Networks.
10. Visualization Analytics for Big Data.
11. New Computational Models for Big Data.
12. Data and Information Quality for Big Data.
13. Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining- Big.
14. High Performance/Parallel Computing Platforms for Big Data.
15. Big Data Open Platforms.

 

61) Title: Low Cost 3D Printing: Present and Future Trends.
Organizer-Chairman: Dr. Tawfik Benabdallah
Director of Industrial Products & Systems Innovation Laboratory IPSIL
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ecole Nationale Polytechnique
Oran, Algeria
E-mail: [email protected]

Aim:
The workshop objective is to gather specialists and inventors from all fields around this topic to discuss mainly about:
• The technical progress in 3D printer.
• How to reduce the cost of accessibility to the 3D printers to reach a sustainable development.
• Qualification methodology for open access 3D printers software.
• General topics related to prototyping.
The organizer welcomes all innovative ideas that help to make a state of art, proposal perspectives and shed the light about challenges and future trends.

Topics:
-Biomechanics
-Robotics
-Mechatronics
-Manufacturing
-Medicine
-Chemical & biomechanical research
-Art of Innovation & Technology
-Ergonomics
-Education
-Intelligent Computing
-Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
-Computational Intelligence in life sciences
-Systems Assistive Technologies to the Needs of Disabled
-Activities and Technologies
--International Projects
-International project
-Multimedia applications and virtual reality
-Wireless and mobile computing
-Cloud computing and storage
-Network optimization and security aspects
-Web applications and services security
-Management of Information Systems
-Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies
-The Integration of Technology & Organizational Strategies
-Strategic Decision Support Systems
-Models, applications and best practices
-Collaboration and e-Services
-Process Management
-Enterprise modeling and virtual organizations
and other topics related to Information Technology