Dear All,
We are excited to invite you to an upcoming DFIR Stream 0xE webinar:
Title: “Identifying Fraudulent CAPTCHA Solvers Using Network
Propagation Analysis”
Presenters:
-Martynas Buožis — Information Security Architect, Amadeus Data Processing GmbH
-Umberto Fontana — PhD Candidate, Telecom SudParis & Amadeus IT Group
Abstract:
Malicious actors often use CAPTCHA Farms to bypass bot protection,
enabling fraud such as inventory denial and SMS pumping. These farms
cleverly mirror IP addresses and client fingerprints, making
traditional detection methods ineffective. Meanwhile, their
CAPTCHA-solving times are indistinguishable from legitimate users.
In this talk, our speakers will present a novel technique for
uncovering the use of CAPTCHA Farms by analyzing network propagation
times. By comparing observed delays with the geographic distances
implied by IP addresses, this approach aims to statistically identify
suspicious patterns.
- Date & Time: Tuesday, March 25, 2:00 – 3:00 pm (GMT+00:00)
- Location: Online (Pre-registration required)
- Event Registration Link: https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0xe
- Online Registration Ends: March 23 at 04:00 PM (GMT+00:00)
Don’t miss this chance to learn about cutting-edge research on
detecting fraudulent CAPTCHA solvers and to provide valuable feedback!
======Housekeeping Notes======
- Note that this event is online only. Hence, You must register to
receive a link to connect. Due to limited availability, we kindly ask
you to register as soon as possible to ensure your participation in
the webinar of your choice.
Finally, I would like to remind you that the call for speakers is
currently open on the dedicated DFIR stream website,
https://dfir.stream/call-for-guest-speakers
#CyberSecurity #DFIR #CAPTCHA #OnlineFraud
Best regards,
Andrew Zayin Ph.D., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP
ACFTI Secretariat
*** Last Mile for Paper Submission (Research/Industry) ***
19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2025)
September 15-19, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025
(*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***)
(*** Extended deadline: Abstract -- March 21, 2025; Paper -- March 28, 2025)
The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software
architecture conference, providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to
present and discuss the most recent, innovative, and significant findings and experiences in the
field of software architecture research and practice. The 19th European Conference on Software
Architecture (ECSA 2025) will be held from September 15 to 19, 2025. ECSA 2025 is planned as
an in-person conference taking place in the beautiful city of Limassol (Cyprus).
SCOPE
The theme for ECSA 2025 is “impactful software architecture”. The software architecture
discipline has had a critical role in shaping robust, scalable, and maintainable systems. We are
interested in learning about software architecture principles and practices, emergence trends
and case studies highlighting strategic architectural choices that can lead to enhanced
performance, improved collaboration, and long-term sustainability. The overarching question is
how these architectural principles and practices, both well-established and emerging, are
making an impact in real-world systems, and how that impact is being felt across various
domains, from enterprise systems to more novel areas like, e.g., AI-driven or autonomous
applications?
The Program Committee of the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture seeks
submissions of original and unpublished high-quality papers describing fundamental and
applied research; new methods, approaches, and processes; novel applications; education and
training in software architecture; and experience reports on all topics related to software
architecture.
