The 36th FRUCT conference is organized together by the FRUCT Association, Lappeenranta University of Technology, IEEE Finland, and IEEE. The conference will be held in a hybrid format, i.e., both on-site and online participation are allowed.

Conference overview:
FRUCT conference is a high-quality scientific event for meeting academia and business people and setting up projects. The average conference is attended by 120+ participants from academia and industry. The average acceptance rate is 40%. Traditionally the conference attracts the most active and talented students to present their R&D projects, meet interesting colleagues, create new teams, and find employers and investors. The conference invites world-class academic and industrial experts to lecture on the hottest topics. We welcome everybody to submit papers and take part in the conference, presenting your research results. The FRUCT conference allows both onsite and online participation.
The conference offers a low registration fee. For further details please refer to http://www.fruct.org/registration.

If you never attended FRUCT before, please refer to the program of one of the previous FRUCT conferences, e.g., https://fruct.org/program34. This way you can make your own impression about the scope, scale, and quality of the conference.

The list of conference topics:
Artificial Intelligence in Text Analysis and Generation
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation
Big Data, Knowledge Management, Data Mining Systems
Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing and Engineering, HPC
Coding Theory, DevOps and DevSecOps Technologies
Commercialization of Technologies and Digital Economy
Emerging Wireless Technologies, 5G and beyond
Gamification, E-learning and Smart Data in Education
Internet of Things: Apps and Enabling Technologies
Location Based Services: Navigation, Logistics, Tourism
Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies
Predictive Analytics, Probability and Statistics
Wearable Electronics: Novel Architectures and Solutions
Workshop: Investigating and Mitigating Climate Changes
Algorithms and Modeling
Artificial Intelligence Applications
Audio Pattern Recognition, Semantic Audio
Blockchain Technology and Applications
Computer Vision, Image & Video Processing
Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence
e-Health and Wellbeing
Intelligence, Social Mining and Web
Networks and Applications
Security and Privacy
Smart Systems and Embedded Networks
Software Design, Innovative Applications
Workshop: The DataWorld
Workshop: Investigating and mitigating climate changes


Submissions:
You can select one of the following 3 types of submissions:
- Full papers (min 6 full pages and up to 12 pages), deadline: 9 September 2024;
- Short papers (min 2 pages, max 6 pages), deadline: 9 September 2024;
- Poster or demo summary (min 200 words, max 4 pages), deadline: 18 October 2024.

Traditionally FRUCT doesn't provide deadline extension, instead, we have an early-bird submissions mechanism. The Early-bird submission provides authors with a unique opportunity for early review of the papers, and if needed, the authors can fix the paper according to the review comments and resubmit it before the final deadline. It significantly increases the chance of getting your paper accepted, as this way you always will have a second chance to improve the paper and get another round of review.

The Early bird submission deadline is 9 August 2024.

All papers get blind peer review by the Technical Committee. We use the IEEE paper template and Full Paper submissions shall have at least 6 full pages.

Full papers to be published in the FRUCT proceedings (ISSN 2305-7254), included in IEEE Xplore, and indexed by Scopus, DBLP, Web of Science, ACM, and RSCI (VAK list). FRUCT series is included in Scimago Journal Rank (SJR, http://scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21100305223&tip=sid), AMiner, CORE, and DOAJ (https://doaj.org/toc/2343-0737).

FRUCT has a high rating in national systems, e.g., Finnish (JUFO=1, JufoID: 72707), Norwegian (NSD=1), Danish (BFI=1, ID: 8782540).

The selected papers get an invitation to submit an extended version of the paper for publication in Scopus-indexed partner journals.

Venue:
The conference will be held at the Lappeenranta University of Lappeenranta in the beautiful lake region of Finland. The location has a good bus connection with the Helsinki International Airport, plus several low-cost airlines flying directly to Lappeenranta. We hope that this time a large part of the conference will be held in a classic face-to-face life format.

The conference also allows online participation. If you cannot come you still can join us online. But we hope that this time a significant part of the conference sections will be held in a classic face-to-face format. Come and enjoy it! We are looking forward to meeting you in Tampere!

Have an opportunity to enjoy a great conference, and Finnish hospitality, see real Finland, and set up new contacts with colleagues from Lappeenranta University of Technology and other top world universities.

Submit your paper today at https://www.fruct.org/submit

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