The 2023 IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS), www.idaacs.net, was held in Dortmund, Germany, 7-9 September, 2023 in a hybrid mode.
The main goal of the IDAACS`2023 is to provide a forum for high quality reports on the state-of-the-art theory, technology and applications of Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computer Systems as used in measurement, automation, and scientific research, in industry and in business. The importance of IDAACS is its vision to establish scientific contacts between research teams and scientists from different countries for future joint research collaborations.
A family of IDAACS has already been created since the IEEE 1st IDAACS Conference was in Foros, Crimea, Ukraine, July 1-4, 2001. After that the following IDAACS Conferences were held in Lviv, Ukraine, 2003, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2005, Dortmund, Germany, 2007, Rende (Cosenza), Italy, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic, 2011, Berlin, Germany, 2013, Warsaw, Poland, 2015, Bucharest, Romania, 2017, Metz, France, 2019, Cracow, Poland, 2021. Moreover, IDAACS Symposia on Wireless Systems (SWS) were held in Offenburg, Germany in 2012, 2014, 2016, in Lviv, Ukraine in 2018, and in Dortmund, in 2020.
The conference venue in 2023 was the city of Dortmund, located in the Ruhr Valley which has been the industrial (steel and coal) heartland of Germany. Dortmund was one of the largest steel production sites, same as Bochum, Herne and Gelsenkirchen, the other partner cities of IDAACS 2023 in the Ruhr Valley. Nowadays, the region has been transformed into a technology and innovation hub with many universities and research institutes.
Participants of IDAACS will experience this blend of old, heavy industries and modern, innovative ideas and businesses. The main conference site will be the campus of the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Fachhochschule Dortmund).
The conference was supported and sponsored by IEEE Ukraine Section I&M / CI Joint Societies Chapter, IEEE Germany Section I&M Society Chapter, Ruhrvalley Cluster e.V. The DeepTech Innovation Network, MDPI Sensors, MagneticOne and River Publishers.
The 337 papers were submitted by authors from the 55 countries.
The 223 papers were accepted for a publication in the Conference proceedings after the reviewing process. All the presentations were organized into the 4 types of paper presentation format: on-site oral, on-site poster, online oral and online poster presentation. Hence there were: 17 on-site oral, 2 on-site poster, 12 online oral and 5 online poster sessions.
266 participants took part in the conference, 150 of them on site, 116 online.
The youngest participant was 21 years old, the oldest was 84.
The conference scope included
general topics
Data Analysis and Modeling
Intelligent Distributed Systems
Intelligent Software Tools, Systems, and Databases
Intelligent Computer Technologies for Healthcare and Medicine
Advanced Instrumentation and Data Acquisition Systems
Pattern Recognition, Digital Image and Signal Processing
streams
Special Stream on Internet of Things for Smart Buildings and Cities
Special Stream on Project Management
Special Stream on Advanced Machine Learning
Special Stream on Cyber Security
Special Stream on Virtual and Augmented Reality
Special Stream on Advanced Information Technologies
Special Stream on Design and Testing of Advanced Measuring and Computer Systems
Special Stream on Innovation in Digital Transformation and Engineering Education
Stream on Intelligent Methods for/and IoT
Special Stream on Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Digital Transformation
and workshops
Workshop Cyber Physical Systems and IoT Dependability and Resilience (CyberIoT 2023)
Workshop Beyond 5G and 6G Networks Technologies and Security
On September, 7 morning registration began and the conference was opened by Anna Badasian, the member of local Organising Committee, Vice Rector of Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts Prof. Stephan Weyers, also Prof. Daniel Hamburg, FH Computer Science Dean. They congratulated all the conference participants and wished them successful work during the three days.
Prof. Oksana Desyatnyuk, rector of West Ukrainian National University, said: “At a time of global challenges, dynamic changes and rapid innovative development, the international scientific community joins its efforts to ensure high-quality and effective work in the field of technology, computer and advanced computing systems. The importance of IDAACS is to establish scientific contacts between research groups and scientists from different countries for future joint scientific cooperation” and thanked the co-organizers of the conference.
Also at the opening were Conference Co-Chairmen Prof. Uwe Grossmann, Prof. Carsten Wolff (Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts) and Prof. Anatoliy Sachenko (West Ukrainian National University), Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Oleksandr Palagin, International Advisory Board Chairman Prof. George Markowsky (USA).
