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   Special Workshop on Communications and Networking Technologies for Responding   
   to COVID-19   
   A Workshop in Conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2020, Taipei, Taiwan   
      
   Dec. 7, 2020 (Full day)   
      
   The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 10.4 million cases and   
   505,000 deaths by June 30, 2020.   
   It has caused extreme strains on health systems and economies of many   
   countries and has dramatically changed the way people live and work. Due to   
   the high level of contagiousness, social distancing, isolation and contact   
   tracking have been widely    
   introduced to counter the epidemics before any treatment or vaccine is   
   available. With the new lifestyle involving self-quarantine, smart-working   
   from home, virtual conferencing, online education and remote patient   
   monitoring, the demand for ICT services    
   and applications has been unprecedented. Therefore, it is critical to develop   
   novel communications and networking technologies/solutions, including data   
   collection, surveillance, contact tracing, and eHealth, to face today’s   
   challenges brought by COVID-   
   19 and prepare for future ones.   
   This workshop aims at soliciting high-quality articles to share the   
   state-of-the-art innovations, developments and insights in applying   
   communications and networking technologies to contain and conquer the global   
   health crisis, restore our normal life,    
   and get ready for future challenges. We will also take this opportunity to   
   connect researchers, experts, and scholars from both industry and academia to   
   share their recent studies, investigations, and findings in dealing with the   
   challenges raised by    
   COVID-19. This workshop welcomes papers presenting design and application of   
   communications and networking technologies for understanding, treating and   
   preventing COVID-19, and for the new lifestyle in response to COVID-19.   
   Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:   
   • AI technologies for trend detection, analysis and tracing on social   
   networks   
   • Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Internet of Things (IoT) for remote   
   monitoring of COVID-19 patients   
   • Communications technology in post COVID-19 world   
   • Contact/proximity tracing and its privacy considerations   
   • Conversational AI and virtual agents to provide instant help for   
   self-quarantined users   
   • Data and network analytics using machine learning   
   • Data collection from communication and sensory platforms with precision   
   concern   
   • Digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms towards early diagnosis   
   • Early warning and alerting systems for forefront outbreak   
   • Edge computing aided Social IoT (SIoT) and its architecture, protocol,   
   routing, and clustering design   
   • Energy-efficient SIoT for smart care on pandemic   
   • Epidemic modeling of virus propagation for prediction   
   • Federated multimodal learning from interactive SIoT and social networks   
   • Human computer interaction   
   • Infodemic (e.g., misinformation, conspiracy theories and scams) combating   
   technologies   
   • Interpretable and expert-driven AI and data-driven deep learning solutions   
   for public health policy   
   • IoT for smart care on pandemic   
   • Multimodal behavior analysis for self-quarantined users   
   • Networking to support virtual, augmented, and mixed reality   
   • Online teaching and meeting using innovate communication technologies and   
   applications   
   • Platforms and solutions for eHealth patient monitoring   
   • Privacy and public health balancing   
   • Propagation control policies such as lockdown, quarantine, social   
   distancing, and travel restrictions   
   • Remote/online medicine and e-Health for best care of patients   
   • Representation learning and AI on spatio-temporal data and geometric data   
   for mobility mining   
   • Robotics applications for the reduction of infection risk   
   • Testing design and pooled testing   
   • Wearable medical wireless sensors   
      
   The workshop accepts only novel and previously unpublished English-written   
   papers, with a maximum length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font)   
   including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1   
   additional page with over-length page    
   charge if accepted).   
   SUBMISSION LINK: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27753   
      
   WEBPAGE LINK: https://globecom2020.ieee-globecom.org/workshop/sw   
   -special-workshop-communications-   
   and-networking-technologies-responding-covid-19   
      
   IMPORTANT DATES:   
   • Paper Submission Deadline: Aug. 10, 2020   
   • Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2020   
   • Camera-Ready: October 1, 2020   
      
   General Co-Chairs   
   • H. Vincent Poor (Princeton University, USA)   
   • Neeli Prasad (SmartAvatar B.V., Netherlands)   
   • Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA)   
   • Chia-Han Lee (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)   
   • Christos Verikoukis (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya,   
   Spain)   
   • De-Nian Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)   
      
   TPC Co-Chairs:   
   • Andrea Sciarrone (University of Genoa, Italy)   
   • Valeria Loscri (Inria, France)   
   • Ali Tajer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)   
      
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