We particularly encourage papers that demonstrate that diversity in gender, culture, religion,
country, etc. are key factors for success and innovation in software architecture.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Foundational principles of software architecture
• Relationship of requirements engineering and software architecture
• Quality attributes and software architectures
• Architecture practices for secure, explainable, and trustworthy software
• Architecture design and analysis
• Architecture description languages and meta-models
• Architecture verification and validation
• Management of architectural knowledge, decisions, and rationale
• Architecture patterns, styles, and tactics; reference architectures
• Architecture viewpoints and views
• Architecture conformance
• Software architecture virtualization and visualization
• Architecture-centric process models and frameworks
• Software architecture and agile, incremental, iterative, and continuous development
• Component-based models and deployment; middleware
• Software architecture and system architecture
• Software tools and environments for architecture-centric software engineering
• Ethics, cultural, economic, business, social, human, and managerial aspects of software
architecture
• Architecture and technical debt
• Architecting for sustainable and environment friendly systems
• Applying AI and LLMs in software architecture and architecting for AI and LLM intensive
systems
• Software architecture education
• Cross-disciplinary approaches to software architecture
• Architectures for reconfigurable and self-adaptive systems
• Architectural concerns of autonomic systems
• Software architecture applied to new and emerging areas, such as the cloud/edge, big data,
blockchain, cyber-physical systems, IoT, autonomous systems, systems-of-systems, energy-
aware software, quantum computing, AI-enabled systems
• Empirical studies, systematic literature reviews, and mapping studies in software architecture
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion in activities related to software architecture
RESEARCH PAPERS
ECSA 2025 seeks four types of papers for the research track:
• Research papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) which describe novel contributions to software
architecture research (submissions should cover work that has a sound scientific/technological
basis and has been validated)
• Education and training papers (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that address methodologies,
experiences and best practices for teaching and training software architecture
• Experience reports (max. 16 pages in LNCS style) that cover innovative implementations,
novel applications, insightful performance results and experience in applying software
architecture research advances to practical situations and systems
• Short papers (max. 8 pages in LNCS style) that present novel and preliminary work-in-
progress or challenges in a topic of software architecture research, education, and training.
Submissions must have a sound basis, but not necessarily be validated in full.
All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Papers will be
selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. All contributions must be
original, not published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. Contravention of this
concurrent submission policy will be deemed a serious breach of ethics, and appropriate action
will be taken in all such cases. Plagiarism checking will be conducted and any paper reporting
more than a 20% match with published work will be desk-rejected.
To note is that research papers, education and training papers, and experience reports that are
rejected in their categories may be re-evaluated as short papers only if the committee decides
on rejection of the full paper on the basis that it presents preliminary work.
The research track of ECSA 2025 supports an Open Science policy. We encourage all
contributing authors to disclose (anonymized and curated) data/artifacts to increase
reproducibility. Note that sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or
acceptance. Upon submission to the research track, authors are required:
• To make their artifacts available to the program committee (via a link to an anonymous
repository) and provide instructions on how to access this data in the paper; or
• To include in the paper an explanation as to why this is not possible or desirable; and
• To indicate why they do not intend to make their data or study materials publicly available
upon acceptance, if that is the case
While sharing research artifacts is not mandatory for submission or acceptance, authors are
required to include a Data Availability statement after the Conclusions section in a section
named "Data Availability". This statement should explain whether or not data and/or artifacts
are available or how they could be accessed (or not). Upon acceptance, papers with Open
Science artifacts (e.g., data, tools, etc.) will be invited to upload their artifacts into the ECSA
Zenodo community (https://zenodo.org/communities/ecsa/) to make them accessible and
visible to the ECSA community. Sharing artifacts via the ECSA Zenodo community is required for
authors to be eligible for the best Open Artifact award.
All contributions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style
(https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…).
Page limits include figures and references.
Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to the ECSA 2025 Research
Track: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025. Please select the “Research Track”
in EasyChair for your submission and click "Continue".
The proceedings will be published by Springer as part of the LNCS series. We also plan to
organize a Journal Special Issue on the theme of ECSA 2025 and to invite authors of selected
papers to submit an extended version of their research.
INDUSTRY PAPERS
The Industry Track at ECSA 2025 brings together practicing software architects and software
architecture researchers from regional, European, and worldwide communities. We are seeking
contributions from industry that share challenges, practical solutions, successful practices,
failures, and lessons learned while analyzing, designing, implementing, evaluating, and
evolving software architectures.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following themes:
• Experience with architectures for emerging technologies, like LLM, and Agent-based system
• Domain-specific challenges for software architects and architectures
• Architecture specification and documentation
• Architectural patterns, tactics, and tools
• Practices and methods supporting architecture design, evaluation and evolution
• Integration of architectural practices and methods with other software engineering
approaches/practices/methods (e.g. Agile)
• Social and organizational aspects, like human-machine, human-AI interactions,
human-in-the-loop
The ECSA 2025 Industry track aims to contribute to bridging the gap between academia and
industrial practice by establishing an open communication and discussion environment. It will
offer researchers and practitioners the opportunity to interact with fellow professionals and
develop new ideas and skills for addressing industrial problems and collaborations.
