The Call for Papers and Demos for Main expat'23 can be downloaded here.
Call for Papers and Demos for Main expat’23
Experiment@ International Conference 2023, (expat’23),
expat’23 is the 6th face to face event of the conference series expat’xx. The conference will be held in the city of Évora, Portugal, on June 5-7, 2023, and it is a joint organization of University of Porto and University of Coimbra with the collaboration of University of Évora. The conference will feature the technical support of IEEE (IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and IEEE Education Society) and the Portuguese Engineers Association.
expat’23 will run for three days and a post-conference technical day on June 8, providing a forum of discussion and collaboration between academics, researchers and industry and medicine professionals, trying to bridge the gap between academic applications and the real world needs and experiences. It offers to the participants an opportunity to present their recent work and to take part in technical/special sessions, workshops, exhibition sessions (Demos’23), discussion tables and thematic visits in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Évora, European Capital of Culture in 2027.
• Online Experimentation
• Remote & Virtual Labs
• Remote Sensing and IoT
• Remote Monitoring & Mobile sensing
• Geoinformatics & Hydroinformatics
• Agriculture 4.0
• Smart Cities and Smart Societies
• Environment Monitoring
• Contributions for Sustainability
• Industry 4.0/5.0
• Online Systems for Health & Rehab
• Challenges of Eng. Edu in the 4.0 era
• Augmented and Virtual Reality
• Cross Reality
• Haptic Interfaces & Sensorial Devices
• Gamification & Serious Games
• Intelligent Systems and Algorithms
• Collaborative Environments & Tools
• Online Training Systems
• Collaborative/Soft Robotic Systems
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Volunteered Geographic Information
Submission of full papers (4-6 pages)
February 27, 2023 (extended)
Submission of demos (2 pages)
February 27, 2023 (extended)
Submission of Late Papers/Demos
March 22, 2023
Notification of acceptance
March 27, 2023
April 6, 2023
Camera-ready due
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Early Author registration
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Conference dates
June 05-07, 2023
Technical Activities
June 08, 2023
The official language of the Conference is English. The articles and extended abstracts (demos) will be under a double-blind peer review process. Accepted and presented papers and demos will be published in electronic format and will be submitted for ac-ceptance into the IEEE Xplore® paper database. IEEE Xplore® will index accepted papers and demos meeting IEEE requirements of content and format.
A Special Issue of the Open Access MDPI Information Journal (ISSN: 2078-2489, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information) will be open to a set of selected papers that will go through the standard peer review process after further rework. A special APC will be offered (full waiver will be applied for the 3 best papers, half APC for additional 5 pa-pers).
The Journal of Production & Manufacturing Research – Taylor Francis (ISSN: 2169-3277, (Q1) Scopus and Web of Science https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tpmr20) offers a voucher for the publication of the best article on a topic related to the Journal’s scope, which will undergo the standard peer review process after further rework.
Articles (full papers with 4-6 pages) and extended abstracts (demos with 2 pages) submitted to expat’23 will follow the EasyChair platform.
Alberto Cardoso
University of Coimbra, PT
Maria Teresa Restivo
University of Porto, PT
The Call for Papers for SS ASMI5.0’23 can be downloaded here.
Call for Papers for the exp.at’23 Special Session ASMI5.0’23
“Advances on sustainable maintenance for industry 5.0”
The concept of Industry 4.0 emerged around 2010 and is based on the vision of smart manufacturing for the future, using new technologies to maximize productivity and mass production. In recent years, however, this concept has been expanded, under the paradigm of Industry 5.0, to include the creativity of human experts in the loop, working in tandem with intelligent machines. In addition, manufacturing companies are challenged to integrate sustainable and responsible practices into their sourcing, production and distribution chains. One of the critical areas for better use of resources and assets, preserving them and extending their useful life is maintenance. Despite this realization, most studies in the literature focus on implementing standard/conventional methods and measures without considering and integrating environmental and social concerns.
This special session aims to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners to present and discuss the latest advances and challenges in the field of sustainable maintenance (SM), focusing on data collection, data processing and decision making.
