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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">[Apologies for duplicates of this message] <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%">Eleventh IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems
(SmartSys) <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span>\u2022<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Co-located
with the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2026) <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-indent:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span><span>\u2022<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>22nd June 2026 <span></span></p>
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</span></span></span>Messina, Italy <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%">Name of the
Organizers: <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span> </span>Workshop Co-Chairs <span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Nirmalya
Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">\u2022 Gurdip Singh, George Mason
University<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">TPC
Co-Chairs <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Mohamed
Nafea, Missouri University of Science & Technology, US <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span>Marco Pettorali, University of Pisa, Italy <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Publicity chair <span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Jacopo
Sabatino, University of Florence, Italy <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Avijoy
Chakma, Bowie State University, US</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%">Scope (Call for Papers) <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Technology
succeeds when it provides benefits to the society either directly or
indirectly. Understanding the societal and economic impact and human-centered
aspects of a smart system or technology in advance and designing the system
a-priori with potential value-added services help spur the discoveries of new
tools, methodologies and innovative services. Smart service systems span across
a variety of socio-technical facets comprising of devices, people,
organizations, environments and technologies to sense, actuate, control and
assess the physical, cyber and societal artifacts of the human service systems.
Besides the systems being self-adaptive and fault-tolerant, need to be designed
in such a way that it can continuously increase the quality and productivity,
the compliance and sustainability of the smart services it offers. While
human-centered perspective and cognitive learning help create multi-facet value
added services and catalyze the sustained economic growth of smart service
systems, understanding the multi-modal sensing, control, heterogeneity and
interdependency between different physical, virtual and logical components of
such a complex system will enable the realization of new transformative smarter
service systems. If successful, this can help improve the quality-of-experience
of the customers, quality-of-life of the citizens and quality-of returns of the
stakeholders and investors. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Nurturing
the development of smart service systems seeks for inter- and
trans-disciplinary crosscutting research threads spanning systems and
operations engineering spanning systems and operations engineering from system
and operational engineering, computer science and information systems, social
and behavioral science, computational modeling and industrial engineering etc.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers
from both academia and industry in order to provide have a forum for discussion
and technical presentations on the foundational theories, models, and design on
the fundamental knowledge and principles of smart service systems that enable
the value co-creation in sensing, actuating, data analytics, learning, cognition,
and control of for human centric cyber-physical-social systems and future of
work. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to: <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Innovative
tools, methodologies and solutions for smart service systems; example includes
personalized healthcare, smart energy, smart cities, smart manufacturing,
intelligent transportation, education, precision medicine and agriculture,
national security etc. <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Information
extraction and interpretation from sensors, actuators, smart phones, wearable
devices (e.g., smart watches), and humans <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Context
and situational awareness of smart service systems <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Design
of people-centric services and technologies for providing better services such
as food, transportation and places to live <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Novel
architectures and interoperable solutions for Internet of Things <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Models
and methodologies for designing systems of systems <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Big
data analytics approaches for providing better customer services, and
innovating new types of sustainable services <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Edge
AI and federated learning approaches enabling real-time, privacy-preserving
intelligence in distributed smart service systems. <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Modeling,
analysis, co-production, and co-evolution of human activity, behavior and
interaction for the effective adaptation and percolation of longitudinal smart
service systems <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Role
of machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, pervasive computing,
blockchain, control theory, information and communications technologies <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Role
of formal methods in computer networks, cyber-physical systems,
Internet-of-Things and machine learning <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Design
and developments of intelligent systems, intelligent enterprises and
cyber-physical-social-systems <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Design
of inter-dependent complex global systems such as healthcare, smart grid,
computer networks, logistics and supply-chains, financial markets etc. <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Smart
infrastructure and testbed to support the integration of autonomous systems and
innovative applications <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Digital
twins for modeling, monitoring, and optimizing human-centric
cyber-physical-social smart services. <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Design
and implementation of analytical methods, simulation software and experimental
testbeds to evaluate the key performance indicators of smart services <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Design
of approaches for trustworthiness of human-centered smart systems and
algorithms <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Design
and implementation of persuasive smart systems and smart systems for behavior
change support <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Fairness
and Bias Mitigation in AI algorithms for pervasive systems <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Fair,
explainable, interpretable, trustworthy, and private, AI systems with
social/societal impact in areas of interest. <span></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Leveraging
Human-in-the-Loop Feedback for Enhanced Context-Awareness in pervasive systems <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%">Submission instructions <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Authors are
invited to submit regular (full) papers for presentation at the workshop,
describing original, previously unpublished work, which is not currently under
review by another workshop, conference, or journal. Regular papers should
present novel perspectives within the general scope of the workshop. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Papers may
be no more than 6 pages in length. Papers in excess of page limits shall not be
considered for review or publication. All papers must be typeset in
double-column IEEE format using 10pt fonts on US letter paper, with all fonts
embedded. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related
information, can be found at the IEEE Computer Society website. Submissions
must be made via EDAS. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Each
accepted paper will require a full SMARTCOM registration (no registration is
available for workshops only). <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Submission
link: </span><a href="https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=34470" style="color:rgb(70,120,134);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=34470</span></a><span> <span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%">Important dates <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Manuscript
submission: March 9, 2026 <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Paper
acceptance notification: April 29, 2026 <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Camera-ready
paper submission: TBA <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Workshop date: June 22, 2026</p>
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