CUPS'2023
The 2nd Computer Science University of Tunis El Manar PhD Symposium

1. PHD SYMPOSIUM CALL

The Computer Science PhD Symposium of the UTM is a forum for PhD students working in Computer Sciences and related areas of research to present their work, meet with peers and experienced researchers, obtain feedback, and earn credits needed towards their doctoral academic program. It aims at helping future researchers build up the skills and confidence required to conduct and promote their research, as well as giving them the opportunity to attend one of the most important research conferences and tutorials in computer science. Based on how well the first symposium went in 2017 at the National School of Engineers (ENIT), the second symposium, CUPS'2023, will be held at the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis from May 31 to June 2, 2023.

2. INVOLVED INSTITUTIONS AND RESEARCH LABORATORIES 

• Faculty of Sciences of Tunis

  • LIPSIC: Computer Science, Parallelism and Intelligent Communicating Systems Laboratory  (Director : Samir Ben Ahmed)

  • LIPAH: Algorithmic and Heuristic Programming Laboratory  (Director : Hella Kaffel Ben Ayed)

• High Institute of Computer Science

  • LIMTIC: Research Laboratory in Computer Science, Modeling and Processing of Information and Knowledge (Director: Ezzeddine Zagrouba)

• National School of Engineers of Tunis

  • SITI: Signal, Images and Information Technologies Laboratory (Director: Zied Laachiri)

  • RISC: Robotics, Computer Science and Complex Systems Laboratory  (Director: Safia Belghith)

  • Sys’Com: Communications Systems Laboratory (Director: Taoufik Aguili)

3. THE GOALS

The UTM PhD Symposium in Computer Sciences will give students the opportunity to:

• Learn by constructive criticism: Established researchers and PhD student advisors will provide constructive feedback to the submitted papers and posters by means of an open and non- adversarial review process.

• Learn about research: The CUPS’2023 Symposium will include four tutorials, each one addressing an actual research topic: Blockchain, Massive Data Mining & Big data, Artificial Intelligence and  IoT. This is an opportunity for the PhD students to enhance and deepen their skills while taking advantage of this space either to find suitable answers to the questions arising through their research or to exchange with the different eminent speakers .

• Learn by presenting: Accepted contributions will be presented in the PhD Symposium. Students’ posters will be also presented and evaluated.

The PhD Symposium agenda will include:

1. Conference for PhD students: the students (2nd year and later) will have the opportunity to present their research work while meeting peers and experienced researchers. The  first year PhD students will be able also to present an overview on their research topic and eventually some preliminary results of their research .

2. Scientific Specialized Training: Sessions of Tutorials given by specialists in Computer sciences research areas which are: Block-Chain, Massive Data Mining & Big data, Artificial Intelligence and  IoT.

3. Research Valorization & Professional Project: Meeting the actors of the socio-economic environment and organizing workshops and conferences on innovation project management and the professional integration of young doctors.

This symposium provides students some PhD credits:

• PhD students who attend all tutorials will receive 5 points for the UE Formation Scientifique Spécialisée (FSS) among the credits requested in the PhD cursus.

• PhD students having an accepted paper which they would have presented at the symposium will receive 4 points in the publication credits category.

PhD students having attended all the sessions of a single track will receive 2 points in the UE  Méthode et Communication en Recherche (MCR) 

3. ELIGIBILITY

Submissions are open for PhD students in the doctoral schools of the University of Tunis El Manar who are working in the field of computer sciences and related areas. But this doesn’t exclude allowing PhD students in other doctoral schools to submit their work.

Depending on how far along the PhD student is, the submissions will be looked at in one of two categories:

• Starting PhD students (first year): for students who may have identified the main research problem they want to address, the relevant literature, and are building their research methodology, but might not have yet  obtained significant results, or only preliminary ones. The students in this category are invited to submit a poster describing their PhD research.

• Advanced PhD students (2nd year and later): For students who have already defined their approach (even if incompletely) and obtained significant results (e.g., that might already have been published). The students in this category are invited to submit a five pages paper describing their PhD research.

4. SUBMISSION INFORMATION

PhD students who are working in the computer science fields and related research fields are invited to submit before 30th of April 2023 May 8, 2023:

• A five A4 pages paper in the PDF format following the IEEE template (Download IEEE Templates from here https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ).

The submission the papers, is done through the following MS CMT link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CUPS2023 

5. TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics include, but are not limited to:

TRACK I:Technology, Networking, HPC  and Security

• • • Internet of Things

    • Blockchain

    • Big Data and Parallel Processing

    • Data Analytics for intrusion detection & network management

    • IoT Applications 

    • Wireless &  Mobile Communication

    • Privacy

    • Secure Transactions

    • Cryptography 

    • Cyber Security  & Secure Protocols

    • Sensing and Sensor Networks

TRACK II: Smart and  Intelligent Systems

• • • Neural Networks and Deep Learning

    • Agents and Multi-agent Systems

    • Machine Learning and Data Mining

    • Data Science

    • Big Data

    • Knowledge representation and reasoning

    • Fuzzy Logic

    • Intelligent applications   

    • Smart Healthcare

    • Intelligent Transportation

    • Context-aware Pervasive Systems

    • Natural Language Processing and Applications

TRACK III: Emerging Machine Vision Applications and Systems

• • • Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision

    • Knowledge Extraction and Modeling of Visual Data

    • Computational Imaging and Brain-Machine Interface

    • Visual-Based Motion Analysis and Object Recognition 

    • Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Scene Reconstruction

    • Machine and Deep Learning Models for Image and Vidéo Analysis

    • Intelligent  Systems in Imagery and Artificial Vision (detection, recognition, retrieval, classification…)

