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The 5th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40)
Porto, Portugal
March 22-25, 2022
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Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-22/
Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-22/#workshop

Important Dates
- Workshops Proposals Due: October 1, 2021
- Paper Submission Due: November 1, 2021
- Acceptance Notification: December 30, 2021
- Camera-Ready Submission: January 27, 2022


EDI40 2022 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of:

- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 4.594), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)
- International Journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF:3.006), Springer (https://www.springer.com/journal/779)
- International Journal on Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 3.992), by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice/)
- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), by Computing and Informatics (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)


EDI40 2022 will be held in Porto, Portugal. Porto is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula. Porto is also called the Invicta because during the 19th century Portuguese civil war, the city withstood a siege of over a year.The urban area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the city, has a population of 2.1 million in an area of 389 km2 (150 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a gamma- level global city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, the only Portuguese city besides Lisbon to be recognized as a global city.
EDI40 will be held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2022).

Conference Tracks
- Benefits of Industry 4.0
- Big Data and Analytics
- Cloud Computing
- Cognitive Computing
- Computational Intelligence
- Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
- Fog Computing and Edge Computing
- Internet of Everything (IoE)
- Standards for IoT Application Integration
- The New Business Models in Industry 4.0
- General Track: Digitalization Startegies

Committees
General Chair
Danny Hughes, CTO VeraSense NV, Belgium

Program Chairs
Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA

Local Chair
Nuno Varandas, F6S (Where Founders Grow Together), Portugal

Workshops Chair
Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program

Advisory Committee
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Ladislav Hluchy, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia
Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA

International Journals Chair
Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia

Publicity Chairs
Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium
Siddardha Kaja, Acadia University, Canada
Faouzi Kammoun, Ecole Supérieure Privée d'Ingénierie et de Technologies, Tunis
Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland

Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-22/#programCommittees

International Liaison Chairs
Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada
Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Steering Committee Chair and Founder
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada