From cdve.org at gmail.com Tue Jun 9 20:49:38 2026 From: cdve.org at gmail.com (Cdve Org) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2026 11:49:38 -0700 Subject: [Event@CIG] CDVE2026 call for poster papers Message-ID: The CDVE2026 poster paper submission is open. You are welcome to submit. Submission deadline : June 30, 2026 Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2026 All the intermedia research results are welcome to submit within the area of cooperative design, visualization, engineering and applications. Contributions and ideas about AI applied to these areas are particularly welcome. What to submit: a poster paper abstract. URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2026 Poster papers will be displayed or presented in the conference but not included in the proceedings book. It is a great opportunity to have face to face interaction with the active researchers. -- ------------------- The 23rd International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering Sept. 21-23, 2026, L?neburg, Germany Email: cdve2026 at easychair.org Web: https://www.cdve.org From elena.yan at emse.fr Mon Jun 8 13:35:15 2026 From: elena.yan at emse.fr (Elena YAN) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2026 13:35:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Event@CIG] Call for Participation 2026 Summer School on AI Technologies for Industry 4.0 Message-ID: <1083108328.19477508.1780918515016.JavaMail.zimbra@emse.fr> Call for Participation 2026 Summer School on AI Technologies for Trust, Interoperability, Autonomy and Resilience in Industry 4.0 [ https://ci.mines-stetienne.fr/ai4industry/2026/ | https://ci.mines-stetienne.fr/ai4industry/2026/ ] NO REGISTRATION FEE We invite PhD students, academics and researchers from academia and industry to apply for the Summer School on AI Technologies for Trust, Interoperability, Autonomy and Resilience in Industry 4.0 (henceforth AI4Industry). The summer school aims to provide participants with knowledge of state-of-the-art AI technologies and models to address the challenges of the data revolution and the automation of cognitive tasks for the development of a trustworthy and resilient Industry 4.0 (or Industry of the Future). The summer school is organized around concrete industrial problems structured as use cases. These use cases are intended to stimulate the discussion in academic institutions to solve real-world problems and to present innovative solutions to industrial stakeholders. During the summer school, participants attend lectures of AI technologies and carry out practical exercises dedicated to applying these technologies to solve real-world industrial problems. The summer school addresses various aspects of AI in Industry, with a special focus on: * Web of Things * Knowledge Graphs * Multi-Agent Systems * Trustworthy and Responsible AI Half of the summer school is dedicated to introducing the theoretical foundations of state-of-the-art AI technologies and models, while the other half is dedicated to a practical work in the style of a hackathon. Participants are encouraged to continue working on solving the proposed problems after the summer school with the support of the organizers and to submit their work to workshop and conferences. The [ https://ai4industry.wp.imt.fr/ | AI4Industry Summer School series ] website provide more general information of the summer school. Important Dates * Application on a rolling basis * On-site participation : July 03 , 2026 * Online participation : July 10 , 2026 * Notification : 1 week after application * Summer School : July 20 -24, 2026 Target Audience and Eligibility We welcome applications from PhD students, academics, and researchers from academia and industry who already have knowledge in at least one of the summer school topics and would like to broaden their perspective on applying their skills on real-world industrial problems. We also welcome researchers and industry partners who want to interact with a new research community and learn more about the latest advances in AI technologies. Application Process Please apply for the summer school by filling in the form available at [ https://portail.emse.fr/limesurvey2021/index.php/931242?lang=en | https://portail.emse.fr/limesurvey2021/index.php/931242?lang=en ] . NOTE : You are required to provide a r?sum?/CV and a brief motivation text explaining how the summer school will benefit your career. We are glad to announce that there is NO REGISTRATION FEE for participating to the 2026 AI4Industry Summer School. You are responsible for your travel arrangements and expenses. Thanks to our sponsors, we will cover the following items to those who are accepted to participate on-site in Saint-?tienne (France): * Lunch and coffee breaks * One Group Dinner For those attending on-site in Saint-?tienne, the [ https://www.me-mines-saint-etienne.org/ | Maison des ?l?ves ] offers special price for participants of the summer school. Please contact them for make your accommodation arrangements. Contact [ mailto:contact-ai4industry at listes.emse.fr | contact-ai4industry at listes.emse.fr ] From fmec2024 at gmail.com Wed Jun 10 09:51:34 2026 From: fmec2024 at gmail.com (Jose Gonzales) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:51:34 +0200 Subject: [Event@CIG] CFP: NGEN-AI 2026 | The International Conference on Next-Generation AI Systems | Scopus Indexed | A Hybrid Event | Trento, Italy Message-ID: CFP: The 2026 International Conference on Next-Generation AI Systems (NGEN-AI 2026) Springer CCIS Proceedings https://ngen-ai.org/ *Theme:* One conference for every AI direction: Foundational models, Generative, Agentic, Federated, and Deep Learning, XAI, Trust, and Edge Intelligence. *Venue:* Trento, Italy *Dates:* 1?4 September 2026 Scope We invite high-quality, original contributions that advance the theory, engineering, and real-world impact of Next Generation AI Systems?spanning federated and distributed intelligence; small, large, and generative models; agentic and interactive AI; deep learning and representation learning; explainability and transparency; trustworthy, responsible, and sustainable AI; MLOps and lifecycle management; AI systems and infrastructures; and application-driven research with societal impact. NGEN-AI 2026 brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders working on the next wave of artificial intelligence. The conference provides a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, bridging theoretical foundations and practical implementations in intelligent, trustworthy, and sustainable AI systems deployed across diverse domains and real-world environments. Indexing All accepted papers will be published in the Springer CCIS series, indexed in leading databases including SCOPUS, Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, DBLP, EI Compendex, INSPEC, SCImago, zbMATH, and the Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST). General Chairs - Marco Roveri, University of Trento, Italy - Sadi Alawadi, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Topics of Interest The NGEN-AI conference welcomes research, experience, and vision papers that explore foundational methods, systems, and applications of next generation AI. Topics of interest for each track include, but are not limited to, the following. Federated Learning - Architectures for cross-device and cross-silo federated learning - Federated optimization under non-IID, sparse, or unbalanced data distributions - Personalized and on-device adaptation strategies in federated settings - Communication-efficient FL (compression, sparsification, update scheduling) - Privacy-preserving FL: secure aggregation, differential privacy, homomorphic encryption - Robustness to poisoning, backdoor, and Byzantine attacks in federated scenarios - Energy- and resource-aware FL on mobile, edge, and IoT devices - Federated learning in vertical, horizontal, and hybrid data partitioning settings - Federated analytics and federated evaluation techniques - MLOps for FL: lifecycle management, monitoring, and deployment at scale - Benchmarking, simulators, datasets, and reproducibility studies for FL - Real-world applications in healthcare, finance, smart industry, and smart cities - Regulatory, ethical, and governance aspects of federated and collaborative learning Small & Large Language Models and Generative AI - Architectures and training recipes for SLMs, LLMs, and foundation models - Pre-training, instruction-tuning, alignment (e.g., RLHF, DPO, preference optimization) - Domain-specific and compact SLMs for on-device and resource-constrained settings - Prompt engineering, in-context learning, function calling, and tool-augmented pipelines - Retrieval-augmented generation and knowledge-grounded generative models - Generative models for text, code, images, audio, video, and multimodal content - Model compression, distillation, quantization, and sparsity for efficient deployment - Edge and on-device deployment of SLMs/LLMs and generative models - Safety, robustness, and red-teaming of generative systems (toxicity, hallucinations, bias) - Evaluation methodologies, benchmarks, and human-in-the-loop assessment - Generative AI for scientific discovery, simulation, and data augmentation - Software engineering with LLMs: code generation, refactoring, testing, and verification - Governance, transparency, IP, and regulatory aspects of foundation and generative models Deep Learning Architectures & Representation Learning - Novel neural architectures (transformers, graph neural networks, diffusion models, etc.) - Self-supervised, contrastive, and representation learning at scale - Multimodal learning and fusion of heterogeneous data sources - Curriculum learning, meta-learning, and continual / lifelong learning - Robust and certified deep learning under distribution shift and adversarial attacks - Interpretable and explainable deep learning methods - Data-centric AI: dataset curation, quality, and augmentation strategies - Efficient training and inference: pruning, low-rank adaptation, and sparse models - Neural architecture search and automated model design - Applications of deep learning in vision, language, time series, recommender systems, and beyond Agentic AI - Architectures for autonomous, semi-autonomous, and mixed-initiative agents - Planning, reasoning, and long-horizon decision making for agentic systems - Reinforcement learning, hierarchical RL, and model-based control for agents - LLM-driven agents, tool-using agents, and workflow / task orchestration - Multi-agent systems: coordination, negotiation, communication, and