The Fifth International Conference on Applications and Systems of Visual Paradigms

VISUAL 2020

October 18, 2020 to October 22, 2020 - Porto, Portugal

Deadlines

Submission

Jul 15, 2020

Notification

Aug 09, 2020

Registration

Aug 23, 2020

Camera ready

Sep 03, 2020

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 2020 - The Fifth International Conference on Applications and Systems of Visual Paradigms

October 18, 2020 - October 22, 2020

VISUAL 2020: Program

InfoWare 2020 - Conference Schedule

Conference Venue Location

Conference Hotel Information
Hotel Novotel Porto Gaia
Rua Martir Sao Sebastiao, Afurada,
4400-499 Vila Nova de Gaia
Phone: +351 22 772 8700
More details to follow.
E-mail h1050@accor.com

 

Opening Welcome

 

You can find here more details on how the program is arranged.

 

Tutorials

Determination and Analysis of Wireless Multi-Hop Relay System Performance in the Presence of Fading
Speaker:
Prof. Dr. Dragana Krstic, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia
- short bio
- short description
- presentation slides

Advances in Vehicle Dynamics, Simulators, Safety and Controls
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hocine Imine, COSYS-PICSL, University Gustave Eiffel, IFSTTAR, Marne-la-Vallée, France
- short bio
- short description
- presentation slides

LPWAN Technologies for Developing Advanced System in the Current Society
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sandra Sendra Compte, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- short bio
- short description
- presentation slides

Recent Developments in Optical Wireless Communication Systems
Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Dr. Ki-Hong Park, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
- short bio of Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini
- short bio of Dr. Ki-Hong Park
- short description
- presentation slides

 

Keynote Speeches

Deviant Mobs of the Internet – Bots, Trolls, and Misinformation
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas - Little Rock, USA
- abstract
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

New IP and its Application in Vehicular Network
Speaker: Dr. Lin Han, Future Networks, Futurewei, USA
- abstract
- presentation slides
- video presenation
- short bio

Intra-Vehicle Wireless Communications: Challenges and Potential Solutions
Speaker: Sen. Lect. Dr.  Xiaohong Peng, Aston University, UK
- presentation slides
- short bio

A Blended Approach to Introduce Students to Cyber-physical Production Systems
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gil Gonçalves, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
- presentation slides
- short bio

Producing Recommendations by Analyzing User Generated Content with the Use of Fuzzy Logic and Multi-criteria Analysis
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dimitris Kardaras, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
- presentation slides
- short bio

Active Safety Designs for Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Yuping He, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
- presentation slides
- short bio

 

Panels

 

Vehicular at Work: Are we Ready?
(acceptance, electric, wireless communication, high speed processing, self-driving, …)

Chair: Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada
Panelists:
Yuping He, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Akimasa Suzuki, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Dragana Krstic, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia
Xiaohong Peng, Aston University, UK
Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada

Cooperation and Trust
(humans, robots, applications, empathy, liability, …)

Chair: Gil Gonçalves, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Panelists:
Mário Antunes, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal  
Mary Luz Mouronte-López, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Spain
Zahid Iqbal, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Bourret Christian, University Gustave Eiffel /Paris East Marne la Vallée, France
Yasuhiko Watanabe, Ryukoku University,  Japan
Gil Gonçalves, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Challenges on Mobility-based Technologies
(Mobility, Speed, Privacy and Precision)

Chair: Eugen Borcoci, University POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania
Panelists:
Yingxuan Zhu, Futurewei, USA
Dirceu Cavendish, Kyushu Institute of Technology, USA/Japan
Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Eugen Borcoci, University POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania
Hocine Imine, COSYS-PICSL, University Gustave Eiffel, IFSTTAR, Marne-la-Vallée, France
Takeshi Ikenaga, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan   

 

Special Tracks

VEHICULAR 2020 NVNN: Non-visual Navigation and Notification
Chair and Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Akimasa Suzuki, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

Introduction
Akimasa Suzuki
- presentation slides / editorial

Proposal of Guidance Method in Car Navigation System
Akimasa Suzuki, Yoshitoshi Murata, Nobuyoshi Sato, Ikuya Soma
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Vibro-tactile Notification in Different Environments for Motorcyclists
Yuta Yamauchi, Akimasa Suzuki
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Measurement Accuracy on Indoor Positioning System Using SS Ultrasonic Waves for Drone Applications
Tatsuki Okada, Akimasa Suzuki
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

