*************************************************************************** The 5th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40) Porto, Portugal March 22-25, 2022 *************************************************************************** Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/EDI40-22/ Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/EDI40-22/#workshop Important Dates - Workshops Proposals Due: October 1, 2021 * - Paper Submission Due: December 30, 2021 (Revised & Firm)* - Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2022 - Camera-Ready Submission: February 10, 2022 EDI40 2022 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 4.594), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF:3.006), Springer (https://www.springer.com/journal/779) - International Journal on Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 3.992), by Elsevier ( https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-... ) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), by Computing and Informatics (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) EDI40 2022 will be held in Porto, Portugal. Porto is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula. Porto is also called the Invicta because during the 19th century Portuguese civil war, the city withstood a siege of over a year.The urban area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the city, has a population of 2.1 million in an area of 389 km2 (150 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a gamma- level global city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, the only Portuguese city besides Lisbon to be recognized as a global city. EDI40 will be held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2022). Conference Tracks - Benefits of Industry 4.0 - Big Data and Analytics - Cloud Computing - Cognitive Computing - Computational Intelligence - Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) - Fog Computing and Edge Computing - Internet of Everything (IoE) - Standards for IoT Application Integration - The New Business Models in Industry 4.0 - General Track: Digitalization Startegies Committees General Chair Danny Hughes, CTO VeraSense NV, Belgium Program Chairs Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Local Chair Nuno Varandas, F6S (Where Founders Grow Together), Portugal Workshops Chair Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program Advisory Committee Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Ladislav Hluchy, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA International Journals Chair Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia Publicity Chairs Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Faouzi Kammoun, Ecole Supérieure Privée d'Ingénierie et de Technologies, Tunis Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Shashank Swarup, Acadia University, Canada Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/EDI40-22/#programCommittees International Liaison Chairs Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Steering Committee Chair and Founder Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada