The Sixth International Conference on Applications and Systems of Visual Paradigms

VISUAL 2021

July 18, 2021 to July 22, 2021 - Nice, France

Deadlines

Submission

May 11, 2021

Notification

May 31, 2021

Registration

Jun 13, 2021

Camera ready

Jun 16, 2021

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

Publication

Published by IARIA Press (operated by Xpert Publishing Services)

Archived in the Open Access IARIA ThinkMind Digital Library

Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal

Indexing Procedure

Affiliated Journals

VISUAL 2021 - The Sixth International Conference on Applications and Systems of Visual Paradigms

July 18, 2021 - July 22, 2021

VISUAL 2021: Program
Onsite and Online Options: In order to accommodate a large number of situations, we are offering the option for either physical presence or virtual participation (pdf slides or pre-recorded videos).

For 2021, all events will be held in a hybrid mode with five options: on site or virtual choices (live, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, and .pdf slides).

We hope for better times allowing us to return to the traditional on site scientific events. However, we are ready to adapt any which way the conditions dictate.

 

InfoWare 2021 Congress

Conference will be mixed online and on location at

Hotel Novotel Cap 3000
40 avenue du Verdun
06700 Saint Laurent du Var

Note: This event is a mix of online and on site participation. All contributions are posted below; those presenting onsite have their own schedule, as a subset of the entire program.

Opening Welcome

On Site Program

 

Tutorials

T1. Modulating the Interoceptive Network through Mechanical Dermal Stimulation
Gina Sensale, Feelmore Labs, Inc., USA
Sahithi Garikapati, Feelmore Labs, Inc., USA
Gina Distefano, Feelmore Labs, Inc., USA
Prof. Dr. Sean Hagberg, Feelmore Labs, Inc., USA
- short bio for Gina Sensale
- short bio for Sahithi Garikapati
- short bio for Gina Distefano
- short bio for Sean Hagberg
- short description
- video presentation
- presentation slides

T2. Security Threats from Superfast Networks
Prof. Dr. Ioannis A. Pikrammenos, Mediterranean College, Athens, Greece
- short bio
- short description
- video presentation
- presentation slides

T3. In-Building Small Cell Networks: Achieving High Capacity Indoors
Postdoc, Ph.D. Eng. Rony Kumer Saha, Radio and Spectrum Laboratory /Future Network Infrastructure Division 2/Advanced Technology Laboratory, KDDI Research, Inc., Japan
- short bio
- short description
- video presentation
- presentation slides

T4. Interaction Design with Discourse Models for Automated Web GUI Generation and Customization
Prof. Dr. Hermann Kaindl, TU Wien, Austria
- short bio
- short description
- video presentation
- presentation slides

 

Keynote Speeches

K1. Web Vulnerability in 2021: Large-scale Inspection, Findings, Analysis and Remedies
Prof. Dr. Borka Jerman Blažič, International postgraduate school Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K2. Machine Learning for Distributed Software Defined Networks (SDN)
Prof. Dr. Kin K. Leung, Imperial College London, UK
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K3. Architecture Design Patterns for Digital Twin-based Systems
Prof. Dr. ir. Bedir Tekinerdogan, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K4. Hybrid Neural Network Modeling for Multiple Intersections along Signalized Arterials - Current Situation and Some New Results
Prof. Dr. Hong Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

LIVE
Date: July 20, 2021
Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm European Central Time (New York time 9:00am - 10:00am)
Microsoft Teams Meeting

- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K5. Hybrid Intelligence: Theory and Application Scenarios
Prof. Dr. Alexander Ryjov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K6. Current Research Directions in Social Robotics to Substitute Human Empathy in Elderly and Patient Care
Prof. Dr. Arvind Bansal, Kent State University, USA
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K7. Security for Connected, Automated Vehicles: Enforcing Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control
Prof. Dr.  Frank Kargl, Ulm University, Germany
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio
- contact: email or join a Slack discussion

K8. The Role of Computational Neuroscience Machine Intelligence in Sentience, Common Sense and Artificial Consciousness
Prof. Dr. Rory Lewis, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
- presentation slides
- voiced pptx slides (watch in full screen)
- video presentation
- short bio

K9. Animating fluids in real-time in computer graphics
Assist. Prof. Dr. Prashant Goswami, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K10. A Fuzzy Logic - based Approach to Producing Health Care Services Recommendations
Lect Dr. Stavroula G. Barbounaki, Merchant Marine Academy of Aspropyrgos, Aspropyrgos, Greece
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K11. Networks and Narratives: Bots, Trolls, and Mobs
Prof. Dr. Nitin Agarwal, Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair & Distinguished Professor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

