[CFP][AICCSA 2023] Track 2: Security, Privacy, and Trust

[Marco Viviani]

[Apologies for multiple postings]

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20th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2023)

Smart Village, Giza, Egypt, December 4-7, 2023

TRACK 2: SECURITY, PRIVACY, AND TRUST

https://aiccsa.net/AICCSA2023/tracks-and-subtopics/track2/

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SCOPE

The Security, Privacy, and Trust track aims at providing a forum for researchers and engineers in academia and industry to 

foster an exchange of research results, experiences, and products that involve the cybersecurity aspects in our daily 

activities. The focus of the track is on advances in Cybersecurity technologies that involve new attacks and hacker exploits

in several domains such as automotive, cyber-physical systems, networking infrastructure, quantum computing, artificial 

intelligence, deep learning for information security, digital crime and forensics, intrusion detection/prevention, and incident 

response, malware, and attack analysis, privacy and data breaches, and governance and information security management.

The track aims at presenting the advancement of the state of the art in these fields and spreading their adoption in several 

scenarios involving main stockholders of the Security, Privacy, and Trust domain. We solicit submissions of original 

unpublished scholarly work that is not under consideration by another journal or conference.

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TOPICS

- Security threats and vulnerabilities
- Privacy and Security in Cloud and Edge Computing
- Privacy and Security in Data Center Networks
- Automated Vehicular Technologies
- Vehicular Communications and Networks
- In-Vehicle communication protocols
- Offensive and Defensive Cybersecurity
- Identity Management and Key Management Systems
- Security and Privacy in Quantum Computing
- Exploit design and implementation
- Network privacy and security
- Application security
- Cyber-security solutions for connected and autonomous vehicles
- Attacks and Countermeasures
- Authentication
- Safety and Security Trade-off and Convergences
- Distributed systems security
- Embedded systems security
- Forensics
- Intrusion detection and Response
- Malware and virus detection
- Mobile security and privacy
- Network security
- Privacy-preserving systems
- IoT privacy and security
- Security and privacy policies
- Security architectures
- System security
- Usable security and privacy
- Web security and privacy
- Privacy of vehicular data
- Standardization and Interoperability
- National information security
- Mobile trusted computing
- Security policy and management of trusted computing
- Access control for trusted platforms
- Privacy aspects of trusted computing
- Verification of trusted computing architectures
- End-user interactions with trusted platforms
- Limitations of trusted computing.

This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive. Security and privacy is interested in all aspects of computer security and privacy.

However, papers without a clear application to security or privacy, however, will be considered out of scope and maybe 

rejected without full review.

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IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission due date: June 7, 2023
- Notification to authors: August 15, 2023
- Camera-ready papers and registration: September 15, 2023

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ORGANIZERS

- Rasheed Husain (Bristol Digital Futures Institute, UK)

- Marco Viviani (University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO DATE)

- Battou Amal, UIZ
- Khouloud Boukadi, Faculty of Economics and Management of Sfax
- Stelvio Cimato, Università degli studi di Milano
- Marco De Vincenzi, IIT-CNR
- Chinmaya Kumar, Dehury University of Tartu
- Paulo Gondim, Universidade de Brasilia
- Romain Laborde, University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
- Marc Lacoste, Orange Labs
- Naercio Magaia, COPELABS, Universidade Lusófona
- Abderrahim Maizate, RITM Laboratory, CED Engineering Sciences Ecole Superieure de Technologie Hassan II University of Casablanca

- Ilaria Mateucci, IIT-CNR
- Ibéria Medeiros, LaSIGE, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
- Manuel Munier, UPPA
- Raúl Pardo, University of Copenhagen
- Francesco Santini, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Perugia
- Stefano Sebastio, Collins Aerospace
- Miran Taha, University of Sulaimani
- Cihan Tunc, University of North Texas

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Marco Viviani (Associate Professor)

University of Milano-Bicocca

Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo)

Information and Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning (IKR3) Lab

Edificio U14 - ABACUS, Viale Sarca, 336 - 20126 Milan (Italy)

e-mail: marco....@unimib.it

URL: https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/

- Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas -

[Marco Viviani]

[Apologies for multiple postings]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 22nd IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT)

October 26-29, 2023 | Venice, Italy - A hybrid conference with both online and offline modes

Web Intelligence = AI in the Connected World - Homepage: https://www.wi-iat.com/wi-iat2023/

Workshops and Special Sessions Paper Submission: August 7, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth).