VEHICULAR 2020 SiRoS: Simulation and Simulators to Study Road Safety
Chairs and Coordinators:
Dr. Hocine Imine, COSYS-PICSL, University Gustave Eiffel, IFSTTAR, Marne-la-Vallée, France
Senior Assistant Professor, Dr. Claudio Lantier, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering, Bologna, Italy

Introduction
Hocine Imine, Claudio Lantier
- presentation slides / editorial

Subjective Validity of Bicycle Simulators
Murad Shoman, Hocine Imine
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Driver Response to Gear Shifting System in Motion Cueing Driving Simulator
Navid Ghasemi, Hocine Imine, Claudio Lantieri, Andrea Simone, Roland Brémond, Valeria Vignali
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

Regular tracks

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Implementation of Cloud Computing in Albania and Related Security Concerns
Ergest Alite, Olimpjon Shurdi
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Comparison of Embedding Objectives for Next Generation Networks
Stelios Prekas, Panagiotis Karkazis, Panagiotis Trakadas
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Quasi-physical Model of Knowledge
Maxim Polyakov, Igor Khanin, Nikolai Bormatenko
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Advances of Generative Adversarial Networks: A Survey
Dirk Hölscher, Christoph Reich, Martin Knahl, Frank Gut, Nathan Clarke
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Poster: Studying The Social Networks in Educational Forums
Mary Luz Mouronte-López
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

ICWMC 2020, The Sixteenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications

On Mass-Spring System Implementation in Cluster-Based MANETs for Natural Disaster Applications
Francisco Eduardo Balart-Sanchez, Luis Fernando Gutierrez-Preciado, Jose Francisco Cervantes-Alvarez
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Cohort-Based Construct for Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems
Imen Zidi, Abir Ben Ali, Farouk Kamoun
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Some Performance of Three-hop Wireless Relay Channels in the Presence of Rician Fading
Dragana Krstic, Petar Nikolic, Sinisa Minic, Zoran Popovic
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Towards a Methodology for the Development of Routing Algorithms in Opportunistic Networks
Diego Mauricio Freire Bastidas, Sergi Robles Martínez, Carlos Borrego Iglesias
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Considerations for Designing Private and Inexpensive Smart Cities
Jasmine DeHart, Corey Baker, Christan Grant
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

VEHICULAR 2020, The Ninth International Conference on Advances in Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications

Study on Multi-Users Interference in Vehicle to Vehicle Visible Light Communications
Emmanuel Plascencia, Oyunchimeg Shagdar, Luc Chassagne, Hongyu Guan
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Simulation Evaluation of Cooperative Intersection Traversing Method for Connected Vehicles
Koki Higashiyama, Kenta Kimura, Habibullah Babakarkhail, Kenya Sato
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Towards an Integrated In-vehicle Isolation and Resilience Framework for Connected Autonomous Vehicle
Khaled Mahbub, Mohammad Patwary, Antonio Nehme, Marc Lacoste, Sylvain Allio, Yvan Rafflé
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Loss Performance of Intra-Vehicle Channels for Narrowband Signal Transmission
Mohd Nur Irfan Mohd Yusoff, Xiaohong Peng, Jack Hydns
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

A Multi-Agent Approach to Simulate Autonomous Traffic with Games: How to Transform GTA-SA/SA-MP in Your Simulation Platform
Sandro R. Dias, Rodrigo R. Novaes Jr., Pedro C. M. Ferreira, Jônata N. Cirqueira
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Implementation and Evaluation of Priority Processing by Controlling Transmission Interval Considering Traffic Environment in a Dynamic Map
Kohei Hosono, Akihiko Maki, Yosuke Watanabe, Hiroaki Takada, Kenya Sato
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Secure Routine: A Routine-Based Algorithm for Drivers Identification
Davide Micale, Gianpiero Costantino, Ilaria Matteucci, Giuseppe Patanè, Giampaolo Bella
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Revisiting Message Generation Strategies for Collective Perception in Connected and Automated Driving
Quentin Delooz, Andreas Festag, Alexey Vinel
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