cooperation - Human-agent interaction, explainability, and trust in agentic AI systems - Safety, verification, alignment, and oversight for autonomous agents - Simulation environments, digital twins, and benchmarks for agentic AI - Agents in robotics, autonomous vehicles, logistics, smart grids, and IoT environments - Social, economic, and ethical implications of pervasive agentic AI - Engineering methodologies, software frameworks, and tooling for large-scale agent systems - Hybrid symbolic-subsymbolic approaches for reasoning and acting MLOps, AI Engineering & Lifecycle Management - MLOps platforms and infrastructure for scalable training and deployment - CI/CD for ML, continuous training, and continuous evaluation - Data and feature management: data versioning, feature stores, and lineage tracking - Monitoring, observability, and incident response for AI systems - Model governance, risk management, and compliance (e.g., AI Act, sectoral regulation) - Testing, debugging, and quality assurance for ML components and pipelines - Infrastructure for serving LLMs and generative models at scale - Cost- and energy-aware deployment and scheduling of AI workloads - Organizational processes and roles for AI/ML teams - Case studies and lessons learned from real-world AI production deployments Explainable AI (XAI) & Transparency - Post-hoc explanations (e.g., feature attribution, saliency, local surrogate models) - Intrinsic interpretability and transparent model design - Counterfactual and contrastive explanations - Uncertainty estimation, calibration, and communicating confidence to users - Explainability for LLMs and generative AI (faithfulness, grounding, rationale analysis) - Explainability in federated, privacy-preserving, and edge AI settings - Explainable decision making for agentic and multi-agent systems - Human-centered explanation design, usability, and user studies - Evaluation and benchmarking of explanations (faithfulness, robustness, usefulness) - Auditing, debugging, and root-cause analysis for AI systems - Transparency documentation (e.g., model cards, datasheets) and reporting standards - Regulatory, ethical, and governance aspects related to transparency and explainability Trustworthy, Responsible & Sustainable AI - Trustworthiness by design: safety, reliability, and robustness under distribution shift - Fairness, bias mitigation, and inclusive AI across populations and contexts - Accountability, transparency, and auditability in AI systems - Human values and alignment: human-centered objectives, oversight, and control - Responsible AI governance: policies, risk management, and compliance practices - Privacy, security, and protection against adversarial and data poisoning attacks - Evaluation frameworks, metrics, and benchmarks for trustworthy and responsible AI - Monitoring and lifecycle management for responsible AI in production - Sustainable AI: energy-efficient training/inference, green AI, and carbon-aware operation - Responsible data practices: provenance, consent, documentation, and data stewardship - Socio-technical studies of AI adoption, impact, and organizational readiness - Case studies and lessons learned from responsible and sustainable AI deployments AI Systems, Hardware & Edge/Cloud Infrastructures - Distributed and parallel systems for large-scale training and inference - Scheduling and placement of AI workloads across edge, fog, and cloud - Hardware accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, FPGAs) and co-design for AI - Systems support for LLMs and foundation models (sharding, offloading, caching) - Energy-efficient and green AI computing, including carbon-aware orchestration - Runtime systems, compilers, and libraries for AI workloads - Edge AI and embedded AI for IoT, CPS, and real-time applications - Resilience, fault tolerance, and reliability of AI systems and infrastructures - Benchmarks, performance analysis, and optimization of AI systems Applications & Societal Impact of Next Generation AI - Next generation AI applications in healthcare, finance, education, mobility, and industry - AI for sustainability, climate, energy, and environmental monitoring - Human-AI collaboration, co-creation, and augmented decision making - Fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in AI systems - Regulation, standards, and governance frameworks for AI - Socio-technical analyses of AI deployment and organizational transformation - User studies, field deployments, and longitudinal evaluations - Public sector and civic applications of AI (e-government, public services, smart cities) - Education, upskilling, and capacity building for AI-literate societies Submission Types - *Long Papers* (16 pages): original research with clear methodology, results, and contributions. - *Short Papers* (8 pages): short research contributions, focused studies, and demo or artifact papers. - *Poster Papers* (6 pages): concise presentations of work in progress and undergraduate research. Workshops NGEN-AI 2026 will also host a set of specialized workshops covering key emerging areas in next-generation AI systems. Papers accepted in the workshops will appear in the main conference proceedings: - *Security for AI Systems and AI for Systems Security (AISEC 2026)* - *AI for Industry (AI4I 2026)* - *GEN-AI and Software Engineering (GEN-SE 2026)* - *Agentic AI Workflows and Technologies (AAWT 2026)* Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: *June 20, 2026* - Notification of acceptance: *July 20, 2026* - Camera-ready submission: *August 10, 2026* - Conference dates: *September 1?4, 2026* (Trento, Italy) *All deadlines are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time.