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WORKSHOPS/SPECIAL SESSIONS

Overall details: https://www.wi-iat.com/wi-iat2023/Workshops-Special-Sessions.html

* Papers must be submitted electronically via CyberChair in standard IEEE. Conference Proceedings format 

  (max 8 pages, templates at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html).
* Submitted papers will undergo a single-blind peer review process, coordinated by the International 

  Program Committee.

* Workshops and Special Sessions will be held online.

* Articles accepted at Workshops/Special Sessions will be included in the Proceedings, and thus indexed online.

Individual Workshops/Special Sessions Submission Pages:

* The 12th International Workshop on Intelligent Data Processing (IDP) |
  Online Submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S03&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/ws_submit.php

* The 8th International Workshop on Application of Big Data for Computational Social Science (ABCSS2023) |
  Online Submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S06&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/ws_submit.php

* The 8th International Workshop on Integrated Social CRM (iCRM 2023) |
  Online Submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S12&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/ws_submit.php

* The 6th International Workshop on Social Media and Data Analytics for Health Intelligence (SMA4H): How artificial intelligence transforms healthcare and nursing |
  Online Submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S08&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/ws_submit.php

* The International Workshop on Personalized QA and its Applications (PQAIA) |
  Online Submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S04&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/ws_submit.php

* The 2nd International Workshop on the Fundamentals and Advances of Recommendation System (FA-RS) |
  Online Submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S05&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/ws_submit.php

* The 4th International Workshop on AI for Social Good in the Connected World (AI4SG) |
  Online Submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S01&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/ws_submit.php

* The 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence of Things for Healthcare |
  Online Submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S02&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/ws_submit.php

* GENUINE (modelinG, lEarning, and miniNg to coUnter INformation disordEr) |
  Online Submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S07&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/ws_submit.php

* International Workshop on ChatGPT for Business Applications |
  Online Submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S09&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/ws_submit.php

* The International Workshop on Web Intelligence meets Brain Informatics (WImBI'23) |
  Online Submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S10&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/ws_submit.php

* Special Session on Human-Centric Data Analysis |
  Online Submission: https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S11&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2023/wi23/scripts/ws_submit.php

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MAIN CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

* Prof. Franco Zambonelli
  ACM Distinguished Scientist
  Member of the Academia Europaea
  Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)
  Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
  University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

* Prof. Cecilia Mascolo
  Co-director of Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence
  Fellow of Jesus College
  University of Cambridge, UK

* Prof. Eyke Hüllermeier
  Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

* Prof. Roberto Navigli
  Full Professor and Head of the Sapienza NLP Group
  Co-founder of Babelscape srl & BabelNet evangelist
  Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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ORGANIZERS

General Chairs
* Salvatore Orlando, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
* Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Program Committee Chairs
* Claudio Lucchese, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
* Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
* Sebastian Bruch, Pinecone, USA

Local Organizing Chair
* Cristiana Fiandra, The Office, Italy

Workshop/Special Session Chairs
* Marco Viviani, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
* Xujuan Zhou, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Publicity Chairs
* Hongzhi Kuai, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
* Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

WIC Steering Committee Chairs
* Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
* Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK, China

WIC Executive Secretary
* Xiaohui Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

[Marco Viviani]

[1st CFP][Apologies for multiple postings][ECIR 2024][ROMCIR 2024]

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ROMCIR 2024: The 4th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

Co-located with ECIR 2024: The 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Glasgow, UK, March 24, 2024

Conference website: https://romcir.disco.unimib.it (will be updated soon!)

Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=romcir2024

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The fourth edition of ROMCIR concerns providing access to users to (topically) relevant and truthful information, to 

mitigate the human-generated or AI-generated information disorder phenomenon with respect to distinct domains. 

By `information disorder’ we mean all forms of communication pollution, from misinformation made out of ignorance, 

automatically built on the basis of biased content, to intentional sharing of false content (generated both manually 

and automatically).

In this context, all those approaches that can serve to assess the truthfulness of information circulating online and on social 

media in particular find their place. This topic is vast, as it concerns different contents (e.g., Web pages, news, 

reviews, medical information, online accounts, etc.), different Web and social media platforms (e.g., microblogging 

platforms, social networking services, social question-answering systems, etc.), different purposes (e.g., identifying false 

information, accessing information based on its truthfulness, retrieving truthful information, etc.), and different open issues 

related in particular to AI (e.g., explainability of search results, assessment of the truthfulness of automatically generated 

content, generative models to support IRSs, etc.).

