Dear Colleague,
This is a call for book chapter proposals for the book *"Leveraging
Artificial Intelligence in Global Epidemics*" to be published by *Elsevier.*
Deadline for submitting the Extended Summary: Sep 30, 2020
The individual chapters should provide a comprehensive overview of the
chosen topic covering advances in the area and should be tutorial in nature
and presentation, to appeal to a broad range of readers who may NOT be
researchers on the topic. Hence, they shouldn't be like a research paper.
You are hereby invited to submit first, a 2-3 page extended summary
including (a) an abstract, (b) an outline / TOC / list of headings and
sub-headings along with a summary of each heading, (c) short biographies of
the authors, and (d) a statement why you are experts for the proposed
chapter. Following a review of your summary, we'll offer our feedback and
suggestions for improvement and better synergy with the rest of the
chapters and cohesive coverage.
*Chapter Submission Link*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aige2021
*Structure of the Book:*
The book is planned to have 11-12 chapters divided into two sections. Part
I consists of 3 chapters providing a holistic overview of global epidemics,
a motivation for the book and challenges. Part II consists of emerging
technologies that help fight against epidemics. Part II has 6 chapters as
listed below. This makes 9 chapters. The rest 2-3 chapters are to be added
dynamically based on the availability of authors (These chapters may be on
The Use of Social Media for Tracking Public Behavior, Does AI help in
Genome Sequencing, AI-assisted Testing, Computational Drug Repurposing, or
any other trending and suitable topic in line with the title and the theme
of the book).
*Part I: Controlling Epidemics: A Perspective*
This part provides an overview and study of Global Epidemic situations. It
starts with assessing the countries' readiness for coping with epidemics,
goes through the challenges in battling with epidemic, and then closes with
a survey of existing approaches, techniques and tools available or
developed by academicians or industry professionals for controlling the
epidemics.
1 Setting the Scene (A Chapter by the Editors)
This chapter provides an overview and summary of the complete book as a
whole. It acts as glue between the chapters written by different authors
and brings in synergy to all the chapters in both the parts of the book. In
effect, it sets the scene for the reader and acts as an introductory and a
must read before proceeding for the further chapters.
2 An Overview of Global Epidemics and the Challenges Faced
(a) Assessing Countries' Readiness for Coping with Epidemics: There is a
need of retrospective evaluation of each country's readiness for coping
with epidemics. An automated data collection followed by evaluation will
help in knowing if the human kind is well-equipped to deal with it.
(b) A Study related to Ebola, Corona viruses, Zika, influenza, Dengue,
Chikungunya, Malaria like infectious diseases will be presented in this
chapter. A discussion on the most fatal pandemics recorded in the history
(like the Plague, Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS, COVID-19) and their economic
consequences. What is common in these? All these have jumped to humans
after being originated in animals somehow.
(c) Challenges in Battling with Epidemics
(d) ...
3 A Survey of Existing Approaches and Tools to fight against epidemic and
the lessons learnt
(a) Survey of tools/techniques/methodologies/software already available at
the time of writing of this book to predict/detect/recommend actions during
an epidemic situation.
(b) Lessons learnt by every epidemic that has struck this world (including
COVID-19)
*Part II: Emerging Technologies Fight Against Epidemics*
Having gone through the background of controlling global epidemic
situation, this part of the book covers the emerging techniques to fight
against epidemic. At the time of writing this book, COVID-19 pandemic was
caused by coronavirus and was widespread with deadly results. The case
study of COVID-19 has been presented to better exploit the study presented
in each chapter.
4 AI Technologies specialized to the need in the fight against epidemic
All current technologies under the umbrella of AI or surrounding AI should
be covered like Data Science, Big Data, Machine Learning, Semantic
Technologies, Data Analytics, cyber security.
5 Does AI help in Forecasting?
This chapter will speak about WHO statistics on pathogens. AI can help
predicting everything about spillovers, hence allowing the governments to
plan ahead. AI can predict what, when, why, and where of the epidemic. We
define AI and discuss the various machine learning models to predict the
same.
Case Study of Covid-19 for Predictions will be presented.
6 AI and Detection / Improved Diagnosis
In case of outbreak of a disease; after detection, we need to publicize the
threat. AI makes possible quick detection in order to enable possible
vaccination and treatment; and alerts for the public. Diagnosis and
Monitoring of cases is of paramount importance.
Case Study of Covid-19 for Early Detection will be presented.
7 Generating Recommendations
A global, AI-enabled data system can provide advices and issue warnings in
real time. Help manage socio-economic impacts.
8 Role of AI in Contact Tracing
The architecture of so called "Corona apps" and their backends is described
in this chapter. The role of AI is clarified for these approaches and also
other aspects like privacy and security. Furthermore, other approaches to
contact tracing are introduced in this chapter.
9 Situation Awareness
In any disaster, it is essential that the citizens get the correct
information and organizations get the correct data. This chapter describes
AI approaches to detect fake news or scams.
10-12 Open Topics dynamically picked by the authors
Any other trending and suitable topic in line with the title and the theme
of the book can be incorporated.
Editors:
- Le Gruenwald, The University of Oklahoma, USA, ggruenwald(a)ou.edu
- Sarika Jain, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana,
India, jasarika(a)nitkkr.ac.in.
- Sven Groppe, University of Lübeck, Germany, groppe(a)ifis.uni-luebeck.de
*Deadlines:*
Extended Summary: Sep 30, 2020
Notification of Proposal Approval: Oct 20, 2020
Full Chapter Submission: Jan 10, 2020
Best Regards
Dr. Sarika Jain
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Applications
National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India
https://sites.google.com/view/nitkkrsarikajain/
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Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart
Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Campus I
Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Mestre em Ciência da Computação - UFPE
** Second Call for Papers - The 10th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT'20) --http://www.mirlabs.org/wict20http://www.mirlabs.net/wict20On the World Wide Web* December 16-18, 2020 *Proceedings of WICT'2019: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030493387Indexed by: SCOPUS, Thomson ISI Web of Science, DBLP, etc.History of WICT series: http://www.mirlabs.net/wict20/previous.phpWICT 2020: Scopus ProceedingsAll accepted and registered papers will be published in AISC Series of Springer, indexed in ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink. **Important Dates**---------------------Paper submission due: October 15, 2020Notification of paper acceptance: November 15, 2020Registration and Final manuscript due: November 25, 2020Conference: December 16-18, 2020**About WICT 2020**------------------After the success of the 9th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2019), we are organizing WICT 2020 to provide an opportunity for the researchers from academia and industry to meet and discuss the latest solutions, scientific results and methods in the usage and applications of ICT in the real world. The conference programme will include workshops, special sessions, and tutorials, along with prominent keynote speakers and regular paper presentations in parallel tracks.In the past century, our society has been through several periods of dramatic changes, driven by innovations such as transportation systems, telephone etc. Last few decades have experienced technologies that are evolving so rapidly, altering the constraints of space and time, and reshaping the way we communicate, learn and think. Rapid advances in information technologies and other digital systems are reshaping our ecosystem. Innovations in ICT allow us to transmit information quickly and widely, propelling the growth of new urban communities, linking distant places and diverse areas of endeavor in productive new ways, which a decade ago was unimaginable. Thus, the theme of this World Congress is "Innovating ICT For Social Revolutions".**Submission Guidelines**-------------------------Submission of a paper should be made through the submission page from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.Paper format templates:http://www.springer.com/series/11156WICT’20 Submission Link:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wict2020**WICT 2020 Organization**-------------------------General ChairsAjith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USAPatrick Hung, Ontario Tech University, CanadaThinakaran Perumal, Universiti Putra Malaysia, MalaysiaProgram ChairsLeszek Sliwko, Axis Applications Ltd., UKUmang Singh, Institute of Technology & Science, India**Technical Contact**---------------------Dr. Ajith AbrahamEmail: ajith.abraham@ieee.orgNote: We sincerely hope that this conference announcement is interesting for you. If you are not interested or wish to unsubscribe then please reply to this email and we will remove your name from our future emails. Our apologies for any inconvenience.
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The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020 Competition
10 – 14 November 2020 – ONLINE
http://www.cbrobotica.org
e-mail: organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org
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The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020 Competition will be held online,
November 10-14, 2020.
General Chair: João Alberto Fabro (fabro(a)utfpr.edu.br)
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Important Dates
===============
• Pre-registration and TDP submission: September 28
• Regular Registration: November 3
• Late Registration: November 14
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Leagues
========
The rules and particularities of each category are defined by their chairs.
Contact them for any questions. The Virtual RoboCup Brazil Open 2020
Competition leagues are as follows:
- RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D
Chair: Haroldo Dornelas (gm.haroldo(a)gmail.com)
- RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D
Chair: Adailton Cerqueira Jr. (adailton.junior(a)gmail.com)
- RoboCup Brazil Open Flying Robot Trial League
Chair: Tiago Nascimento (tiagopn(a)ci.ufpb.br)
- RoboCup Small Size Soccer (F180)
Chair: Rafael Guedes Lang (rglang(a)hotmail.com)
- RoboCup Soccer Humanoid League / Standard Platform League (SPL)
Chair: Danilo Hernani Perico (danilo.perico(a)gmail.com)
- RoboCup@Home
Chair: Plinio Thomaz Aquino Junior (plinio.aquino(a)fei.edu.br)
- RoboCupJunior
General Chair: Andrique F. Amorim (andrique(a)gmail.com)
* On Stage
Chair: Rosângela Matias (rosartematias(a)gmail.com)
* Soccer
Chair: Alan Teixeira de Oliveira (alan.oliveira(a)ifnmg.edu.br
* Rescue Maze
Chair: Diogo Novais (diogopereira(a)ifba.edu.br)
* Rescue Simulation (COSPACE)
Chair: Tiago Hártur de Oliveira Feu (tiago.hartur(a)gmail.com)
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Participation
=============
All teams (including RC Junior teams) are required to register following
the instructions here: http://www.cbrobotica.org/index.php/inscricao-2/
==================
Participation Fees
==================
• Regular Registration from October 3, 2020 until November 3, 2020
• Team (includes 1 free student): US$ 50.00
• Additional student: US$ 5.00
• Additional professor: US$ 10.00
• Late Registration from November 4, 2020 until November 14, 2020
• Additional student: US$ 10.00
• Additional professor: US$ 20.00
In the Late Registration phase, only professors and students from teams
already registered and paid until November 3 can make new registrations.
For more information please visit our official website at
http://www.cbrobotica.org
For inquiries please contact us via the following email addresses:
General Enquiries/ Registration: organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org
--
Marco Antonio Costa Simões
Nucleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas Operacionais - ACSO -
http://www.acso.uneb.br
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart
Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Campus I
Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Mestre em Ciência da Computação - UFPE