Call for Special Session Papers

The 30th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) 2025
https://www.ieice.org/cs/apcc/

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Regular/special paper submission: July 31, 2025 (FIRM)
Tutorial proposal submission: July 31, 2025
Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2025
Camera-ready submission: October 15, 2025
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The 30th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC 2025) will be
held at I-site Namba in Osaka, Japan, during November 26-28, 2025.
The following two special sessions have been approved. We invite you to
contribute your original work on these special sessions:

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SS1. Ambient Intelligence for Smart City
Aim and scope
The global population, particularly the urban population has been increasing, which causes a lot of issues for cities, such as congestion and increased demand for resources, including energy, water, sanitation, education, and healthcare services. A smart city has been expected a lot to solve those issues. The concept of a smart city is not new. Due to the progress of artificial intelligence (AI) and information and communication technology (ICT), including the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data (BD), the concept of a smart city has been being realized in various aspects. This special session aims to present recent advances in smart city, including various fundamental technologies helping to realize smart city and its applications.

Organizer
Organizer: Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Keio University, Japan

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SS2. Alternative Radio Efficiency: Semantic communications and ML-based semantic video transfer
Aim and scope
The amount of information that needs to be transmitted is increasing, and there is a growing demand for more efficient utilization of radio resources. In order to convey information accurately while also increasing the volume of transmitted data, new technologies are expected to replace traditional information theory-based data compression techniques. Semantic communication, as the name suggests, aims to transmit only the essential content of the information, while omitting peripheral details, thereby contributing to more efficient use of radio waves. This approach to communication has been gaining significant attention in recent years. This session will feature both an invited lecture and general presentations. The invited lecture will provide a tutorial-like explanation of semantic communication, offering practical examples, while the general presentations will discuss cutting-edge research results in the field of semantic communication.

Organizers
Session Chair and Organizer: Celimuge Wu, UEC
Vice Session Chairs: Tutomu Murase, Nagoya University/Technical Committee on Information Networks IEICE and
Takahiro Hamada, NTT/Technical Committee on Information Networks IEICE
Secretary: Kosuke Sanada, Mie University/Technical Committee on Information Networks IEICE
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The paper submission process will be managed by using EDAS (https://edas.info/N33650).
Prospective authors may submit full or short papers.
Paper length should be 3 - 6 pages for a full paper and 2 pages for a
short paper including figures, tables, references, and appendices.
Please use the standard IEEE conference proceedings templates for
Microsoft Word or LaTeX format on A4 size pages found at
https://www.ieee.org/ conferences/publishing/templates.html. Submitted
papers (for both regular track and special sessions) are subject to a
blind reviewed process handled by an international technical program
committee.

All accepted and presented papers in the conference are expected to be
included in the proceedings of the conference as well as IEICE
Proceeding Series, and IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
The copyright of accepted papers will be transferred to IEICE.
To be published in the proceedings, for each accepted paper, at least
one author is required to register for the conference, and the paper
must be presented at the conference by one of the authors.