CITS 2023: The 2023 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems

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The 2023 International Conference on Computer, Information, and Telecommunication Systems, CITS 2023, is an international forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research and development results in all areas of Computer, Information, and Telecommunication Systems, CITS.

The conference will feature tutorials, technical paper presentations, and distinguished keynote speeches. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

Extended versions of selected accepted papers from the conference will be published in special issue(s)/Section(s) of International Journal of Communication Systems (SCI indexed) and Security and Privacy Journal (Wiley).

Technical co-sponsor

Important Dates

• Invited sessions, workshops, tutorials proposals: Extended to May 22, 2023
• Paper submission: Extended to May 22, 2023
• Author notification: June 15, 2023
• Camera-ready paper submission: July 1, 2023

You can download a one-page Call For Papers (CFP) as well as the General Chairs' Message and Conference Program (1.0 MB).

Please, follow instructions given in the detailed final paper preparation and submission instructions available for authors.

Papers should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 8 printed pages (10-point font, A4 size paper) including figures. For your submission you can use the standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at:

https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html (Remember: A4 size)

Papers must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF) format, using the following EDAS link:

https://edas.info/N30307

Important Notice:

Papers are reviewed on the basis that they do not contain plagiarized material and have not been submitted to any other conference at the same time (multiple submission). To learn more about this matter; visit:

• IEEE Policy on Plagiarism
• IEEE Policy on Multiple Submission

CITS 2023 Conference Registration

CITS 2023 will be held in person in the period July 10-July 12, 2023. Those authors who will not be allowed to travel abroad by strict national rules in force at the time of the conference or have other serious reasons accepted by the organizers will be given an opportunity to present their accepted work remotely.

Authors can only register with two payment options: credit card and bank wire (through EDAS). Registrations cover: Access to all technical sessions and keynote speeches, e-program and e-proceedings, coffee during breaks, one badge, two lunch tickets and one banquet ticket.

Please read CANCELLATION POLICY first before you pay for the registration.

FOR AUTHORS:

All attendees at CITS 2023 should make the registration. To be published in the CITS 2023 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore, at least one author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the FULL registration rate.

One FULL REGISTRATION allows the author to upload ONE paper (up to 8 pages) and the Non-refundable registration fees must be paid by July 1, 2023.

CANCELLATION POLICY:

• For Author Refunds: Authors who have registered their accepted paper are not eligible for refund if decided to withdraw their paper.
• For Non-authors, from July 1, 2023 onwards, there will be No Refund for cancellation.

¹ Until/from 12am (midnight) EST

² IEEE members must keep updated their society memberships in EDAS.

How to register for CITS 2023

1. Go to the CITS 2023 Registration at EDAS (sign in or, if you do not have an EDAS account, sign up)
   • Members of IEEE must keep updated their society membership in EDAS (check the "update your society memberships" link) in order to register with reduced charges
   • Please specify your dietary constraints or special needs in "My Profile"
2. Click "Icon" of Payment by Credit Cards or Bank Wire
3. Enter necessary card details as well as VAT numbers or other details for your invoice; then click the button of "PAY"
   • For Bank Wire, it takes a while for the EDAS system to update your payment status (Important Reminder: please pay "All Bank's Charges If Any Are To Be Born" by yourself!)
4. Any problem occurs in EDAS, please Click "Request help" (on the bottom line of the page) and EDAS staff will reply to you ASAP.

• Franco Davoli, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
• Mohammad S. Obaidat, Univ. of Texas, USA & Univ. of Jordan, Jordan (Chair)
• Jose L. Sevillano, Univ. of Seville, Spain
• George A. Tsihrintzis, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece
• Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada

• Hamid Arabnia, Univ. of Georgia, USA
• Georgia Beletsioti, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Jalel Ben Othman, CentraleSupélec & Univ. of Sorbonne Paris Nord, France
• Luca Caviglione, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
• Ashok Kumar Das, IIIT, Hyderabad, India
• Franco Davoli, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Ashraf Elnagar, Sharjah Univ., UAE
• Stefano Giordano, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
• Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy
• Jose Luis Guisado, Univ. de Sevilla, Spain
• Elbakoury Hesham, Independent Consultant,
• Konstantinos Kantelis, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Helen Karatza, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Georgios Keramidas, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Abdelmajid Khelil, Landshut Univ. of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Abdelatif Kobbane, ENSIAS, Mohammed V Univ. in Rabat, Morocco
• Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
• Farid Nait-Abdesselam, Univ. of Missouri Kansas City, USA
• Fabio Patrone, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Jun Peng, UTRGV - Edinburg, TX, USA
• Sophia Petridou, Univ. of Macedonia, Greece
• Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Federal Univ. of Piauí (UFPI), Brazil
• Angel-Antonio San-Blas, Univ. of Elche, Spain
• Georgios Stavrinides, KIOS CoE, Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Eleftherios Tiakas, International Hellenic Univ., Greece
• George Tsihrintzis, Univ. of Piraeus, Greece
• Anastasios Valkanis, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Demosthenes Vouyioukas, Univ. of the Aegean, Greece
• Gang Wang, MaxLinear Inc., USA
• Jay Wang, , USA
• Bin Xiao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., USA
• Sherali Zeadally, Univ. of Kentucky, USA