    • OCR, Compression, Coding, and Transmission

    • Image & Video Interpretation and Understanding

    • Color, Multi-spectral, and Hyper-spectral Imaging

    • Visual-Based Biometrics, Forensics, and Security

    • Stereoscopic, Multi-view, and 3D Processing

    • Biomedical and Biological Image Processing

TRACK IV: Software Engineering and Formal Methods

• • • Software Development Methods and Architecture Design 

    • Formal Modeling, Specification, and Design

    • Software Testing, Validation, and Verification

    • Model checking, Theorem proving, and Decision procedures

    • Testing and Runtime Verification

    • Spatial Computing

    • Statistical and Probabilistic analysis

    • Software Synthesis and Repair

    • Lightweight and Scalable Formal methods

    • Analysis of Dependability, Performance and other Non-functional Properties

    • Resilience, Security, Privacy, and Trust

    • Safety-Critical, Fault-tolerant, and Secure systems

    • Software Assurance and Certification

    • Service-Oriented, cloud (edge, fog) computing systems and Internet of Things

    • Component-Based and Multi-agent Systems

    • Real-time, Hybrid, and Cyber-physical systems

    • Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning

    • HCI, Interactive Systems, and Human Error Analysis

    • Automated Software Engineering

    • Software Evolution, Maintenance, Re-engineering, and Reuse

6. AWARD

By the end of the CUPS’23 Symposium an Award will go to each best paper per Track.

7. IMPORTANT DATES

• Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2023   May 8, 2023

• Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2023         May 19, 2023

• Camera Ready deadline: May 22, 2023          May 24, 2023

• Registration deadline: May 30, 2023

8. SYMPOSIUM STEERING COMMITTEE

• Samir Ben Ahmed  Professor,  LIPSIC, FST

• Riadh Robbana Professor, LIPSIC, INSAT

• Narjes Ben Rajeb Professor, LIPSIC, INSAT

• Leila Ben Ayed Professor LIPSIC, ENSI

• Marrakchi Mounir Professor, LPSIC, FSS

• Yousra Hlaoui Assistant Professor, LIPSIC, FST

• Imen Ben Hafaiedh Assistant Professor, LIPSIC, ISI

• Hella Kaffel Professor (Associate), LIPAH, FST

• Ilhem Lengliz Professor, LIPAH, Académie Militaire

• Tarek Hamrouni Professor (Associate), LIPAH, ISAMM

• Chiraz Latiri Professor, LIPAH, ISAMM

• Amel Borgi Professor, LIPAH, ISI

• Sadok Ben Yahia Professor, LIPAH, FST

• Faouzi Moussa Professor, LIPAH, FST

• Khaled Bsaies Professor, LIPAH, FST

• Ezzeddine Zagrouba Professor, LIMTIC, ISI

• Wady Naanaa Professor, LIMTIC, ENIT

• Faouzi Ben Charrada Professor, LIMITIC, FST

• Walid Barhoumi Professor, LIMTIC, ENICarthage

• Sonia Bouzidi Professor (Associate), LIMTIC, INSAT

• Sahbi Bahroun Assistant Professor, LIMTIC, ISI

• Fethi Jarray Professor (Associate), LIMTIC, ISI Medenine

• Haythem Ghazouani Assistant Professor, LIMTIC, ENICarthage

• Azza Ouled Zaied Professor, Sys’Com, ENIT

• Zied Laachiri Professor, SITI, ENIT

• Heithem Abbes Professor (Associate), LATICE, FST

• Med Mohsen Gammoudi Professor, RIADI, ISAMM

• Belhassen Zouari Professor, Sup’Com

• Ali Frihida Professor, RISC, ENIT

• Nejib Ben Hadj Alouane Professor, OASIS, ENIT

• Mourad Elloumi Professor, LATICE, FSEGT

• Safia Belghith Professor, RISC, ENIT

• Olfa Mourali Assistant Professor, LIMTIC, ISI

• Abderrazek Jemai Professor, SERCOM, INSAT

• Chaker ESSID Assistant Professor, FST

• Raphaël Couturier Professor, Franche-Comté

• Chiheb Ameur Abid Assistant Professor, FST

• Yosr Slama Assistant Professor, FST

• Mohamed Taha Bennani Assistant Professor, FST

• Leila Ben Othmen Assistant Professor, FST

• Christiano Esposito Associate Professor, Univ. Salermo

• Sana Younes Assistant Professor, FST

• Azza Ouled Zaied Professor, ISI

• Zouhour Ben Dhief Assistant Professor, FST

• Mohamed Ali Ben Hassine Assistant Professor, FST

• Kirmène Marzouki Assistant Professor, ISI

• Hédia Kouchkar Assistant Professor, FST

• Narjes Doggaz Assistant Professor, FST

9. Organizing Committee

• Walid Barhoumi, LIMTIC, Professor, ENICarthage

• Ilhem Lengliz, LIPAH, Professor, Military Academy

• Haythem Ghazouani, LIMTIC, Assistant Professor, ENICarthage

• Ilhem AbdelHédi, LIPAH, Assistant Professor, ENICarthage

• Yousra Hlaoui, LIPSIC, Assistant Professor, FST 

• Afef Slama, LIPAH, PhD, ESSECT 

Faculty of Sciences of Tunis