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THEMES

The themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

*  Access to truthful information
*  Artificial Intelligence and information truthfulness assessment
*  Bias detection
*  Bot/spam/troll detection
*  Computational fact-checking
*  Crowdsourcing for information truthfulness assessment
*  Disinformation/misinformation detection
*  Evaluation strategies to assess information truthfulness
*  Generative models and information truthfulness assessment / hallucination detection
*  Harassment/bullying/hate speech detection
*  Information polarization in online communities, echo chambers
*  Propaganda identification/analysis
*  Retrieval of truthful information
*  Security, privacy, and information truthfulness
*  Sentiment/emotional analysis
*  Societal reaction to misinformation
*  Stance detection
*  Trust and reputation

Data-driven approaches, supported by publicly available datasets, are more than welcome.

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CONTRIBUTIONS

The workshop solicits the sending of two types of contributions relevant to the workshop and suitable to generate 

discussion:

*  Original, unpublished contributions (pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible) that will be included in an open-access 

post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/), indexed by both Scopus and DBLP.
*   Already published or preliminary work that will not be included in the post-proceedings volume.

All submissions will undergo SINGLE-BLIND peer review by the program committee.

Submissions are to be done electronically through the EasyChair at:

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=romcir2024

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submissions must be:

*  10 pages long (regular papers)
*  Between 5 and 9 pages long (short papers)

We recommend that authors use the new CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published:

*  An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt

*  An offline version with the style files including DOCX template files is available at: 

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
*  The paper must contain, as the name of the conference: ROMCIR 2024: The 4th Workshop 

on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval, held as part of ECIR 

2024: the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, March 24, 2024, Glasgow, UK
*  The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English

*  Please, choose the single-column template
*  According to CEUR-WS policy, the papers will be published under a CC
BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

If the paper is accepted, authors will be asked to sign (at pen) an author agreement with CEUR:

*  In case you do not employ Third-Party Material (TPM) in your draft, sign the document at
http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02
*  If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at
http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02

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IMPORTANT DATES

*  Abstract Submission Deadline: January 05, 2024
*  Paper Submission Deadline: January 12, 2024
*  Decision Notifications: February 16, 2024
*  Workshop day: March 24, 2024

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CHAIRS

*  Marinella Petrocchi (https://www.iit.cnr.it/en/marinella.petrocchi/), IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy
*  Marco Viviani (https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

[Marco Viviani]

[2nd CFP][Apologies for multiple postings][ECIR 2024][ROMCIR 2024]

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ROMCIR 2024: The 4th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

Co-located with ECIR 2024: The 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Glasgow, UK, March 24, 2024

Conference website: https://romcir.disco.unimib.it (will be updated soon!)

Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=romcir2024

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The fourth edition of ROMCIR concerns providing access to users to (topically) relevant and truthful information, to 

mitigate the human-generated or AI-generated information disorder phenomenon concerning distinct domains. 

By "information disorder" we mean all forms of communication pollution, from misinformation made out of ignorance, 

automatically built based on biased content, to intentional sharing of false content (generated both manually 

and automatically).

In this context, all those approaches that can serve to assess the truthfulness of information circulating online and on social 

media in particular find their place. This topic is vast, as it concerns different contents (e.g., Web pages, news, 

reviews, medical information, online accounts, etc.), different Web and social media platforms (e.g., microblogging 

platforms, social networking services, social question-answering systems, etc.), different purposes (e.g., identifying false 

information, accessing information based on its truthfulness, retrieving truthful information, etc.), and different open issues 

related in particular to AI (e.g., explainability of search results, assessment of the truthfulness of automatically generated 

content, generative models to support IRSs, etc.).

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THEMES

The themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

*  Access to truthful information
*  Artificial Intelligence and information truthfulness assessment
*  Bias detection
*  Bot/spam/troll detection
*  Computational fact-checking
*  Crowdsourcing for information truthfulness assessment
*  Disinformation/misinformation detection
*  Evaluation strategies to assess information truthfulness

*  Generative models and information truthfulness assessment/hallucination detection

*  Harassment/bullying/hate speech detection
*  Information polarization in online communities, echo chambers
*  Propaganda identification/analysis
*  Retrieval of truthful information
*  Security, privacy, and information truthfulness
*  Sentiment/emotional analysis
*  Societal reaction to misinformation
*  Stance detection
*  Trust and reputation

Data-driven approaches, supported by publicly available datasets, are more than welcome.

