2023 IEEE AMCAI: 1st IEEE Afro-Mediterranean Conference on Artificial Intelligence Hotel Hammamet, Tunisia, December 13-15, 2023

Conference website	http://amcai.atia.org.tn/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amcai2023
Submission deadline	September 3, 2023
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amcai2023

023 IEEE AMCAI: 1st IEEE Afro-Mediterranean Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Organized by ATIA (Association Tunisienne pour l'Intelligence Artificielle)

with the Financial Co-Sponsorship of IEEE Africa Council, and the Technical Co-Sponsorship of IEEE Tunisia Section, IEEE SPS Tunisia Chapter, IEEE CIS Tunisia Chapter, IEEE SMC Tunisia Chapter

Objectives

2023 IEEE AMCAI is the premier Afro-Mediterranean meeting in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Its purpose is to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners from both Mediterranean and African countries (not only – and also from all countries of the world) to discuss and present their research results around Artificial Intelligence and its applications. The conference emphasizes applied and theoretical research in Artificial Intelligence to solve real problems in all fields, including engineering, science, education, agriculture, industry, automation and robotics, transportation, business and finance, design, medicine and biomedicine, bioinformatics, human-computer interactions, cyberspace, security, image and video recognition, agriculture, etc. Topics: The aim of the 2023 AMCAI is to attract high-quality papers in these areas including topics (but not limited) such as: 

• Artificial Intelligence Programming
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Cognitive Computing
• Computational intelligence
• Computer Vision, Image and video recognition
• Fuzzy Logic
• Machine Learning
• Neural Networks
• Natural Language Processing
• Robotics, automation and Control Systems
• Planning & Scheduling
• Blockchains
• Big Data
• Cloud & Fog computing
• Intelligent networks
• Augmented Reality, XR and Metaverse
• Optimization & Multi-objective optimization
• Recommender systems
• Data mining, Ontologies and semantic web
• Generative AI
• AI Ethics
• Artificial Intelligence Applications: AI in Industry 4.0 & 5.0 – IoT & IoE, AI in Energy Industry, AI in Learning and education, AI in Logistics and Transportation, AI in Cybersecurity, AI in Medicine, AI in Business and Finance, AI in Food, Water and Agriculture, AI in Smart Cities …

Submission Guidelines

Committees

Honorary Chair

• Khaled Ghedira, Académie Tunisienne des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts, Beit Al-Hikma, UIK, Tunisia

General Chairs

• Olfa Belkahla Driss, ESCT, University of Manouba, LARIA-ENSI, Tunisia
• Farah Barika Ktata, ISSATS, University of Sousse, Tunisia

Program Committee Chairs

• Tarek M. Hamdani, ISIMa, University of Monastir, REGIM Lab, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia
• Ahmed Guessoum, The National Higher School of Artificial Intelligence, Algeria
• Mourad Abed, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France Valenciennes, France
• Hanen Idoudi, ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Boudour Ammar, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Steering Committee

Local Organizing Committee

• Fatma Siala Kallel, ISAMM, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Bilel Marzouki, ESB, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Rabii Razgallah, DACIMA Consulting, Tunisia
• Ahmed Ben Taleb, ITBS, Tunisia
• Radhwane Ben Rhouma, ENSIT, University of Tunis, Tunisia
• Amel Laabidi, BH, ATIA, Tunisia
• Houssem Eddine Nouri, ISGG, University of Gabes, LARIA-ENSI, Tunisia
• Tasnim Mraihi, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Farah Farjallah, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Aloulou Naycen, ISIMM, University of Monastir, ATIA, Tunisia
• Sirine Abdallah, ISIMM, University of Monastir, ATIA, Tunisia

Special Session Chair

• Ouajdi Korbaa, ISITCom-University of Sousse, Tunisia

• Farah Jemili, ISITCom-University of Sousse, Tunisia
• Khaled Jouini, ISITCom-University of Sousse, Tunisia

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

• Adel M. Alimi, IEEE Africa Council, REGIM Lab, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia
• Najiba Mrabet Bellaaj, ISI, University of Tunis-Manar, Tunisia

Industrial Panel Chairs

• Chokri Souani, ISSATS-University of Sousse, Tunisia
• Mounir Frija, ISSATS-University of Sousse, Tunisia
• Imed Romdhani, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Maha Charfeddine, IEEE Tunisia Section SP Chapter, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Demo Track Chairs

• Imed Romdhani, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Mohamed Ould-Elhassen Aoueileyine, Supcom, University of Carthage, Tunisia

Competitions & Challenges Chairs

• Bilel Marzouki, ESB, LARIA-ENSI-University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Rahma Fourati, IEEE Tunisia Section CIS Chapter, University of Jendouba, Tunisia
• Khaled Khnissi, IEEE Tunisia Section CIS Chapter, University of Tunis, Tunisia

Keynote Speakers

• Prof. Nozha BOUJEMAA, Global Vice President, Digital Ethics and Responsible AI - IKEA Retail (Ingka Group), Co-Chair of the OECD.AI Risk and Accountability expert group, Ex-Vice Chair of the AI-HLEG (EC), TEDx Speaker.