There are three ways to contribute:
Full Papers (up to 16 pages in Springer LNCS style) describing best practices and experience
from applying novel approaches to large-scale industrial projects in the context of software
architecture. Submissions will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, practical
relevance, and potential for discussion.
Short Papers and Presentations (6-10 pages in Springer LNCS style) outlining presentations
on practices and experience related to software architecture from the industry. Submissions
will be selected based on originality, practical relevance, and potential for discussion.
Software Architecture Showcases (6 pages in Springer LNCS style) demonstrating a specific
real-world architecture (including its flaws) together with a discussion of the context,
challenges, and/or process that led to its present form. It can be formulated as an abstract
outlining the architecture to be presented, preferably together with links to externally available
work products.
Submissions will be selected based on the offered insights into real architectural work, work
products, and learnings related to architecture. All contributions need to be written in English,
must be original, not published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere. If accepted,
each contribution needs to be presented by one of the authors who is registered at the
conference.
All contributions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style
(https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…).
Page limits include figures and references.
Contributions need to be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair to the ECSA 2025 Research
Track: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecsa2025. Please select the “Industry Track”
in EasyChair for your submission and click "Continue".
IMPORTANT DATES
• Abstract submission: March 21, 2025 (extended and firm!)
• Paper submission: March 28, 2025 (extended and firm!)
• Notification: May 9, 2025
• Camera-ready paper: June 23, 2025
Early/Author registration: June 27, 2025
All dates are 23:59h AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
ORGANISATION
General Chairs
• Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
• Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groeningen, The Netherlands
Program Co-Chairs
• Nour Ali, Brunel University London, UK
• Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Pisa
Industry Co-Chairs
• Miroslaw Staron, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Xiwei (Sherry) Xu, CSIRO's Data61, Australia
*** Fourth Call for Papers ***
37th IFIP International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS 2025)
September 17-19, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
https://conf.researchr.org/home/ictss-2025
(*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***)
(*** Special Journal Issue with SN Computer Science, Springer ***)
IFIP-ICTSS is a well-established conference where researchers, developers, testers, and users
from industry get together to present and discuss the most recent innovations, experiences
and open challenges related to testing software and systems and measuring software quality.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
■ AI for Software Testing and Testing of AI: the growing interest in the use of AI has also
spread in to various aspects of software testing. In addition, work is underway to test and
validate AI systems/applications (machine learning, expert systems, neural networks).
■ Aspects of testing: test derivation, test selection, test generation, test coverage, test
concretization, test implementation and execution, test result analysis, test oracle, verdict
computation, test management, active testing and passive testing, monitoring and runtime
verification.
■ Testing new technologies: this year we encourage submissions focused on testing Large
Language Models (LLMs), audit machine learning systems (especially for applications to Health)
and Quantum systems (programs, computers, and simulators).
■ Diversity on testing: diverse generation, selecting diverse test suites, foundations of testing
and diversity, applications of entropy and Kolmogorov complexity on test suite diversity.
■ Theoretical approaches: formalisms (such as automata, state machines, process algebra,
logics, Markov-chains...), testing frameworks, results for compositionality, refinement,
soundness and completeness, addressing complex systems, heterogeneous or hybrid systems.
■ Modelling languages (such as UML, MATLAB, Simulink, Modelica...) and associated
tooling for model-based testing: test generation from models, model-based oracles.
Scalability, traceability, quantification issues. Automated support of any parts of the testing
activities, testing processes, test-driven development, sound metrics and measurements.
■ Testing of quality aspects: Functional, interoperability, unit, integration, performance, load,
conformance, non-regression, reliability, robustness.
■ Security Testing: methodologies and techniques for continuous security assessment, security
monitoring, security review, penetration testing, verification of certification compliance;
automation of security testing processes.
■ Testing emerging technologies: quantum systems (programs, computers, and simulators),
genetic algorithms, metaverse, and any other technology in the early stages of testing.
■ Human Aspects of Testing: human psychology and management attitude play major roles
in formulating and adopting testing in practice.
■ Cross domains and combination of techniques: using other techniques such as proof,
model-checking, symbolic execution, abstract interpretation, static analysis, simulation,
model learning, ... to improve quality and reduce the effort in testing processes.
