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ICAI-TEMS serves as a premier interdisciplinary platform for the dissemination of original research regarding the concepts, theories, and applications of cutting-edge information technologies across engineering disciplines, technology management, and science.
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Submission Deadline: August 1, 2026
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This track invites original research contributions on Artificial Intelligence methods for diagnostic tasks performed in complex systems.
Diagnostics is defined as the automated detection, identification, classification, localization, and prediction of anomalous conditions,
faults, pathological states, or security threats from heterogeneous data sources.
The track emphasizes practical and implementable approaches that integrate machine learning and deep learning techniques with signal
processing, sensing technologies, and embedded computing.
Contributions addressing multimodal data (images, signals, sensor streams, logs, and behavioral data) and operating in real-time or
near-real-time environments are particularly encouraged.
Topics include data-driven, hybrid, and physics-based models designed to operate under conditions of uncertainty, limited supervision,
noisy measurements, and domain shifts.
Applications of interest include, but are not limited to, industrial predictive maintenance, healthcare and biomedical analytics,
sports performance assessment and athlete monitoring, assistive technologies, monitoring of autonomous and unmanned systems,
intelligent infrastructure, and cybersecurity diagnostics.
Contributions focusing on edge computing, hardware-based artificial intelligence, reliability, explainability, and operational validation
are welcome.
The goal of the program is to promote reproducible methodologies and engineering solutions that can support decision-making,
improve safety, and enable proactive management strategies in engineering and science.
Digital Manufacturing encompasses the methods, tools, and technologies that enable the digital integration of design, manufacturing, inspection, and lifecycle activities within modern industrial systems. While a broad range of digital technologies contributes to this vision, CAD models increasingly play a pivotal role as structured, authoritative sources of product and process information across the digital thread. This track focuses on digital manufacturing approaches in which CAD models act as key enablers—either as central information carriers or as integrated components within larger data-driven and intelligent manufacturing ecosystems. Contributions are encouraged that explore how CAD models, when enriched with semantic, manufacturing, or quality-related information, support Model-Based Definition (MBD), interoperability, automation, and decision-making, while remaining connected to other digital manufacturing technologies. Relevant topics include the interaction between CAD models and CAx tools, digital twins, cyber-physical systems, Artificial Intelligence, and data analytics, as well as the role of standards and lightweight representations in ensuring scalable and flexible information exchange. The track welcomes both methodological contributions and industrial case studies that demonstrate how CAD-enabled digital manufacturing supports intelligent, adaptive, and reconfigurable production systems in real-world contexts.
Recent breakthroughs in deep learning have significantly accelerated progress in computer vision, enabling models to
achieve expert-level performance across various domains, including cybersecurity, healthcare, autonomous systems, and environmental
monitoring. This track focuses on advancements related to the accuracy, efficiency, and explainability of visual recognition systems.
With the growing deployment of computer vision models in high-stakes applications such as cybersecurity and medical imaging, transparency
and reliability have become essential. As a result, the field is moving toward architectures that combine powerful feature extraction with
robust explainability frameworks to ensure trustworthy decision-making.
The track welcomes contributions exploring novel neural architectures, such as Vision Transformers, hybrid CNN-Transformer models,
and multimodal systems, as well as innovative training strategies, self-supervised learning paradigms, and domain adaptation methods.
Emphasis is placed on explainable AI (XAI) techniques, including visualization tools, attribution methods,
and model auditing strategies that help reveal the internal reasoning of modern vision systems. Additionally, the track encourages work
addressing fairness, robustness, and real-world applicability, particularly in sensitive fields like medical diagnostics.
By highlighting these advances, the track aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and support the development of computer vision
systems that are not only high-performing but also interpretable, reliable, and ethically deployable.
Management of Cybersecurity and Trust is essential in any IT based architecture, application and system. Cybersecurity has to be engineered at design phase and has to be treated as a continuous and holistic process. This track welcomes submissions presenting original results on applied cybersecurity techniques, protocols and applications, especially if presented with their application and impact to real systems, software and architectures. Submissions addressing but not limited to the following topics are welcome.
