Our traditional premier events are:
Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)
International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things (CPS&IoT)
Summer School on Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things (SSCPS&IoT)
Special Sessions:
8th Workshop on Recent Advances in Computational and Engineering Methods in Biomedicine and Rehabilitation
1st Workshop on Virtually Smart Systems in Maritime Business & Industry
3rd Workshop on SMART4ALL MECO-S4A-2023
Special Workshops:
Each MECO and CPSIoT conferences organize a certain number of thematic Workshops or Sessions, dedicated to challenging topics and outstanding projects. The list and CFP for this year Workshops and Sessions is updated constantly.
8th Workshop on Recent Advances in Computational and Engineering Methods in Biomedicine and Rehabilitation
Collocated to MECO’2023
Hotel Budva, Budva, Montenegro, June 6-10, 2023
Chairs:
Prof. dr Goran Devedzic, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
Prof. dr Leporati Francesco, University Pavia, Italy, Co-Chair
About
Special Workshop/Session on Recent Advances in Computational and Engineering Methods in Biomedicine and Rehabilitation aims at discussing recent achievements in development and application of the contemporary and emerging systems, technologies, and methodologies directed to study phenomena of, diagnose, treat, and monitor biomedical and rehabilitation processes. In the recent years this multidisciplinary field brought remarkable changes, paradigm shift, and fundamental scientific breakthroughs in the healthcare in general. Worldwide strategies and policies consentingly emphasize necessity of collaborative, emerging, enabling, and converging approaches to deepen knowledge, understanding and capabilities required for proper dealing with complex biomedical and rehabilitation problems. Scientific and engineering advances, even breakthroughs, are clearly evident in biomedical signal processing, imaging, medical physics, tissue and regenerative engineering, nanotechnology, medical devices and robotics, as well as health/medical information systems, to mention just a core of the broad spectrum of corresponding areas.
In order to contribute to scientific and engineering community, as well as healthcare industry, we are inviting you to share your challenges and the current state of the art in the areas of your expertise, with supporting case studies of real-world relevance to underlying phenomena and biomedical and health care applications.
The main topics of this special session, but not limited to, are the following:
Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis
• Biomedical Signal Processing and Analysis
• Biophysics and Medical Physics
• Neuroengineering
• Biomechanics, Rehabilitation and Prosthetics
• Minimum Invasive Surgery, Robotics, Image Guided Therapies, Endoscopy
• Diagnostic and Therapeutic and Bioinstrumentation
• Wearable and Implantable Systems
• Computational Biomedical Engineering
• Biomaterials
• Micro- and Nano-bioengineering and Biosensors
• Bio-MEMS
• Bioinformatics
• Virtual Physiological Human
• Human modeling and simulation
• Personalized Medicine
• Clinical Engineering
• Therapeutic and Diagnostic Systems
• Healthcare Information Systems and Health Informatics
• Translational research and commercialization
• Cooperation of Academia, Industry and Healthcare Sector
• Health Technology Assessment
Committee
1. Radovan Stojanovic (University of Montenegro, Montenegro)
2. Almir Badnjevic (International Burch University, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
3. Duncan Shepherd (University of Birmingham, UK)
4. Veronique Perdereau (Sorbonne Universite, France)
5. Jari Viik (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
6. Milan Stork (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)
7. Djuro Koruga (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
8. Zeljko Stojkic (University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
9. Gianis Galelis (University of Patras, Greece)
10. Nikola Jorgovanovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
11. Saso Kocevski (University of Stip, FYRMacedonia)
12. Olga V. Melnik (RSREU, Russia)
13. Davorin Kofjac (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
14. Suzana Petrovic, University of Kragujevac
15. Vanessa Mahoney, IBM, USA
Submission
For Submission, use MECO rules and procedures as well as templates. In EasyChair select track of your special session. The accepted papers will be considered as regular, full MECO papers.
Registration
Use MECO fees, rules and procedures for Registration.
About Chairs
Prof. dr Goran Devedzic
Goran Devedžić is professor at Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia. His research interests focus on the advanced product and process development, industrial and medical application of soft computing techniques, and bioengineering. He has authored/co-authored more than 100 research papers, published in international and national journals or presented at international and national conferences, as well as six books on CAD/CAM technology and 3D product modeling, and bioengineering of spinal deformities. For the research on non-invasive spinal deformities diagnostics he and his team received first prize of the Mimics Innovation Award 2016 – EMEA region, awarded by Materialise (Leuven, Belgium) for a cutting-edge research.