■ Cross domains and combination of techniques: using other techniques such as proof,
model-checking, symbolic execution, abstract interpretation, static analysis, simulation, model
learning, machine learning, expert systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms... to improve
quality and reduce the effort in testing processes.
■ Application aspects and case studies: Communicating systems such as cyberphysical
systems, systems of systems, embedded systems, web services systems, smart grids, cloud
computing systems, business information systems, real-time systems, distributed and
concurrent systems. Case studies and industrial applications involving qualified empirical
evaluations.
IFIP-ICTSS Invites:
Full papers (12 to 15 pages plus at most 2 extra pages for references in the one-column
Springer LNCS format) describing original research contributions with sufficient evidence for
the interest of the proposed approach.
Industry papers (12 to 15 pages plus at most 2 extra pages for references in the one-column
Springer LNCS format) describing original research or experience report conducted within an
industrial environment or in collaboration with an industry partner.
Short papers or work-in-progress papers (up to 6 pages plus at most 1 extra page for
references in the one-column Springer LNCS format) describing academic work in progress or
tool implementations, as well as testing processes, achievements and feedback on testing
methods for industrial case studies.
Journal-First. The aim of the Journal-First (JF) submission category is to further enrich the
program of ICTSS, as well as to provide an overall more flexible path to publication and
dissemination of original research that is within the scope of ICTSS. A submission in this
category must adhere to the following criteria:
■ It should be clearly within the scope of the conference.
■ It should be recent: it should have been accepted and made publicly available in a journal
(online or in print) by January 1, 2023 or more recently.
■ It has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, Journal- First tracks of other
conferences or workshops.
■ The submission has to be in the form of a 4-page extended abstract and has to provide a
concise summary of the published journal paper.
■ It must be marked as such in the submission’s, and must explicitly include full bibliographic
details (including a DOI) of the journal publication they are based on. Since the referenced
journal papers have already been reviewed and accepted by the corresponding journals,
submissions in the JF category will not be reviewed again for technical content. Submissions will
be judged on the basis of the above criteria, but also considering how well they would
complement the conference’s technical program. Accepted submissions in this category will be
part of the proceedings of ICTSS 2025, with the title equal to the original title of the article with
the prefix.
The submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ictss2025
The papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS volume.
Authors should consult Springer’s Instructions for Authors of Proceedings
(https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…)
and use either the LaTeX or the Word templates provided on the authors’ page. Springer’s
proceedings LaTeX templates are available in Overleaf.
Authors are encouraged to include their ORCIDs in their papers.
Journal Special Issue
Best papers of the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their article at a
special (topical) issue of the Springer Nature of Computer Science
(https://link.springer.com/journal/42979). Deadline will be near the end of December 2025
with a tentative publication date for the middle 2026.
Collocation
ICTSS 2025 will be collocated with the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture
(https://conf.researchr.org/home/ecsa-2025).
IMPORTANT DATES
■ Paper Submission: May 19, 2025 (AoE)
■ Author Notification: June 30, 2025 (AoE)
■ Camera-ready Versions and Author Registration: July 14, 2025 (AoE)
ORGANISATION
Conference Chairs
■ Silvia Bonfanti, University of Bergamo, Italy
■ George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
*[Apologies for cross-posting]*
We kindly remind you of the upcoming submission deadline and invite you to share with interested colleagues!
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SYNERGY 2025: Workshop on Designing and Building Hybrid Human-AI Systems
Co-located with HHAI 2025 (Hybrid Human-AI Intelligence Conference)
June 9, 2025 – Pisa, Italy
https://synergy.trx.li/
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission Deadline: April 11, 2025 (AoE) – **One month remaining!**
- Notification: May 2, 2025
- Camera Ready: May 16, 2025
ABOUT:
Inspired by Joseph Licklider's vision of human-computer symbiosis, SYNERGY 2025 explores the design, implementation, and evaluation of human-AI collaborative systems. Following our successful first edition at AVI 2024, this workshop gathers leading researchers and practitioners, featuring consortium partners from the EU TANGO project "It takes two to tango: a synergistic approach to human-machine decision making".
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Interactive Decision-Making Systems: Real-time collaboration, task allocation, uncertainty handling
- Adaptive Collaboration Frameworks: Systems adapting to cognitive load, learning from human interactions
- Evaluation Methods: Innovative metrics for human-AI effectiveness
- Implementation Architectures: Practical patterns for building robust human-AI systems
We encourage submissions showcasing practical implementations, empirical studies, innovative interactions, and novel theoretical insights clearly related to human-AI collaboration.
