For 2021, all events will be held in a hybrid mode with five options: on site or virtual choices (live, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, and .pdf slides).

We hope for better times allowing us to return to the traditional on site scientific events. However, we are ready to adapt any which way the conditions dictate.

NexTech 2021 Congress

Conference will be mixed online and on location at

Novotel Barcelona Sant Joan Despi
Carrer de la TV3, 2
08970 Sant Joan Despi
Spain

Note: This event is a mix of online and on site participation. All contributions are posted below; those presenting onsite have their own schedule, as a subset of the entire program.

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Open Welcome

On Site Program

Keynote Speeches

K0.
Theme: Explainable AI
Dr. Anne Coull, University of New South Wales, Australia
- presentation slides
- summary
- video presentation
- short bio

K1.
Theme: Engineering of Complex System of Systems
Prof. Dr. Jerker Delsing, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
On site
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K2.
Theme: Results from More Than Two Decades of Exploiting Efficient Abstractions and Translation to SAT to Formally Verify Complex Pipelined/Superscalar/VLIW Microprocessors
Miroslav N. Velev, (www.miroslav-velev.com)   
Aries Design Automation, USA (www.aries-da.com)
LIVE: Date: Oct 7, 2021 [09:00am New York time, 03:00pm Barcelona time]
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- presentation slides
- summary
- video presentation
- short bio

K3.
Theme: Information Warfare and Critical Infrastructure: The Combined Power of Information Warfare Threats
Prof. Dr. Joshua A. Sipper, Cyber Warfare Studies, Air Force Cyber College, USA
On site
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K4.
Theme: The Design Science Perspective on e-Health Applications for Re-learning Purposes
Sr. Lect, Dr. Karin Ahlin, Mid Sweden University, Sweden  
CANCELLED DUE TO SICKNESS: Date: Tuesday October 5th  [5:00pm Barcelona time, GMT+2]
Zoom Link: It will be sent to all committee members and authors via email.
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K7.
Theme: Exploration Analysis in Bernoulli Bandits Using Martingales
Prof Clement Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K8.
Theme:  Digital Twins for Smart Systems
Prof. Dr. Ivana Semanjski, Ghent University, Belgium
Book: Smart Urban Mobility: Transport Planning in the Age of Big Data and Digital Twins, by Elsevier
Book discount sent to all TPC and Contributors of Barcelona IARIA events
On site
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K10.
Theme: A Do-It-Yourself Approach to Ambient Assisted Living
Prof Dr Sylvain Giroux, University of Sherbrooke, Canada    
LIVE: Date: Oct 6, 2021 [05:00pm ECT, 11:00am New York time]
Zoom Link: It will be sent to all committee members and authors via email.
- presentation slides
- summary
- video presentation
- short bio

K11.
Theme: Parallel Adaptive Simulation of Processes from Science and Engineering
Prof. Gabriel Wittum, AMCS, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) - Thuwal, Saudi Arabia and G-CSC, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
LIVE: Tuesday, Oct 5, 2021 [14:00 (CEST) Barcelona time, 8:00am NY time]
- presentation slides
- summary
- video presentation
- short bio

K12.
Theme: Metrics to Rank Illegal Buildings
Prof. Dr. Paolino Di Felice, University of L'Aquila, Italy
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K13.
Theme: Intentional Answers to Database Requests
Semapro: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Techn. Helmut Horacek, DFKI/Saarland University, Germany
On site
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K14.
Theme: Semantic Web of Things
Assist Prof. Giuseppe Loseto, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K15.
Theme: Data in Urban Air Mobility
Silvio Semanjski, Managing Director, SEAL Aeronautica SL - Barcelona, Spain & EU Project “Urban Air Mobility”
On site
- presentation slides
- video presentation
- short bio

K17.
Theme: Data Sensing and Fusing for Production Machinery Maintenance: Digital Assistance with Post-Analysis, Diagnostics and Prognostics
Adj. Prof. Dr. Dmitry Korzun, Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU), Russia
- presentation slides
- summary
- video presentation
- short bio

Expert Panels

NexTech Experts Panel I

Cyber Protection: Are we Correctly Metering Salient Data and Accurately Processing them ?
(critical cyber systems, useless huge data, patterns in big data, data quality and cyber-relevance, obsolete or fake data, multi-facets dataset puzzle, process standardization, lessons learned. etc.)

