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The 7th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry (EDI40)
Hasselt, Belgium
April 23-25, 2024
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Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-24/

Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-24/#workshop


Important Dates

- Workshops Proposals Due: October 20, 2023
- Paper Submission Due: December 4, 2023 (Extended)
- Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2024
- Camera-Ready Submission: February 9, 2024

EDI40 2024 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 of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), by Computing and Informatics (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)

EDI40 2024 will be held in Hasselt, Belgium. EDI40 2024 is co-organized & co-hosted by the Hasselt University, Belgium. Since 1973 Hasselt University is located on the Campus Diepenbeek, which occupies an attractive 150 acre site in the middle of Limburg's green belt. It is 2 kms west of the town centre of Diepenbeek, a residential town of 17.717 inhabitants, and 4 kms east of Hasselt which has a population of about 69.529 and is the administrative and commercial centre of the province. Brussels is 90 kms away (to the South-West), Antwerp lies 90 kms to the West, Liège (in the French-speaking part of Belgium) 45 kms to the South, Maastricht (in the Netherlands) 25 kms to the East, Aachen (in Germany) 60 kms to the South-East.

EDI40 will be held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2024).

Conference Tracks

- Benefits of Industry 4.0/6.0
- 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 4.0/6.0
- General Track: Digitalization Startegies

General Chair

Danny Hughes, CTO VeraSense NV, Belgium

Program Chairs

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

Workshops Chair

Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program

International Journals Chair

Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia

Publicity Chairs

Ali Benzerbadj, University of Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria
Siddardha Kaja, Air Canada, Canada
Sohail Jabbar, The University of Faisalabad, Pakistan
Dimitrios Zavantis, AGEAN motorway, Greece

Technical Program Committee

http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-24/#programCommittees

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 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