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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM 2020) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

SEEDA-CECNSM 2020 September 25-27, 2020 Corfu, Greece https://hilab.di.ionio.gr/seeda2020/

* PRESENTATION:

The 5th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM 2020), in its 5th year, will provide an insight into the unique world stemming from the interaction between the fields of computer engineering, networks and Design Automation. SEEDA-CECNSM 2020 will provide an international technical forum for experts from the engineering industry and academia to exchange ideas, innovations, and present results of on-going research in the most state-of-the-art areas.

After four successful conferences starting from Kastoria (2016, 2017, 2018), and then Piraeus (2019), the SEEDA-CECNSM conference series has been consolidated as a reference event in order to discuss about the newest advances in the field.

SEEDA-CECNSM 2020 will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and all papers will be indexed by IEEE Xplore, DBLP and Scopus.

* AIM AND TOPICS:

SEEDA-CECNSM 2020 aims to address several issues and topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Design Automation (DA) – Artificial Intelligence and Applications – Backend Silicon Tools and Methodologies – CAD Tools and Algorithms – Characterisation and Timing Simulation – Design for Low Power – Design Optimization and Implementation – ESL Methodologies and EDA Tools – FPGAs, ASICs, ASIPs and SoCs – Numerical and Scientific Computation – Open-Source Tools – Placement & Routing – Rapid Prototyping and Hardware/Software Co-verification and Co-design – Silicon Device Level Research – System-Level and High-Level Synthesis – VLSI and Digital Design and Design for Test – Reconfigurable computing and FPGA-based acceleration – Approximate computing – System level and architecture level dependability – Safe and secure embedded systems Computer Networks and Communications – Advances in Internet Protocols – Cloud and Fog Computing – Intelligent Agents and Distributed Computing – Internet of Things and Smart Cities – Internet Services and Applications – Management of Telecommunications and Networks – Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Optimization and Management – Security and Privacy – Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications – Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures – Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile Communications Computer Engineering – Computer Architecture and Design – Formal Methods in Architecture Design – Computer-Aided Architecture Design and Implementation – Embedded Systems and Applications – Multi-core VLSI/ULSI Design – Parallel and other Advanced Architectures – Distributed Computing – Memory and Storage Systems – Parallel programming, parallel computing and ILP – Advanced I/O device design – Human-Computer Interaction – Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems – Industrial informatics – Heterogeneous many/multi-core computing Social Media and e-technologies – Active and Collaborative Learning – Advances in e-Energy Design and Development – Digital Media Technologies – e-Commerce and e-Services – Economic and Regulatory Issues – e-Government Issues – e-Health Technologies and Applications – Game-Based Learning for Engineering Education – Image Processing and Visualization – Social Networks in Education – Social Networks, Crowdsourcing, and Crowdsensing

* IMPORTANT DATES:

-Paper submission deadline: *April 24, 2020* -Notification of acceptance: May 21, 2020 -Camera-ready submission deadline: June 20, 2020 -Registration for authors: June 20, 2020 -Early registration: May 30, 2020 -Late registration: September 25, 2020 -Workshop: September 25-27, 2020

* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Each submitted paper will be refereed by at least three members of the SEEDA-CECNSM 2020 Program Committee, based on its relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness and clarity of expression.

Submissions must be in English, and can present mature research or experimental results as well as promising work in progress. Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column conference article style, with a limit of 8 pages, including all figures, tables and references. A minimum paper length of 4 pages is also imposed.

For your convenience, you may use the LaTeX (https://hilab.di.ionio.gr/seeda2020/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SEEDA2020_win...) or MS Word (https://hilab.di.ionio.gr/seeda2020/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SEEDA2020_usl...) templates. Papers can be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seedacecnsm2020) in .pdf format.

* PROCEEDINGS / PUBLICATIONS:

As with all previous editions of SEEDA-CECNSM, all accepted papers will be indexed by IEEE Xplore and will be indexed by DBLP and Scopus. Selected accepted papers will be invited to be submitted to the Special Issue on “Recent Advances on Computational Engineering” of the Computation MDPI international indexed (DBLP, Scopus, ESCI, Google Scholar) journal, on a special, 100% APC-waived (0 euros) submission status.

* CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS:

The SEEDA-CECNSM 2020 technical program will highlight a series of Special Sessions to complement the regular program with new or emerging topics of particular interest to topics of SEEDA-CECNSM community. Prospective organizers of Special Sessions are encouraged to submit their proposals using the following MS Word (.docx) template file: https://hilab.di.ionio.gr/seeda2020/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/SEEDA-CECNSM_... Proposals should at minimum include the following information:

1. Title of the proposed Special Session 2. Motivation, indicating the novelty of the topic and any possible interdisciplinary flavour 3. Short biography of the organizers 4. List of at least four (4) tentative contributed papers (including titles, authors, contact information of the corresponding author, and a short abstract). Upon acceptance of the special session proposal, the contributed papers will be submitted in the same format as regular papers. Organizers should not contribute more than one paper.

Proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness of the topic and on the qualifications of the organizers and of the authors of the contributed papers as well.

The papers in each accepted Special Session will undergo a review process, similar to the other regular papers. It is the responsibility of the organizers to ensure that their Special Session papers meet IVMSP quality standards. In case a paper in a Special Session does not meet the expected quality, it will be rejected and an effort will be made to draw papers from the regular submission process to fill in the gap. If too many papers for a given Special Session are not accepted in the review process and we are unable to find suitable substitutes from the regular review pool, the Special Session may be canceled. In such a case, the accepted papers from a canceled Special Session will be placed into the regular program.

Proposals should be sent in PDF to the Special Session Chair at the following address: Themistoklis Exarchos exarchos@ionio.gr. Any other inquiries may be sent to the same e-mail address.

* IMPORTANT DATES FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS:

-Special Session Proposals: *February 28, 2020* -Notification of Special Session Acceptance: March 6, 2020 -Submission of full papers for approved Special Sessions: April 24, 2020 -Early registration: June 20, 2020 -Late registration: September 25, 2020 -Conference: September 25-27, 2020

* GENERAL CHAIRS: Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University Michael Dossis, University of Western Macedonia Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus

* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Efthymios Alepis, University of Piraeus Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly Leyre Azpilicueta, Tecnologico de Monterrey Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Edgar Batista, SIMPPLE SL Christina Beneki, Ionian University Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza George Caridakis, University of the Aegean Fran Casino, Rovira i Virgili University Vassilios V. Dimakopoulos, University of Ioannina Michael Dossis, University of Western Macedonia Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus Soultana Ellinidou, Universite libre de Bruxelles Themis Exarchos, Ionian University Christos Georgiadis, University of Macedonia Apostolos Gkamas, University Ecclesiastical Academy of Vella of Ioannina Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras Peio Iturri Lopez, Universidad Publica de Navarra Katerina Kabassi, Ionian University Athanasios Kakarountas, University of Thessaly Dimitrios Kallergis, University of West Attica Theodoros Karvounidis, University of Piraeus Katia Lida Kermanidis, Ionian University Charalampos Konstantopoulos, University of Piraeus Ioannis Korinthios, University of Thessaly Jose M. Lanza-Gutierrez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Georgios Lappas, University of Western Macedonia Martin Lopez-Nores, University of Vigo Ilias Maglogiannis, University of Piraeus Angelos Markopoulos, National Technical University of Athens Antoni Martinez-Balleste, Universitat Rovira i Virgili Vasileios Mezaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas Angelos Michalas, University of Western Macedonia Sarandis Mitropoulos, Ionian University Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University Petros Nicopolitidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Spyridon Nikolaidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University Stergios Palamas, Ionian University Anastasios Panopoulos, University of Macedonia Constantinos Patsakis, University of Piraeus Prantosh Kumar Paul, Raiganj University Mihalis Psarakis, University of Piraeus Anna Sotiropoulou, Ionian University Evaggelos Spyrou, University of Thessaly Yannis Stamatiou, University of Patras Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology Chrisa Tsinaraki, European Commission – Joint Research Center Panagiotis Vlamos, Ionian University Gerasimos Vonitsanos, Hellenic Open University Nikos Voros, University of the Peloponnese * CONTACT: hilab (at) ionio.gr