* Submission Portal Submissions are handled via EasyChair. For submission guidelines and the submission link, please visit: https://ngen-ai.org/index.php Contact Information For questions about submissions, please contact me: - fahed.alkhabbas at mau.se We look forward to receiving your contributions and to welcoming you at NGEN-AI 2026 in Trento, Italy! From giovanni.stanco at unina.it Thu Jun 11 11:35:48 2026 From: giovanni.stanco at unina.it (GIOVANNI STANCO) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:35:48 +0000 Subject: [Event@CIG] [CFP: AIMEH'26 - WiMob'26] Second International Workshop on AI for Mobile & Wireless Health: Advancing Explainability in the Future of Healthcare 2026 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Second International Workshop on AI for Mobile & Wireless Health: Advancing Explainability in the Future of Healthcare 2026 (AIMEH'26) Joint with the 22nd International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2026) Avignon, France // 14 - 16 October 2026 https://sites.google.com/view/aimeh2026/home-page<%20https:/sites.google.com/view/aimeh2026/home-page%0d> Call for Papers The Second International Workshop on AI for Mobile & Wireless Health: Advancing Explainability in the Future of Healthcare 2026 (AIMEH'26) invites high-quality submissions of papers describing original and unpublished research results regarding the use of AI and XAI in next-gen wireless and mobile networks in the context of healthcare. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * 5G Network architectures and protocols for medical applications * Wi-Fi adoption in healthcare IoT and real-time medical data transmission * AI adoption in healthcare and networks * Network advancements in telemedicine * 5G, Wi-Fi 6, and AI for Remote Patient Monitoring * AI and ML in data processing, storage, and analytics * AI for Secure and Intelligent Data Transmission for Healthcare * AI-Driven Network Optimization for Healthcare Applications * Interoperability and AI in Smart Healthcare Networks * Privacy-Preserving AI in Networks for Healthcare * Regulatory and Ethical Considerations for AI in Healthcare Networks * Cybersecurity Challenges in AI-Powered Healthcare Systems * Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in Medical and Network Data * Smart resource allocation for critical healthcare services * Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks for Healthcare * eXplainable AI (XAI) in Networks for Healthcare * XAI for Trustworthy Medical Decision-Making * AI-Powered Digital Twins for Healthcare and Network Optimization * Federated Learning in Healthcare * Advancements in wireless networks for Federated Learning SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All papers accepted by a workshop will be published in the WiMob 2026 Proceedings and will be sent for inclusion in the IEEE eXplore digital library. Workshop papers must follow the guidelines and size limit as provided in the "author guidelines" on the WiMob website: http://www.wimob.org/wimob2026/guidelines.php The submission and revision process will be managed through the EDAS system (submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=35176). IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission deadline for the workshop: July 15, 2026 * Paper acceptance for the workshop: August 15, 2026 * Camera ready & Author Registration: September 1, 2026 * Workshop: October 14, 2026 We look forward to your valuable contributions and hope to see you at the workshop. Best regards, Stefania Zinno and Giovanni Stanco Second International Workshop on AI for Mobile & Wireless Health: Advancing Explainability in the Future of Healthcare (AIMEH'26) From guiotto.mattia at spes.uniud.it Thu Jun 11 10:39:40 2026 From: guiotto.mattia at spes.uniud.it (Mattia Guiotto) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:39:40 +0000 Subject: [Event@CIG] Deadline Extension - ICTCS'26 - 27th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science Message-ID: *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** ICTCS 2026 ? 27th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science September 7?9, 2026 Udine, Italy Conference website: https://ictcs2026.uniud.it/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictcs2026 --- SCOPE The Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS) is the conference of the Italian Chapter of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). The aim of ICTCS is to foster cross-fertilization of ideas across different areas of theoretical computer science and to provide an environment where junior researchers and PhD students can interact with senior researchers. Researchers of all nationalities are invited to submit contributions in any area of theoretical computer science. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Algorithms, argumentation, automata theory, complexity theory, computational logic, computational social choice, concurrency theory, cryptography, discrete mathematics, distributed computing, dynamical systems, formal methods, game theory, graph theory, knowledge representation, languages, model checking, multi-agent systems, process algebras, quantum computing, reasoning, rewriting systems, security and trust, search and planning, semantics, specification and verification, symbolic AI, systems biology, theorem proving, and type theory. --- SPECIAL TRACKS ICTCS 2026 includes three special tracks devoted to significant application domains of theoretical computer science. The aim is to solicit contributions that, while not primarily situated within theoretical computer science, address substantive theoretical questions emerging from applied research problems. The three special tracks are as follows: Cyber-Physical Systems: (chair Alessandro Cimatti) Formal modeling, verification, synthesis, and analysis techniques for systems integrating computational and physical processes, including real-time, embedded, and safety-critical systems. Quantum Computing: (chair Ugo Dal Lago) Theoretical foundations of quantum computation, including quantum algorithms, quantum complexity theory, formal models of quantum computation, verification of quantum systems, and quantum programming languages. Bioinformatics: (chair Paola Bonizzoni) Algorithmic, logical, and mathematical methods for computational biology, including sequence analysis, biological networks, systems biology modeling, and formal approaches to molecular and cellular processes. --- SUBMISSION Two types of contributions (in English, CEUR-WS format) are solicited. Regular papers: Up to 12 pages (bibliography excluded), presenting original results not published or submitted elsewhere. Authors may include an appendix; reviewers are not required to consider it. Communications: Up to 5 pages (bibliography excluded), suitable for extended abstracts of published or submitted papers, ongoing research reports, and PhD thesis or project overviews. Submissions must be in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictcs2026 All accepted original contributions (regular papers and communications of at least 5 pages including bibliography) will be published on CEUR-WS.org unless the authors opt out. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the contribution at the conference. --- SPECIAL ISSUE Authors of the best papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of a Scopus-indexed journal. Invitations will be sent after the conference. The special issue is expected to appear by the end of 2027. --- INVITED SPEAKERS Parosh Aziz Abdulla - Uppsala University, Sweden Nadia Pisanti - University of Pisa, Italy --- IMPORTANT DATES (AoE) Abstract Submission deadline (extended): June 20, 2026 Paper Submission deadline (extended):????? June 28, 2026 Notification: ???????? July 21, 2026 Camera-ready: ???????? August 5, 2026 Conference: ???????? September 7?9, 2026 ? REGISTRATION FEES Early registration fees (deadline August 5th, 2026): Junior (non-faculty members: PhD students, post-docs, etc.): 290 EUR Senior (faculty members: professors and researchers): 350 EUR Late registration fees: Junior (non-faculty members: PhD students, post-docs, etc.): 350 EUR Senior (faculty members: professors and researchers): 420 EUR --- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mario Alviano - University of Calabria Marcella Anselmo - University of Salerno Alessandro Artale - Free University of Bolzano-Bozen Marco Bernardo - University of Urbino????? Filippo?????Bonchi - University of Pisa Michele?????Boreale?????- University of Firenze Linda Brodo - University of Sassari Sara Brunetti - University of Siena Giuseppa Castiglione - University of Palermo Alessandro Cimatti - Fondazione Bruno Kessler Ugo Dal Lago - University of Bologna and INRIA Sophia Antipolis Irene Finocchi - LUISS Guido Carli University Francesco Gavazzo - University of Pisa Zsuzsanna Liptak - University of Verona Maria Madonia - University of Catania Carlo Mereghetti - University of Milano Statale Fabio Mogavero - University of Napoli Federico II Alfredo?????Navarra - University of Perugia Roberto?????Pagliarini - University of Udine Francesco Pasquale - University of Roma Tor Vergata Adriano?????Peron - University of Trieste Michele?????Pinna - University of Cagliari Matteo Pradella???- Politecnico di Milano? Guido Proietti - University of L'Aquila Paola Quaglia - University of Trento Barbara?????Re - University of Camerino Sabina Rossi - University of Venice Ca' Foscari Luca Roversi - University of Torino Francesca Scozzari - University of Chieti-Pescara Simone Tini - Univerisity of Insubria Cosimo Vinci - University of Salento Enea Zaffanella???- University of Parma Paolo Zuliani - University of Roma La Sapienza --- CONFERENCE CHAIRS Luca Geatti (University of Udine) Carla Piazza (University of Udine) --- ORGANISING COMMITTEE Andrea Brunello (University of Udine) Dario Della Monica (University of Udine) Mattia Guiotto (University of Udine) Angelo Matteo (University of Udine) Michele Mignani (University of Udine) Stefano Pessotto (University of Udine) Gabriele Puppis (University of Udine) Nicola Saccomanno (University of Udine) --- SPONSOR Danieli Automation spa ?(Gold Sponsor) BEANTECH Srl ???????????(Silver Sponsor)