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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">CASCON 2025 – 35th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Advances in Software and Computing – Call for Contributions and Proposals (CFCP)<br>
</span></b><a href="https://cascon.ca/"><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://cascon.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">CASCON 2025
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">will be held at York University's Keele campus, which is centrally located in the Greater</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. The conference will</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> feature world-class keynote speakers, inspiring
technical paper presentations, stimulating panels, workforce-building tutorials, community-building workshops, dynamic poster sessions, and terrific networking opportunities.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">CASCON is a premier academic and industrial conference where attendees can explore cutting-edge research, trailblazing practices, and collaboration opportunities
in software and computing.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Over the years, CASCON has fostered a thriving community of software practitioners, developers, researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers who share knowledge,
explore new technologies, exchange insights, investigate emerging trends, and showcase next-generation prototypes and solutions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">CASCON is now co-sponsored by
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.computer.org/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">IEEE Computer Society</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> and
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://cscan-infocan.ca/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">CS-CAN/INFO-CAN,</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> and the proceedings
will be published in </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">IEEE Xplore</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">.
CASCON 2025 will focus on the dynamic and rapidly evolving modern computing landscape, including the convergence of generative AI, advanced automation, hybrid cloud computing, high-performance computing, quantum computing, and responsible & sustainable computing.
This landscape is exciting and disruptive, with unparalleled opportunities as well as ethical and regulatory challenges with your contributions and participation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Call for Contributions</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">We invite you to contribute
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">original, unpublished, high-quality manuscripts for the
<b>technical paper track</b>. We also invite <b>proposals </b>for <b>workforce-building tutorials, community-building workshops, innovative posters,
</b>and <b>stimulating panels</b> accessible to a broad and diverse audience of software practitioners, developers, researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers. We encourage contributions with a mix of authors from industry, academia, and government offering
innovative solutions and real-world insights.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submissions should address challenges and opportunities spanning the full spectrum of computing and software, including but not limited to: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Emerging Software Systems & Architectures</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc">
<li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Large Language Models (LLMs):</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Exploring prompt engineering, retrieval augmented
generation (RAG) techniques, and novel applications of AI.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cloud, Edge, Accelerated Computing:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Advances in cloud-native architectures, microservices, and serverless paradigms, especially
in modern accelerated and heterogeneous hardware architectures like GPU, NPU, and DPU.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Big Data & Real-Time Analytics:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Next-generation platforms for processing and deriving insights from massive and/or real-time
datasets.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Autonomous and Adaptive Systems:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Digital twins, self-healing networks, and systems that learn and evolve in real time and
over extended periods.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Software-Enabled Healthcare & Bioinformatics:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> AI-driven diagnostics, remote monitoring, and personalized medicine applications.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Internet of Things (IoT) & Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS):</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Smart cities, Industry 4.0 innovations, and connected ecosystems.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Quantum Computing:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Hybrid quantum-classical approaches, distributed quantum computing, quantum software engineering, quantum
algorithms, and practical quantum development.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Trustworthy & Transparent AI Systems:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Ensuring robustness, explainability, fairness, and accountability in AI-driven systems.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Novel Programming Models for Data-Oriented Accelerated Computing:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Emerging programming models to cope with the end of Moore's
Law as well as high-performance computing in the context of embedded, AI and classic scientific computing. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Evolving Software Engineering Practices</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">AI-Driven Development:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Generative AI, automated code generation, intelligent debugging, and machine learning-powered quality
assurance.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l14 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Agentic Software & Intelligent Agents:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Investigations into self-governing, context-aware software that autonomously adapts
to changing environments and user needs.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l14 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Modern DevOps & Continuous Delivery:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Innovations in microservices, containerization, and rapid deployment strategies, genAI-driven
and agent-driven automation and toolchains.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l14 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Software Analytics:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mining software repositories, software supply chains, and data-driven decision-making in software engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l14 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Secure Software Lifecycle:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Integrating security best practices into agile and DevOps pipelines, including zero trust architectures.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l14 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Innovations in Compiler Design:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Novel compiler optimizations, domain-specific languages, just-in-time compilation techniques,
and tools that enhance developer productivity and system performance.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l14 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Compile-time and Run-time Software Quality Assurance:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Software vulnerabilities, software testing, and verification.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l14 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Open Source Engineering:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white"> Innovation and policies to enable