Contact
Goran Devedzic devedzic@kg.ac.rs
1st Workshop on Virtually Smart Systems in Maritime Business & Industry
Collocated to MECO’2023
Hotel Budva, Budva, Montenegro, June 6-10, 2023
Chair:
Prof. dr Sanja Bauk, Durban University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Maritime Studies Department
About
New technologies based on artificial intelligence and bioinformatics influence the role of people in society, the way of life, education, and business in almost all spheres, including maritime sector.
Notwithstanding, it should not be forgotten that historically positive vector of economic growth and development should encompass protection of human rights and dignity, along with keeping ecological footprint within the limits of relevant standards.
This MECO 2023 Conference Session “Virtually Smart Systems in Maritime Business and Industry” is devoted to exchange of knowledge, experiences and ideas within the scope of the proposed topics and beyond. Its ultimate goal is creation of new knowledge, including smart strategies and actions.
Developing discussion and collaboration among researchers, scientists, academics, professionals, and entrepreneurs in maritime sector should bring research and education closer to the actual needs of the market.
The main topics of this special session, but not limited to, are as follows:
- Digitalization of maritime cluster
- Unmanned air/sea surface/underwater vehicles
- Sea traffic management
- E-navigation strategy
- (Smart) Ports and logistics
- Smart-ship concept (nautical and engineering)
- Energy management on board (nautical and engineering)
- Automation and digitalization on board (nautical and engineering)
- Safety and security at sea (nautical and engineering)
- Digitalization and maritime labour market
- Marine environmental issues in digital age
- Blockchain based maritime supply chain systems
- Maritime education and training in digital age
- Innovative, technologically driven maritime business models
Committee
- Prof. Anatoli Alop (Estonia)
- Prof. Zoran Z. Avramovic (Serbia)
- Prof. Sanja Bauk (South Africa)
- Prof. Knud Benedict (Germany)
- Capt. Mladen Brkovic (South Africa)
- Capt. Quentin N. Cox (United Kingdom)
- Prof. Innocent E. A. Davidson (South Africa)
- Dr. Oswald Franks (South Africa)
- Prof. Stojce D. Ilcev (South Africa)
- Prof. Trevor Jones (South Africa)
- Dr. Xavier Fco. Martinez (Spain)
- Capt. Mike Melly (South Africa)
- Prof. Ahvenjarvi Sauli (Finland)
- Prof. Elen Twrdy (Slovenia)
- Prof. Adam Weintrit (Poland)
Submission
For Submission, use MECO rules and procedures as well as templates. In EasyChair select track of your special session. The accepted papers will be considered as regular, full MECO papers.
Registration
Use MECO fees, rules and procedures for Registration.
About Chair
Prof. dr Sanja Bauk
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2882-1321
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sanja_Bauk/research
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=I12BelgAAAAJ&hl=de
Bio: Prof Sanja Bauk was born in Kotor (Yugoslavia) in 1972. She graduated in 1997 at the Maritime Faculty in Kotor, University of Montenegro (Montenegro). In 2001 she earned her master degree at the Faculty of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, University of Belgrade (Serbia), defending the master thesis “Information and Communication Technologies in Optimizing the Ship Navigation”. In 2005 she finished her doctoral studies at the same Faculty, defending the doctoral dissertation “Intelligent Information Systems in Route Optimization in Maritime and Port Transportation”. In 2013 she completed the post-doctoral studies in the field of didactic informatics at the Academy for New Media in Knowledge Transfer at Karl Franzes University in Graz (Austria). In 2017 she has completed another post-doctoral studies in the field of wireless sensors’ network optimization in the seaport environment for safety purposes at the Aachen RWTH University in Aachen (Germany).
Prof Sanja Bauk has received several international academic awards as a visiting researcher and lecturer at Universities of: Coimbra, Portugal (2001); Barcelona, Spain (2004, 2006); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (2005); Odessa, Ukraine (2009); Graz, Austria (2012, 2013); Lund, Sweden (2013, 2014); Aachen and Marburg, Germany (2015, 2016, 2017); City, London, England (2016), etc.