LIVE
Date: July 20, 2021
Time: 5pm Central European Summer Time (CETS)
Central European Summer Time is 6 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time USA: 3:30 pm in CEST is 9:30 am in EDT
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID and Password: to be sent via email
Access link: https://ualr-edu.zoom.us/j/87860825823

- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K12. DroneCMS: Flying Infrastructure for Intelligent Crowd Management and Security for Mega Events
Dr. Hamid Menouar, Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC), Doha, Qatar
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K13. Advances in Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

LIVE
Date: Tuesday, July 20
Time: 4:00pm - 5:10pm GMT+2 (Europe Central Time) (10:00am - 11:10amNew York Time)
Microsoft Teams Meeting

- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

 

Panels

Communications of the Future: Hot Topics in Internet
(speed, 5G/6G, streaming, mmwave networks; network slicing, high data processing, industrial protocols, mobility, security, monitoring, etc.)

LIVE: real-time recorded discussion

Chair
Prof. Dr. Brian Kelley, University of Texas at San Antonio / 5G Program Management Office - JBSA 5G NextGen, USA  

Panelists
Prof. Dr. Eugen Borcoci, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Prof. Dr. Dirceu Cavendish, Kyushu Institute of Technology, USA/Japan 
Dr. Lin Han, Futurewei Technologies, USA
Dr. Zhicheng Yang, PingAn Tech - US Research Lab, USA
- pre recorded video

 

Special Tracks

ICCGI 2021 STIS: Socio-technical Information Systems - Design and Application of Socially-aware IT

Introduction
Olga Levina
- presentation slides / editorial

Co-creating Interactive Virtual Reality Training Environments. Reflections on a Model for a Participatory Design Process
Elisabeth Frankus, Klaus Neundlinger, Julia Schmid, Anna Gerhardus
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Towards Implementation of Ethical Issues into the Recommender Systems Design
Olga Levina
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Considering Business Process Complexity Through the Lens of Textual Data
Aleksandra Revina
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

ICWMC 2021 UAV5GB: UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond

Introduction
Xuesong Cai, José Rodríguez-Piñeiro
- presentation slides / editorial

Affordable Quality of Service Assessment for Cellular-Connected UAV Communications
Hong Zhu, José Rodríguez-Piñeiro, Tomás Domínguez-Bolaño, Xuesong Cai, Xuefeng Yin
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Communications for Massive UAV Scenarios
Uwe-Carsten Fiebig
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

A High-Accuracy DOA-Based Localization Method: UAV Virtual Multiantenna Array
Jianqiao Cheng, Ke Guan, François Quitin
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Characterizing the Small-Scale Fading for Low Altitude UAV Channels
Xuesong Cai, Jian Song, José Rodríguez-Piñeiro, Preben Mogensen, Fredrik Tufvesson
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Bounded Path-Loss Model for UAV-to-UAV Communications
Jian Song, Xuesong Cai, Lam-Thanh Tu, Preben E. Mogensen
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

 

Regular Sessions

 

ICCGI 2021, The Sixteenth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology

Towards Comprehensive Safety Assurance in Cloud-based Systems
Oleg Oleinichenko, Christian Drabek, Anna Kosmalska
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

ICWMC 2021, The Seventeenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications

Comparison of Techno-Economic Solutions for 5G Networks and Beyond
Christos Bouras, Fotios Kaisoudis, Anastasia Kollia
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Keep it Flat (KiF): Resource Management in Integrated Cloud-Fog Networks
Neam Farroukh, Mohamed Nassar, Shady Elbassuoni, Haidar Safa
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Dynamic and Opportunistic Millimeter-Wave Spectrum Access in 5G New Radio Multi-Operator Cognitive Radio Networks
Rony Kumer Saha
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

On Operating 5G New Radio Indoor Small Cells in the 60 GHz Unlicensed Band
Rony Kumer Saha
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Use of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to Address Four of the “National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century”
Bibhav Bhattarai, Daniela Marghitu
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

A Direction of Arrival Machine Learning Approach for Beamforming in 6G
Anabel Reyes Carballeira, Abel Rodriguez Medel, Jose Marcos Camara Brito
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Taking into account Children accurate Weights during Parent Selection process in RPL to extend WSN Lifetime
Doda Afoussatou Rollande Sanou, Yélémou Tiguiane, Hamadoun Tall, Mahamadi Boulou
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

On Achieving High Capacity using Small Cells in Multistory Buildings: A Review
Rony Kumer Saha
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

VEHICULAR 2021, The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications

Hack the Automotive Simulator
Dirk Labudde, Heiko Polster, Markus Straßburg
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Hybrid Neural Network Modeling for Multiple Intersections along Signalized Arterials - Current Situation and Some New Results
Wan Li, Chieh Wang, Yunli Shao, Hong Wang, Guohui Zhang, Tianwei Ma, Jon Ringler, Danielle Chou
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