Simulation for the invention of new services: the case of active fluid dynamics

Bio

Stefano Giordano is full professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa where he is the responsible of the Telecommunication Networks Laboratories giving lectures both at the University of Pisa and the Italian Navy Academy. He is senior member of the IEEE Comsoc and at present vice-chair of the Tactile Internet TC; he was Chair of the Communication Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) Technical Committee. He is author of more that 300 papers on peer reviewed international conferences and journals on the practical and theoretical aspect of modern networks including SDN, NFV and IoT. He was the responsible for the participation of the University of Pisa to the Euro-NGI (Next Generation Internet in Europe) Network of Excellence. He is deeply involved in new educational activities ranging from the International Master Program in Computer Science and Networking of the University of Pisa (where he is the president) to the Pre-University Activities within the Educational Services Board of IEEE Comsoc where he was elected as representative of the TCs. He was contributing to the born and activities of several start-ups such as Natech, Nextworks, Netresults, Sintonica. He was co-founder of the CUBIT consortium where he is at present President of the board. Next year he will be the general co-chair of IEEE HPSR 2024 in Pisa.

Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence: Integration Issues, challenges and new opportunities

Bio

Floriano De Rango is Associate Prof. in Telecommunication and Networking at DIMES Dept., University of Calabria since 2017. He got the national habilitation as full Prof. in 2016 by Minister of University and Research (MIUR). He is Senior Member of the IEEE.

He was recipient of Young Researcher Award in 2007 for a Project on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) called ATENA (Autoconfiguring inTelligent vEhicular Network for urban Area). His interests include Internet of Things, Network Security, Distributed Intelligence, Adaptive Wireless Networks, Ad Hoc Networks, Pervasive Computing, Satellite networks, IP QoS architectures. He has been involved in the organization of many conferences in the following roles: Program Chair of Ambysis Conference in 2009, track chair in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks in Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS) 2011, Program chair in Simulation and Performance Evaluation in Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS) 2013-2014, track-chair of the Wireless Networks track in Wireless Days 2013 in Valencia, vice-General Chair in Summer Simulation Conference (SCS) 2015 in Chicago, track-chair of Wireless Communications track in Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC) 2015 in Las Vegas, General Chair of Summer Simulation Conference (SCS) 2016 in Montreal, Program Chair of Simultech 2017 in Madrid, Program Chair of Distributed Simulation and Real Time (DS-RT) 2018 in Madrid,  Program Chair of Simultech 2018 in Porto, Portugal, General Chair of Distributed Simulation and Real Time (DS-RT) 2019 in Rende (CS), Italy, Program Chair in Simultech 2020 in France (on-line streaming), Program chair of Distributed Simulation (DS-RT) 2020 in Prague, Czech Republic, Tutorial Chair in Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC) 2020 in Las Vegas, General Chair of Simultech 2021 (on-line steaming), Program Chair of Distributed Simulation and Real-Time (DS-RT) 2021 in Valencia, Spain, Program Chair in Wireless Days 2021 in Paris, France. General Chair of Simultech 2021-2023, General Chair of ICT-DM 2023 in Italy, Program Chair of MsWim 2023 in Montreal.

In Dec. 2020 he has been ranked in the Top 2% Computer Science World Scientist according to clarivate https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/2. In 2018 he has been ranked in the Top Italian Scientist VIA Academy.

He co-authored till now more than 300 papers in International Conferences and Journals. He is in the editorial board of some International Journals such as Internet Technology Letters (Wiley), Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (Hindawi), Sensors (MDPI), Electronics (MDPI).

He founded two companies: Spintel srl working in the field of IoT design for Home and Building Automation, Energy Saving Systems, for Smart Environment and for Remote Monitoring and Vonet srl working on AI applied at Natural Language Processing (NLP) and automatic responder systems.

Challenges, Objectives and Pathways towards a Green 6G

Bio

Chiara Lombardo received her Ph.D. in Electronics, Informatics, Robotics and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Genoa in 2014. Chiara is currently working as a researcher at the University of Genoa, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering, and Naval Architecture (DITEN) and was previously with the CNIT S2N National Laboratory, where she is still involved in most of the research and technical activities. She is currently the technical coordinator of the HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022 Research and Innovation Action 6Green and has previously worked in several H2020 and FP7 projects, including MATILDA, INPUT and ECONET. She has co-authored over 40 papers in international journals, book chapters and international conference proceedings. Her current research interests cover green networking, NFV, edge computing.