and nourish open source for large-scale projects and initiatives like open source LLMs as well as best practices for establishing open source program offices.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Innovations in AI</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Next-Generation AI Techniques:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Advances in deep learning, reinforcement learning, diffusion models, and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Explainable & Responsible AI:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Research for ensuring transparency, ethical considerations, fairness, and societal accountability.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Federated and Edge AI:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Distributed AI approaches that preserve data privacy while harnessing edge computing capabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">AI for Social Impact:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Applications addressing environmental sustainability, disaster response, public health, and social
equity.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Cybersecurity & Digital Privacy</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Zero Trust Security Models:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Novel frameworks and strategies for threat detection, intrusion prevention, and risk mitigation.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l13 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Privacy-Enhancing Technologies:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Innovations in differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, and secure multi-party computation.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l13 level1 lfo4;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Blockchain & Decentralized Systems:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Emerging trends in decentralized finance (DeFi), trustless systems, and secure distributed
ledgers.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) & Immersive Experiences</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm;padding-inline-start:48px" type="disc">
<li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo5;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Immersive & Extended Reality:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Advances in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality for next-gen
user experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo5;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Next-Gen User Interfaces:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Designing intuitive, multimodal interfaces for smart devices, wearables, and mobile ecosystems.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l9 level1 lfo5;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Digital Collaboration & Social Media Analytics:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Enhancing interaction and productivity in hybrid work environments, enhancing
understanding of online engagement.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sustainable and Responsible Computing</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Green Computing & Sustainability:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Energy-efficient algorithms, sustainable system designs, and eco-friendly computing practices.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Responsible AI:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> low resource models, energy-efficient training strategies and practices that reduce the energy footprint
of Foundation Models like Large Language Models (LLMs).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo6;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Digital Transformation for Smart Ecosystems:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Leveraging technology to build sustainable smart cities and transformative
digital platforms.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submission Types</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">CASCON 2025 calls for the following types of submissions:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Regular Papers:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Novel and mature research work (up to 10 pages including references).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Short Papers:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Work in progress with some validation results, experience reports, new ideas and visionary papers based on
supporting theory or evidence, and application papers (up to 6 pages including references).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Applications/Industrial Papers:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Practical case studies, benchmark tools, and empirical</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">
studies addressing real-world industrial challenges (up to 6 pages, including references).</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#222222;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Artifacts Evaluation:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> Authors of regular, short papers and
applications/industrial papers accepted for CASCON 2025 can submit an artifact for evaluation. If their corresponding artifacts meet certain conditions, papers will be given the IEEE Open Research Object or Research Object Reviewed badges. The papers will
display the awarded badges to recognize their contributions to open science.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#333333;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Posters:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New ideas, experiences, ongoing results, and challenges in building Intelligent Systems and Software<span style="background:white"> (up to 2 pages including references).</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#222222;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Workshops:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"> Proposals for interactive sessions that
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">provide a forum to present, discuss, and debate issues, problems, ideas, technology gaps, work-in-progress, and/or directions. The workshop format may include
position papers, expert panels, and panel discussions. Workshops may be half-day or full-day.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#222222;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo7;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Tutorials:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">These are proposals for interactive sessions that</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"> provide excellent opportunities
for researchers, practitioners, and technology experts to offer demos and/or hands-on experience with state-of-the-art tools or emerging technologies, or deep dives into advanced research methodology or industrial best practices. Tutorials may be half-day
or full-day.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Paper Instructions</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Each technical paper must conform at the time of submission to the
</span><a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">IEEE Formatting Instructions</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (i.e., title
in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTEX users must use <i>\documentclass[10pt,conference] {IEEEtran}</i> without including the compsoc nor the compsocconf options).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">CASCON 2025 will not accept submissions that have been previously published, are in press, or have been submitted elsewhere. Any article that includes AI-generated
content (e.g., text, figures or algorithms) must disclose this in the acknowledgements section. The paper sections containing AI-generated content must include a citation to the used AI system for its generation. Additional submission guidelines are available
at</span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">