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
- Minimum 5 pages, CEUR-WS single column format
- Submit via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SYNERGY2025
- Selected papers invited for submission to a Special Issue on Hybrid Human-AI Systems in a leading journal
WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
- Tommaso Turchi, University of Pisa, Italy
- Alan Dix, Swansea University & Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
- Matt Roach, Swansea University, UK
- Alessio Malizia, University of Pisa, Italy
- Ben Wilson, Swansea University, UK
More info: https://synergy.trx.li/
Contact: tommaso.turchi(a)unipi.it
Supported by the HORIZON Europe project TANGO (Grant Agreement n. 101120763).
CALL FOR PAPER
We are pleased to announce the *1st Workshop on C3AI: Child-centered
Interaction and Trust in Conversational AI
C3AI [1] will be held as part of IDC2025 [2]: 24th annual ACM
Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference, scheduled from June
23-26, 2025 IDC_ACM 2025, at Reykjavík University in Iceland.
WORKSHOP FOCUS and TOPICS of INTEREST
_What human factors shape children's feelings of trust and distrust
towards AI? How can we create trustworthy AI systems that not only build
positive relationships with children but also help them understand AI's
limitations and manage expectations?_
The C3AI workshop invites researchers, practitioners, educators,
designers, and professionals to come together and explore the human
factors involved in building trust in children toward AI, while also
exploring how to encourage critical thinking and awareness of AI's
limitations. This workshop offers participants a hands-on opportunity to
analyse child-CAI interactions, with pre-recorded examples from five
countries provided by the organisers. Depending on time constraints,
additional case studies submitted by participants may also be analysed
during the workshop. We seek submissions on topics such as:
* Reviewing and improving existing human-centred AI design
frameworks for children;
* Assessing AI's impact on children's development;
* Mental model formation in children;
* Tailoring AI explanations to children's cognitive models;
* Participatory design with children;
* Involving children in creating explainable, transparent systems;
* Developing metrics for trust, explainability, and reliability in
child-AI interactions;
* Designing AI systems that encourage critical thinking and
awareness of AI's limitations;
* Ethical considerations for AI systems;
SUBMISSION TYPES
We encourage you to submit a concise position paper (which could be
considered for future publication) under the 'Short papers' category.
Position statements should be non-anonymous, and formatted according to
the ACM Standard Template [2 [2]].
These should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair [3 [3]]under one of
the following submission types:
a) Short papers (2-3 pages)
b) Design examples (600-800 words)
c) Case Study including an Abstract (300-500 words) and supporting
visuals (e.g., video/images)
Case Study submissions will be analysed within the group activity as
part of the workshop, subject to time constraints.
d) Abstracts (300-500 words)
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: (on or before) April 15th, 2025
Notification of acceptance: (on or before) May 1st, 2025
Submission of camera-ready workshop proposal: May 6th, 2025
Workshop Day: June 23rd, 2025
ORGANISERS
Grazia Ragone, University of Bari (IT)
Zhen Bai, University of Rochester (US)
Judith Good, University of Amsterdam (NL)
Arzu Güneysu, Umeå University (SE)
Elmira Yadollahi, Lancaster University (UK)
https://c3ai.di.uniba.it/home
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Post-Doc in Human-Computer Interaction
Department of Computer Science
Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"
via Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari, Italy
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Q1TkLzMAAAAJ&hl=en [3]
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Sostieni la formazione e la ricerca universitaria con il tuo 5 per mille
all'Università di Bari.
Firma la casella "Finanziamento della ricerca scientifica e della
Università"
indicando il codice fiscale 80002170720.
Il tuo contributo può fare la differenza: oggi più che mai!
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Links:
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[1] https://c3ai.di.uniba.it/call-for-participation
[2] https://idc.acm.org/2025/
[3] https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Q1TkLzMAAAAJ&hl=en
**** PLEASE, EXCUSE MULTIPLE POSTINGS ****
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 16th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage
(PATCH 2025)
Held in conjunction with ACM UMAP 2025 - New York City, New York, USA
https://patch2025.di.unito.it/
Important dates:
April 9, 2025 - Paper Submission
April 28, 2025 - Notification
May 5, 2025 - Papers Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system)
The workshop will be in person or hybrid.
