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Important Dates

The SITIS conference is dedicated to research on the technologies used to represent, share and process information in various forms, ranging from signal, image, and multimedia data to traditional structured data and semi-structured data found in the web.

SITIS spans two inter-related research domains that increasingly play a key role in connecting systems across network centric environments to allow distributed computing and information sharing. SITIS 2018 aims to provide a forum for high quality presentations on research activities centered on the following main tracks.

****The track titled "Signal Image & Vision Technologies" (SIVT) focuses on recent developments in digital signal processing and pays particular attention to evolutions in audiovisual signal processing, analysis, coding and authentication, and retrieval techniques.

Topics of interest for track SIVT
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Image Acquisition, Vision
• Image Acquisition Devices and Sensors
• Device Calibration, Characterization and Modeling
• Image and Video Coding and Compression
• Multimodal and Multi-sensor Models

Image Processing and Analysis
• Image filtering, Restoration, Enhancement
• Image segmentation
• Image synthesis
• Pattern analysis and recognition
• Shape matching
• Learning and classification
• Colour Imaging
• Multispectral processing
• Stereoscopic and 3D processing
• 3D Object Extraction
• Surface reconstruction
• Computational geometry
• Machine Learning Technologies for Vision
• Content-based Indexing, Search, and Retrieval
• Object and Face Recognition
• Object detection and Localization
• 3D Object Extraction
• Optical Flow and Motion Analysis
• Tracking and Visual Navigation

Signal processing
• Theory and Methods
• Digital Filters and Filter Banks design
• Wavelets and Multirate Signal Processing
• Spectral analysis
• Fast algorithms
• Real time signal processing
• Signal noise control
• Mobile Signal Processing
• Nonlinear and Multidimensional Signal Processing

Applications
• Archiving
• Digital video broadcasting
• Biomedical Imaging
• Nuclear XRAY, and magnetic resonance imaging
• Tomographic imaging
• Remote Sensing
• Document Image Processing and Analysis
• Astronomy
• Geosciences and environment
• Artificial intelligence applications
• Neural networks applications
• Fuzzy logic applications
• Video surveillance and security
• Crowd analysis
• Biometrics and Applications

Image/Video Coding and Authentication
• Coding standards
• Image and video over networks
• Error resilience
• Video processing and streaming
• Image sequence processing and analysis
• Video streaming
• Watermark Embedding and Detection
• Reliable Watermark Recovery

****The track titled “Intelligent Web Computing and Applications” (I-WeCA) is on emerging and novel concepts, architectures and methodologies for information management, including the semantic web, big data, and cloud computing. Finally, social networks have grown rapidly in size and have witnessed a popular expansion to reach billions of users, providing a suitable space for sharing data, interacting with other users and forming communities with common interests.

Topics of interest for track I-WeCA
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Data semantics and Web-Centric Systems
• Ontologies and Conceptual Data Modeling
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Semantic Data Integration and Ontology Engineering
• Web Information Retrieval
• Web Tools and Languages
• Uncertainty Models for Web Data and Services
• Semantic Web Data Analysis
• Social Media and Social Semantics
• Folksonomies and Emergent Semantics
• E-Commerce, E-government, and E-Learning
• Web/Data Mining and Machine Learning
• Recommender Systems and Crowd-sourcing
• Semantic Data Indexing, Search, and Retrieval
• Multimedia Data Modeling and Visualization
• Semantics and Meta-Data in Multimedia Systems
• User Interfaces and Interaction with Semantics
• Semantics in Data Access and Visualization
• Semantic Technologies for Mobile Platforms

Big Data Management and Analytics
• Big Data Models and Algorithms
• Big Data Analytics and Metrics
• Representation Formats for Big Data
• Big Data Semantics and Knowledge Organization
• Big Data Architectures
• Cloud Computing Techniques for Big Data
• Big Data as a Service
• Big Data Open Platforms
• Big Data in Mobile and Pervasive Computing
• Big Data Persistence and Preservation
• Management Issues of Social Network Big Data
• Big Data Search and Mining
• Machine Learning based on Big Data
• Computational Modeling and Big Data Integration