• Architectures (hardware and software) for SM
• Sensing, monitoring, and cyber-physical systems in SM
• AI-based models in SM
• SM as a service
• Environmental impact and SM
• Industrial applications and case studies
› Paulo Gil, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Portugal, psg@fct.unl.pt
› Jorge Henriques, CISUC, Portugal, jh@dei.uc.pt
› Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany, yacine.rebahi@fokus.fraunhofer.de
› Luís Brito Palma, NOVA School of Science and Technology (lbp@fct.unl.pt), PT
› Teresa Rocha, ISEC (teresa@isec.pt), PT
› Lorena Petrella, CISUC (lorenapetrella@dei.uc.pt), PT
Submission Deadline
February 27, 2023
Notification of Acceptance
March 27, 2023
April 6, 2023
Camera-Ready Due
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Early Author Registration
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Conference Dates
June 05-07
Technical Activities
June 08, 2023
English is the official language of the Conference.
The articles and extended abstracts (demos) will be under a double-blind peer review process.
Submission Articles (full papers with 4-6 pages) and extended abstracts (demos with 2 pages) submitted to expat’23 (according to IEEE Template) will follow the EasyChair platform.
Accepted and presented papers and demos will be published in electronic format and will be submitted for acceptance into the IEEE Xplore® paper database.
The conference will promote the organization of special issues in internationally indexed journals (e.g., Information, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information) for extended versions of selected papers, with APC discount for publication in Open Access format.
The Call for Papers for SS AI&Biom'23 can be downloaded here.
Call for Papers for the exp.at’23 Special Session AI&Biom’23
“Artificial Intelligence in Biomechanics”
AI/ML algorithms have a wide range of applications, including in Biomechanics. But despite the advantages, such as fast computation times, non-linearity, and adaptability to real and complex problems, there are also drawback/challenges such as the need for a large amount of training data with a high variability that describes the real problem, choosing the right model to train, setting the parameters optimally, and designing the training process in such a way that there is no under- or overfitting.
After mastering these challenges, AI/ML has the potential to significantly increase the objectivity of decision-making in biomechanics and quickly solve complex problems in the future.
• Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in biomechanics.
• Development of machine learning methods to support personalized soft tissue
modeling.
• Solving musculoskeletal biomechanics with machine learning methods.
› Dulce Oliveira, INEGI, LAETA, Portugal, doliveira@inegi.up.pt
› Elisabete Silva, INEGI, LAETA, Portugal, mesilva@inegi.up.pt
› Vincent Wang, Virginia Tech, U.S.A. AI&Biom (vmwang@vt.edu)
› Elias Cueto, Aragon Institute of Engineering Research, Spain AI&Biom (ecueto@unizar.es)
› Jonas Ebbecke, German Sport University Cologne, Germany AI&Biom (j.ebbecke@dshs-koeln.de)
› António Silva, FEUP, Portugal AI&Biom (ars@fe.up.pt)
› João Ferreira, DIGESTAID, Portugal AI&Biom (joaof@fe.up.pt)
› Maria Vila Pouca, AUTOMAISE, Portugal AI&Biom (mariavp@fe.up.pt)
Submission Deadline
February 27, 2023
Notification of Acceptance
March 27, 2023
April 6, 2023
Camera-Ready Due
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Early Author Registration
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Conference Dates
June 05-07, 2023
Technical Activities
June 08, 2023
English is the official language of the Conference.
The articles and extended abstracts (demos) will be under a double-blind peer review process.
Submission Articles (full papers with 4-6 pages) and extended abstracts (demos with 2 pages) submitted to expat’23 (according to IEEE Template) will follow the EasyChair platform.
Accepted and presented papers and demos will be published in electronic format and will be submitted for acceptance into the IEEE Xplore® paper database.
The conference will promote the organization of special issues in internationally indexed journals (e.g., Information, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information) for extended versions of selected papers, with APC discount for publication in Open Access format.
The Call for Papers for SS GIRS4EM'23 can be downloaded here.