Abstract and Topics
Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2025 will be
again the meeting point between state-of-the-art cultural heritage research
and personalization – using any kind of technology, while focusing on
ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to enhance the personal experience in
cultural heritage sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing together,
physically and/or virtually, researchers and practitioners who are working
on various aspects of cultural heritage and are interested in exploring the
potential of state of the art mobile technology (onsite as well as online)
to enhance the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is
a sharing and discussing novel ideas and creating a multidisciplinary
research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully,
forge some research collaborations.
We invite cultural heritage professionals and researchers to join us to
discuss findings and trends on personalisation of cultural heritage in the
broadest sense, from online and remote cultural access to onsite visit,
from individuals to groups, from tangible to virtual and robotic mediation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical cultural
heritage collections
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Recommendation strategies for natural and cultural heritage
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Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH/NH
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NLG techniques for mobile user modeling in natural and cultural heritage
sites
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Integration of virtual and physical collections
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Immersive cultural and natural heritage
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Mobile museum guides and personal museum assistants
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Context-aware information presentation in natural and cultural heritage
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Adaptive navigation and browsing in CH/NH sites
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Intelligent user interfaces for natural and cultural heritage
applications
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Personalization for group of visitors to natural and cultural heritage
sites
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Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management
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Creativity and collaboration support in CH
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Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem
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Long-term personalization
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IoT and Cultural Heritage
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Living lab in museum
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Robots in museums
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3D, Augmented, and Virtual Reality for cultural and natural heritage
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Gestural interfaces for Cultural Heritage applications
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Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH/NH recommendation
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Conversational agents for cultural and natural heritage
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The use of personality for guiding CH/NH experiences
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Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH
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Remote access to CH/NH
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Intelligent agents to interact with CH/NH
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Large Language Models for CH/NH
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Shaping Personalization and FATE (Fairness, Accountability,
Transparency, and Ethics) in Human-Centered Generative AI
Also papers connected to the UMAP 2025 main theme: “Shaping Personalization
and FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) in
Human-Centered Generative AI” and Cultural Heritage are of interest.
Submissions
Full papers: up to 14 pages excluding references.
Short papers/Position papers/Demo papers: up to 7 pages excluding
references.
Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be
returned without review.
Submissions should be single-blinded, i.e., authors’ names should be
included in the submissions.
Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM
publications. The templates and instructions are available here:
https://patch2025.di.unito.it/submission.html.
All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission
system by selecting the track "UMAP 25 Workshop PATCH":
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2025.
An international panel of experts will review all submissions.
Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it
introduces a significant addition to the previously published work.
There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all
the workshop papers will be published.
Workshop organizers
Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy, liliana.ardissono(a)unito.it
Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel, tsvikak(a)is.haifa.ac.il
Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro(a)unito.it
Alan J. Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker(a)gmail.com
[Apologies for Multiple Postings]
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CHItaly 2025 <https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it> - Technologies and
Methodologies of Human-Computer Interaction in the Third Millennium
The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
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6–10 October 2025
Location: Salerno, Italy
https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/
We invite researchers and practitioners to submit workshop proposals to
CHItaly 2025.
Deadlines:
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Submission: March 22, 2025 AoE (extended deadline)
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Review notification: April 1, 2025 AoE
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Initial Camera-ready: July 31, 2025 AoE
Workshop co-Chairs:
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Massimo Zancanaro, University of Trento massimo.zancanaro(a)unitn.it
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Pietro Battistoni, University of Salerno pbattistoni(a)unisa.it
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Fabio Buttussi, University of Udine fabio.buttussi(a)uniud.it
How to submit:
Proposals must be submitted through easychair. On this page you will find
further information and the button to access the EasyChair submission page.
<https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/contributions-call-for-workshops/>
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The theme of the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
(CHItaly 2025) is “Technologies and Methodologies of Human-Computer
Interaction in the Third Millennium”. It invites us to reflect on how
technological advances continue to redefine our interactions with the
digital world.