Chair
Steve Chan, Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory, USA

Panelists
Sandjai Bhulai, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Les Sztandera, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Ah Choo Koo, Multimedia University, Malaysia
- video presentation
Joshua Sipper, Air Force Cyber College, USA
- video presentation
Christine Perakslis, Arizona State University, USA
- video presentation

NexTech Experts Panel II

Impending Technical Societal Challenges: Qvo Vadis?
(digitization, digital awareness, safety and threats, personal data, discovering relevant data, on line content, fake news, social media, citizen behavior, health accessibility, psychological/physical addiction, etc.)

Chair
Petre Dini, IARIA, USA

Panelists
Mihhail Matskin, Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Sweden
Alireza Morsali, McGill University, Canada
- video presentation
Anders Fongen, Norwegian Defence University College, Norge
Michael Suppanz, FH Kaernten, Austria
- video presentation
Efstratios Kontopoulos, Catalink Limited, Cyprus
Christine Perakslis, Arizona State University, USA
- video presentation

Special Tracks

DATA ANALYTICS 2021 PDA: Predictive Data Analytics
Chair: Prof. Dr. Sandjai Bhulai, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Introduction
Sandjai Bhulai
- presentation slides / editorial

A Comparison of Machine-Learned Survival Models for Predicting Tenure from Unstructured Résumés
Corné de Ruijt, Vladimer Kobayashi, Sandjai Bhulai
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Electric Vehicle Charging Locations for Uber in New York City
Victor Salazar Ramos, Andreea Mateescu, Elisabeth Fokker, Jacky P.K. Li, Sandjai Bhulai
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Feature Engineering and Machine Learning Modelling for Predictive Maintenance Based on Production and Stop Events
Ariel Cedola, Rosaria Rossini, Ilaria Bosi, Davide Conzon
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

DATA ANALYTICS 2021 HDBS: Harnessing Data for the Benefit of Society
Chair: Prof. Dr. Les Sztandera, Thomas Jefferson University - Philadelphia, USA

Introduction
Les Sztandera
- presentation slides

Analyzing the United State’s Nationwide Opioid Crisis and Socio-economic Factors using K-Means Clustering
Ryan McGinnis, Les Sztandera
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Data Merging Technique in Cataract Patients in Telangana for Enhancing Public Awareness of Visual Impairment
Amna Alalawi, Les Sztandera
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Investigating the Twitter Behavior of Tax Experts Networks in Social Network Sites [PRESENTATION]
Regina Ruane, TL Hill
- presentation slides / video

GLOBAL HEALTH 2021 TESR: Technology Enhanced Relearning
Chair: Senior Lecturer Karin Ahlin, PhD, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

Introduction
Karin Ahlin
- presentation slides / editorial

A Transition Towards Digital Home Visits in Social Care and Home Health Care During the Corona Pandemic
Karin Ahlin, Magnus Zingmark, Thomas Persson Slumpi
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Technology Acceptance of an Online Speech and Language Assessment Application for Stroke Patients - the Medical Caregivers' Viewpoints
Awais Ahmad, Karin Ahlin, Peter Mozelius
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library / voices PowerPoint slides

Internet of Medical Things for Independent Living and Re-Learning
Ali Hassan Sodhro, Awais Ahmad, Karin Ahlin, Peter Mozelius
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Regular Sessions

ADVCOMP 2021, The Fifteenth International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences

Statistical and Principal Component Analysis in the Design of Alkaline Methanol Fuel Cells
Tanja Clees, Bernhard Klaassen, Igor Nikitin, Lialia Nikitina, Sabine Pott
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Towards Demystifying Transformations of Tchaikovsky's Children's Album with Support of Computational Models: Problem Conceptualization
Evgeny Pyshkin
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

A Novel Application of Machine Learning to a New SEM Silicate Mineral Dataset
Benjamin Parfitt, Robert Welch
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Physical and Computer Modeling of Extra-High Temperature Processes: Problems and Challenges
Thi Thu Trang Nguyen, Marcin Hojny, Tomasz Dębiński
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

AMPRO-HPCC: A Machine-Learning Tool for Predicting Resources on Slurm HPC Clusters
Mohammed Tanash, Daniel Andresen, William Hsu
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Budget-aware Static Scheduling of Stochastic Workflows with DIET
Yves Caniou, Eddy Caron, Aurélie Kong Win Chang, Yves Robert
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Synapse: Facilitating Large-scale Data Management in Research Contexts
Daniel Andresen, Gerrick Teague
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Pattern Dependent Optimized Mowing of Football Fields with an Autonomous Robot
Tahir Majeed, Ramón Christen, Michael Handschuh, René Meier
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