Call for Papers for the exp.at’23 Special Session GIRS4EM’23
“Geo-Informatics and Remote Sensing for Earth Monitoring”
Instruments for Earth Observation (EO) onboard satellites and other platforms are steadily increasing and generating large amounts of data. With increasing pressure on natural resources and environment, EO is one of the most important tools for monitoring the state of our planet. Remote sensing and geo- informatics techniques using EO data provide a reliable unique means to gather valuable information on Earth systems and dynamics. This special session welcomes contributions focusing on applications to characterize and or monitor different aspects of the Earth system using geo-informatics and remote sensing. Applications are encouraged to cover, but not limited to, the topics indicates below and related to expat’23 scope.
• Remote Sensing and IoT
• Remote Monitoring & Mobile sensing
• Geoinformatics & Hydroinformatics
• Agriculture 4.0
• Environment Monitoring
• Contributions for Sustainability
› Maria João Costa, Earth Remote Sensing Lab, Institute of Earth Sciences and Physics Dep., University of Évora, Portugal, mjcosta@uevora.pt
› Pedro Salgueiro, Earth Remote Sensing Lab, VistaLab Centro Algoritmi and Informatics Dep., University of Évora, Portugal, pds@uevora.pt
› Miguel Potes, Earth Remote Sensing Lab, Institute of Earth Sciences and Physics Dep., University of Évora, Portugal, mpotes@uevora.pt
› Luís Rato, Earth Remote Sensing Lab, VistaLab Centro Algoritmi and Informatics Dep., University of Évora, Portugal, lmr@uevora.pt
› Teresa Gonçalves, Earth Remote Sensing Lab, VistaLab Centro Algoritmi and Informatics Dep., University of Évora, Portugal, tcg@uevora.pt
› Daniele Bortoli, Earth Remote Sensing Lab, Institute of Earth Sciences and Physics Dep., University of Évora, Portugal, db@uevora.pt
› Adélia Sousa, University of Évora, PT
› Anabela Oliveira, Laboratório Nacional Engenharia Civil – LNEC, PT
› Fábio Lopes, Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares – IPEN, BR
› Gregori de Arruda Moreira, University of São Paulo, BR
› Juan Antonio Bravo Aranda, University of Granada, ES
› Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, University of Granada, ES
› Kashyap Damjibhai Raiyani, University of Évora, PT
› Luís Mata, Celfinet- a Cyient company and Inst. Sup. de Engenharia de Lisboa – ISEL, PT
› Nuno Guiomar, University of Évora, PT
› Rui Oliveira, University of Évora, PT
› Sérgio Godinho, University of Évora, PT
Submission Deadline
February 27, 2023
Notification of Acceptance
March 27, 2023
April 6, 2023
Camera-Ready Due
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Early Author Registration
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Conference Dates
June 05-07, 2023
Technical Activities
June 08, 2023
English is the official language of the Conference.
The articles and extended abstracts (demos) will be under a double-blind peer review process.
Submission Articles (full papers with 4-6 pages) and extended abstracts (demos with 2 pages) submitted to expat’23 (according to IEEE Template) will follow the EasyChair platform.
Accepted and presented papers and demos will be published in electronic format and will be submitted for acceptance into the IEEE Xplore® paper database.
The conference will promote the organization of special issues in internationally indexed journals (e.g., Information, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information) for extended versions of selected papers, with APC discount for publication in Open Access format.
The Call for Papers for SS SF’23 can be downloaded here.
Call for Papers for the exp.at’23 Special Session SF’23
“Smart Farming”
Agriculture has been evolving in a remarkable way since the agricultural revolution around 10,000 years ago, being increasingly technological together with the presence of great impact intelligent methodologies with applications in different areas such as the prediction of diseases and pests, the forecast of the best phase for harvesting or forecasting its volume.
However, agricultural technology is under immense challenges due to diseases and pests spread by globalization and aggravated by climate change. Portugal is one of the European countries that has been experiencing the impact of climate change, namely the increase in temperature, which increases the arrival and installation of new pests. Integrated protection is an area where the application of technologically advanced solutions is of evident interest.
This Special Session seeks to bring together a set of papers regarding how machine learning applied to smart farming can contribute to problem solving. Researchers can find in this Special Session a venue for presenting both theoretical and practical approaches allowing the presentation and discussion of innovative solutions by addressing open challenges in the above-mentioned fields.