Over the last two decades, the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
has evolved rapidly, adapting to innovations that have transformed everyday
life. Integrating Artificial Intelligence, Augmented and Virtual Reality,
Robotics, voice interfaces, wearable devices, and the Internet of Things
has brought HCI to the forefront of scientific inquiry, offering novel
possibilities and complex challenges. These technologies are not only
changing how we use digital systems but also influencing the ways we think,
learn, communicate, and interact on a personal, social, and organizational
level.
This year’s conference aims to inspire a comprehensive dialogue on how
these technologies are reshaping the landscape of HCI and redefining the
boundaries of human capabilities. Participants will be invited to engage
with questions surrounding ethical implications, accessibility,
inclusivity, user experience, and the sustainability of emerging
technologies. The theme encourages contributors to share insights on
methodologies that adapt to these changes, from user-centred design
practices to innovative evaluation methods for complex, adaptive systems.
We invite submissions of workshops that contribute to the field of
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
—
Emanuele Panizzi and Maria Menendez-Blanco
Publicity Chairs
On behalf of the Chitaly 2025 Organizing Committee
<https://chitaly2025.di.unisa.it/327-2/>
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Riva del Sole Resort & SPA - Tuscany, Italy, June 9-13, 2025
https://acdl2025.icas.events
acdl(a)icas.cc
*EARLY REGISTRATION: by March 23 (AoE)*
https://acdl2025.icas.events/registration/
Oral Presentation Submission Deadline: by March 23 (AoE)
LECTURERS: https://acdl2025.icas.events/lecturers/
Each Lecturer will hold up to four lectures on one or more research topics.
Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University & Institute for Advanced Study, USA
Sander Dieleman, Google DeepMind London, UK
Caglar Gulcehre, EPFL, Switzerland
Tatsu Hashimoto, Stanford University & Institute for Human-Centered
Artificial Intelligence, USA
Thomas Hofmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University, USA
Joel Z. Leibo, Google DeepMind London & The Alan Turing Institute, UK
Lei Li, Language Technology Institute - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Bryan Perozzi, Google Research, New York, USA
Raniero Romagnoli, Almawave, Italy
Liubov Tupikina, Bell Labs Paris, France
More Lecturers TBA
Lecturers: https://acdl2025.icas.events/lecturers/
Lectures: https://acdl2025.icas.events/lectures/
ACDL Schedule:
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PAST LECTURERS:
https://acdl2025.icas.events/past-lecturers/
VENUE:
https://acdl2025.icas.events/venue/
Riva del Sole Resort & SPA
Località Riva del Sole‚ Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto)
CAP 58043‚ Tuscany‚ Italy
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PAST EDITIONS: https://acdl2025.icas.events/past-editions/
REGISTRATION: https://acdl2025.icas.events/registration/
CERTIFICATE & 8 ECTS:
The 8th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning – ACDL 2025 is a
full-immersion five-day Course at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA
(Castiglione della Pescaia – Grosseto – Tuscany, Italy) on cutting-edge
advances in Deep Learning, Data Science and Generative AI with lectures
delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating
environment for PhD students, Post-Docs, junior academics (only up to
assistant professors), early career researchers, and industry leaders (and
highly motivated, promising and brilliant Master students / BSc students).
Participants will also have the chance to present their results with talks,
and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial, professional and
productive environment.
PhD students, PostDocs, Industry Practitioners and Junior Academics (only
up to assistant professors) will be typical profiles of the ACDL
attendants. The Course will involve a total of 36–40 hours of lectures,
according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent
to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and some strongly motivated Master
Student – BSc Student) attending the Course.
Please check the FAQ: https://acdl2025.icas.events/faq/
Language: English.
To participate in the ACDL 2025, all attendants must
(1/2) register for the course (by March 23, 2025) and
(2/2) book accommodation at the course venue, “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA”
(by April 23, 2025); all attendants must stay at the “Riva del Sole Resort
& SPA”. Booking accommodation at the Riva del Sole must be made exclusively
using the accommodation form attached to the registration confirmation
email. No other methods must be used (if you use other booking methods the
hotel will cancel the reservation). Finally, it is not possible to extend
the stay, the special accommodation rates are valid only for the period of
the course, no exceptions will be made. To contact the Riva del Sole Resort
& SPA (the course venue) use the following email:
booking.events(a)rivadelsole.it
Once accommodation has been booked at “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA“, the
participant must send this information (including the Booking Number) to
the ACDL organizing committee (acdl(a)icas.cc).