INTERNET 2021, The Thirteenth International Conference on Evolving Internet

A Study of In-Vehicle-Network by New IP
Lin Han, Lijun Dong, Richard Li
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Path Schedulers Performance on Cellular/Wi-Fi Multipath Video Streaming
Masayoshi Kondo, Dirceu Cavendish, Daiki Nobayashi, Takeshi Ikenaga
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Advances in Mobile Medium Ad Hoc Network Research
John DeDourek, Przemyslaw Pochec
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Integrating Traffic Network Clustering with Multi-objective Route Planning: a Heuristic Approach
Ying Ying Liu, Parimala Thulasiraman
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Web Vulnerability in 2021: Large Scale Inspection, Findings, Analysis and Remedies
Borka Jerman Blažič, Primož Cigoj
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

COLLA 2021, The Eleventh International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications

An Idea for Software Enabling and Utilising Personnel Participation in the Development of Well-being at Work
Seppo Väyrynen, Heli Kiema-Junes
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

INTELLI 2021, The Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications

Intelligent Task Assignment in Industry 4.0 Production Processes Utilizing Fuzzy Sets
Gregor Grambow, Daniel Hieber, Roy Oberhauser
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

The Architecture of a Software Framework for Biologically-Inspired Optimization Algorithms
Florin Leon, Silvia Curteanu
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Friction Invariant Object Reconstruction Using a Vibrissa-inspired Tactile Sensor Concept
Lukas Merker, Joachim Steigenberger, Carsten Behn
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Digital Twin for Drone Control through a Brain-Machine Interface
Diana Ramos, Gil Gonçalves, Ricardo Faria
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library
LIVE
Date: Tuesday, July 20
Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm (CETS)
Microsoft Teams Access Link

Controlling Individual and Collective Information for Generating Interpretable Models of Multi-Layered Neural Networks
Ryotaro Kamimura
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

A Hybrid Model to Improve Occluded Facial Expressions Prediction in the Wild during Conversational Head Movements
Arvind Bansal, Mehdi Ghayoumi
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Vision-based Inspection System for OrnamentalStone Using a Weighted Hybrid Ensemble Classifier
Liliana Antão, Rui Pinto, Manuel João Ferreira, Tiago Pinto, Gil Gonçalves
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

VISUAL 2021, The Sixth International Conference on Applications and Systems of Visual Paradigms

Simulation of Hexagon Spatial Image Datasets for Free Motion in a Simulator for Smart City Bidirectional Navigation Purposes
Lepekola Lenkoe, Ben Kotze, Pieter Veldtsman
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

HUSO 2021, The Seventh International Conference on Human and Social Analytics

Innovations in Designing Territorial Platforms for Elderly Homecare Services in France
Christian Bourret, Thérèse Depeyrot
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

An Investigation of When Japanese Twitter Users Deleted Their Tweets Disclosing Their Personal Information
Yasuhiko Watanabe, Leo Mashimo, Toshiki Nakano, Hiromu Nishimura, Yoshihiro Okada
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Studying the Dynamics of COVID-19 Misinformation Themes using Topic Streams
Thomas Marcoux, Esther Mead, Nitin Agarwal
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Assessing the Impact of Hotel Services on Customer Rating Using Fuzzy String Matching and Belief Networks
Alexandros Bousdekis, Dimitris Kardaras, Stavroula Barbounaki
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

BRAININFO 2021, The Sixth International Conference on Neuroscience and Cognitive Brain Information

Non Invasive Brain-Computer Interface for Industrial Applications [PRESENTATION]
Khalida Douibi, Solene Le Bars, Alice Lemontey, Lipsa Nag, Rodrigo Balp, Gabrièle Breda
- presentation slides / video

Brain-Computer Interface Control of Smartphone Messaging Applications
Francisco Velasco-Álvarez, Álvaro Fernández-Rodríguez, Ricardo Ron-Angevin
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Combining Self-Organizing Maps and Decision Tree to Explain Diagnostic Decision Making in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Anderson Silva, Luiz Carreiro, Mayara Silva, Maria Teixeira, Leandro Silva
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Synthesis of Neonate Connectomes for Artificial Sentience and Common Sense
Michael Bihn, Rory Lewis
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Decoding Imagined Auditory Pitch Phenomena with an Autoencoder Based Temporal Convolutional Architecture
Sean Paulsen, Lloyd May, Michael Casey
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Mechanical Dermal Stimulation to Modulate the Interoceptive Network in Sleep-disordered Populations
Gina Sensale, Sahithi Garikapati, Jean Toher, Hanna Villa, Sean Hagberg
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

Farewell Message

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