Authors are invited to submit full or short papers presenting new research related to the development of global Information and Communication Infrastructures. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Future Networking and Computing:

• Advanced Techniques for Networks and Services Management
  
• Control and Monitoring Frameworks for Experimental Network and System Facilities
• Future Internet, 5G Network,Optical Systems, M2M communications, Tactile Internet
  
• Internet of Things & Web of Things, Internet of Everything, Internet of Drones
• Cognitive Networks, Underwater Networks, Relay and Cooperative Networks
• Vehicular Network, Underwater Autonomous Vehicular Network
• SDN, OpenFlow, Opflex, Netconf, Lisp, Trill
  
• Network Functions Virtualization, Microservices, Service-Based Architecture (SBA)
  
• Self Organized Networks, Autonomic Networks
  
• Fog-EdgeèCloud Computing Continuum, Networking, Orchestration, Mobile Edge Networking and Computing,
• Middleware Technologies (Cloud, IoT, Grid, P2P, Social Networks)
• Blockchain Technology for Networking
• Blockchain as a service
  

    AI Applied to infrastructures and services:

• AI for Networking and Computing Optimization
• AI for Security Management
  
• AI for Self-Organized Resource Management 
  
• AI for AI for slices management and orchestration
• Usable Security and Privacy
• Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Network and Service Optimization
• New opportunities for infrastructures supporting AI services

    Security, Trust and Human Perception:

• Cybersecurity
• Blockchain Technology
  
• Security and Trust Management
• Privacy protection and Privacy-by-design
• Usable Security and Privacy
• Humans aspects of Security and Privacy
• Trusable Access and Access sharing
  
• Critical Infrastructure Management
  

   Social data management:

• Models, theories and techniques
  
• Workflow Management
• Information and Data Management
  
• Big Data Management
• Social Data Mining and Analytic
• Decision Analysis and Methods
• Urban Computing 

 Verticales Industries, Usage and Societal Impacts:

• e-Health, e-Society and Digital Divide
• e-Government, e-Business, e-Mobility
  
• Smart-* (Smart Grid, Smart-Home, Samr-Health, Smart-Building, Smart-Cities, Smart-Road, Smart-Factory, …)
• Green ICT and ICT for green
• Figital twins
  

SUBMISSION

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submissions: November 3^th, 2020
Author Notification: November 24^th, 2020
Camera-Ready Due: December 1^st, 2020

Special Issue in International Journals

Authors of the best ADVANCE’2021 papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible publication in special issue of International Journals (2/3 best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to Computing and System Journal/Revista de Sistemas e Computaçao – ISSN 2237-2901)