International Conference on Digital Economy

Computational Intelligence for Physiological and Affective Computing (CIPAC)

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Aims and Scope

Affective Computing (AC) is 'computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotions,' as initially coined by Professor R. Picard (Media Lab, MIT). It has been gaining popularity rapidly in the last decade because it has great potential in the next generation of human-computer interfaces.

Physiological Computing (PC) relates to computation that incorporates physiological signals in order to produce useful outputs (e.g., in computer-human interaction). It mainly differs from AC in the sense that its foremost focus is not the modeling of affect but rather the utilization of physiological information generally. AC/PC raises many new challenges for signal processing, machine learning and computational intelligence.

The Computational Intelligence (CI) and Physiological and Affective Computing (AC) special session aims to bring together researchers from the three areas of CI to discuss how CI techniques can be used individually or in combination to help solve challenging AC/PC problems, and conversely, how physiological and affect (emotion) and its modeling can inspire new approaches in CI and its applications.

Topics of interest

The topics of CIPAC includes, but is not limited to the following topics:

1. Security of content centric networks
2. Models of emotion and physiological information
3. Classifiers for physiological information
4. Applications based on/around physiological information
5. Fuzzy set and system based architectures for processing emotions and other affective states
6. Automatic emotion recognition & synthesis from physiological signals, facial expressions, body language, speech, or neurocognitive performance
7. Emotion mining from texts, images, or videos
8. Affective interaction with virtual agents and robots based on fuzzy systems
9. Applications of affective computing in interactive learning, affective gaming, personalized robotics, virtual reality, social networking, smart environments, healthcare and behavioral informatics

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Content Marketing As Digital Marketing Tool (CMDMT)

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Aims and Scope

With the abundance of information, it has become very difficult to attract the attention of the audience especially with the rise of social networks, blogs and mobile applications. Indeed, in digital marketing, one of the major challenges is how to create value content to get profitable audience and consumer actions.

The main purpose is to diffuse useful information that will shape their minds. So, many think that today 'content is king'! In this field, the majority of researchers suggest that content marketing must be explained by “creating and sharing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience.

At this point, it is about helping customers, not selling to them. Content can take many forms: creating themed content, telling interesting stories, asking users for their opinion and it can consider the interests and living situations of a target market. Despite this definition, the idea of creating and using content marketing to help create a better user experience and engagement must be clarified because research in this field remains embryonic. For example, it becomes important to measure the impact of the perceived value of digital content on consumer future intentions, brand awareness or brand loyalty. In another side, it is very interesting to know what extent content marketing can influence inbound strategy or firm performance.

Topics of interest

The topics of CMDMT includes, but is not limited to the following topics:

1. Content marketing
2. Inbound Marketing
3. Storytelling
4. Branding and e-branding
5. Video-marketing
6. Social Media Context
7. Mobile marketing

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Multimedia Security in Digital Economy (MSDE)

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Aims and Scope

The amount of multimedia services has grown exponentially due to the great development of the Internet, multimedia-enabled devices and wireless Internet access. Many companies are communicating with customers through a wider use of audios, images, and videos. Those multimedia services as news broadcasting, VoD, music downloading, movie channels, on-line gambling are obtained in exchange of a payment.

The main purpose of most of multimedia content is to entertain a large audience who pays for accessing to it; however, the intellectual property and the copyright of the works traded must be protected. On the other hand, the emergence of e-commerce dealing with multimedia content has created new financial needs that in many cases cannot be effectively fulfilled by the traditional payment systems like SET and 3Dsecure. Hence all interested parties are exploring various types of electronic payment systems, issues surrounding electronic payment system and digital currency. We will try to evolve the security related problems of e-payment systems, and to find alternatives to existing traditional payment protocols to be used in multimedia services delivery and security. New algorithms and Protocols will be investigated.

Topics of interest

The topics of MSDE includes, but is not limited to the following topics:

1. e-payment systems and protocols
2. e-banking security
3. Authentication Protocols
4. Web Application Security
5. Partial and Scalable encryption of Multimedia content
6. Cryptanalysis
7. Digital Watermarking
8. Multimedia integrity
9. Steganography and information hiding
10. Digital forensics

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Security in Emerging Networking Technologies (SENT)

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Aims and Scope

The recent rise of emerging networking technologies such as social networks, content centric networks, IoT networks, etc. have attracted lots of attention from academia as well as industry. In fact, the attractiveness of such networks leads to the increase of security risks in particularly privacy and security threats.

The purpose of this special session is to disseminate cutting-edge research results, highlight research challenges and open issues, and promotes further research interest and activities in security and privacy in emerging networking technologies.