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CONTRIBUTIONS

The workshop solicits the sending of two types of contributions relevant to the workshop and suitable to generate 

discussion:

*  Original, unpublished contributions (pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible) that will be included in an open-access 

post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/), indexed by both Scopus and DBLP.
*   Already published or preliminary work that will not be included in the post-proceedings volume.

All submissions will undergo SINGLE-BLIND peer review by the program committee.

Submissions are to be done electronically through the EasyChair at:

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=romcir2024

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submissions must be:

*  Between 10 and 14 pages long (regular papers)

[Marco Viviani]

[Happy Holydays and a Happy New Year][Apologies for multiple postings][ECIR 2024][ROMCIR 2024]

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ROMCIR 2024: The 4th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

Co-located with ECIR 2024: The 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Glasgow, UK, March 24, 2024

Conference website: https://romcir.disco.unimib.it

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CONTRIBUTIONS

The Workshop solicits the sending of two types of contributions relevant to the Workshop and suitable to generate 

[Marco Viviani]

[Apologies for multiple postings]

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The ACS/IEEE 21st International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2024)

22-26 October 2024, Sousse, Tunisia

Track 2: Security, Privacy, and Trust (https://aiccsa.net/AICCSA2024/tracks/)

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SCOPE

The Security, Privacy and Trust track @ AICCSA 2024 aims at providing a forum for researchers and engineers in academia and industry to foster an exchange of research results, experiences, and products that involve the cybersecurity aspects in our daily activities. The focus of the track is on advances in Cybersecurity technologies that involves new attacks and hacker exploits in several domains such as automotive, cyber-physical systems, networking infrastructure, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, deep learning for information security, digital crime and forensics, intrusion detection/prevention and incident response, malware and attack analysis, privacy and data breaches, and governance and information security management. The track aims at presenting the advancement on the state of art in these fields and spreading their adoption in several scenarios involving main stockholders of the Security, Privacy and Trust domain. We solicit submissions of original unpublished scholarly work that is not under consideration by another journal or conference.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

• Security threats and vulnerabilities

• Privacy and Security in Cloud and Edge Computing

• Privacy and Security in Data Center Networks

• Automated Vehicular Technologies
• Vehicular Communications and Networks
• In-Vehicle communication protocols
• Offensive and Defensive Cybersecurity

• Identity Management and Key Management Systems

• Security and Privacy in Quantum Computing

• Exploit design and implementation
• Network privacy and security
• Application security

• Cyber-security solutions for connected and autonomous vehicles

• Attacks and Countermeasures
• Authentication

• Safety and Security Trade-off and Convergences

• Distributed systems security
• Embedded systems security
• Forensics
• Intrusion detection and Response
• Malware and virus detection
• Mobile security and privacy
• Network security
• Privacy-preserving systems
• IoT privacy and security
• Security and privacy policies
• Security architectures
• System security
• Usable security and privacy
• Web security and privacy
• Privacy of vehicular data
• Standardization and Interoperability
• National information Security
• Mobile trusted computing

• Security policy and management of trusted computing

• Access control for trusted platforms

• Privacy aspects of trusted computing

• Verification of trusted computing architectures

• End-user interactions with trusted platforms

• Limitations of trusted computing

This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive. Security and privacy is interested in all aspects of computer security and privacy. Papers without a clear application to security or privacy, however, will be considered out of scope and may be rejected without full review.

SUBMISSIONS

• Manuscripts must be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5″ x 11″ two-column conference format. A full paper must not exceed the stated length of 8 pages (including all figures, tables, and references). Up to 2 extra pages are allowed per paper, will be charged $100 per page, and should be purchased at registration time.
• Please make use of the appropriate IEEE template for conference proceedings, to prepare your revised manuscript: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. 
• All papers should be exported in PDF format and anonymous since IEEE AICCSA manages a double-blind review process.
• The papers must be submitted electronically on EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2024
• Plagiarism and acknowledging the use of AI tools
• All the accepted submissions will be cross-checked for plagiarism by IEEE. The papers found to be plagiarized will be rejected and not considered for publication in the proceedings.
• If applicable, the authors must acknowledge the use of generative AI in the development of ideas and concepts and/or in generating content (e.g., images, text) for their paper.
• The authors must provide a description of the AI tool used, how the information was generated, including the prompts they used, and the date accessed. The acknowledgment could be added as a footnote or at the end of the reference section.

