New Media Possible Workshop Topics
- (Angel Island State Park, San Francisco/Bay Area, U.S.A. - Jeffrey M. Wang)
1. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR), Smart Technology, AI/ML/DL, and Neural Networks
-- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR)
- Applications of KR
- Argumentation
- Belief revision and update, belief merging, information fusion
- Commonsense reasoning
- Computational aspects of knowledge representation
- Concept formation, similarity-based reasoning
- Contextual reasoning
- Decision making
- Description logics
- Explanation finding, diagnosis, causal reasoning, abduction
- Geometric, spatial, and temporal reasoning
- Inconsistency- and exception-tolerant reasoning, paraconsistent logics
- KR and autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
- KR and cognitive robotics
- KR and cyber security
- KR and education
- KR and game theory
- KR and machine learning, inductive logic programming, knowledge acquisition
- KR and natural language processing and understanding
- KR and the Web, Semantic Web
- Knowledge graphs and open linked data
- Knowledge representation languages
- Logic programming, answer set programming
- Modeling and reasoning about preferences
- Multi- and order-sorted representations and reasoning
- Nonmonotonic logics, default logics, conditional logics
- Ontology formalisms and models
- Ontology-based data access, integration, and exchange
- Philosophical foundations of KR
- Qualitative reasoning, reasoning about physical systems
- Reasoning about actions and change, action languages
- Reasoning about constraints, constraint programming
- Reasoning about knowledge, beliefs, and other mental attitudes
- Uncertainty, vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics
- Knowledge-based systems (knowledge acquisition, knowledge discovery and data mining, knowledge representation and management)
- Knowledge media technologies
-- Smart Technology
- Pervasive computing and ambient intelligence
- Hybrid intelligent systems
- Intelligent system architectures
- Intelligent machinima generation
- Theory and applications of social computing
- Social media analytics
- Social media mining
- Web intelligence
- Web search engines
- Intelligent web mining and applications
- Intelligent web personalization
- Web intelligence applications & search
- Semantic web techniques and technologies
- Web mining and ontology construction
- Social informatics
- mobile crowdsourcing
- Crowdsourcing to understand website privacy policies
- Learning algorithms for gleaning semantic and structured knowledge from massive social media and web data
- Information extraction
- Intelligent web-based systems
- Explainable recommendation and search
- Intelligent visual computing
- Intelligent tutoring systems
- Intelligent disaster warning system
- Intelligent user interfaces
- Visual intelligence
- Neuromorphic computing and AI
- Anticipatory computing
- Bayesian networks
- Knowledge-base and theory refinement
- Graph mining
- Knowledge discovery (data mining, text mining, and web mining)
- Data mining and knowledge management
- Data mining and data analytics - knowledge discovery and representation
- Text and data mining for life science
- Data mining, data analytics, and machine learning approaches in materials science
- Data clustering
- Multimedia data mining
- Mining dark data
- Mining and learning with graphs
- Educational data mining and human-computer interaction
- Statistical learning and data mining
- Applied machine learning and data mining
- Large scale distributed knowledge management
- Information fusion for decision making under uncertainty
- Secure distributed learning
- Data and knowledge representation standards
- Domain-driven actionable knowledge discovery
- Reality mining
- AI-optimized Hardware
- Biometrics
- Multimedia & cognitive informatics
- Pattern recognition
- Computational social science
- Computational ecology
- Computational behavioral science
- Computational medicine
- Reasoning and evolution
- Evolutionary computation
- Computational intelligence
- Neural computation
- Brain-computer interfaces & computational neuroscience
-- Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL)
- Self-supervised representation learning
- Deep learning and representation learning
- Human activity recognition
- Action understanding
- Game theory
- Multi-agent systems
- Multi-Agent systems and distributed AI
- Emerging intelligent technologies and applications
- Intelligent computer networks and systems
- Collective intelligence
- Commonsense reasoning
- Probabilistic reasoning
- AI algorithms
- On-device AI
- Artificial intelligence tools & applications
- Heuristic and AI planning strategies and tools
- Computational theories of learning
- Artificial narrow intelligence (ANI), Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Artificial superintelligence (ASI)
- Artificial intelligence and information agents on the Internet
- Artificial intelligence systems integration
- Hybrid intelligent systems
- Artificial life (ALife or A-Life)
- Artificial intelligence and Intelligent agents
- State-space problem representations
- Uninformed and heuristic search
- Game playing and adversarial search
- Logical agents
- Constraint satisfaction problems
- Machine learning
- Supervised learning
- Unsupervised learning
- Semi-supervised learning
- Machine learning algorithms and theory
- Learning and inference
- Causal modeling and machine learning
- Causal structure learning and inference
- Characterization of causal information in observational data
- Understanding machine learning tasks in light of causality
- Machine learning methods exploiting causal knowledge
- Efficient causal discovery in large-scale data
- Real-world problems for causal analysis.