This track invites original research contributions on cognitive robotics, focusing on how autonomous robots can perceive, learn, reason, and
interact as intelligent agents in complex environments. Cognitive robotics is defined as the design and implementation of models, architectures,
and algorithms that enable robots to acquire, represent, and use knowledge for decision-making, adaptive behaviour, social interaction, and
collaborative problem-solving, supporting learning processes analogous to human cognition.
The track emphasises, but is not limited to, approaches that integrate learning, perception, reasoning, and action, including developmental
and lifelong learning, cognitive and metacognitive architectures, multimodal grounding of language and perception, reinforcement learning,
learning from demonstration, and social cognition. Contributions addressing embodied cognition, cooperative behaviour through language,
cognitive vision, and novel paradigms or hybrid systems are particularly encouraged. The goal of the track is to promote reproducible,
cognitively grounded methodologies and engineering solutions that advance both the scientific understanding of robotic cognition and its
practical deployment in real-world systems. Contributions focusing on explainability, trust, ethical and socially aware behaviour, and
operational validation are welcome.
This session examines research at the crossroads of dynamical-systems theory, control engineering, computational reasoning, and sensory processing,
with control framed as the unifying principle connecting models of biological and engineered systems across scales. We welcome work that advances
theoretical foundations, such as stability, observability, and model-based control, as well as practical innovations in learning-enabled and
adaptive controllers, neuro-inspired architectures for perception and decision-making, and sensorimotor integration. Contributions that develop
methods for quantifying uncertainty, resilience, and collective behavior are especially encouraged.
We seek submissions that combine rigorous analytical models, data-driven inference, simulation, and experimental validation,
and that highlight control principles transferable across scales. Presenters are encouraged to include reproducible evaluation
frameworks and realistic deployment scenarios. Relevant topics (but not limited to) include physiological cybernetics and in-host modeling,
population dynamics, adaptive control, navigation and guidance systems, and applications of artificial intelligence to biological systems.
This program is aimed at researchers and practitioners pursuing rigorous, cross-disciplinary approaches to complex adaptive systems.
Panel discussions will surface open challenges, efforts toward standardization, and opportunities for collaboration among theoretical researchers,
experimentalists, and industry practitioners worldwide.
Agriculture is undergoing a rapid digital transformation toward more intelligent, efficient, and sustainable production systems. Emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, robotics, and data analytics are reshaping how crops, resources, and agro-ecosystems are monitored and managed.
This special track invites original research contributions, case studies, and applied works addressing the design, development, and deployment of digital and smart technologies in agricultural and agri-food systems. The track aims to showcase innovative solutions that improve productivity, resource-use efficiency, environmental sustainability, and decision-making processes across agricultural contexts.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, intelligent sensing systems, predictive modeling, precision agriculture, robotics and automation, remote sensing integration, climate-smart farming, and digital tools for supply chain traceability. Contributions bridging technological innovation, real-world implementation, and sustainability challenges are particularly encouraged.
This track seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers, engineers, data scientists, and practitioners working on digital technologies for the future of agriculture.
The AECO industry is undergoing a steady digital transformation, increasingly integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) to foster a proactive and resilient digital ecosystem. This special track invites original research, case studies, and applied works that explore this evolution. We aim to showcase innovative solutions focused on productivity enhancement and risk mitigation. Key topics of interest include, but are not limited to, Generative, Agentic, and Physical AI across design and construction stages, as well as their implementation in the operations of buildings, infrastructure, and smart grids. This track seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers, engineers, data scientists, and practitioners shaping the future of AI in the built environment.