Prof Sanja Bauk is the author of three research monographs, and several university textbooks. As an author and co-author, she has published numerous papers in major (+20) and other scientific journals (+60). She has published a large number of articles in the proceedings of international scientific conferences (+100). She is a member of editorial board and a reviewer in several international scientific journals. She is also a member of scientific boards of several international scientific conferences. Additionally, she has actively participated in the realization of numerous international research and development projects.
Recently, Prof Bauk published three collections of short nonfiction and fiction stories in her native Serbo-Croatian language. She has also edited the anthology “Life Stories of Women in Academia” in 2021.
Subjects Expertize: Electronic Navigation Systems, Research Methodology, Research Project and Logistics at Durban University of Technology. Previously she was lecturing Operations Research and Informatics at University of Montenegro.
Academic Interests: IS/IT management, human-computer interaction, didactic informatics, digital transformation, convergent technologies, human dimension of technological development, etc.
Research and Innovation focus: Blockchain technology and applications.
Contact
Cell: +27 (0)67 008 4218
Email: bsanjaster@gmail.com
Address: PO Box 1334, 70 Steve Biko Road, Durban 4000, South Africa
3rd Workshop on SMART4ALL
MECO-S4A-2023
Collocated to:
MECO2023, CPSIoT2023 and SS-CPSIoT2023
Venue and date:
Hotel Budva, Budva, Montenegro, June 6-10, 2023
Organizers:
MECO and SMART4ALL Consortiums
About:
Self-sustained customized cyber physical system experiments for capacity building among European stakeholders (SMART4ALL), is a four-year flagship EU project under the call DT-ICT-01-2019: Smart Anything Everywhere for connecting Digital Innovation Hubs across Europe. The SMART4ALL consortium consists of 25 European partners with interdisciplinary skills and know-how from universities, research institutes, investors, networking organizations, SMEs, Innovation Hubs and NGOs.
The project builds capacity (via Open Calls) amongst European stakeholders through the development of self-sustained, cross-border experiments that transfer knowledge and technology between academia and industry. It targets CLEC (Customized low energy computing) CPS/IoT and combines a set of unique characteristics that join together different cultures, policies, geographical areas and application domains under a common vision.
- Digitized transportation,
- Digitized agriculture,
- Digitized environment
- Digitized health with emphasis to COVID-19 pandemic
- Digitized anything
- SMART anything everywhere
- PAE: Pathfinder Application Experiments
Submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit two types of contributions:
- SHORT papers describing HW-SW system or method ideas raised out from PAE: Pathfinder Application Experiments. Those papers will be Published in Separate Section Proceedings and in WiPiEC Journal
- Registration and Submission Templates and Examples (1, 2).
- FULL papers, full-length, four-page papers, strictly according to the IEEE Conference Standards, considered as regular MECO 2022 paper and apply to MECO submission rules.
Deadlines:
- April 15 2023
Registration:
SHORT PAPERS:
IN-VENUE: 280 EUR SMART4ALL MEMEBERS, 330EUR OTHERS
ONLINE: FREE SMART4ALL MEMBERS, 100 EUR OTHERS
REGULAR IEEE papers:
Subject of charge according to the MECO registration rules.
Indexing:
Short papers in WiPiEC journal are indexed in Google Scholar, ReserchGate etc.. while for MECO papers quality and indexing rules apply.
Chair:
Prof. Ass. Dr. Dhurate Hyseni, University of Prizren, Kosovo
The Committees:
Budimir Lutovac, University of Montenegro, Montenegro
Nikolaos Voros, University of Peloponese, Greece
Michael Huebner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Greece
Christos Antonopoulos, University of Peloponese, Greece
Georgios Keramidas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Vesna Maras, 13 Jul Plantaze, Montenegro
Andrey Skraba, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Marika Apostolova Trpkovska, South East European University, North Macedonia
Stephan Wong, Technical University Delft, Netherlands
Adrian Besimi, SEEU, Macedonia
Dmitry Tarasov, MECOnet
Matija Stojanovic, MEConet
About Chair:
Dhurate Hyseni is an Assistant Professor at University “Ukshin Hoti”, Prizren. She is an experience researcher and expert in Programming Languages, Computer Security and Reliability Algorithms, Software Development, SQL Programming, MySQL, C#Object-Oriented Programming, Cloud Computing, Java Programming etc.