Service-based Computing
• Data and Knowledge as a Services
• Web Services, Mobile services, and Service Computing
• Software Architecture and Middleware
• Security, Privacy, and Trust
• Semantic and Intelligent Services
• Service Discovery, Selection, and Recommendation
• Service Composition and Service-based data Integration
• Business Process as a Service (BPaaS)
• Health Informatics as a Service (HIaaS)
• Financial Software as a Service (FSaaS)
• Education as a Service (EaaS)

Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems
• Future Networks for IoT
• Artificial Intelligence and IoT
• Localization Technologies
• IoT Architectures and Platforms
• Routing and Control Protocols
• Machine-to-Machine Communications and IoT
• Information Sharing and Interoperability in IoT
• Distributed Ontologies and Contextual Reasoning
• Semantic Interoperability and Semantic Mediators
• Collective Knowledge and Collective Intelligence
• Multimedia Digital Ecosystems
• Smart City Examples and Case Studies
• Data Analysis and Visualization for Smart Cities
• Smart Homes and Independent Living

Grid and Cloud Computing
• Architectures and Platforms
• Mobile Clouds
• Storage, Data, and Cloud Analytics
• Migration, Management, and Quality
• Composition, Federation, Virtualization, and Composition
• High Performance Cloud Computing
• Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems
• Future Networks for IoT
• Artificial Intelligence and IoT
• Localization Technologies
• IoT Architectures and Platforms
• Routing and Control Protocols
• Machine-to-Machine Communications and IoT
• Information Sharing and Interoperability in IoT
• Distributed Ontologies and Contextual Reasoning
• Semantic Interoperability and Semantic Mediators
• Collective Knowledge and Collective Intelligence
• Multimedia Digital Ecosystems
• Smart City Examples and Case Studies
• Data Analysis and Visualization for Smart Cities
• Smart Homes and Independent Living

Information Security and Privacy
• Security Modeling and Access Control Protocol
• Intrusion Avoidance, Detection, and Response
• Web Security and Trust Management
• Denial of Service: Attacks and Countermeasures
• Fundamental Services on Network and Distributed Systems
• Security and Privacy for Emerging Technologies
• Trust-based systems
• Big Data Security Protection, Integrity, and Privacy
• Web and Mobile Services Security
• Dependable and Reliable services
• Encryption, Authentication, and Authorization

Applications and Tools
• In Enterprise, Education, Science, Industry, and Medicine
• Semantic, Web-based, and Big Data applications
• Services and Cloud-based applications
• IoT and Intelligent Systems applications

**** Track on Large, Heterogeneous Networks and their Applications (LHNA)
Watching streaming videos, uploading pictures and using cloud-based services will make high demands on mobile networks. At the same time more devices will be connected. Heterogeneous Networks, involving a mix of radio technologies and cell types working together seamlessly, will play an important role to service data hungry smartphones, especially in crowded areas.

The "Large, Heterogenous Networks and their Applications" (LHNA) track aims at promoting original and unpublished research works covering emerging and novel concepts, technologies, applications for categories related to large and heterogeneous networks. This includes issues related to radio (4/5G) and large wireless networks, traffic management, complex graphs, semantic Web, Big Data, and network security.

Topics of interest for track LHNA
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Large Network Analysis - methods, algorithms, processes, analytic tools
• Graph processing / manipulation
• Usage / implementation of Big Data algorithms
• Avoiding fragmentation of the network graph
• Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks, trend prediction
• Information broadcasting in Social Networks

Social analytic tools
• Approaches based on Semantic Web Technologies
• Ontologies for managing social networks
• Social networks and cultural information
• Social Network Analysis of Terrorist Networks
• Cyber surveillance for unlawful activities for critical infrastructure protection
• Participatory surveillance

Large/Heterogeneous Networks Security, privacy, trust and ethics
• Privacy-preserving (social) network Analysis
• Network Analysis for security applications
• Network-based security measures and controls
• Network Analysis for identifying and assessing cyber risks
• Information security measures and controls, to help in identifying and assessing cyber risks

Architectures and methods for large/heterogeneous network management
• Traffic management
• Self-optimizing approaches
• Self-configuration approaches
• Cell coordination
• Communities discovery and analysis in large scale online and offline social networks
• Traffic prediction for dimensioning multimedia applications
• Frameworks and Methodologies for large scale Collaboration
• Social media search and management in large scale environments
• Collective Awareness Platforms for Social (CAPS) and business innovation

Applications of large/heterogeneous networks
• Human-centric Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems
• Internet of People
• Internet of Things
• Social Computing and Social Internet of Things
• Mobile Network and Behavior Analysis
• Internet of Sensing, Thinking and Creation
• Internet of Swarm Intelligence and Games
• Context-aware service discovery and recommendation
• Ontologies for managing social/large networks
• Large Scale Ontologies Matching and Mapping
• Crowd Sensing, Sourcing, Intelligence and Wisdom
• Biometric Sensors and Identifications
• Brain Information Sensing and Processing
• Brain-Computer Interface/Brain-Machine Interface
• Internet of Brains and Lives
• Wearable Computing and Implant Technology
• Personal/Body Network and Near Field Communication
• Affective Computing, Ubiquitous Social Computing
• Smart Healthcare
• Deep Learning for IoS and Urban Computing

More tracks and conference details can be found on the following web site: http://www.sitis-conf.org

Submission Guidelines

Important Dates

Papers must be up to 8 pages and follow IEEE double-column format. All papers accepted for presentation at the main tracks and workshops will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society and referenced in IEEE Xplore Digital Library, DBLP and major indexes.  Extended version of selected accepted papers will be considered for publication in major journals. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. At least one author should attend the conference to present an accepted paper. Paper submission will only be online via SITIS 2018 submission site:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sitis2018

IEEE SITIS 2018 proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society and submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore

Committees

General Co-Chairs
Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, National Research Council, Italy
Modesto Castrillón-Santana, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Track Chairs
Albert Dipanda, University of Bourgogne, France
Julian Fierrez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Ana Roxin, University of Bourgogne, France
Joe Tekli, Lebanese American University, Lebanon

Workshops Program Chair
Luigi Gallo, National Research Council, Italy

Publicity Chairs
Richard Chbeir, University of Pau, France
William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Kokou Yetongnon, University of Bourgogne, France

Local Organizing Chair
Javier Lorenzo-Navarro, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Local Organizing Committee
Antonio Domínguez-Brito, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
David Freire-Obregón, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Daniel Hernández-Sosa, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Josep Isern-González, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Technical Program Committee (Please check the web site for the full list)
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Venue

SITIS 2018 will be held at Hotel Reina Isabel & Spa **** (address: Calle Alfredo L. Jones, 40, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) which is located on the Playa de Las Canteras beachfront in Las Palmas, providing several room possibilities.

The conference rooms chosen for the SITIS 2018 tracks as well as for the workshops are:  Baldaquino, Galdós and Fogón.
The two rooms Baldaquino and Galdós are close to the hotel reception, while room Fogón is in the first floor. All three rooms are anyway rather close to each other.

Location
The city : Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is and open and cosmopolitan capital city located in the island of Gran Canaria at the Canaries. Being the island a frequent touristic destination, particularly for Europeans, the city location on the northeast of Gran Canaria, serves to be considered within the top best weather year around world cities, with an average temperature of pleasant 17ºC in winter, and a comfortable and 25ºC in summer.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to sitis@u-bourgogne.fr