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The 6th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry (EDI40)
Leuven, Belgium
March 15-17, 2023
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Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-23/
Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-23/#workshop

Important Dates
- Workshops Proposals Due: September 15, 2022
- Paper Submission Due: November 15, 2022
- Acceptance Notification: December 12, 2022
- Camera-Ready Submission: January 9, 2023


EDI40 2023 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 2023 will be held in Leuven, Belgium. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world.

Leuven's Town Hall is one of the best-known Gothic town halls worldwide and Leuven's pride and joy. It took three architects and thirty years to build it. Leuven's 'Hall of Fame' features 236 statues, which were only added to the façade after 1850. There are 220 men and 16 women in total. On the bottom floor are famous Leuven scientists, artists and historical figures, dressed in Burgundian garb. The first floor is reserved for the patron saints of the various parishes of Leuven. Above them the façade is adorned by the counts and dukes of Brabant while the towers primarily feature biblical figures.

EDI40 will be held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2023).

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
Olivier Debauche, University of Mons, Belgium
Siddardha Kaja, Air Canada, Canada
Sohail Jabbar, The University of Faisalabad, Pakistan

Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-23/#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