• Artificial intelligence for smart farming
• IoT for smart farming
• Robotics and autonomous systems for smart farming
• Blockchain for smart farming
• Edge computing for smart farming
• Plant Disease Recognition and Prediction in Smart Agriculture
• Plant health monitoring and control of weeds in digital twin
• Architecture, protocols, and frameworks of IoT in Smart Agriculture
• New optimization methods for AI Algorithms in Smart Agriculture
• Agricultural Digitalization, Digital Twins of Smart Agriculture
• Big Data Technology in Smart Agriculture
• Security and privacy in Smart Agriculture
• Smart farming applications
• Combining robot vision for Smart Agriculture application
• Image processing, communications, and signal processing for Smart Agriculture
• Citizen science in Smart Farming
› Catarina Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal, catarina@dei.uc.pt
› Joana Costa, Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal, joana.costa@ipleiria.pt
› Bernardete Ribeiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal, bribeiro@dei.uc.pt
› José Rafael Silva, University of Évora, Portugal, jmsilva@uevora.pt
› António Cunha, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
› Eduardo Consuelo Pinilla Gil, University of Extemadura, Spain
› Esther Hontañón, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
› Francisco Antunes, University of Coimbra, Portugal
› Jesús Lozano Rogado, University of Extemadura, Spain
› João Barata, University of Coimbra, Portugal
› Rahul Sharma, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
› Teresa Gonçalves, University of Évora, Portugal
Submission Deadline
February 27, 2023
Notification of Acceptance
March 27, 2023
April 6, 2023
Camera-Ready Due
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Early Author Registration
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Conference Dates
June 05-07, 2023
Technical Activities
June 08, 2023
English is the official language of the Conference.
The articles and extended abstracts (demos) will be under a double-blind peer review process.
Submission Articles (full papers with 4-6 pages) and extended abstracts (demos with 2 pages) submitted to expat’23 (according to IEEE Template) will follow the EasyChair platform.
Accepted and presented papers and demos will be published in electronic format and will be submitted for acceptance into the IEEE Xplore® paper database.
The conference will promote the organization of special issues in internationally indexed journals (e.g., Information, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information) for extended versions of selected papers, with APC discount for publication in Open Access format.
The Call for Papers for SS AI Smart’23 can be downloaded here.
Call for Papers for the exp.at’23 Special Session AI Smart’23
“Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Applied to Smart Environments”
Today interconnected systems are everywhere, they provide diverse and challenging sources of data and their processing allow to boost smart and interacting environment capabilities. To this aim, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) play an important role in accomplishing this achievement. In the latest decade AI and ML have received great attention to solve difficult and complex problems in smart and interactive environments, and their advances brought impressive progresses in several fields such as medicine, e-health, healthcare, neuroscience, brain-computer interface, neurofeedback, robotics and automotive, biometrics, etc. In this context, the advanced learning techniques such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, deep reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, statistical learning have shown their effectiveness to solve various problems of detection, classification, clustering, segmentation, control, diagnosis, optimization, etc.; and thus, becomes useful solutions to be investigated more for other open problems.
This Special Session will provide an opportunity for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss new applications, design problems, ideas, solutions, research and development results, experiences and work-in-progress activities in this important technological area.
Prospective researchers are invited to submit their original research findings in AI, Deep and Machine Learning to this Special Session.
• Remote Sensing and IoT
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Affective Computing
• Augmented and Virtual Reality
• AI in smart retail environments
• AI in ambient assisted living systems
• AI in smart factories and manufacturing
• Haptic Interfaces & Sensorial Devices
• Collaborative/Soft Robotic Systems
• Case studies, field trials, and industrial Applications
› Susana M. Vieira, IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, susana.vieira@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
› Paulo Menezes, ISR-Coimbra, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
› João M.C. Sousa, IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
› Miguel Martins, IST, ULisboa, PT
› Bernardo Firme, IDMEC, LAETA, PT
› João Santos, IST, ULisboa, PT
Submission Deadline
February 27, 2023
Notification of Acceptance
March 27, 2023
April 6, 2023
Camera-Ready Due
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Early Author Registration
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Conference Dates
June 05-07, 2023
Technical Activities
June 08, 2023
English is the official language of the Conference.
