Call for Papers

All papers must be submitted using EasyChair.

Paper Submission deadline: Tuesday May 3, 2022 (AoE)

Any questions regarding the submission process can be sent to conference organizers: lod@icas.cc.

Please prepare your paper in English using the Springer Nature – Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) template, which is available here. Papers must be submitted in PDF.

Types of Submissions

When submitting a paper to LOD 2022, authors are required to select one of the following four types of papers:

• Long Paper: original novel and unpublished work (max. 15 pages, including References, in Springer LNCS format);
• Late-Breaking Paper: original novel and unpublished work (min. 5 pages,  max. 10 pages, including References, in Springer LNCS format);
• Short Paper: an extended abstract of novel work (min. 4 pages, max. 5 pages, including References, in Springer LNCS format);
• Work for Oral Presentation only (no page restriction; any format). For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference;
• Abstract for Poster Presentation only (max 2 pages; any format). The poster format for the presentation is A0 (118.9 cm high and 84.1 cm wide, respectively 46.8 x 33.1 inch). For research work which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference.

Submitted papers must adopt the following to two rules:

• author names and institutions must be omitted, and
• references to authors’ own related research work must be in the third person.

Each paper submitted will be rigorously evaluated. The evaluation will ensure the high interest and expertise of reviewers. Following the tradition of LOD, we expect high-quality papers in terms of their scientific contribution, rigor, correctness, novelty, clarity, quality of presentation and reproducibility of experiments.
Accepted papers must contain significant novel results. Results can be either theoretical or empirical. Results will be judged on the degree to which they have been objectively established and/or their potential for scientific and technological impact.

All accepted long papers  will be published in a volume of the series on Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) from Springer – Nature after the  conference (Conference Post-Proceedings). Instructions for preparing and submitting the final versions (camera-ready papers) of all accepted papers will be available later on.

All the other papers (short papers, abstracts of the oral presentations, abstracts for poster presentations) will be published on the LOD 2022 web site.

We can now include ORCID for authors of the proceedings. See this announcement and the guidelines (editor guidelines, section 4.7) for more information. For more information see this link.

Past proceedings:

• LOD 2021 Proceedings: Springer LNCS, volumes 13163  and 13164, 7th International conference on machine Learning, Optimization & big Data – LOD, October 4-8, Revised Selected Papers.
• LOD 2020 Proceedings: Springer LNCS, volumes 12565 and 12566, 6th International conference on machine Learning, Optimization & big Data – LOD, July 19-23, Revised Selected Papers.
• LOD 2019 Proceedings: Springer LNCS, volume 11943, 5th International conference on machine Learning, Optimization & big Data – LOD, September 10-13, 2019, Revised Selected Papers.
• LOD 2018 Proceedings: Springer LNCS, volume 11331, 4th International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & big Data, LOD 2018, September 13-16, Revised Selected Papers.
• MOD 2017 Proceedings: Springer LNCS, volume 10710: 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization & Big Data, MOD 2017, September 14-17, Revised Selected Papers.
• MOD 2016 Proceedings, Springer LNCS, volume 10122: 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization & Big Data, MOD 2016, August 26-29. Revised Selected Papers.
• MOD 2015 Proceedings, Springer, LNCS volume 9432: 1st International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization & Big Data, MOD 2015, July 21-23. Revised Selected Papers.