CYBER 2021, The Sixth International Conference on Cyber-Technologies and Cyber-Systems

Enhancing Attack Resilience in the Presence of Manipulated IoT Devices within a Cyber Physical System
Rainer Falk, Steffen Fries
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

The Risk of a Cyber Disaster
Vaughn Standley, Roxanne Everetts
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

LIVE:  Date: October 4th  [09:00am US ET time, 03:00pm Barcelona time, 01:00pm GMT time]
Zoom Link: It will be sent to all committee members and authors via email.

Evaluations of Information Security Maturity Models: Measuring the NIST Cybersecurity Framework Implementation Status
Majeed Alsaleh, Mahmood Niazi
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Internet of Things in Healthcare: Case Study in Care Homes
Tochukwu Emma-Duru, Violeta Holmes
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

What Influences People’s View of Cyber Security Culture in Higher Education Institutions? An Empirical Study
Tai Durojaiye, Konstantinos Mersinas, Dawn Watling
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

A Potentially Specious Cyber Security Offering for 5G/B5G/6G: Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities within Certain Fuzzing Modules
Steve Chan
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

The Life of Data in Compliance Management
Nick Scope, Alexander Rasin, Karen Heart, Ben Lenard, James Wagner
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

LIVE:  Date: October 7th  [09:00am US Central time, 10:00 USA ET time, 04:00pm Barcelona time]
Zoom Link: It will be sent to all committee members and authors via email.

Sharing FANCI Features: A Privacy Analysis of Feature Extraction for DGA Detection
Benedikt Holmes, Arthur Drichel, Ulrike Meyer
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

The Same, but Different: The Pentesting Study
Jan Roring, Dominik Sauer, Michael Massoth
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Performance Evaluation of Reconfigurable Lightweight Block Ciphers
Mostafa Hashempour Koshki, Reza Abdolee, Behzad Mozaffari Tazekand
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Relevance of GRC in Expanding the Enterprise Risk Management Capabilities
Alina Andronache, Abraham Althonayan, Seyedeh Mandana Matin
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

A High-Performance Solution for Data Security and Traceability in Civil Production and Value Networks through Blockchain
Erik Neumann, Kilian Armin Nölscher, Gordon Lemme, Adrian Singer
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

An Automated Reverse Engineering Cyber Module for 5G/B5G/6G: ML-Facilitated Pre-“ret” Discernment Module for Industrial Process Programmable Logic Controllers
Steve Chan
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Interference Testing on Radio Frequency Polarization Fingerprinting
Page Heller
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Explainable AI
Anne Coull
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Application Services in Space Information Networks
Anders Fongen
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Optimal Scheduling with a Reliable Data Transfer Framework for Drone Inspections of Infrastructures
Golizheh Mehrooz, Peter Schneider-Kamp
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

DATA ANALYTICS 2021, The Tenth International Conference on Data Analytics

How Do Socioeconomic Factors Correlate to COVID-19 Cases and Deaths?
Anthony Guzman, Yoo Jin
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Integrated Architecture of SQL Engine and Data Analytics Tool with Apache Arrow Flight and Its Performance Evaluation
Yuichiro Aoki, Satoru Watanabe
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Analysis of Minimal Clearance and Algorithm Selection Effect on Path Planning for Autonomous Systems
Ronald Ponguillo-Intriago, Payam Khazaelpour, Ignacio Querol Puchal, Silvio Semanjski, Daniel Ochoa, Sidharta Gautama, Ivana Semanjski
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Detection of Concept Drift in Manufacturing Data with SHAP Values to Improve Error Prediction
Christian Seiffer, Holger Ziekow, Ulf Schreier, Alexander Gerling
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Discovering DataOps: A Comprehensive Review of Definitions, Use Cases, and Tools
Kiran Mainali, Lisa Ehrlinger, Johannes Himmelbauer, Mihhail Matskin
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Feature Engineering vs Feature Selection vs Hyperparameter Optimization in the Spotify Song Popularity Dataset
Alan Cueva Mora, Brendan Tierney
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