- Applied machine learning
- Learning dynamical systems
- Learning algorithms for latent variable models
- Latent social characteristics learning
- Machine learning for intelligent IoT
- Reinforcement learning
- Advanced learning technologies
- Data mining and machine learning tools
- Machine learning in signal processing
- Ontology
- Storytelling in games
- Style transfer
- Affective computing
- Cognitive machines
- Cognitive computing systems
- Cognitive modeling
- Medical and diagnostic systems
- Bioinformatics using intelligent and machine learning techniques
- Autonomous multi-robot systems
- Automated planning and scheduling
- Automatic control
- Robotic process automation
- Robot planning and control
- Human-robot interaction
- Machine perception (machine vision, machine hearing, machine touch)
- Vision intelligence and machine learning
- Machine deception
- Machine perception
- Machine learning platforms
- Distributed algorithms in machine learning
- Machine listening and learning
- Machine reading
- Optimization methods for machine learning
- Sequential decision making
- Interactive machine learning
- Embedding and representation learning
- Active learning
- Transfer learning
- Spectral learning
- Statistical relational learning
- Statistical methods for machine learning
- Bayesian learning
- Bayesian statistics
- Improving learning efficiency
- Deep learning
- Neural networks and deep learning
- Deep neural networks
- Convolutional neural network
- Manifold learning
- Deep visualization
- Deep learning and computer vision
- Deep learning platforms
- Deep learning hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, and TPUs)
- Deep generative models
- Deep reinforcement learning
- New learning systems and styles
- Robotics and computational perception
- Mobile robots
- Robot navigation
- Distributed robotics
- Wearable robotic systems
- Networked robotic systems
- Swarm robotics
- Swarm intelligence
- Microrobotics
- Soft robotics
- Intelligent user interfaces
- Brain–computer interface/Mind-machine interface
- Social computing and crowdsourcing systems
- AI for social good
- Decision management
- Knowledge management and business intelligence
- Learning algorithms for gleaning semantic and structured knowledge from massive social media and web data
- Business intelligence systems
- Business process management and workflow mining
- Genetic algorithms and evolutionary computing
- Pattern discovery (association analysis, anomaly detection, and cluster analysis)
- Spatiotemporal data analysis
- Data mining and predictive modeling
- Engineering informatics
- Cheminformatics
- Materials informatics
- Approximate inference for graphical models
- Multimedia techniques for enhanced accessibility systems
- Modeling and organizing large-scale Internet image collections
- Feedback motion planning for robotics
- Financial and stock market monitoring and prediction
- Emerging intelligent technologies
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- Density Estimation
- Nonparametric Regression
- Linear Regression
- Sparsity
- Nonparametric Sparsity
- Linear Classifiers
- Nonparametric Classifiers
- Random Forests
- Clustering
- Graphical Models
- Directed Graphical Models
- Causal Inference
- Minimax Theory
- Nonparametric Bayesian Inference
- Conformal Prediction
- Differential Privacy
- Optimal Transport and Wasserstein Distance
- Two Sample Testing
- Dimension Reduction
- Boosting
- Support Vector Machines
2. Computer Vision
- Computer vision
- Optical character recognition (OCR)
- Computer vision and speech understanding
- Computer vision applications (autonomous navigation, visual surveillance, or content-based image and video indexing)
- Fusing 3D scene reconstruction
- 3D perception
- Vision, language, and cognition
- Probabilistic graphical models
- Computational photography
- Medical vision
- Computer vision and machine learning
- Video understanding
- Visual recognition and visual search
- Large-scale image/video retrieval
- Unsupervised visual discovery
- Image and video segmentation
- Vision and language
- Video summarization.