Towards the Convergence of IoT and Edge Computing: Opportunities and Challenges

Bio

Panagiotis Papadimitriou is an Associate Professor at the department of Applied Informatics in the University of Macedonia, Greece. Before that, he was an Assistant Professor at the Communications Technology Institute of Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, and a member of L3S research center in Hanover. Panagiotis received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, in 2008, a M.Sc Information Technology from University of Nottingham, UK, in 2001, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Crete, Greece, in 2000. He has been a (co-)PI in several EU-funded (e.g., NEPHELE, NECOS, T-NOVA, CONFINE) and nationally-funded projects (e.g., G-Lab VirtuRAMA, MESON). Panagiotis was a recipient of Best Paper Awards at IFIP WWIC 2012, IFIP WWIC 2016, and the runner-up Poster Award at ACM SIGCOMM 2009. He has co-chaired several international conferences and workshops, such as IFIP/IEEE CNSM 2022, IFIP Networking TENSOR 2020–2023, IEEE NetSoft S4SI 2020, IEEE CNSM SR+SFC 2018–2019, IFIP WWIC 2017–2016, and INFOCOM SWFAN 2016. Panagiotis is also an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, and a Senior Member of IEEE. His research activities include (next-generation) Internet architectures, network processing, AI-assisted service/resource orchestration, programmable dataplanes, time-sensitive networking (TSN), and edge computing.

Conference Venue

CITS 2023 will be held at the main historical building of the University of Genoa, via Balbi 5, 16126, Genoa, Italy.

Accommodation information

Here you can find the list of suggested hotels. Conference attendees should contact the selected hotel directly in order to make reservation.

• Grand Hotel Savoia (5 stars)

  Amongst the oldest hotels in Italy, the history of the Grand Hotel Savoia extends back 120 years, its ancient splendour having been restored thanks to a sophisticated restoration. Since 1897, our Guest Book has gathered the signatures of the most illustrious politicians, artists, actors and musicians who have chosen the atmospheres of the Grand Hotel Savoia, a true jewel of the Belle Époque. During the warmer months, enjoy a rich breakfast on the terrace, backdropped by the roofs of Genoa glimmering in the morning light, merging with the blue of the sea.

  The hotel is located right in the historic centre, just 50 metres from the Genova Piazza Principe train station and 5 minutes by walk to the Conference Venue.

  Website: https://www.grandhotelsavoiagenova.it/en/

• Hotel Continental (4 stars)

  The Hotel Continental in Genoa overlooks Piazza Principe, a few minutes' walk from the ancient harbour. Treat yourself to a unique stay amidst the historic sights of the city, in an utterly charming atmosphere. The hotel, with its elegant and simple lines, creates a perfect union between the historicity of a late-19th century building and the modernity of the furnishings. The colourful velvet and precious marble of the lobby reflect the warm atmosphere of the completely-renovated rooms, upholding the Art Nouveau style of the architecture.

  The hotel is located right in the historic centre, just 50 metres from the Genova Piazza Principe train station and 5 minutes by walk to the Conference Venue.

  Website: https://www.hotelcontinentalgenova.it/en/

• Hotel NH Genova Centro (4 stars)

  The hotel is located in the Genoa Harbor, next to the Darsena metro station and 10 minutes by walk to the Conference Venue.

  Website: https://www.nh-hotels.com/hotels/genoa

• Hotel Bellevue (3 stars)

  The hotel is located right in the historic centre, just 50 metres from the Genova Piazza Principe train station and 5 minutes by walk to the Conference Venue.

  Website: https://hotelbellevuegenova.it/en/

• Hotel Helvetia (3 stars)

  The hotel is located in an ancient building dating back to 1585 in the heart of the city of Genoa, in the historic Piazza della Nunziata 1.

  The hotel is located right in the historic centre, 10 minutes by walk from the Genova Piazza Principe train station and 2 minutes by walk to the Conference Venue.

  Website: https://www.hotelhelvetiagenova.it/en/

• Best Western Hotel Porto Antico (3 stars)

  Located inside an ancient medieval palace, the Best Western Hotel Porto Antico is a three-star hotel inspired by the most authentic style of the maritime soul of the city of Genoa. It has fifty comfortable and cozy rooms that are immersed in the red and white shades of its design.

  The hotel is located next to the Genoa Harbor, 5 minutes by walk from the Darsena metro station and 5 minutes by walk to the Conference Venue.

  Website: https://www.hotelportoantico.it/en/home-page.aspx

Travel Information

Genoa can be reached by plane (Genoa airport Cristoforo Colombo). You can reach the Conference venue and the suggested hotels from the Genoa airport through a 15-20 minutes taxi ride or the public bus “Volabus” (from airport to Piazza Principe stop, see https://www.amt.genova.it/amt/trasporto-multimodale/volabus/english-version/).

Genoa can be also reached by train from all the Italian main cities, such as Milan. The train stop closest to the Conference venue and the suggested hotels is Genova Piazza Principe.If your accommodation is not near Piazza Principe, you can reach Piazza Principe by metro (Piazza Principle stop) and then reach the conference venue by walk in 5 minutes.

Help to promote CITS 2023

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More attendees means better discussions and a richer experience for everyone.

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