• Prof. Pascal YIM, Digital Innovation Advisor, Professor, Ecole Centrale Lille, France.

• Prof. Timothy JUNG, Chair Professor of XR, Director of AR & VR Hub, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. 

Special Session

The AMCAI 2023 invites proposals for Special Sessions/Tracks to be held during the conference as a set of oral and poster presentations that are highly specialized in some particular theme applied in/to Artificial Intelligence. They intend to provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers. A Special Session will consist of a group of papers in a sub-discipline of Artificial Intelligence related to the main topics of AMCAI 2023. The goal of special sessions (minimum 4 papers; maximum 9) is to provide a focused discussion on innovative topics around artificial intelligence. Special Session proposals have to be submitted electronically through EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amcai2023 with the following information before June 20, 2023 (Extended): Title & acronym of the special session, Brief profiles of special session organizers, General description of the special session scope, List of topics, Proposed special session Program Committee (to be invited).

The papers will be required to meet the same standards as AMCAI 2023 papers and will be published in the conference proceedings. All the Special Sessions and Doctoral Track will be centralized as tracks in the same conference submission and reviewing system as the regular papers. The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of the special session and the conference including the Special Session webpage preparation. The management of papers review will be achieved by Special Session Committees, using the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each Special Session). The organizers are responsible for managing the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through the AMCAI 2023 conference system. Each paper should obtain at least Three reviews. The final decision as for the acceptance will be taken by the AMCAI 2023 Program Committee based on recommendations provided by Special Session organizers.

Doctoral Consortium

A doctoral consortium (DC) is a symposium dedicated to helping Ph.D. students in the course of their research work. Each student must present a paper describing her/his work at an intermediate phase before an advisory board, composed of highly qualified and experienced professors. The student should prepare a set of slides that clearly illustrate the main points of her/his Ph.D. project, leaving time enough for a discussion period in order to let the advisory board be helpful regarding the project's progression. Each Ph.D. project presentation is expected to last about 15 minutes. Students are also invited to prepare a poster about their Ph.D. for the main conference poster session.

Industrial Panel

The Industrial Panel is oriented to promote knowledge exchanges between academia and industry. A panel is a one-and-a-half-hour to 2 hours session in which 4 to 6 speakers - distinguished members of the scientific and/or enterprise community, briefly present different perspectives/opinions on key issues with the goal of stimulating a lively, controversial, and provocative discussion. Panelists are expected to actively debate one another and engage the audience to help broaden understanding of the technologies and issues.

Demo Track

The AMCAI-2023 Demonstrations Program aims to foster discussions and exchange of ideas among Afro-Mediterranean researchers and practitioners from academia and industry by displaying their software and hardware systems and research prototypes. Any written support materials may be distributed locally but not published in the proceedings. Authors who already present a paper at the conference may apply for a demonstration, to complement but not to replace their paper presentation. Demonstrations can also be made by sponsor companies or as a mixed initiative involving researchers and industrial partners. Demonstrations are based on an informal setting that encourages presenters and participants to engage in discussions about the presented work. This is an opportunity for the participants to disseminate practical results of their research and to network with other applied researchers or business partners.

Competitions & Challenges

Important Dates

Conference date: December 13-15, 2023

Program Committee

• Adel M. Alimi, REGIM Lab, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia 
• Khaled Ghedira, UIK, Tunisia 
• Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara, ENISo, University of Sousse, Tunisia
• Olfa Jemai, ISIMG, University of Gabes, Tunisia
• Ouajdi Korbaa, ISITCom, University of Sousse, Tunisia
• Tarek M. Hamdani, ISIMa, University of Monastir, REGIM Lab, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia
• Ghassane Aniba, Mohammadia School of Engineers (EMI) - Universite Mohamed V Agdal (UM5A), Morocco
• Belkacem Fergani, LISIC, USTHB, Algeria
• Seydina Moussa Ndiaye, Virtual University of Senegal, Senegal
• Sami Zhioua, INRIA, LIX, École Polytechnique, Paris, France
• Jose M. Molina, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Moulay Driss El Ouadghiri, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco
• Ahmed Guessoum, The National Higher School of Artificial Intelligence, Algeria
• Kamel Barkaoui, Cedric-Le Cnam, Paris, France
• Mohamed Bakhouya, International University of Rabat, Morocco
• Chokri Souani, ISSATS, University of Sousse, Tunisia
• Imed Romdhani, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
• Mohamed Ould-Elhassen Aoueileyine, Supcom, University of Carthage, Tunisia
• Hind Bril El Haouzi, ENSTIB-CRAN, France