- Learning-based visual reconstruction
- Understanding video contents
- Visual sensing for ecology and conservation
- Smart graphics
- Graphics, human computer interaction, & user experience
3. Natural Language Processing
- Computational linguistics and speech processing
- Speech recognition systems
- Text-to-speech synthesizers
- Automated voice response systems
- Automatic speech recognition
- Language instruction materials
- Biomedical natural language processing
- Machine translation/multilingual processing
- Information extraction and natural language processing
- Natural language generation and understanding
- Automatic text summarization
- Natural language processing and computational linguistics
- Natural language processing: algorithms and tools to extract computable information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and from the biomedical literature
- Natural language learning
- Language generation and conversational AI
- Language grounding with vision
- Statistical relational learning
- Transfer learning
- Active learning
- Auditory, speech and language processing
- Text analytics and natural language processing (NLP)
- Natural language processing and its connections with data mining, social science and vision
- Spoken language understanding
- Physical commonsense
- Unsupervised speech processing
- Automatic text summarization
- Speech processing and synthesis
- Voice synthesis
- Text-to-Speech (TTS)
- Speech recognition
- Machine learning, natural language processing, and social media
- Conversational search, recommendation, and QA systems
- Online handwriting and gesture recognition technology
4. Big Data, Data Science and Analytics
-- Big Data
- Big data science and foundations
- Big data infrastructure and management
- Big data and data cyberinfrastructure
- Big data models and algorithms
- Big data and causality
- Big data algorithms and systems
- Big data searching and mining
- Big data mining and learning
- Big data privacy and security
- Big data applications
- Big Data and 'omics
- Scalable big data management and analytics
- Big data analytic algorithms, knowledge discovery & data engineering
- Cloud-based big data management and analytics
- Big data and efficient learning algorithms
- Big data visualization and representation
- Large-scale data management
- Media data cloud
-- Big Data in Energy Systems
- Big data in power system operation and control
- Data classification and clustering in energy systems
- Big data analytics in clean energy application
- Big Data and the UN Sustainability Goals in energy
- Data analytics in electric traction systems
- Data analytics in load forecasting
- Data analytics and electric vehicles
- Artificial intelligence in energy systems
- Advance statistics for energy
- Internet of Energy
- Collection and visualization of data
- Data infrastructure for utilities
- Data and system awareness
- Digital transformation of energy systems
- Real-time data management
- Data based energy system optimization
- Big data and energy system reliability
- Operations data on supervisory control and data acquisition
- Data in energy management
- Distributed energy resource management
- Energy data in sustainable energy scenarios
-- Data Science and Analytics
- Visualization analytics for big data
- Predictive analytics
5. Supercomputing
-- Commodity Cluster Supercomputing
- Super computing capability for big data modeling
- HPC and Big Data application studies on large-scale clusters
- New applications for converged HPC/big data clusters
- Big data processing in parallel and distributed computing
- Novel algorithms on clusters and performance evaluation tools
- Application-level libraries on clusters
- Effective use of clusters in novel applications
- Node and system architecture for HPC and Big Data clusters
- Architecture for converged HPC/Big Data clusters
- Energy-efficient cluster architectures
- Accelerators/ManyCore and heterogeneous clusters
- Interconnect/memory architectures
- Single system/distributed image clusters
- Accelerators/ManyCore and heterogeneous clusters
- Cluster system software/operating systems
- Fault-tolerant computing
- Programming models for converged HPC/Big Data systems
- System software supporting the convergence of HPC and Big Data processing
- Cloud-enabling cluster technologies and virtualization
- Cluster system-level protocols and APIs, middleware for Big Data management
- Cluster security, resource and job management, fault tolerance and high-availability
- Programming and software development environments on clusters
- Cluster architectures for Big Data storage and processing
- Cluster-based cloud architectures for Big Data
- Storage systems supporting the convergence of HPC and Big Data processing
- Big data visualization tools
- Programming models for big data processing
- Big data application studies on cluster architectures
6. Next Generation Internet, Cloud Computing, Web Technology, Data Center
-- Future Internet - Next Generation Internet
- Future Internet architectures
- Internet architecture and protocol designs
- Internet routing architectures and protocols
- Internet routing security
- Internet content distribution
- Satellite Internet
- Energy Internet
- Industrial Internet
- The tactile Internet
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Quantum computing and communications
- Quantum Internet
-- Cloud Computing
- Cloud/Fog radio access networks
- Internet of vehicles
- Vehicular cloud
- Machine-to-Machine (M2M) cloud
- Urban computing
- Distributed computing
- Parallel and distributed systems