PROCEEDINGS

• Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth)

• Early paper submission deadline: 05 May, 2024
• Regular paper submission deadline : 26 May, 2024
• Notification to authors: 12 July, 2024
• Camera-ready papers and registration : 13 September, 2024

TRACK CHAIRS

• Rasheed Husain, Bristol Digital Futures Institute, UK
  
• Marco Viviani, University of Milan-Bicocca
  

[Marco Viviani]

[Apologies for multiple postings]

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IIR 2024: THE 14TH ITALIAN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL WORKSHOP

SEPTEMBER 5-6, 2024 - University of Udine, Italy

https://iir2024.uniud.it/

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SCOPE

The purpose of the Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR) is to provide a meeting forum for stimulating and disseminating research in Information Retrieval, where researchers (especially young ones), and other academic and industrial players interested in IR research can network and discuss their research results in an informal way.

Traditionally, IIR has been a focal point for the Italian Information Retrieval community, but it strongly encourages and welcomes participation from international researchers to enrich and expand collaborative opportunities.

Participation in the IIR 2024 workshop will be free of charge. However, advance registration will be strictly required.

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TOPICS

IIR offers the opportunity to present and discuss both theoretical and empirical research. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to:

Search and Ranking. Research on core Information Retrieval (IR), including IR at scale, covering topics such as:

• Theoretical models and foundations of IR and access
• Retrieval and ranking models, including diversity and aggregated search
• Web search, including link analysis, sponsored search, search advertising, adversarial search and spam, and vertical search
• Cross- and multilingual search
• Queries and query analysis

Recommendation. Research focusing on Information Filtering and Recommender Systems, covering topics such as:

• Information Filtering and Recommendation, including Collaborative Filtering, Content-based Filtering, Hybrid Recommender Systems, Context-aware Recommendation
• Deep Learning in RecSys, Scalability and Efficiency, Evaluation Metrics and Methodologies, User Interfaces and Visualization
• Privacy, Security, and Ethics, Domain-specific Recommendations, Social and Trust-based Recommendations, Explainable and Interpretable Recommendations

Content Representation and Analysis. Research focusing on rich content representations and analysis, covering topics such as:

• Document representation, including multimodal representation
• Content analysis and information extraction, including readability, sentiment analysis, and opinion mining
• Clustering, classification, summarization, and topic modeling

Artificial Intelligence, NLP, Semantics, and Dialog. Research bridging AI and IR –, especially toward deep semantics — and dialog with intelligent agents, covering topics such as:

• Question Answering
• Conversational systems, including spoken language interfaces, dialog management systems, and intelligent chat systems
• Semantics and knowledge graphs
• Deep learning for IR, embeddings, Large Language Models, and agents

Domain-Specific Applications. Research focusing on domain-specific challenges, covering topics such as:

• Social search
• Search in structured data, including email and entity search
• Multimedia search
• Search and recommendation for Educational, Legal, Health – including genomics and bioinformatics – and Academic domains
• Other domains such as digital libraries, enterprise, news, app, and archival search

Human Factors and Interfaces. Research into user-centric aspects of IR, including user interfaces, behavior modeling, privacy, and interactive systems, covering topics such as:

• Mining and modeling search activity, including user and task models, click models, log analysis, behavioral analysis, and attention modeling
• Interactive and personalized search and recommendation
• Collaborative search, social tagging, and crowdsourcing
• Information privacy and security

Evaluation. Research that focuses on the measurement and evaluation of IR and Recommender Systems, covering topics such as:

• User-centered evaluation methods, including measures of user experience and performance, user engagement, and search task design
• Test collections and evaluation metrics, including the development of new test collections
• Evaluation of novel information access tasks and systems such as multi-turn information access
• Statistical methods and reproducibility issues in information retrieval evaluation
• Efficiency and scalability

Future Directions. Research with theoretical or empirical contributions on new technical or social aspects of IR, especially in more speculative directions or with emerging technologies, covering topics such as:

• Novel approaches to IR and RS
• Ethics, economics, and politics
• Applications of search and recommendation to social good
• IR and RS with new devices, including wearable computing, neuroinformatics, sensors, Internet-of-Things, vehicles

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SUBMISSIONS

We particularly encourage PhD students or Early-Stage Researchers to submit their research. We also welcome contributions from the industry and papers describing ongoing funded projects which may result useful to the IR community.

