<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:836px;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div><div id="m_-8715941959184560332gmail-:1cf" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem"><div id="m_-8715941959184560332gmail-:1cg" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div>Sorry for the cross-posting. This is the CfP for EAI BDTA 2023  - PhD Track</div></div><div><br></div><div>===================================</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>EAI BDTA 2023 - PhD Track<br><br>Edinburgh, UK, 23 August 2023<br><br>Conference website: <a href="https://infoscale.eai-conferences.org/2023/phd-track/" target="_blank">https://infoscale.eai-conferences.org/2023/phd-track/</a><br>Submission link: <a href="https://infoscale.eai-conferences.org/2023/submission/" target="_blank">https://infoscale.eai-conferences.org/2023/submission/</a><br><br>Full Paper Submission deadline: 5 July 2023<br>Notification deadline: 20 July 2023<br>Camera-ready deadline: 25 July 2023<br>The timezone of Important Dates is AoE (Anywhere on the Earth) 23:59:59pm.<br><br><br>The EAI BDTA 2023 conference includes a PhD Track, serving as a forum for PhD students on all subjects relating to the intersection of the conference's main topics. We aim to give PhD students the opportunity to present their ongoing work and interact with senior researchers, experienced in supervising and examining doctoral students. Our main objective is for students to receive constructive feedback and useful advice from senior participants in a respectful and interactive environment. This forum will also be an enormous opportunity for students to develop their professional network, hoping that it may positively impact their future careers.<br><br><br>== Topics ==<br>We welcome contributions from the following fields:<br><br>- Hardware and Software solutions for Big Data Searching, Storing and Management<br>- Data Visualization and Visual Analytics<br>- Natural Language Processing in Big Texts<br>- Biomedical Imaging Pre-processing and Analysis<br>- Structured and Unstructured Data Mining<br>- Deep Learning Architecture, Representations, Unsupervised and Supervised algorithms<br>- Scalable Computational Intelligence Tools<br>- Novel Computational Intelligence Approaches for Data Analysis<br>- Evolutionary and Bio-inspired Approaches for Big Data Analysis<br>- New Domains and Novel Applications Related to Big Data Technologies<br>- Educational Data Mining. Learning Analysis<br>- Artificial Intelligence in Education. Medical Informatics<br>- Information Systems Security<br>- Meta Heuristic Optimization<br>- Blockchain Technologies<br><br><br>== Submission Guidelines ==<br><br>- Papers should be in English.<br>- Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Such papers will be rejected without review.<br>- The paper submissions must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (see Author’s kit section on <a href="https://infoscale.eai-conferences.org/2023/submission/" target="_blank">https://infoscale.eai-conferences.org/2023/submission/</a>).<br>- Read the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.<br><br>Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section).<br><br>- Papers should be 6 - 11 pages in length.<br><br>Paper templates can be downloaded from:<br>- LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip) - <a href="https://help.eai-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/88/2021/04/Springer_Latex_Template.zip" target="_blank">https://help.eai-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/88/2021/04/Springer_Latex_Template.zip</a><br>- Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip) - <a href="https://help.eai-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/88/2021/04/Springer_DOCX_Template.zip" target="_blank">https://help.eai-conferences.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/88/2021/04/Springer_DOCX_Template.zip</a><br><br><br>== Publication ==<br><br>All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.<br><br>Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, IO-Port, MatchSciNet, Inspec and Zentralblatt MATH.<br><br>Additional publication opportunities:<br><br> EAI Transactions series (Open Access)<br> EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series<br> (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)<br><br><br>== Venue ==<br><br>The conference will be held in Craiglockhart Campus - Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom<br><br><br>== Contact ==<br><br>EAI BDTA 2023 Conference Manager: <a href="mailto:sara.csicsayova@eai.eu" target="_blank">sara.csicsayova@eai.eu</a><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,51,102)">------</span></b></p></div></div></div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,51,102)">Dr Zhiyuan (Thomas) Tan</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,51,102)"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,51,102)">Associate Professor in Cybersecurity | School of Computing | Edinburgh Napier University </span><span style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,51,102)"> </span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,51,102)">E-mail: </span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,51,102)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,120,212)"><a href="mailto:z.tan.phd@ieee.org" target="_blank">z.tan.phd@ieee.org</a></span></span><span style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,51,102)"> </span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,51,102)">Website: </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,51,102)"><a href="https://www.napier.ac.uk/people/thomas-tan" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,120,212)">https://www.napier.ac.uk/people/thomas-tan</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,51,102)"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p></div></div></div>