- Distributed data intensive systems
- Distributed cloud storage system
- Cloud computing infrastructures,
- Cloud culture
- Ubi/Cloud computing architecture
- Micro datacenter (cloudlets/edges)
- Mobile cloud computing
- Infrastructure/software/application/business cloud
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in cloud computing
- Virtualization of hardware/software resources
- Design tool for cloud computing
- Maintenance and management of cloud computing
- Cloud-computing and ubiquitous sensing
- Cloud applications in vertical industries
- Cloud computing in the healthcare industry
- Smart and connected healthcare
- Scientific computing in the cloud
- Business computing in the cloud
- Social computing in the cloud
- High availability in cloud computing environments
- High performance computing (HPC) cloud
-- Data Center
- The green data center
- Data center power management
- Cloud computing: Impact on data center technology and operations
- Virtualization and cloud computing in the data center
- Software-defined data center
- Software-defined power
- Scalable storage infrastructure for database systems
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Social media, cloud computing and big data
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E-government interoperability in cloud computing, open government, and smart city initiatives
-- Web Technology
- Semantic/social/sensor webs
- Semantic web, web services an networks
- Emerging web technologies
- The deep web
- Web science
- Web mining
- Distributed web
- Search engine optimization (SEO)
7. Fog/Edge Computing: Architecture, Algorithms, and Applications
- Fog computing and networking architectures, including fog-based radio access networks
- Fog system and service management
- Fog-cloud interactions and enabling protocols
- Fog-based data services, including distributed data centers, edge data analytics, and edge caching
- Edge resource pooling
- Security and privacy in fog computing environment
- Cloud & Fog/Edge computing and networking
- Fog-enabled applications
- Trials and experimentation on fog computing and networking
8. The Internet of Things (IoT)
- IoT analytics
- Scheduling and resource allocation for data centers
- Scalable data management for big data and IoT
- IoT security
- IoT device management
- Low-Power, short-range IoT networks
- Low-Power, wide-area networks
- IoT processors
- IoT operating systems
- Event stream processing
- IoT platforms
- IoT Standards and Ecosystems
- Mobile and Pervasive Computing (IoT and cloud computing for big data analytics)
- Mobile and cloud computing
- The Web of Things (WoT)
- Mobile/IoT and smart city
- Smart sensor
- Data-driven decision analytics
- Communication systems, network architecture and management for IoT
- Software platforms for IoT
- Big data analytics for IoT
- IoT security software
- Network virtualization and micro segmentation technology targeting IoT
- Service provider networks built specifically for IoT
- Embedded IoT systems for devices
- IoT: From sensors to vertical applications
9. Cyber Security, Digital Forensics
- Cyber security strategy
- Quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution (QKD)
- Applied cryptography
- Anomaly detection systems
- Malware analysis and detection
- Digital forensics and crimes
- Biometrics and forensics
- Biometric authentication
- Data leakage, data protection and database forensics
- Forensics of virtual and cloud environments
- Network forensics and traffic analysis hardware vulnerabilities and device forensics
- File system and memory analysis multimedia forensics
- Anti-forensics and anti-anti-forensics techniques
- Malware forensics and anti-malware techniques
- Pattern recognition (face/iris recognition)
- Applications of machine learning for security,
- Security (biometrics)
- Visual analytics for cyber security
- Automated vulnerability detection
- Cyberbullying detection
- Security risk assessment and management
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- Cloud infrastructure security
- Emerging threats to cloud-based services
- Securing distributed data storage in the cloud
- Cybersecurity in distributed systems
- Internet privacy
- Balancing identity and privacy
- Privacy and ethics
- Privacy and security in cloud computing and big data
- Privacy-preserving techniques for cloud computing (homomorphic encryption)
- Security assurance/interoperability for critical infrastructure
- Network and system security
- Secure information exchange gateway and watchdog switches
- Embedded systems security
- Wide area monitoring, protection & control
- Access control management and authentication services
- Surveillance systems
- Smart grid security
- Cyber warfare trends and approaches
- Cyber defense and network: evolving, adapting, defending
- Cyber war and international law
- Resilient infrastructure
- Wireless security
- Wireless network intrinsic secrecy
- Next-generation security technologies
- Bio-inspired technologies for enhancing cybersecurity
- Biometrics standards and standardization
- Biometrics applications
- Emerging theories and algorithms in biometrics
- Multimedia and document security
- Software evolution
- Software verification and assurance
- Software security
- Computer language-based security and privacy
- Secure routing
- Testbeds for security applications
- Operating systems security
- Intrusion detection/prevention
- Cyberbullying detection
- Multilingual cyberbullying detection system
- Future cyber security
- Web and mobile security
- On-demand economy