ACDL is a residential course, so all lecturers and participants must reside
in the same Hotel (Riva del Sole Resort & SPA). No exceptions are made.
For privacy reasons, the Hotel cannot match people. If you have someone to
share the apartment with (or a double room in Hotel), please send to the
Hotel ( booking.events(a)rivadelsole.it ) the name, surname and email
address. Otherwise the solution is to book a hotel room in single use.
Please note that only ACDL registered participants can book a room (in
hotel or apartment) at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA with the
accommodation form attached in the registration email and with the ACDL
Discounted Rates. The Booking Office of the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA will
verify the names of the participants and the corresponding registration
number to confirm the booking.
Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2025 should register as soon as
possible.
See you in Riva del Sole & SPA - Tuscany in June!
ACDL 2025 Organizing Committees.
https://acdl2025.icas.events
acdl(a)icas.cc
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Obviously, this is only a Call for Participation, to have complete and
updated information we recommend you access the relevant website:
https://acdl2025.icas.events
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*** CALL FOR PAPERS - Mensch und Computer (MUC) 2025 ***
31. Aug – 3. Sep 2025, at the Chemnitz University of Technology in
Chemnitz, Germany
Deadline for Full Papers: Thursday, April 10th, 2025, AoE
* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP *
*For the online version of this Call, please visit:
https://muc2025.mensch-und-computer.de/en/full-paper/ *
*Important Dates*
All deadlines are set to Anywhere on Earth (AoE). In contrast to
previous years, the deadline will not be extended at a later point.
Please consider all dates and times final.
- Paper Submission: Thu, April 10th, 2025 AoE (Fri, April 11th, 2025,
14:00 CEST) (NO EXTENSIONS)
- Decision Notification: Tue, May 27th, 2025 AoE (Wed, May 28th, 2025,
14:00 CEST)
- Camera-Ready Deadline: Tue, June 10th, 2025 AoE (Wed, June 11th, 2025,
14:00 CEST)
The “Mensch und Computer” (MuC) conference, launched in 2001, is the
largest conference series on human-computer interaction in Europe. MuC
offers participants from science and industry a platform for
contributions and discussions on innovative forms of interaction between
people and digital technology, on human-centered development methods,
interactive applications, and other topics in the field between users,
teams and communities on the one hand and information and communication
technologies used on the other hand. The aim of the conference is to
discuss innovative research results, to promote the exchange of
information between academia and practitioners, to stimulate research
activities and training, and to sensitize science, practice, and the
public to the relevance of human- and task-oriented technology design.
Call for Full Papers – Theme “Digital Diversity”
The “Mensch und Computer” (MuC) conference, launched in 2001, is the
largest conference series on human-computer interaction in Europe. The
theme for 2025 is “Digital Diversity”. Nonetheless, it is not required
for contributions to relate to this theme.
*Info at a Glance*
- Submissions are due on Thursday, April 10th, 2025, AoE (Friday, April
11th, 2025, 14:00 CEST) (NO EXTENSIONS).
- Submission length should reflect the contribution and typically range
between 4000 and 9000 words. Excessively long papers (more than 12,000
words) may be desk rejected.
- Submissions will be reviewed in a double-anonymous fashion.
- Submissions can be submitted in English or German.
- Submissions are handled through Precision Conference.
*Contribution Types*
- Empirical-Qualitative, e.g., ethnography, qualitative user studies.
- Empirical-Quantitative, e.g., quantitative user studies, statistical
methods, data modeling.
- Empirical-Mixed Methods, e.g., combined qualitative and quantitative
empirical research.
- Technical, e.g., building novel systems, algorithms, visualizations,
architectures, and implementing novel features in existing systems.
- Artifact-Design, e.g., research through design, envisionments,
guidelines, methods, and techniques.
- Theoretical, e.g., conceptual frameworks, theoretical analysis, and
essays.
- Meta-Research, e.g., meta-analyses, systematic reviews.
* Technical Program Chair *
Jasmin Niess
* Full Paper Chairs *
Eleonora Mencarini
Fiona Draxler
Tilman Dingler