A Concept for a Comprehensive Understanding of Communication in Mobile Forensics
Jian Xi, Michael Spranger, Dirk Labudde
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Classification of Bots and Gender using Topic Unigrams
Astrid Fleig, Lisa Geyersbach, Melissa Göhler, Patricia Kurz, Paul Limburg, Dirk Labudde, Michael Spranger
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Evaluation of Filter Methods for Feature Selection by Using Real Manufacturing Data
Alexander Gerling, Holger Ziekow, Ulf Schreier, Christian Seiffer, Andreas Hess, Djaffar Abdeslam
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Modelling the Consistency between Customer Opinion and Online Rating with VADER Sentiment and Bayesian Networks
Alexandros Bousdekis, Dimitris Kardaras, Stavroula Barbounaki
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

GLOBAL HEALTH 2021, The Tenth International Conference on Global Health Challenges

Knowledge, Applicability, Risks and Potentials of AR / VR in the Field of Physiotherapy in Austria: Results of an Online Survey [PRESENTATION]
Michael Suppanz, Beate Salchinger, Sabrina Moro, Lea Maximiliane Harmtodt
- presentation slides / video

How to Promote Patients’ Adherence to Treatments based on Virtual Reality? A First Exploration of Virtual Environments Preferences According to Socio-demographic Factors
Solène Le Bars, Mathis Cuzin, Jean François Rouzé, Sébastien Rouzé
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Automated Drug-Related Information Extraction from French Clinical Documents: ReLyfe Approach
Azzam Alwan, Maayane Attias, Larry Rubin, Adnan El Bakri
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Patient Feedback during an Awake Craniotomy Using Virtual Reality
Alexander Moryäner, Tobias Holst, Igor Merkulow, Gabriele von Voigt
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

LIVE:  Date: October 7th  [03:00pm Barcelona/Berlin time, 09:00am New York time, 01:00 PM GMT]
Access Link: It will be sent to all committee members and authors via email.

Approaches for Promoting Telemedicine Utilization in Japan
Nermin Elokla, Tomohiko Moriyama, Naoki Nakashima
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Integrating Wellness in Digital Interaction - Case Studies on Digital Talents and Youth Gamers
Ah Choo Koo, Choon Hong Tan, Alexius Weng Onn Cheang, Wei Fern Siew, Hawa Rahmat, Elyna Amir Sharji
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Person-centred Health Care Resting on Digitization and Systematic Processes
Karin Ahlin, Kristen Snyder
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

SEMAPRO 2021, The Fifteenth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing

Semantic Reasoning with Differentiable Graph Transformations
Alberto Cetoli
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

An Extensible Semantic Data Fusion Framework for Autonomous Vehicles
Efstratios Kontopoulos, Panagiotis Mitzias, Konstantinos Avgerinakis, Pavlos Kosmides, Nikos Piperigkos, Christos Anagnostopoulos, Aris S. Lalos, Nikolaos Stagakis, Gerasimos Arvanitis, Evangelia I. Zacharaki, Konstantinos Moustakas
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

AWAPart: Adaptive Workload-Aware Partitioning Knowledge Graphs
Amitabh Priyadarshi, Krzysztof J. Kochut
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Towards an Architecture for Policy-Aware Decentral Dataset Exchange
Sebastian Neumaier, Giray Havur, Tassilo Pellegrini
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

A Reference Ontology for Collision Avoidance Systems and Accountability
David Martín-Lammerding, José Javier Astrain, Albert Córdoba
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Temporal Information and Event Markup Language: TIE-ML Markup Process and Schema Version 1.0
Damir Cavar, Billy Dickson, Ali Aljubailan, Soyoung Kim
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

UBICOMM 2021, The Fifteenth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies

Testing Deterministic Avionics Networks Using Orthogonal Arrays
Muhammed Efe Altuntaş, İbrahim Hökelek, Muhammed Şeker, Selim Demir, Erhan Akdoğan, Pınar Kışla, Eyüp Can Akpolat
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

A Review of Application Protocol Enhancements for IoT
Fatma Hmissi, Sofiane Ouni
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Sounds Real: Using Hardware Accelerated Real-time Ray-Tracing for Augmenting Location Dependent Audio Samples
Alexander Madzar, Linfeng Li, Hymalai Bello, Bo Zhou, Paul Lukowicz
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies forIntelligent Transportation Systems: a Survey
Giuseppe Loseto, Filippo Gramegna, Saverio Ieva, Agnese Pinto, Floriano Scioscia, Michele Ruta
- presentation slides / video / full article in Thinkmind Digital Library

Farewell Message