Recent advancements in scaling large language models and complex neural architectures have yielded unprecedented AI capabilities, yet these systems largely remain opaque. This track focuses on the emerging field of mechanistic interpretability, which seeks to reverse-engineer neural networks to deeply understand their internal states, algorithms, and representations. As models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, decoding their internal mechanisms, such as implicit planning, internal world models, and reasoning processes, has become essential to ensure trustworthy decision-making. The track welcomes research contributions exploring methodological approaches to circuit discovery, representation geometry, causal analysis, model editing, and unsupervised feature extraction, including dictionary learning and sparse autoencoders. Of particular interest is the geometric structure of neural representations, encompassing polysemanticity and monosemanticity, the superposition hypothesis, and the linear or curved structure of embedding spaces, which have become central research threads in the field. The track also explicitly welcomes interpretability-guided model intervention work, where mechanistic understanding is leveraged not only to explain model behaviour but to actively modify it, including activation steering, circuit-level editing, targeted unlearning, and alignment-oriented interventions for safety and ethics. Attention is placed on the practical application of these tools for auditing safety-relevant behaviours, such as biases, hidden objectives, deception, or jailbreak mechanisms, as well as debugging logical errors and enabling inference-time monitoring. Interesting topics may also include the interpretability of reasoning models and the faithfulness of chain-of-thought processes. The track additionally welcomes emerging work on the interpretability of agentic and tool-augmented systems, investigating how mechanisms for planning, tool selection, memory management, and multi-step decision-making are internally formed and represented in models operating in interactive or multi-turn environments. The track strongly encourages rigorous empirical studies that critically assess the reliability and validity of interpretability methods themselves, including works that investigate whether existing tools are causally faithful, expose failure modes, or demonstrate so-called interpretability illusions where apparent explanations do not reflect true model computation, as well as well-documented negative results, replications, and the development of open-source interpretability tools and datasets. By highlighting this research, the track aims to promote reproducible, science-driven methodologies that transform opaque AI systems into transparent, reliable, and ethically deployable technologies.
The global energy landscape is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift from historically centralized structures toward decentralized, community-driven systems. Smart grids and Energy Communities (ECs) have emerged as pivotal instruments to promote local generation and shared consumption, essential for meeting decarbonization targets. However, managing the technical complexities of distributed renewable resources, such as the intermittency of solar and wind, requires advanced technological frameworks to ensure efficiency and grid stability.
This track explores the synergistic application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and information management to optimize these local energy ecosystems. AI methodologies, including machine learning and reinforcement learning, are revolutionizing resource forecasting, enabling predictive maintenance for distributed assets, and optimizing Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). Furthermore, the integration of technologies like Blockchain and IoT supports sophisticated Peer-to-Peer (P2P) trading platforms and demand-side management, effectively empowering prosumers. We invite contributions addressing technical design, mathematical modeling, and innovative business frameworks. By bridging cutting-edge AI with collective energy actions, this track aims to define the roadmap for a resilient and sustainable energy future.
The rapid diffusion of wearable devices and portable sensing technologies is enabling the continuous monitoring of environmental conditions, physiological parameters, and human-environment interactions. These technologies create large amounts of data that can be used to better understand human wellbeing, comfort, safety, and productivity in indoor and outdoor environments. At the same time, it is increasingly recognized that environmental perception and comfort conditions are highly subjective and vary significantly across individuals, highlighting the need for personalized and adaptive solutions.
Wearable systems can support several application domains, including Indoor Environmental Quality monitoring, smart HVAC control, Personal Environmental Control Systems development, occupational health and safety, and productivity analysis in workplaces. The integration of wearable sensors with environmental monitoring systems allows to develop human-centred environments and improve building operation and workplace conditions. Research challenges remain in data integration and interpretation, sensor reliability and data quality, real-time decision support, and the development of predictive models linking environmental conditions, physiological responses, and human performance.
This track invites original research papers, review papers, experimental and case studies focusing on wearable systems, smart sensing, data analytics, and intelligent solutions for improving human wellbeing, safety, and productivity.
The transition to sustainability is becoming urgent, with the Circular Economy recognised as a key pathway to achieve long-term economic, environmental, and social goals. Emerging and smart technologies — such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, IoT, and Digital Product Passports — are implemented across industries to enable traceability, improve resource efficiency, and support data-driven decision-making.