The keynote speaker Prof. Richard Duro from Spain, Head of the Integrated Group for Engineering Research, University of A Coruña, presented at the plenary session a talk: “Purposeful Lifelong Open-ended Learning Autonomy: a path towards more versatile and useful robots”.
Six on site oral, three online oral and one online poster sessions were held on that day.
The day ended with an interesting visit to the German Football Museum and conference dinner.
On September, 8 Prof. Inna Skarga-Bandurova, AI Research Group, Oxford Brookes University, UK, presented a keynote titled “Acceptability of AI-based Solutions: From Building Trust to Leap of Faith” at the plenary session.
Seven on site oral, seven online oral, two on site poster and one online poster sessions were held on that day, as well as the on site IDAACS Market: Company & Student Fare/Exhibition.
The IEEE IDAACS workshop on “Projects for the Digital Transformation” (ProDiT) was held on September 7-8 on-site. It put the focus on the planning of a digital transformation project. The participants formed small teams and walked through the steps based on a case study of an IT security company startup. The results was presented and pitched to a jury. Successful participants received an IEEE IDAACS certificate. The workshop schedule is planned as follows:
Thursday, Sep 7, 13:30-15:20: Introduction, Methodology, Team Setup, Team Work
Friday, Sep 8, 14:00-17:00: Q&A, Team Work on Case, Preparation of Presentation, Pitch
On September 9, keynote speaker Dr Danilo Pelusi, Department of Communication Sciences, University of Teramo, Italy, presented a talk “Nature-inspired algorithms and fuzzy logic for optimization problems” at the online plenary session.
Four on site oral, two online oral and two online poster sessions were held on that day, as well as Round Table and a Closing Ceremony.
At the closing ceremony the member of the International Advisory Board Prof. Theodore Laopoulos from Greece announced the best papers based on the evaluation of all papers and ranking of presentations by the chairmen of the sessions.
The Best Paper was #310 “The Use of BBC micro:bit in Automatic Irrigation System Through Cross-Curricular Teaching of Biology and Informatics” of authers Nika Kvaššayová, Marek Klimo, Miroslav Kvassay, which was presented on online poster session “Innovation in Digital Transformation and Engineering Education”
The Best Young Author Paper was #80 “Key Success Factors for Digitally Transformed Agile Remote Work” of authers Ellen Bekoe, Kateryna Turchaninova, Aysha Fazal, Sherzod Nosirov, Renzie Thajudeen, Navid All Gharaee, Furkan Ali Yurdakul, which was presented on onsite oral session “Special Stream on Project Management”.
MDPI Sensors provided a sponsorship: Best Paper Award and the Best Young Author Paper Award, 400 CHF per each.
MagneticOne, Ternopil IT Company, Ukraine provided a sponsorship: three Best Paper Awards for Ukrainian authors, in amount 500 EUR per each:
1) Valerii Hlukhov. Quantum-inspired computing: Shor’s algorithm and Euler’s Totient Function;
2) Oleksandr Melnychenko, Oleg Savenko and Pavlo Radiuk. Apple Detection with Occlusions using Modified YOLOv5-v1;
3) Leonid Lyubchyk, Galyna Grinberg, Zoia Konokhova and Klym Yamkovyi. Composite Indicators Building Based on Concordant of Expert-Statistical Information Using Biased Ridge Kernel Regression.
MDPI Sensors announced a special issue for selected IDAACS’2023 papers. Conference steering committee will select the best paper and pass a list to the journal’s editorial board, which will invite the best papers authors to special issue.
Also at the closing ceremony were professors John Kalomiros (Greece), Uwe Grossmann and Carsten Wolff (Germany), Anatoliy Sachenko (Ukraine), George Markowsky (USA). Prof. Anatoliy Sachenko thanked the members of the organizing committee for the successful holding of the conference
In addition, the comments of the participants were heard and discussed, in particular on IDAACS Conference location in 2025, the time of the conference, etc.
Professors Anatoliy Sachenko, Oksana Desyatnyuk, Volodymyr Kochan and Vita Semeniuk, assoc. professors Pavlo Bykovy, Svitlana Sachenko, Grygorii Hladiy, Iryna Turchenko, Taras Lendyuk, Mykhailo Dombrovskyi, Diana Zahorodnia and senior lect. Ihor Romanets presented the West Ukrainian National University team.
In general, according to the participants and the feedback that was later received by OrgCom, the 10th IEEE IDAACS’2023 conference has held with a great success.