[agents] Call for Papers: Fake News Detection -- IWCMC 2021

[Ali Ismail Awad]

 Dear Colleagues, 
 Call for Papers: 
We cordially invite you to submit your research findings to our workshop on "Fake News Detection" organized under the umbrella of the 17th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference - IWCMC 2021. The workshop is chaired by Dr. Saqib Hakak, Prof. Raymond Choo, and Assoc. Prof. Ali Ismail Awad.
More information is available: https://iwcmc.org/2021/

Call for Papers

Fake News Detection Workshop

The 17th InternationalConference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 

IWCMC 2021

 

IWCMC 2020 Website: http://iwcmc.org/2021/ 

         Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27614&track=102941

Harbin, China

June 28 - July2, 2021

 

Organizing Committee

Chairs:


SaqibHakak, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, saqib.hakak at unb.ca

RaymondChoo, University of Texas at San Antonio, raymond.choo at fulbrightmail.org 

AliIsmail Awad, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, ali.awad at ltu.se 

Scope

As the number of smart devices and online users areincreasing, the use of social media platforms has increased to a multi-fold.Social media platforms are being used for multiple purposes such as sharingpersonal stories, connecting friends, promotions, and several other purposes.However, in recent years, it has become a trend to share news content aswell. What type of news content is being shared, Is the news fake or authentic,when the frequency of posting news articles increases, and who posts these newsarticles is becoming very interesting and worthy research.

The emerging trend of posting news via socialmedial platforms has raised numerous concerns regarding the authenticity of thenews content. To address the concerns bought by the above characteristics, webelieve that detecting fake news is a hot research area. So, it isimportant to address this issue and explore ways to address it. 

The objective of this Workshop is to stimulatediscussion on recent practical/theoretical advances in detecting fake news.Papers regarding the modeling,designing, implementing, and deployment of potentialtechnologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, etc. indetecting fake news is also welcome.

 

Topics

Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE IWCMC2021 proceedings and will be submitted to the IEEE digital library (IEEEXplore). Authors are welcome to submit papers with topics that include, but arenot limited to:

·       AIapplications in detecting Fake news

·       Fake newsdatasets

·       Applicationof natural language processing 

·       Classificationof fake news

·       Deep fakes 

·       Semanticanalysis

·       Social botsand bot detection

·       Sentimentanalysis

·       Topicmodeling

·       Socialnetwork analysis

·       User behavioranalysis

·       Featureidentification 

·       Socialengineering attacks

·       Role of Edgecomputing in detecting Fake news

·       Authenticnews and blockchain

 

ImportantDates

Submission:                                                                           January 10, 2021

Acceptance notification:                                                   March30, 2021

Camera-ready paper submissions:                                 April30, 2021

Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit originaltechnical papers—up to 6 pages of length, using the EDAS link,https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27614&track=102941 forpossible publicationin the IWCMC2020 Conference Proceedings, which will besubmittedto the IEEE Xplore. Selectedpapers will further be consideredfor possible publicationin special issues inselected Journals inthe area. For more information, visit: http://iwcmc.org/2021/

Note: There will be the best paper award,best Symposiumaward and bestWorkshopaward.

  
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