Authors are invited to submit one of the following types of contributions:

• Full papers (10 pages, plus unlimited pages for references)
• Short papers (5 pages, plus unlimited pages for references)
• Extended abstracts containing descriptions of ongoing projects or presenting already published results (up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references). If presenting already published results the extended abstract should not be anonymous and contain a reference to the original published paper.

Submissions of research papers must be in English, single blind, in PDF format in the CEUR-WS single-column conference format available either at (for the Overleaf template) https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw or (for the offline version) http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip

Submission will be peer-reviewed and single-blind. The authors of the accepted papers will have the possibility to decide whether the paper will appear or not in the CEUR Workshop Series Proceedings.

Submission will be through the submission system at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IIR2024/

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IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission deadline: June 15th, 2024
• Notification of acceptance: August 7th, 2024
• Camera-ready deadline: August 23th, 2024
• IIR 2024: September 5th-6th, 2024

Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59 pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone.

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ORGANIZATION

• General Chairs: Eddy Maddalena and Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine)
• Program Chairs: Kevin Roitero (University of Udine) and Marco Viviani (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• Proceedings co-chairs: David La Barbera (University of Udine), Sandip Modha (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• Best Paper Award Chair: Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano-Bicocca)
• Local Organization Chair: Francesca Da Ros (University of Udine)
• Website Chair: Michael Soprano (University of Udine)

[Marco Viviani]

[Apologies for multiple postings][ECIR 2025][ROMCIR 2025]

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ROMCIR 2025: The 5th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

Co-located with ECIR 2025: The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Lucca, Italy | April 10, 2025

Workshop website: https://romcir.disco.unimib.it

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2025
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The fifth edition of ROMCIR concerns providing access to users to (topically) relevant and factually accurate information, to 

mitigate the human-generated or AI-generated information disorder phenomenon concerning distinct domains. 

By "information disorder" we mean all forms of communication pollution, from misinformation made out of ignorance, automatically 

built based on biased content, to intentional sharing of false content (generated both manually and automatically).

In this context, all those approaches that can serve to assess the factual accuracy of information circulating online and 

in social media in particular find their place. This topic is very broad, as it concerns different contents (e.g., Web pages,

news, reviews, medical information, online accounts, etc.), different Web and social media platforms (e.g., microblogging 

platforms, social networking services, social question-answering systems, etc.), different purposes (e.g., identifying false 

information, accessing information based on its truthfulness, retrieving truthful information, etc.), and different open issues 

related in particular to AI (e.g., explainability of search results, assessment of the truthfulness of automatically generated 

content, generative models to support IRSs, etc.).

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THEMES

The themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

*  Access to and retrieval of truthful information

*  Bot/spam/troll detection

*  Computational fact-checking
*  Credibility assessment of online documents

*  Crowdsourcing for information truthfulness assessment

*  Disinformation/misinformation/bias detection

*  Evaluation strategies to assess information truthfulness
*  Generative models and information truthfulness assessment

*  Human-in-the-loop misinformation detection

*  Information polarization in online communities, echo chambers
*  Propaganda identification/analysis

*  Retrieval of credible and truthful information

*  Security, privacy, and information truthfulness

*  Societal reaction to misinformation
*  Stance detection
*  Trust and reputation

Data-driven approaches, supported by publicly available datasets, are more than welcome.

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CONTRIBUTIONS

The Workshop solicits the sending of two types of contributions relevant to the Workshop and suitable to generate 

discussion:

*  Original, unpublished contributions (pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible) that will be included in an open-access 

post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/), indexed by both Scopus and DBLP.
*  Already published or preliminary work that will not be included in the post-proceedings volume.

All submissions will undergo SINGLE-BLIND peer review by the Program Committee.

Submissions are to be done electronically through the EasyChair at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2025

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submissions must be:

*  Regular papers: between 10 and 14 pages long

*  Short papers: Between 5 and 9 pages long

We recommend that authors use the new CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published:

*  An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at: 

https://www.overleaf.com/project/671e05abc213fddad9644a94

*  An offline version with the style files including DOCX template files is available at: 

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip

*  The paper must contain, as the name of the conference: ROMCIR 2025: The 5th Workshop 

on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (held as part of ECIR 

2025: The 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval), April 10, 2025, Lucca, Italy
*  The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English (e.g., Example of a Title of a Paper Correctly Capitalized)

*  Please, choose the one-column template

*  According to CEUR-WS policy, the papers will be published under a CC BY 4.0 license:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

If the paper is accepted, authors will be asked to sign (at pen) an author agreement with CEUR:

*  In case you do not employ Third-Party Material (TPM) in your draft, sign the document at:
https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04
*  If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at:
https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04

For further information: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html

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IMPORTANT DATES (AoE)

*  Abstract submission: January 05, 2025
*  Paper submission: January 12, 2025
*  Decision notification: February 16, 2025
*  Workshop day: April 10, 2025

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ORGANIZERS

*  Udo Kruschwitz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/udo-kruschwitz-57106b5/), University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

*  Marinella Petrocchi (https://www.iit.cnr.it/en/marinella.petrocchi/), IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy
*  Marco Viviani (https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

[Marco Viviani]

[Aplogies for multiple postings]

Workshop AI, Misinformazione e Disinformazione

23 giugno 2025

Il fenomeno della proliferazione e diffusione di contenuti falsi nell’ecosistema digitale rappresenta una delle sfide più significative per la società contemporanea. La crescente quantità di contenuti generati dall’Intelligenza Artificiale (IA) e diffusi online rende questo scenario ancora più complesso. Gli strumenti di IA generativa possono manipolare le narrazioni, amplificare i pregiudizi (bias) e adattare la mis/disinformazione a specifiche categorie di utenti, rendendo sempre più difficile orientarsi nel panorama informativo.

Allo stesso tempo, l'IA può fornire strumenti per identificare e contrastare la diffusione della mis/disinformazione, aiutando a rilevare incongruenze, a identificare possibili fonti di disinformazione e supportare i processi di verifica. Conriferimento al potenziale ruolo dell’IA nella diffusione e nel contrasto della disinformazione, l'obiettivo di questo workshop è esplorare come l'IA possa essere utilizzata per rafforzare l'integrità dell'informazione.

Argomenti di Interesse

Tra gli argomenti di particolare interesse per il workshop, si annoverano i seguenti, pur non essendo limitati a questi:

• Verifica dei fatti (fact-checking) supportata dall'IA e rilevamento di campagne di disinformazione
• Usi, pratiche e strumenti dell'IA nel giornalismo per effettuare fact-checking
• Studi qualitativi e quantitativi sulla mis/disinformazione
• Caratterizzazione e rilevamento dei bot
• Etica e diritto nella mis/disinformazione
• Identificazione di contenuti fabbricati e manipolati (es. deepfake, audio, testo generato)
• Rilevamento di contenuti falsi multimodali
• Rilevamento e caratterizzazione delle comunità nelle reti sociali (es. teorie del complotto, camere d’eco)
• Sistemi di raccomandazione e mis/disinformazione
• Algoritmi e metodi basati sull’uso di grafi e di conoscenza per l’identificazione di mis/disinformazione
• Algoritmi e metodi basati su reti neurali profonde (deep learning) per l’identificazione di mis/disinformazione

Organizzazione

Comitato organizzativo:

• Stefano Mizzaro, Università degli Studi di Udine
• Gabriella Pasi, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Membri del comitato di programma:

• David La Barbera, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
• Sandip Modha, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
• Kevin Roitero, Università degli Studi di Udine
• Michael Soprano, Università degli Studi di Udine
• Marco Viviani, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Istruzioni per la sottomissione dei contributi

• I contributi devono avere valenza tecnica e scientifica, e devono preferibilmente riferirsi a progetti in corso o avere un taglio applicativo in relazione al workshop.
• I contributi, la presentazione ed il poster possono essere redatti sia in lingua italiana che inglese.
• I contributi devono essere di almeno 2 e di massimo 6 pagine (incluso References) e devono essere redatti seguendo i dei template (LaTeX o Word) che seguano il formato CEUR-WS:
  Template CEUR-WS
  Si ricorda inoltre:
  • I contributi dovranno essere redatti in lingua inglese e con una lunghezza di almeno 5 pagine per poter essere pubblicati sui proceeding CEUR-WS. In fase di submission sarà necessario specificare che si intende pubblicare suiproceeding CEUR-WS
  • I contributi in lingua italiana o di lunghezza inferiore a 5 pagine saranno invece resi disponibili sul sito del workshop
• Ogni contributo dovrà essere coperto da almeno una registrazione.

