The International Workshop on Computing for Pandemics (COMPandemics2020)

October 19th - 22nd, 2020 – Valencia, Spain Online Presentations!

Colocated with

The International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2020)

Welcome to The International Workshop on Computing for Pandemics (COMPandemics2020)

COVID-19 Update:

The organizing team is closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 situation. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. Considering the current circumstances, COMPandemics2020 will run virtually and the registration fees will be reduced accordingly.

Call for Papers

Epidemics and Pandemics, such as COVID-19, have great bad impact on medical, social, educational and economical life. To reduce this impact and learn how to early detect and manage future pandemics, great efforts are needed from researchers from different fields form academia and industry. Computing and AI are playing vital rules in our everyday life and can be very useful in dealing with pandemics. The international workshop on Computing for Pandemics is an international forum that aims to give researchers from different fields the opportunity to present their contributions to the field. We solicit contributions covering various topics in the field that include but are not limited to:

  • Early detection of pandemics
  • Modeling spreading of the pandemic
  • Social media analysis for pandemics
  • Pandemic Medical data analysis
  • CAD for Pandemic infection diagnosis
  • Intelligent Mobile Applications for Pandemic
  • Pandemic Surveillance systems
  • IoT for Pandemics
  • Pandemic Data anonymization
  • Pandemic Data collection
  • Pandemic infection tracking
  • Management solutions for Pandemics
  • AI for Pandemics

Organization Committee

  • Mohammad Alsmirat, University of Sharjah, UAE
  • Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain
  • Yaser Jaraweh, Duquesne University, USA
  • Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE
  • Hajer Braham, Orange Labs, France

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Will be announced soon.

Authors Submission Guidelines:

Submission Site:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compandemics2020

Paper format

Submitted papers (.pdf format) must use the A4 IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. Please remember to add Keywords to your submission.

Length

Submitted papers may be 6 to 8 pages. Up to two additional pages may be added for references. The reference pages must only contain references. Overlength papers will be rejected without review.

Originality

Papers submitted to COMPandemics must be the original work of the authors. The may not be simultaneously under review elsewhere. Publications that have been peer-reviewed and have appeared at other conferences or workshops may not be submitted to COMPandemics. Authors should be aware that IEEE has a strict policy with regard to plagiarism https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism-faq.html The authors' prior work must be cited appropriately.

Author list

Please ensure that you submit your papers with the full and final list of authors in the correct order. The author list registered for each submission is not allowed to be changed in any way after the paper submission deadline.

Proofreading:

Please proofread your submission carefully. It is essential that the language use in the paper is clear and correct so that it is easily understandable. (Either US English or UK English spelling conventions are acceptable.)

Publication:

All accepted papers in COMPandemics2020 and the workshops colocated with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore for possible publication.

Program

The program will be announced with the IDSTA2020 program at http://intelligenttech.org/IDSTA2020/program.php

Venue

For venue and acomodoation information, please visit http://intelligenttech.org/IDSTA2020/venue.php

Registration

For registration information, please visit http://intelligenttech.org/IDSTA2020/registration.php

Camera Ready

For registration information, please visit http://intelligenttech.org/IDSTA2020/cameraready.php