- Cyber security and Internet economy
- Cyber security, privacy and blockchains
10. Wireless Communications and Technologies, Networking, Services and Application
-- Wireless Communications
- Radio access technologies (4G/5G/B5G/6G) and heterogeneous networks
- Extremely low frequency (ELF) radio waves
- Robust network design
- Next-generation mobile networks
- Digital signal processing
- Statistical signal processing
- Genomic signal processing
- Applied computational electromagnetics
- Multi-agent networks
- Wireless network modeling and design
- Protocols for next generation wireless systems
- Real-Time and embedded systems
- Networked & embedded systems
- Wireless distributed and mobile embedded systems
- Mobile and wireless computing, and pervasive computing
- Mobile sensing and mobile computing
- Vehicular ad hoc Networks (VANETs) and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs)
- Ubiquitous networking
- Multimedia communications
- Multimedia in wireless networks
- Wireless & mobile networking
- Body sensor networks
- Wireless mesh and opportunistic networks
- Wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks
- Wireless sensor systems
- Wireless sensor and actuator networks
- Wireless smart sensor array system
- Wireless broadcast, multicast, and streaming
- Wireless routing
- Content distribution in wireless home environment
- Wireless technologies for smart cities, smart communities and smart homes
- Biomedical wireless technologies, networks, and sensing systems
- Wearable computing systems: devices, applications and analytics
- Radio access network virtualization
-- Smart Antennas and Intelligent Sensors Based Systems: Enabling Technologies and Applications
- Analysis and design of smart antennas for wireless communication
- Smart antennas-based adaptive beamforming and direction of arrival estimation
- Adaptive null steering using smart antennas
- Detection and correction of faulty antennas in smart arrays
- Multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems for mobile communication
- Practical applications of cognitive radio and intelligent heterogeneous sensor networks
- Smart antenna approaches in underwater sensors
- Smart wearable antennas and intelligent sensors
- Intelligent sensors for smart homes and smart cities
- Radio Frequency Identification RFID-based object localisation and tracking
- Smart antennas and sensors for active and passive targets localisations
-- Radar Systems
- Radar signal processing
- Electronically scanned radar systems
- Radar imaging
- Adaptive radar systems.
-- Network Technologies, Services and Application
- Nanonetworking
- Molecular communication and nanonetworks
- Intelligent computer networks and systems
- Stochastic network control
- Stochastic processes, queueing and scheduling theory, applied probability, control and learning theory
- Cognitive radio networks and technology
- Device-to-Device communications
- Heterogeneous networks
- Virtual networks
- Positioning and sensing
- Ad Hoc, sensor and mesh networking
- Learning-based Networked Systems
- Integrated sensing systems
- Next-generation networking and Internet
- Network protocol and congestion control
- QoS, reliability & performance modeling
- Performance modeling, analysis, and design of networked systems
- Adaptive media streaming and processing
- Multimedia QoS and traffic management
- Mobility, location and handoff management
- Capacity, throughput, outage and coverage
- Context and location-aware wireless services
- RFID technology and application
- RFID and wireless sensor networks
- Cognitive radio and sensor-based applications
- Content distribution in wireless home environment
- Vehicular networks
- Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications
- Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications
- Vehicle-to-X (V2X) communications (e.g., with bicyclists, pedestrians, etc.)
- In-vehicle communications
- Radio technologies for V2X (radio resource management, propagation models, antennas, etc.)
- Link- and Network-layer protocols for vehicular networks (MAC, routing, mobility management, geonetworking, etc.)
- Emerging wireless/mobile applications
- Machine to Machine (M2M) technology and communications
- Applications of vehicular networks
- Communication related to electric vehicles
- SIP based services, multimedia and middleware
- Innovative user interfaces for multimedia services
- Regulations, standards and spectrum management
- Communications software and services
- Interworking heterogeneous wireless/wireline networks
- System-on-Chip (SoC) and Network-on-Chip (NoC)
- Big data analytics and machine learning for network managements
- Big data analytics and machine learning for QoS Improvements in communications and networking
- Big data analytics and machine learning for self-organized networks
- Big data analytics and machine learning for adaptive and accurate resource allocation
- Intelligent touring
- Smart grid networking and communications
- Smart homes and smart cities
- Networking solutions for social applications, multimedia communications and games
- Communications and applications for connected and autonomous vehicles on land, water, and sky
- AI/ML for communications and networking
- Network softwarization and virtualization
- Emerging topics in consumer communications and networking
11. 5G Mobile Wireless
- 5G waveforms, frame structure, and numerology
- Innovation and field trials of 5G
- PHY/MAC technologies for 5G
- mmWave technologies for 5G
- MIMO technologies (massive MIMO, full dimension MIMO , etc.)