</span></u><a href="https://conferences.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/author-ethics/guidelines-and-policies/submission-policies/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Submission Policies - IEEE Author Center Conferences</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in IEEE Xplore. One of the authors of the accepted papers must register and present the
paper at the conference. Failure to attend and present the paper at the conference will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the IEEE Xplore proceedings.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best Paper Awards</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards will be given to recognize the best technical contributions of the event in terms of originality, clarity, and potential
impact. To be eligible for the Best Student Paper award, the primary author(s) of the paper and contributor(s) of the</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">work must have been a student(s) at the time the work was done.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Initial Manuscript Submission Instructions</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Submissions are made via EasyChair and must be in the double-column standard IEEE format for conference proceedings. All types of papers should strictly follow the
page limit constraint to be considered as eligible for review. The defined page limit should include the paper, figures, tables, and references. The steps for submitting a paper are as follows:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Visit EasyChair at <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cascon2025">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cascon2025</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">After logging in, click on make a new submission to submit your paper<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo8;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All authors should use the
<a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1155CC">IEEE Formatting Instructions</span></a>, which can be obtained from the IEEE Proceedings Template pages<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">CASCON 2025 will employ a double-anonymous review process. Therefore, submissions may not reveal the identity of their authors. The authors must make every effort
to honour the double-anonymous review process. In particular:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All references to the author's prior work should be in the third person.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo9;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">While authors can upload preprints on ArXiV or similar sites, they should avoid specifying that the manuscript was submitted to CASCON.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo9;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Authors should not publicly use the submission title during the review (e.g., in social media posts).<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We look forward to your submissions that push the boundaries of research and tackle today’s most pressing technology challenges and trends. Join us at CASCON 2025 to drive innovation,
foster knowledge exchange, and bridge the gap between groundbreaking research and industrial application.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Links to Tracks and Submission Deadlines</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For further details on tracks and guidelines, please refer to the respective links below:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tutorial Proposal</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><a href="https://cascon.ca/tracks/tutorials"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://cascon.ca/tracks/tutorials</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Tutorial abstract submission: May 12, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l12 level1 lfo10;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Full proposal submission: May 19, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l12 level1 lfo10;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Acceptance notification: June 9, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l12 level1 lfo10;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Tutorial dates: Nov 10-13, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Workshop Proposal</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><a href="https://cascon.ca/tracks/workshops"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://cascon.ca/tracks/workshops</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Proposal abstract submission deadline: May 12, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo11;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Proposal full submission deadline: May 19, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo11;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Acceptance notification: June 9, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l11 level1 lfo11;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Workshop dates: Nov 10-13, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Poster Proposal</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><a href="https://cascon.ca/tracks/posters"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://cascon.ca/tracks/posters</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Poster abstract submission: TBD</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#222222;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo12;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Full poster proposal submission: TBD</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:#222222;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo12;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Acceptance notification: TBD </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo12;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Poster session dates: Nov 10-13, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><a href="https://cascon.ca/tracks/research"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://cascon.ca/tracks/research</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Technical paper abstract submission: Jun 2, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo13;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Full technical paper submission: Jun 9, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo13;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Acceptance notification: Aug 11, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo13;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Technical paper presentation dates: Nov 10-13, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Artifact Evaluation </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black"><a href="https://cascon.ca/tracks/artifacts"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://cascon.ca/tracks/artifacts</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Artifact paper abstract: Aug 18, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo14;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Full artifact paper submission: Aug 25, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo14;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Acceptance notification: Sep 29, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l10 level1 lfo14;background:white;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Technical paper presentation dates: Nov 10-13, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Camera-Ready Submission Instructions</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Instructions for camera-ready manuscript submission will be sent to accepted contribution authors with the notification messages.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo15;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Submission of camera-ready manuscripts will be through IEEE Publication Services.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888;mso-ligatures:none">Diego Elias Damasceno Costa, PhD.</span><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888;mso-ligatures:none">Concordia University<br>
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