Maggiori informazioni: https://www.ital-ia2025.it/submission.html

[Marco Viviani]

ROMCIR 2026: The 6th International Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval

Co-located with ECIR 2026: The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR2026). 

April 2, 2026. Delft, The Netherlands.

Workshop website: https://romcir.disco.unimib.it (active in a few days)

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2026 (active in a few days)

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Now in its sixth edition, the ROMCIR Workshop concerns providing information access systems to mitigate the human-generated or AI-generated information disorder phenomenon concerning distinct domains. By "information disorder" we mean all forms of communication pollution, from misinformation made out of ignorance, automatically built based on biased content, to intentional sharing of false content (generated both manually and automatically).

In this context, all those approaches that aim to assess the factual accuracy (or other reliability-related relevance dimensions) of information circulating online, and particularly on social media, find their place. This topic is very broad, as it concerns different contents (e.g., Web pages, news, reviews, medical information, online accounts, etc.), different Web and social media platforms (e.g., microblogging platforms, social networking services, social question-answering systems, etc.), different purposes (e.g., identifying false information, accessing information based on its truthfulness, retrieving truthful information, hallucination detection, etc.), and different open issues related in particular to AI (e.g., explainability of search results, assessment of the truthfulness of automatically generated content, generative models to support IRSs, etc.).

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THEMES

The themes of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

    * Access to and retrieval of reliable information

    * Bot/spam/troll detection

    * Computational fact-checking

    * Credibility assessment of online documents

    * Crowdsourcing for information truthfulness assessment

    * Disinformation/misinformation/bias detection

    * Evaluation strategies to assess information truthfulness

    * Generative models and information truthfulness assessment

    * Human-in-the-loop misinformation detection

    * Information polarization in online communities, echo chambers

    * Propaganda identification/analysis

    * Query reformulation strategies for truthful IR

    * Search patterns and simulation strategies for information verification

    * Security, privacy, and information truthfulness

    * Societal reaction to misinformation

    * Stance detection

    * Trust and reputation

Data-driven approaches, supported by publicly available datasets, are more than welcome.

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CONTRIBUTIONS

The Workshop solicits the sending of two types of contributions relevant to the Workshop and suitable to generate discussion:

*  Original, unpublished contributions (pre-prints submitted to ArXiv are eligible) that will be included in an open-access post-proceedings volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/), indexed by both Scopus and DBLP.

*  Already published or preliminary work that will not be included in the post-proceedings volume.

All submissions will undergo SINGLE-BLIND peer review by the Program Committee.

Submissions are to be done electronically through the EasyChair at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=romcir2026 (active in a few days)

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submissions must be:

*  Regular papers: between 10 and 14 pages long

*  Short papers: Between 5 and 9 pages long

We recommend that authors use the new CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published.

*  An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at: 

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw

*  An offline version with the style files including DOCX template files is available at: 

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip

*  The paper must contain the name of the conference “ROMCIR 2026: The 6th Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval (held as part of ECIR 2026: The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval). April 2, 2026. Delft, The Netherlands.”

*  The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English (e.g., Example of a Title of a Paper Correctly Capitalized)

*  Please, choose the one-column template

*  According to CEUR-WS policy, the papers will be published under a CC BY 4.0 license:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

If the paper is accepted, authors will be asked to sign (at pen) an author agreement with CEUR:

*  In case you do not employ Third-Party Material (TPM) in your draft, sign the document at:

https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04

*  If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at:

https://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2024-06-04

For further information: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html

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IMPORTANT DATES (AoE)

*  Abstract submission: January 07, 2026

*  Paper submission: January 14, 2026

*  Decision notification: February 16, 2026

*  Workshop day: April 2, 2026

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ORGANIZERS

*  Marcos Fernandez-Pichel, Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes (CiTIUS), University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

*  Marinella Petrocchi, CNR-IIT, Pisa, Italy

*  Kevin Roitero, University of Udine, Italy

*  Marco Viviani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy