AI6G 2022: First International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Beyond 5G and 6G Wireless Networks Padua, Italy, July 18-23, 2022 |
Conference website | http://ai6g.dii.unipi.it/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai6g2022 |
Submission deadline | March 7, 2022 |
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will play an increasing role in designing and optimizing Next Generation Wireless Networks (NGWN). The fourth (4G), fifth (5G) and subsequent generations, including those Beyond 5G (B5G), of cellular networks not only allow billions of people to communicate with each other but also have the potential to support the digitisation of industries and public administrations, machine-to-machine communication, distributed wireless computing and several advanced services tailored for a wide range of customers. Even though 5G is still in its infancy, academia and industry started to look at B5G and to conceive the sixth generation (6G) of cellular networks, which is expected to start being deployed from 2030. Future 6G networks are envisioned to be much more complex and dynamic than 4G and 5G networks. Heterogeneous end-user applications, such as high-precision manufacturing and smart transportation will lead to stringent requirements in terms of reliability and latency. Moreover, an increasing volume of devices will join the network and new coordination and orchestration schemes will be necessary to support all operations and services.
Indeed, tools and techniques from the three big areas of Computational Intelligence (CI) will underpin the NGWN and will be crucial to fulfill the requirements of performance, sustainability and trustworthiness, to offer innovative services and to handle the increasing complexity of the network. At the same time, the future 6G network architecture will foster novel applications of AI/CI, featuring an ever-increasing number of intelligent edge devices connected over a flexible platform.
The workshop aims at bringing together researchers, professionals and technologists working in Computational Intelligence and Wireless Communication fields, providing an international and multidisciplinary forum to share information on their latest investigation related to the adoption of AI/CI techniques in NGWN.
The workshop is a satellite event of the WCCI2022 - IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE which is is the world’s largest technical event on computational intelligence, featuring the three flagship conferences of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) under one roof: the 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2022), the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2022), and the 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2022).
The workshop is scientifically and technically sponsored by the European 6G Flagship project HEXA-X.
Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be made electronically by March 7, 2022. Further details on the submission procedure will be made available as soon as possible.
Two types of contributions are called for:
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regular communications, describing current unpublished work that is being presented for the first time;
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ideas, describing new research directions, work in progress and doctoral work
The papers must be original, i.e. not published in an earlier workshop or conference or journal. Both types of work will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the Technical Program Committee. The following criteria will be adopted for the evaluation of each contribution:
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originality and novelty
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quality and accuracy
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relevance to the workshop
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impact in the fields of the workshop
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evidence (theoretical or empirical)
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presentation and clarity
Contribution should be in the form of a short paper (minimum 5, maximum 9 standard CEUR pages).
Contributions must be in English and authors are required to use a uniform style for the papers.
List of Topics
The main goal of the workshop, conceived as a markedly multidisciplinary event, is to foster cross-fertilization of ideas among the areas of AI/CI and Wireless Networks (WN). Researchers and professionals working at the interface between these two fields will benefit from an event where tools and techniques from the three macro-areas of CI are investigated to address the challenges of Next Generation Wireless Networks.
The event is expected to fuel discussion in the following areas:
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Next generation wireless networks
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AI-enabled 6G
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Edge AI
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Federated Learning
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Big Data and Distributed AI
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Trustworthy AI
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Explainable AI
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AI as-a-service
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The discussion is intended to cover aspects relevant to IEEE WCCI, and therefore submissions will be encouraged in (but not limited to) the following topics:
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Concepts and applications of neural networks in B5G/6G networks
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Concepts and applications of evolutionary computation in B5G/6G networks
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Concepts and applications of fuzzy logic in B5G/6G networks
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AI/CI-native B5G/6G networks: air interface design, communications mechanisms, semantic and goal-oriented communications
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Distributed learning architectures: edge AI, federated learning
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Big data mining for 6G
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Computational Intelligence towards trustworthy AI: technical robustness and safety, privacy and data governance, transparency and explainability.
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Governing AI mechanisms
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Resource allocation for AI mechanisms
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Sustainable AI
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Performance evaluation and experimentation of AI-based solutions for B5G/6G networks
Committees
Organizing committee
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Pietro Ducange, University of Pisa, Italy
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Alessandro Renda, University of Pisa, Italy
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Tamas Borsos, Ericsson, Hungary
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Hannu Flinck, Nokia, Finland
Program Committee
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Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Italy
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Miltiadis Filippou, Intel, Germany
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Giovanni Nardini, University of Pisa, Italy
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Giada Landi, Nextworks, Italy
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Premanand Rajatheva, University of OULU, Finland
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Luc Le Magoarou, BCOM, France
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Elif Ustundag Soykan, Ericsson, Turkey
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Michela Fazzolari, IIT, CNR, Italy
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Riccardo Pecori, University of Sannio, Italy
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Massimo Vecchio, FBK, Italy
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Andras Benczur, Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungary
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Jafar Mohammadi, Nokia, Germany
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Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus, WINGS ICT Solutions, Greece
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Merve Saimler, Ericsson
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Ignacio Labrador, ATOS, Spain
Invited Speakers
- Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa, Italy
- Dario Sabellla, INTEL, Italy
- Speaker 3
Publication
Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. The workshop proceedings will be open-access, and copyright will be retained by authors. CEUR-WS proceedings are usually indexed in Scopus, DBLP, Scholar although there is no explicit agreement.
Venue
The conference will be held in Padua, Italy, as a satellite event of WCCI 2022IEEE World Congress of Computational Intelligence.
Give a look to https://wcci2022.org
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to pietro.ducange@unipi.it