Graduate Symposium

ICTH 2023 brings together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from both academia and industry, who are involved in the fields of computing / information technology and healthcare. It encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent and significant developments and promising future trends of ICT based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of healthcare / medical care, and other similar domains, such as public health and pharmaceutical industry. The ICTH-2023 will be held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN)..

The graduate symposium will be held during the main EUSPN 2023 conference. The goal is to provide constructive feedback and guidance to graduate students who are performing their dissertation research in all fields related to ubiquitous systems and pervasive networks, i.e., Ad hoc and Pervasive Networks, Adaptive Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications, Big Data and Big Data Science, Cloud, Cluster, Grid and Social Computing, Emerging Pervasive/Ubiquitous Technologies, Intelligent Traffic and Transportation Systems, Internet of Things, Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications, Security, Privacy, and Trust, Semantic Web Technologies, etc. Students will be able to discuss their goals, methods, and results at an early stage in their research. The symposium aims to provide students with useful guidance and feedback on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other student attendees. The graduate symposium also seeks to support the students in the development of their natural scientific curiosity and to facilitate their networking within the scientific community.

Scope

The symposium will serve both Masters and PhD students. It is advisable that students should consider participating in the graduate symposium after they have settled on a dissertation topic with some initial research results. Students should be at least a year from completion of their dissertation (at the time of the Symposium), to obtain maximum benefit from participation. We invite the following students at different stages to submit, four (4) pages, abstracts to the Graduate Symposium.

Students at an initial stage (PhD first and second year) should show evidence that they are concretizing their research question and approach. These students will be asked to participate into exercises and discussions that enable them to think critically about their ideas.

Students at a mature stage (MSc final year and PhD third and fourth year) should have (or are going to) publish their first paper on a concrete research question and approach. These students will be asked to present a talk about their work and will get feedback.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Due:
• Acceptance Notification:
• Camera-Ready Submission:

Review Process

There will be a screening process based on a short research summary. The following criteria will be considered:

• Quality of the research
• Relevance of the research
• Quality of the summary, diversity of background, research topic, and approach
• Stage of the research

Therefore, the summary should include the following issues:

• The problem to be addressed by the thesis
• The research hypothesis
• The expected contributions of your dissertation research
• The proposed research approach
• Summary of results to date

Paper Format

The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Template Generic, Elsevier.

Paper Length

Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 5 pages including all figures, tables and references.

Paper Submission

Paper Submission

Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference management system in PDF format. Please submit your paper by selecting "Graduate Symposium" Track

The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date.

Acceptance

Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted research abstracts will be asked to complete a Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera-ready versions. All accepted research abstracts will be included in the EUSPN-2023 proceedings.

Registration

Accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. An author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work. The registration fee of accepted papers will be reduced by 25% of the regular registration fees.

Technical Committee Members

Nauman Aslam, Northumbria University, UK
Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South Africa
Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey
Stéphane Galland, UTBM, France
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada
Zahoor Khan, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE
Haroon, Malik, Marshall University, USA
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia

Contact

Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada (Email: elhadi.shakshuki At acadiau.ca)
Ansar Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium (Email: ansar.yasar At uhasselt.be)