Topics of interest

The topics of SENT includes, but is not limited to the following topics:

1. Security of content centric networks
2. e-gov /m-gov/ security of information
3. Social intelligence/ Artificial Intelligence
4. Trust models in emerging social networks
5. Privacy models for emerging social networks
6. VANET/MANET security

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Smart Learning Environments (SLE)

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Aims and Scope

The aim of this special session is to bring together researchers interested in the development of smart learning environments. Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the benefits of ICT in education, especially with the big advancements in technology (data storage, wireless and sensor technologies, and high bandwidth network infrastructures, etc.). As a result, the realm of learning and teaching has been changing rapidly and new paradigms have thus emerged (Massive Open Online Courses MOOCs, Open Educational Resources OER, U-Learning Ubiquitous Learning, Bring Your Own Device and Technology BYOD & BYOT, Cloud Computing in Education, Educational Data Mining, and Learning Analytics, etc.) as potential next steps in the process of transforming learning and teaching. Consequently, in higher education for example, every interaction of a student with his/her university (going to library, logging to virtual learning environment, accessing to a course, making an evaluation, submitting a homework, taking an exam, etc.) is tracked and stored. Therefore, data is being continually produced whether observed or not, in all phases of interactions of all actors involved in higher education, especially students. The produced big datasets represent a wealth that if collected, analyzed and used appropriately could participate a lot in the enhancement of education.

In fact, the interest in analyzing and using learning traces at different levels has increased in recent years, creating a new research niche, named educational data mining, and fostering a new growing research community.

Topics of interest

The topics of SLE includes, but is not limited to the following topics:

1. Smart learning environments
2. Educational applications of smart learning environments
3. Educational recommendation systems
4. Intelligent Learning Systems
5. Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Authoring Tools
6. Data Mining in e-learning
7. Innovative pedagogical approaches using ICT
8. e-learning and big data
9. Assessment and technology enhanced learning
10. Learning analytics
11. Serious games
12. Innovative approaches and components in Course
13. Distant and massive learning using ICT
14. Hybrid learning
15. Collaborative learning
16. Management Systems in education
17. Evaluations in e-learning systems
18. Mobile learning
19. Ubiquitous learning
20. Cloud computing in education
21. Open education

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Green Cloud Computing (GCC)

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Aims and Scope

Cloud computing opens doors to a new area where IT services are served as utility. Cloud propounds an IT infrastructure delocalized and available via Internet where processing and storage services are performed at Data Center level. Despite the success of cloud concept, it shows certain flows which are materialized as a hunger for energy consumption of the network, computing, and storage resources. Numerous reports that scrutinize Cloud energy consumption result that the Cloud is an energy monster. In 2012, Greenpeace International reports states that Cloud is the fifth in the world in the energy consumption. Such rate of energy consumption increases operational costs and poses environmental challenges with a very large CO2 emission rate. The Cloud Data Center shares a major part of this energy consumption with 2% of overall energy consumed in the world on 2011 and it continues to rise. As a solution, Cloud opts for virtualization technology.

The virtualization ensures an efficiently resource exploitation using Virtual Machines (VM) consolidation. Researchers have been developing various strategies and techniques to address all sub-problems related to VM consolidation like migration, monitoring, estimation, and placement of VMs to physical servers. Another solution to save energy consumptions is Energy-aware (service composition, scheduling, data placement, etc.). These approaches are designed to optimize performance of application and energy consumption in Clouds.

This session aims to report the latest scientific advances and stimulates continuing research in green Cloud computing, especially in resource management techniques for virtualized Clouds and Energy-aware intensive application. We cordially invite researchers to submit original research and development works.

Topics of interest

The topics of GCC includes, but is not limited to the following topics:

1. VMs placement in data center
2. VMs scheduling and migration in data center
3. Communication-aware VM management in Clouds
4. Performance monitoring, prediction and modelling of VM executions in Clouds VM Security
5. Energy-aware : Scheduling intensive workflow, service-oriented applications, data intensive service composition, etc.
6. Optimizing resource management for processing big data applications in Clouds
7. Intensive-data placement strategy in data center
8. Trade-offs between performance, energy and other resources in cloud datacenters

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Online Users and their Stakeholders' Behavior (OUSB)

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Aims and Scope

The aim of this session is to bring together academicians from different disciplines to present and debate their studies about the users and their stakeholders' behavior, its pattern, its facilitators and inhibitors online.

Topics of interest

The topics of OUSB includes, but is not limited to the following topics:

1. e-administration services adoption
2. e-users' consumption experiences
3. Online information processing and buyer behavior
4. Culture impact on online exchanges
5. Online trustworthiness and trust development and maintaining
6. Information efficacy
7. Connectedness and user behavior

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ICDEc 2017 Doctoral Workshop

Aims and Scope

The aim of the ICDEc 2017 doctoral workshop is to provide a forum for doctoral and graduate students interested in Digital Economy, Emerging technologies and business innovation. Students will have the opportunities to present late-breaking results, ongoing research activities and speculative or innovative works in progress to experts and professionals of digital economy attending the ICDEc 2017 conference. This track is intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. The organizers welcome abstracts that address issues related to digital economy and innovation technologies. Accepted works will be presented in a doctoral posters session within the ICDEc 2017 main conference. Posters provide authors with a unique opportunity to draw attention to their work during the conference.

Topics of interest

The topics of ICDEcDOCTORAL includes, but is not limited to the following topics:

1. Web Intelligence Technologies
2. Big Data
3. Knowledge Discovery and Management
4. Intelligent Agent Systems
5. Web Security
6. Digital Technology & New Business Models
7. Innovation & Digital Economy
8. Digital Marketing
9. E- learning

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