- Network slicing in 5G systems
- Interference management in 5G
- Location-aware communications for 5G networks
- Multiple antenna processing for 5G
- Coordinated distributed antenna processing
- Signal processing for contention resolution algorithms
- Full duplex algorithms
- Device-to-device signal processing
- 3D beamforming
- Sparse signal processing
- Massive MIMO
- Multi-objective optimization for signal processing in 5G
- Game theory for self-organized and cognitive radio 5G networks
- Low latency solutions for machine-type communications
- Conflict resolution in decentralized networks
- Information theoretic principles for 5G
- Game theoretic approaches for signal processing and resource allocation
- Evolutionary optimization in 5G
- Full-dimension MIMO
- mm-wave design, spectrum sharing
- Dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS)
- Energy harvesting for 5G
- Decentralized contention resolution protocols for 5G futures wireless networks
- Signal processing for cloud radio access network
- Software-defined networking processing
- Ultra-dense networks
- Full duplex algorithms
- Non-orthogonal multiple access
- 5G application and services
- 5G & IoT
- 5G security and privacy
- Error correction and channel coding for 5G
- 5G Trials, experimental results and deployment scenarios
- 5G hardware and test/Measurements
- PHY-layer for low latency
- Automotive, intelligent transport
- 5G for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
- E-Health and mobile health over 5G Networks
- Disrupting media and entertainment in the 5G era
- Open API, unbundled, open source, and testbeds
- Policy and regulation in the 5G era
- Standards and deployment
- 5G optics
- 5G design, test, and measurement challenges
- Imagery satellites
- 5G satellite integration
- 5G and onwards to 6G
12. B5G and 6G Mobile Wireless
-- Beyond Fifth-generation (B5G) Networks
- Architectures, frameworks, and models for edge intelligence empowered B5G
- AI empowered edge-cloud architecture for B5G
- New concept, theory, and protocols for edge intelligence empowered B5G
- Edge computing, communication, caching, and control (edge 4C) in B5G
- Edge intelligence for computation offloading in B5G
- Edge intelligence for caching and storage in B5G
- Deep reinforcement learning approaches for edge intelligent B5G
- Networking between edge nodes for resource scheduling and orchestration
- Resource optimization for edge intelligence empowered B5G
- Machine learning approaches for resource synergy in B5G
- Big data and learning fusion in edge intelligent B5G
- Network traffic prediction and control in edge intelligent B5G
- Service discovery and mobility as a service for edge intelligent B5G
- Energy efficiency and greenness-performance tradeoff for edge intelligent B5G
- Security and privacy in edge intelligent B5G
- Edge intelligence and blockchain for secure B5G networks
- Use cases/applications highlighting the potential of edge intelligence for B5G
-- Native Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks (TNTNs) in 6G
- Architecture design and algorithms of DML (Distributed Machine Learning) & CML (Centralized Machine Learning)
- CML/DML-enabled ground communications
- CML/DML-enabled aerial networks
- CML/DML-enabled satellite networks
- CML/DML-enabled integrated TNTNs (Terrestrial and Non-terrestrial Networks)
- CML/DML for secure PHY-layer
- CML/DML-enabled TNTNs for IoT
- CML/DML-based trajectory optimization in Aerial networks
- Asynchronous CML/DML for edge devices
- Client selection and scheduling in DML
- Joint communication, sensing, and learning
- Model compression and aggregation in DML
- Efficient schemes for data imbalance in CML/DML
- CML/DML for channel modeling and estimation in integrated TNTNs
- Privacy and efficiency trade-off in CML/DML
- Enhanced security, privacy, and trust in TNTNs through CML/DML
- The interplay of CML/DML and blockchain for secure TNTNs
- Distributed and centralized machine learning algorithms in mobile edge computing
- Distributed and centralized machine learning empirical studies
- Distributed and centralized machine learning applications in TNTNs
- Energy efficient techniques for improved TNTNs through CML/DML
- CML/DML in emerging applications
- Network protocol designs for CML/DML in terrestrial, aerial, and satellite networks
- Optimization of CML/DML-enabled TNTNs
- Efficient schemes for data heterogeneity and dependency in DML-enabled networks
- Meta-learning
- Multi-task optimization and learning
- CML/DML for resource management in TNTNs
- The interplay between CML/DML and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in TNTNs
- Federated learning-enabled TNTNs
- Incentive mechanisms design and game-theoretic approaches for ML-enabled TNTNs
- CML/DML and optical wireless communication in satellite, aerial, and terrestrial networks.
13. Optical and Quantum Communications
-- Optical Networks for 5G and Beyond
- Optical transport for 5G and beyond
- Wireless & optical communications: fundamentals and PHY
- Optical Spatial Division Multiplexed (SDM) Networks
- Quantum-key secure optical networks and physical layer security issues in 5G transport networks
- Tera-scale optical networks for beyond 5G application holographic and sensual communications
- Beyond-5G Passive Optical Networks (PON)
- Time-sensitive and time-deterministic optical networks
- Optical network control, management and orchestration including SDN and NFV solutions
- Multi-layer and –domain optical networks, including network disaggregation and white-boxes
- Slicing, service chaining, virtualization and multi-tenancy techniques for optical networks
- Optical and wireless network convergence, including radio-over-fiber access networks
- Machine Learning and data analytics techniques for optical networks
- Optical network availability, resilience, survivability, security
- Filterless architectures for optical core, regional and urban aggregation networks
- Fibers and fiber devices/amplifiers/lasers
- Advanced optical components and modules
- Waveguide and optoelectronic devices
- Advanced optical modulation and detection schemes
- Nano-photonics and micro/nano optics
- Microwave photonics
- Quantum and nonlinear optics
- Optical communications
- Visible light communications
- High-speed optical transmissions
- Fiber optic communications: Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (DWDM), Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM)
- fiber optic sensors
- Optical networks and systems
- Integration of optical and wireless networking
- Optical access networks and fixed-mobile convergence
- Optical interconnection
- Optical networks to support cloud computing
- High speed optical LANs and gigabit Ethernet
- QoS over optical networks for future networks
- Passive optical networks
- Design, control and management of optical networks
- Reliability and protection in optical networks
- Optical Spatial Division Multiplexed (SDM) Networks
- Quantum-key secure optical networks and physical layer security issues in 5G transport networks
- Tera-scale optical networks for beyond 5G application holographic and sensual communications
- Beyond-5G Passive Optical Networks (PON)
- Time-sensitive and time-deterministic optical networks
- Optical network control, management and orchestration including SDN and NFV solutions
- Multi-layer and –domain optical networks, including network disaggregation and white-boxes
- Slicing, service chaining, virtualization and multi-tenancy techniques for optical networks
- Optical and wireless network convergence, including radio-over-fiber access networks
- Machine Learning and data analytics techniques for optical networks
- Optical network availability, resilience, survivability, security
- Evolutions in optical networking: compact, embedded and pluggable
- Filterless architectures for optical core, regional and urban aggregation networks
- Energy efficiency in optical networks
- Emerging architectures for optical routers and switches
- Emerging optical fiber technologies
- Geometric control theory, stochastic process, optimization, game theory and their applications in large network systems
- Sensor-actuator networks
- Optical fiber sensors and networks
- Energy-efficient management of network resources
14. Quantum Computing, Technology and Communiactions
- Quantum Computing
- Quantum cryptography
- Quantum error-correcting codes
- Fault-tolerant quantum computation
- Quantum information theory
- Quantum communications and Internet
- Quantum information processing
- Quantum entanglement distillation
- Quantum simulations and computing
- Quantum communication networks
- Quantum Technology for 5G/6G
- Quantum-based secure communication schemes
- Quantum authentication protocols
- Quantum blockchain
- Quantum technology for big data analytics
- Quantum technology for secure IoT applications
- Quantum machine learning for secure communications
- Quantum image processing and enhancements (image encoding, edge detection, image segmentation, etc.)