INTERNET 2020, The Twelfth International Conference on Evolving Internet

IoTSEAR: A System for Enforcing Access Control Rules with the IoT
Andreas Put, Bart De Decker
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Enabling Defensive Deception by Leveraging Software Defined Networks
Ilias Belalis, Georgios Kavallieratos, Vasileios Gkioulos, Georgios Spathoulas
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Handoff Characterization of Multipath Video Streaming
Dirceu Cavendish, Kazuya Fujiwara, Shinichi Nagayama, Daiki Nobayashi, Takeshi Ikenaga
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Loop Users in: The Key to Cross-platform Data Interoperability.
Han Su, Liyang Zhu, Boyan Xu, Jialing Wu, Lifeng Liu, Yingxuan Zhu, Jian Li
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Efficient Intrusion Detection Using Evidence Theory
Islam Debicha, Thibault Debatty, Wim Mees, Jean-Michel Dricot
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Identification of Fake Profiles in Twitter Social Network
Mário Antunes, Hugo Baptista, Baltazar Rodrigues
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

An Intelligent Energy-driven System Of Mobile Health Management For Pets And Animals
Jialing Wu, Yingxuan Zhu, Lifeng Liu, Han Su, Yinzhuo Chen, Jian Li
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Comparison of a Supervised Trained Neural Network Classifier and a Supervised Trained Aggregation Function Classifier
Alexandre Croix, Thibault Debatty, Wim Mees
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Why Multipath TCP Degrades Throughput under Insufficient Send Socket Buffer and Differently Delayed Paths
Toshihiko Kato, Adhikari Diwakar, Ryo Yamamoto, Satoshi Ohzahata
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Location Privacy Preservation of Vehicle Data in Internet of Vehicles
Ying Ying Liu, Austin Cooke, Parimala Thulasiraman
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Evaluation of a Multi-agent Anomaly-based Advanced Persistent Threat Detection Framework
Georgi Nikolov, Thibault Debatty, Wim Mees
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

COLLA 2020, The Tenth International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications

Collaboration Through Virtual Teams: Towards an Operational Model for Virtual Project Leadership in the Automotive Industry
Anatoli Quade, Martin Wynn, David Dawson
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Social Context Contribution to Group Recommender Systems
Safey Halim, Georg Groh
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

INTELLI 2020, The Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications

Roadmap-based Planning in Human-Robot Collaboration Environments
Zahid Iqbal, João Reis, Gil Gonçalves
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Preliminary Evaluation of Speech-to-Text Query Application for Parts Database
Yuichiro Aoki, Tadashi Takeuchi
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Clustering Techniques for On-Demand Transport Data: A Case Study
Carlos Afonso, Ana Alves
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Surface Sensing of 3D Objects Using Vibrissa-like Intelligent Tactile Sensors
Lukas Merker, Moritz Scharff, Klaus Zimmermann, Carsten Behn
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Generating Simulation Models From CAD-Based Facility Layouts
Rui Pinto, Susana Aguiar, Gil Gonçalves
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

VISUAL 2020, The Fifth International Conference on Applications and Systems of Visual Paradigms

Visual Analytics for Big Data with the Focus on Mixed Reality – an Exploration
Marina Tropmann-Frick
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

HUSO 2020, The Sixth International Conference on Human and Social Analytics

Rebuilding Trust to Encourage the Resilience of Weakened Territories in France
Christian Bourret
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Smart Territories: Advocating for Smart Basic Entity (SBE) and the Digital Clone Approach
Pierre Fournié, Christian Bourret, Jean Pierre Caliste
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

YouTube Video Categorization Using Moviebarcode
Recep Erol, Rick Rejeleene, Richard Young, Thomas Marcoux, Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Nitin Agarwal
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

An Investigation of Twitter Users Who Disclosed Their Personal Profile Items in Their Tweets Honestly
Yasuhiko Watanabe, Hiromu Nishimura, Yuuya Chikuki, Kunihiro Nakajima, Yoshihiro Okada
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Emoji as Sentiment Indicators: An Investigative Case Study in Arabic Text
Shatha Ali A. Hakami, Robert Hendley, Phillip Smith
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Modelling the Role of Social Media in Hotel Selection Using Bayesian Networks
Alexandros Bousdekis, Dimitris Kardaras, Stavroula Barbounaki
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

BRAININFO 2020, The Fifth International Conference on Neuroscience and Cognitive Brain Information

Usability Study of Different Platforms to Develop Communication Systems Based on P300-Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)
Ricardo Ron-Angevin
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

 

Farewell Message
- presentation slides

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