The articles and extended abstracts (demos) will be under a double-blind peer review process.
Submission Articles (full papers with 4-6 pages) and extended abstracts (demos with 2 pages) submitted to expat’23 (according to IEEE Template) will follow Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Applied to Smart Environments the EasyChair platform.
Accepted and presented papers and demos will be published in electronic format and will be submitted for acceptance into the IEEE Xplore® paper database.
The conference will promote the organization of special issues in internationally indexed journals (e.g., Information, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information) for extended versions of selected papers, with APC discount for publication in Open Access format.
The Call for Papers for SS SenForFire’23 can be downloaded here.
Call for Papers for the exp.at’23 Special Session SenForFire’23
“Smart Wireless Sensor Networks for Forest Fire Prevention and Early Warning”
There is an urgent need for cost-effective smart real-time environmental monitoring systems to predict, detect and provide early warning of fire outbreak in wildlands, thus, preventing the development of extreme fires that have devastating consequences for people, ecosystems, and biodiversity. Current remote sensing technologies for observation and imaging of the earth’s surface suffer from low spatial and temporal resolution, high sensitivity to weather conditions and land surface topography, and high costs. Wireless sensor networks (WSN) in combination with the internet of things (IoT), low-power long-range wireless communication, cloud computing, big data (BD), and artificial intelligence (AI) offer an emerging promising solution for the prevention and early detection of wildfires. In practice, WSN face various kinds of issues like power constraints, resource constraints, unavailability of hardware, short-range communication, limited data processing and storage capacity, etc. that make the cost, time, and complexity involved in the deployment and implementation of WSN very high. This Special Session brings the latest advances in low-cost low-power small-size environmental sensors, open-source electronic platforms, wireless communication protocols, BD and AI techniques and algorithms to overcome the challenges surrounding WSN to turn it into an affordable, scalable, robust, and reliable technology for its application in the fight against wildfires in increasing areas of the planet.
• Micro/nanosensors for measuring meteorological parameters and forest fuel moisture, and for detecting fire ignition (hotspot, smoke, flame)
• Architecture and subsystems (sensing, processing, communication, power) of sensor nodes in WSN
• Design, dimensioning, architecture and topology of WSN
• Self-organization models for WSN
• Routing protocols for WSN
• Methods for evaluating the performance of WSN
• Integration, fusion and mining of data and information from multiple sources (including WSN) for wildfire risk assessment and mapping
• Artificial intelligence techniques (machine learning, deep learning) for wildfire risk prediction and detection based on WSN
› Esther Hontañón, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain, esther.hontanon@csic.es
› Jesús Lozano, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain, jesuslozano@unex.es
› Bernardete Ribeiro, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, bribeiro@dei.uc.pt
› Catarina Silva, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, catarina@dei.uc.pt
› Jorge Fernández, Universidad de Sevilla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
› Iñigo Cuiñas, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
› De-Yi Wang, Instituto IMDEA Materiales, Madrid, Spain
› José Sánchez del Río, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
› Antonio Vázquez, Instituto IMDEA Materiales, Madrid, Spain
Submission Deadline
February 27, 2023
Notification of Acceptance
March 27, 2023
April 6, 2023
Camera-Ready Due
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Early Author Registration
April 28, 2023
May 5, 2023
Conference Dates
June 05-07, 2023
Technical Activities
June 08, 2023
English is the official language of the Conference.
The articles and extended abstracts (demos) will be under a double-blind peer review process.
Submission Articles (full papers with 4-6 pages) and extended abstracts (demos with 2 pages) submitted to expat’23 (according to IEEE Template) will follow the EasyChair platform.
Accepted and presented papers and demos will be published in electronic format and will be submitted for acceptance into the IEEE Xplore® paper database.
The conference will promote the organization of special issues in internationally indexed journals (e.g., Information, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information) for extended versions of selected papers, with APC discount for publication in Open Access format.