These technologies are reshaping business processes and supply chain configurations, opening new opportunities for sustainable innovation within an Industry 5.0 perspective. However, despite their diffusion, organisations still struggle to translate technological adoption into measurable, reliable, and scalable sustainability outcomes. Challenges related to data governance and interoperability and the lack of standardised metrics and reporting frameworks increase the risk of digitally enabled greenwashing and weaken accountability.
This track invites contributions that investigate, qualitatively or quantitatively, the adoption and impact of digital technologies in enabling measurable and trustworthy sustainability performance. We welcome research on technology diffusion, digitally enabled practices, and their implications for firm sustainability and competitiveness, as well as studies on metrics and reporting. Contributions addressing Circular Economy, supply chains, and sustainable business models — from design to implementation and scaling — are especially encouraged.
Healthcare systems are undergoing a profound digital transformation, driven by the growing adoption of advanced technologies that enable new ways of designing, managing, and improving organisational processes and healthcare services. Data generated by hospital information systems, connected medical devices, digital platforms, and interoperable infrastructures are becoming critical assets for supporting more timely, evidence-based, and adaptive decision-making.
In this context, digital technologies such as telemedicine, IoT-enabled monitoring, digital platforms, process mining, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence offer significant opportunities to improve the delivery, coordination, and management of care. They support more effective service delivery, continuous monitoring, data-driven decision-making, and more efficient use of resources, while also contributing to better quality of care, patient safety, and operational performance. More broadly, these technologies enable service innovation, stronger integration across care settings, and more proactive and adaptive healthcare management approaches.
This track aims to explore how digital technologies, process analytics and AI can support the transformation of healthcare processes from managerial, organisational, and technological perspectives. We welcome contributions addressing the adoption, integration, and impact of digital solutions in complex healthcare environments, with particular attention to approaches that connect data, processes, technologies, and organisational change to support operational performance, organisational effectiveness, and strategic decision-making.
Many real-world decisions — such as supplier selection, technology adoption, and public procurement — are inherently multidimensional and cannot be fully captured through traditional financial metrics (e.g., NPV or IRR). As a result, decision processes involve heterogeneous, qualitative, and context-dependent elements that are difficult to formalize and analyse, characterized by limited, fragmented, or non-standardized data, making decision-making difficult to structure and support effectively.
This track explores the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in structuring and supporting multidimensional decision-making through digitalization across public and private organizations, enhancing rather than replacing human judgment by transforming fragmented, case-specific evaluation practices into more consistent, evidence-based, and transferable decision-support structures. It welcomes contributions on AI-driven approaches for both predictive decision-making (anticipating outcomes and optimizing choices) and retrospective analysis (understanding how decisions were made and which factors most significantly shaped final outcomes). Emphasis is placed on methods that compare AI-generated outputs with human decisions, highlighting alignments and divergences to support reflexive evaluation and improve robustness.
Applications include procurement and tendering, supply chain management, strategic planning, and technology evaluation. The track encourages contributions supporting both decision-makers and evaluated actors, framing AI not only as a tool for evaluating alternatives but also for making decision logics more explicit, enabling actors to better understand, anticipate, and respond to multidimensional decision processes. The goal is to advance AI-enabled decision intelligence systems that enhance consistency, traceability, and accountability, while complementing human judgment in socio-technical environments.
Achieving sustainability in the built environment poses a challenge that spans multiple levels of analysis, from individual buildings to the complex dynamics of entire urban systems. Managing the numerous interacting parameters related to environmental, economic, and social dimensions across these levels is difficult without advanced digital integration solutions. Accordingly, this track investigates the role of digital technologies in leading and supporting the shift towards a more sustainable construction sector. Specifically, it aims to gather workflows, case studies, and methodological contributions involving specific digital tools for sustainability. Key areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the use of digital tools to support urban and building design phases, the assessment of life cycle impacts, and tools for urban-scale simulations testing phenomena such as urban heat islands. This track aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers, engineers, data scientists, and practitioners working on digital technologies for building sustainability.
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