- Development of classical software for simulating and testing quantum communication techniques
- Novel AI and quantum-based architectures, frameworks, and testbeds for 6G
- Intelligent spectrum management in 5G/6G using quantum technology
- Breakthrough technologies and concepts
- Reconfigurable antennas and devices for the next generation
- Innovative AI, quantum technology and 6G-enabled user applications
- AI and quantum applications for the physical layer of wireless communications
- (Toronto, Canada - Wei-Jiun Su)
15. Transmedia and Technology
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Transmedia theory and design
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Transmedia, art and content
- Transmedia storytelling
- Transmedia storytelling in museums
- Transmedia journalism
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Transmedia and future computing/IT convergence/creative industry
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Web technologies for authoring and reading, such as web comics and light novel platforms
- Emerging technologies for transmedia contents and experience of transmedia
- Transmedia ecosystems, analysis of multi-platform transmedia
- Practices of transmedia creation
- New transmedia systems
- Interaction design of transmedia
16. Immersive Technology: VR, AR, and MR
- Wearable computing
- Mobile devices and virtual reality
- Ubiquitous mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR)
- Wearable
and mobile mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR)
- Distributed
and collaborative mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR)
- Industrial/medical
mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR) applications
- Mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR) for entertainment and training
- Interactive, virtual and augmented environments
- Avatars and virtual community
- Metaverse
- Opportunistic user interfaces
- Brain–computer interface
- Gesture recognition
- Omnidirectional treadmill
- Speech recognition
- Tele-immersion
- Fovea-contingent display
- Volumetric display
- Vari-focal plane head-mounted display
- Multi-focal plane head-mounted display
- Head-mounted projection display
- Eye-tracked head-mounted display
- 3D printing technology
- New 3D printing tools and techniques
- Robotics and telepresence
17. Virtual Heritage
- Mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR) for cultural heritage
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Computer animation for cultural heritage applications and virtual heritage
- Virtual realty (VR) applications in conservation research and practice
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Intelligent description of cultural heritage content (in multiple languages)
- Novel Internet-based cultural heritage applications
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Encyclopedias in cultural heritage
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Digital libraries and archives
- National digital libraries and aggregators as cross-domain systems
- E-libraries and e-learning in cultural heritage
- Cultural heritage and edutainment
- Cultural heritage and cuisine
- Knowledge systems for heritage management
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Virtual heritage, virtual tourism, and virtual museum applications (e-museums and e-exhibitions)
- Digital image processing and pattern recognition
- 3D data capture and processing in cultural heritage
- Digital reconstructions and 3D modeling
- Digital media and commodification of cultural heritage
- Digital heritage tools and
systems
- The economics of cultural informatics and tourism
18. Media Arts, Culture and Technology
- Digital humanities
- Film, television, and digital media
- Computer vision
- Camera culture
- Immersive cinema
- 3D reconstruction and motion estimation
- Computational camera and photography
- Information technologies, social networking, and digital media
- International, inter-cultural, and intra-cultural communication
- Cyberarts and visualization
- Gigapixel display
- 3D displays
- Information visualization and visual analytics
- Ubiquitous/pervasive media and art
- Media arts and creative technologies
- Creative writing
- Interactive and mobile media & art
- Opera of the future
- Museology
- Museum art and exhibitions
- Future of storytelling
- Digital storytelling
- Applications of serious gaming technologies
- Affective computing
- Media forensics
- Applied arts
- Apparel design, architecture, furniture design, industrial design, interior architecture and landscape architecture
- Culture, fashion design and digital media
- Fashion photography
- Craft and decorative art
- Music theory and composition
- Ethnomusicology
- Intermedia music technology
- Networked music
- Computer music and multimedia
- Electronic music composition
- Computer audition
- Sound analysis, processing, synthesis and control
- Melodic pattern recognition
- Auditory display
- Symbolic manipulation of formal music representations
- Music perception and cognition
- Music therapy
- Emerging sound recording technologies
- Internet music delivery
- Music entrepreneurship
19. Social Computing, Entertainment and Education
- Human-computer interaction
- Interactive multimedia
- Role-playing games
- Mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR) for entertainment
- Human-centered computing and cognitive science
- Education, virtual classroom and virtual collaborative learning
- Social impact, social networking, sound and music
- Social and interactive computing and media
- Social Computing and computational journalism
- Knowledge representation
- Computer-supported collaborative learning
- Digital game-based learning
- Web-based learning environment
- Mobile learning
- Mobile entertainment
- Mobile social networks
20. Software and System Engineering, Software Testing
- Software and systems engineering for robotics
-- Software Testing
- Test case generation
- Test case optimization
- Test case prioritization
- Fault localization
- Defect prediction
- Analysis of bugs available in open source repositories
- Regression testing
- Mutation testing
[More to come ...]
