Connectionists: [Last CfP] WETICE 2025 Deadline extended to June 7th

Sat May 31 11:13:51 EDT 2025

NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE June 7th!

33rd IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES: 
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR COLLABORATIVE ENTERPRISES (WETICE 2025)

This year, for the first time ever, WETICE will be held from July 23–25, 
2025 in the lovely city of Catania (Italy), beautifully sited in the 
blessed land of Sicily, between the Mediterranean sea and Europe's 
largest active volcano, mount Etna. Particularly, the conference 
activities will take place within a historical UNESCO World heritage 
site, which is a Benedictine Monastery monumental building from the 
XVIth century, nowadays regularly hosting classes and departments of the 
University of Catania.  We will feature many paper sessions covering hot 
topics in several areas of computer science, data science, software 
technologies, and many others. Please read the full Call for Papers 
below for more details. We also organised fun social activities, and on 
last day, we’ll wrap up with an awesome excursion, to let you enjoy an 
unforgettable event!

The conference is technically sponsored by IEEE (IEEE.org), IEEE 
Computer Society Italy Chapter and IEEE Systems, and Man and Cybernetics 
Society Italy Chapter, and the proceedings will be submitted for 
inclusion in IEEE Xplore, Scopus, DBLP, and Google Scholar. All the 
registration info is available at the conference website: 
www.dmi.unict.it/wetice2025
Visit the Conference website at: https://www.dmi.unict.it/wetice2025 for 
more details.

Submission deadline has been extended to June 7th!
Notification of acceptance is June 27th
Early registration ends July 11th.

NOW ANNOUNCING two confirmed keynote contributions:

Keynote1: prof. Angelo Gargantini, UniBG (Italy). July 23rd
TITLE: Are (formal) models still really useful in software engineering?

ABSTRACT: Models, which are an abstract mathematical representation of a 
system, are generally used in software engineering for several reasons, 
including, to formally specify system requirements and share them  among 
stakeholders (e.g., developers, clients, designers). Their main 
classical goal is to document the system for future reference, and to 
analyse the system to be built in order to find issues as soon as possible.
modelling is often associated to a classical waterfall software process 
model as one of the first phases of the process. In some approaches, 
like Model-Driven Engineering, models are paramount, while in agile 
processes, models play a margin (if not null) role. In this talk, we 
will try to give a conceptual framework able to guide developers to 
evaluate how much modelling is necessary in their project. We will 
consider problems like model updating and the cost of correcting bugs 
without models. Furthermore, we will introduce the idea of reverse 
modelling, when models are extracted from existing code and co-modelling 
when models and code co-evolve together linked in a formal way.

BIO: Angelo Gargantini is full Professor of Computer Engineering at the 
University of Bergamo. He graduated in Electronic Engineering from the 
Polytechnic University of Milan, 1994 (with 100 laude). He then obtained 
a PhD in Computer Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 2000 and a 
PhD in Computer Science at the University of Catania in 2006. He worked 
in 1997, 1998 and 2003 as a software engineering researcher at the 
Software Engineering group of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), 
Washington DC, USA. From 2000 to 2004 he worked at the University of 
Catania. Since 2005 he has been working at the University of Bergamo. 
His research interests concern software engineering, in particular the 
specification, design, validation, verification and testing of critical 
systems, in particular medical software systems.  His major 
contributions include the use of model checkers for test generation, the 
use of verification techniques for test generation and validation and 
the use of model driven engineering (MDE) applied to formal methods. 
Together with the team of the University of Milan, he has developed a 
tool set for the Abstract State Machines. He was included in the World's 
Top 2% Scientists (ranking of Stanford University in collaboration with 
Elsevier), both in 2022 and 2023.

Keynote2: Prof. Giancarlo Ruffo, UniUPO (Italy).  July 24th
TITLE:  Connected worlds: how networks can help to understand fake news 
spreading, urban systems, and more.

ABSTRACT: Network science has emerged as a powerful and versatile 
framework for understanding the complexity of real-world systems, from 
the viral spread of information to urban dynamics. In this talk, we will 
explore how the same network principles can provide valuable insights on 
two seemingly unrelated domains: the persistence of urban segregation 
patterns and the rapid dissemination of fake news online. Also, network 
science can help to understand if fact-checking and urban planning are 
effective countermeasures of the drawbacks of a hyper-connected world. 
Drawing on recent research, we will examine how networks capture the 
underlying structure of social and spatial interactions, enabling 
predictive modelling, scenario testing, and deeper insights into 
systemic behaviour. This talk aims to illustrate how network models 
transcend disciplinary boundaries and offer a unified language for 
analysing diverse complex systems.

BIO: Giancarlo Ruffo is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the 
Università del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro", Italy.  He holds a 
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Turin, where he began 
his academic career, first as an Assistant Professor and later as an 
Associate Professor. He earned his undergraduate degree from the 
University of Catania.
His research spans computational social science, network science, and 
data science, with a recent focus on modelling social dynamics such as 
information diffusion, opinion mining, and urban segregation. He has 
extensive experience in data science, data and web mining, and 
information visualisation, which he applies to uncover patterns and 
insights in large-scale, heterogeneous datasets.
Prof. Ruffo has collaborated internationally, including a significant 
research experience at Indiana University (USA), Universidad de 
Desarollo (Chile), where he contributed to foundational work in 
computational social science and network analysis. His work bridges 
theoretical modelling with practical applications, demonstrating the 
power of networks to interpret diverse socio-technical systems across 
both online and offline contexts.

Call for papers:
We are thrilled to invite you to participate in the 33rd edition of 
WETICE, a leading international forum dedicated to advancing research, 
fostering collaboration, and sharing innovations in the rapidly evolving 
landscape of collaborative intelligence and decentralised software 
systems, bridging AI, Data Science, and Cyber-physical Technologies: 
software systems that are smart, autonomous, interconnected, and 
scalable. This conference is a unique opportunity for researchers, 
practitioners, and industry experts to connect, exchange ideas, and 
contribute to the future of intelligent, decentralised, and 
collaborative software systems, pushing the boundaries of AI, 
Blockchain, IoT, and collaboration tools. WETICE focuses on 
collaborative methodologies and how they empower various technologies 
(AI, Blockchain, IoT, etc.) to create new solutions across diverse 
application domains. WETICE also aims at promoting fruitful discussions 
on the latest software technology developments, directions, problems, 
and requirements. The conference includes presentations, keynote 
sessions, and group discussions.

Submissions:
All papers will undergo anonymous revision by at least two members of 
the Program Committee. Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in 
IEEE Xplore, Scopus, DBLP, and Google Scholar. The submissions must be 
original content not published or submitted for publication elsewhere. 
Papers must be written in English and formatted according to the 
guidelines at the following link: 
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Submission is now open and available at the following link: 
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WETICE2025.
The maximum length of the paper is 6 pages, including figures and 
references. Authors are required to include their names and affiliations 
in their papers.

We’d love to see you there  😉

WETICE 2025 Team

-- 

|----------------------------------------------------|
| Prof. Giacomo Cabri - Ph.D., Full Professor
| Rector's Delegate for Teaching
| Dip. di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche
| Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia
| e-mail giacomo.cabri at unimore.it
| tel. +39-059-2058320  fax +39-059-2055216
|----------------------------------------------------|