• Bilal

  Said, Arts, Sciences and Technology University, Lebanon

• Slimane Larabi, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria
• Rodrique Kafando, INRAE, France
• Kirmene Marzouki, ISI-University of Tunis-Manar, Tunisia
• Belkacem Fergani, LISIC - USTHB, Algeria
• Raoudha Ben Djemaa, ISITCom, University of Sousse, Tunisia
• Mohamed Ibn Khedher, IRT-SystemX, France
• Mohamed Jmaiel, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia
• Mounîm A. El Yacoubi, Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France
• Hamid Allaoui, University of Artois, France
• Olfa Belkahla Driss, ESCT, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Houssem Eddine Nouri, ISGG, University of Gabes, LARIA-ENSI, Tunisia
• Nadine Couture, ESTIA, France
• Serge Miranda, ESTIA, France
• Evgeniya Ishkina, ESTIA, France
• Farah Barika Ktata, ISSATS-University of Sousse, Tunisia
• Najiba Mrabet Bellaaj, ISI-University of Tunis-Manar, Tunisia
• Rabii Razgallah, DACIMA Consulting, Tunisia
• Chaker Essid, FST, University of Tunis-Manar, Tunisia
• Fatma Siala Kallel, ISAMM, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Bilel Marzouki, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Madiha Harrabi, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Wided Lejouad Chaari, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Mouna Mnif, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Asma Ayari, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Raoudha Chebil, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Ahmed Ben Taleb, ITBS, Tunisia
• Makram Soui, Saudi Electronic University, Saudi Arabia
• Fethi Mguis, Faculty of Sciences of Gabes, Tunisia
• Imtiez Fliss, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Ines Benjaafar, ESCT, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Aroua Hedhili Sbaï, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Leila Ben Ayed, ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia

• Mabrouka

  Chouchane, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia

• Wiem	Zemzem, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia

• Amal	Tarifa, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia

• Soufiene

  Lajmi, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia

• Houda

  Abadlia, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia

• Imen	Ben Mansour, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia

• Ines	Alaya, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia

• Ghada

  El Khayat, Alexandria University, Egypt

• Ricardo Martinho, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
• Ilhem Kallel, ISIMS, REGIM-Lab, University of Sfax, Tunisia

• Boudour

  Ammar, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia

• Maha Charfeddine, ENIS, University of Sfax, Tunisia
• Aniss Moumen, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco 

• Samuel

  Fosso Wamba, Toulouse Business School, France

• Mohamed Farah, ISAMM, RIADI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Nawres Khalifa, ENIT, University of Tunis-Manar, Tunisia
• Hala Hachicha, University of Tunis-Manar, Tunisia   
• Lobna Hsairi, University of Tunis-Manar, Tunisia    
• Zina Boussaada, ESTIA, France

• Khaled

  Jouini, ISITCom, University of Sousse, Tunisia

• Cheikh Dhib, Higher Institute of Digital (SupNum), Mauritania
• Henda Hajjami Ben Ghezala, RIADI-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Imen Hamrouni Trimech, ENISo, University of Sousse, Tunisia
• Lamia Rzouga Haddada, ENISo, University of Sousse, Tunisia
• Mourad Abed, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France Valenciennes, France
• Safa Ameur, ENISo, University of Sousse, Tunisia
• Alexis Drogoul, IRD, France
• Hanen Karamti, Princess Nourah Bint Abdul Rahman University, Saudi Arabia
• Younes Lakhrissi, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco
• Ali Mili, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States
• Btissam El Khamlichi, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco
• Eman Aldakheel, Princess Nourah Bint Abdul Rahman University, Saudi Arabia
• Mohamed El Bouhaddioui, National School of Mines, Rabat, Morocco
• Nezha Mejjad, Faculty of Sciences Ben M'sik, Morocco
• Mohammed Zouiten, faculty polydisciplinary of TAZA, Morocco
• Houda Jmila, Telecom SudParis, France
• Esma Aïmeur, University of Montreal, Canada
• Aziz Moukrim, University of Technology of Compiègne, Heudiasyc, France
• Abdelouahab Moussaoui, Ferhat Abbas University of Setif 1, Algeria
• Hala Bezine, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, Tunisia
• Mohamed Maddeh, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
• Habib Dhahri, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
• Mohamad Mahmoud, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
• Rim Faiz, IHEC, University of Carthage, Tunisia

Publication Chair

Publicity Chairs

• Fatma Siala Kallel, ISAMM, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
• Amal Tarifa, LARIA-ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia

Finance & Registration Chairs

• Amel Laabidi, ATIA, Tunisia
• Chaker Essid, FST, University of Tunis-Manar, Tunisia

Web Chairs

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