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The 8th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry (EDI40)
Patras, Greece
April 22-24, 2025
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Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-25/
Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-25/#workshop

Important Dates
- Workshops Proposals Due: October 28, 2024
- Paper Submission Due: November 20, 2024
- Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2025
- Camera-Ready Submission: February 9, 2025

EDI40 2025 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 of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), by Computing and Informatics (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)

EDI40 2025 will be held in Patra Greece. Patra is Greece's third largest, and the regional capital and largest city of western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, 215 km west of Athens. As of the 2021 census, the municipality of Patras has a population of 215,922, while the urban population is 173.600. Patras and its region are home to various Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Monuments including the Roman Odeon, the Fortress of Rio, and the Castle of Patras. Patras is a relatively newly built city, as its medieval buildings were destroyed in the Greek War of Independence. The Patras Carnival is the largest event of its kind in Greece and one of the biggest in Europe, with a heritage reaching back 160 years.

Patras is an important educational center in Greece, home to several institutions of higher education, including the prestigious University of Patras, which is the third largest university in Greece with the respect to the size of the student body, the staff, and the number of departments. and most respected universities. The university of Patras is considered one of the top-ranked universities in Greece and has been placed in the top 200 universities in subject areas. In 2019, the student population was more than 33,000 (29,901 at the undergraduate level and 3,931 at the postgraduate level).

EDI40 will be held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT).

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

Local Chairs
John Gialelis, University of Patras, Greece
Dimitrios Zavantis, AGEAN motorway, Greece

International Journals Chair
Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia

Publicity Chairs
Anas Al-Rahamneh, Public University of Navarre, Spain
Ali Benzerbadj, University of Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria
Siddardha Kaja, Air Canada, Canada

Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-25/#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