III International Symposium on "Knowledge Generation and Transfer for Digital Transformation" (SITIC2025)

as part of the

V International Scientific Convention on Science, Technology and Society “Marta Abreu” Central University of Las Villas

Cayos de Villa Clara, Cuba

October 20–24, 2025

https://convencion.uclv.cu/

Purpose and Scope of the Event

The development of modern societies is inconceivable without informatization. The digital transformation of all socio-economic processes enhances their efficiency and effectiveness. Achieving this requires the implementation of advanced industrial technologies, also known as enabling technologies for digital transformation. This information-driven revolution continuously evolves the formats and methods used to search for, retrieve, process, and utilize information.

Progress in this developmental environment is not possible without closing the R&D&I (Research, Development, and Innovation) cycle, in which knowledge transfer plays a central role. Knowledge generated through research must be converted into useful technologies that solve real-world problems and be integrated into productive processes. Furthermore, the development of innovative IT products and services—crucial for achieving technological independence and generating exportable products—is unattainable without the incorporation of new computational methods and the application of local know-how.

The III Symposium on "Knowledge Generation and Transfer for Digital Transformation" aims to disseminate the main scientific results achieved in the field of information technologies and to foster a space for scientific exchange—within academic and research institutions, as well as between these institutions and the productive and service sectors. This exchange ensures the continuous updating of knowledge in the field and its transfer to various societal stakeholders.

In summary, the symposium will focus on cutting-edge computing technologies and the university-industry relationship in the field of IT, based on knowledge transfer and innovation.

The event will include tutorial courses, specialized lectures, and paper presentations.

Topics

The Symposium's themes are organized into four clusters and one sub-event, described below:

I. University–Industry Collaboration for IT Development:

The development of the R&D&I cycle, with an emphasis on integration with new economic actors: private and state-owned technology-based MSMEs, knowledge transfer, and innovation in the ICT sector. Knowledge transfer and innovation in the Cuban software industry. Software protection and commercialization. Experiences and best practices in software and IT services exports. This topic will be featured as part of the Innovation Fair within the Convention.

II. Open Science Management and Digital Transformation for the Sustainable Development of Society:

1.     Open Scientific Production and Communication: Current challenges in open access to scientific publications. Research data management. Development of open educational resources. Open evaluation of scientific activity. Initiatives to encourage citizen participation in scientific endeavors.

2.     Infrastructure and Regulatory Frameworks for Open Science: Education and training for students, researchers, and the general public. Policies and models. Platforms and systems. Research support services. Initiatives and collaborations for Open Science development.

3.     Digital Transformation of Society: Data governance. Social impact. Open government. Open archives. Social networks.

III. Artificial Intelligence and Data Science:

1.     Knowledge Discovery Techniques: Non-standard machine learning, soft computing and metaheuristics, distributed learning algorithms, deep neural networks, large-scale data mining, natural language processing, text mining, sentiment analysis. Data engineering. Large Language Models (LLMs). Explainable AI. Generative AI. Reliable and secure AI. AI governance. Computer vision, signal processing and analysis.

2.     Infrastructures for Data Science: Data analysis using high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud computing. Heterogeneous infrastructures to support HPC and Big Data. Cloud computing platforms for deploying supercomputing services. Best practices in DevOps techniques. OpenStack as a service infrastructure for HPC and Big Data.

3.     Applications of AI and Data Science: Industry 4.0, IoT, system simulation and digital twins, smart factories.

IV. Programming Technologies and Information Systems:

1.     Information Systems: Information and knowledge management, business processes, business architecture, information system security.

2.     Software Engineering: Requirements engineering, software system architectures, processes and methodologies, quality management, maintenance and testing, project management software.

3.     IT Applications: E-government, business applications, IT in teaching and learning, e-Health applications, IT for cultural heritage, disability and technology, e-learning.

Sub-event: III International Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies and Applications

·        Foundations of the Semantic Web: Key standards and technologies.

·        Linked Data: Publishing and consuming linked data, use cases and practical applications.

·        Integration of AI Techniques with the Semantic Web: NLP and semantic web, ontology-based recommender systems.

·        Semantic Web in Industry: Applications in e-government and open data, health, finance, e-commerce, education, and research.

·        Data Interoperability and Integration: Interoperability among heterogeneous systems, integration of data from diverse sources, tools and frameworks for data integration.

·        Semantic Data Visualization and Exploration: Tools for interactive exploration of ontologies and semantic data, user experience in semantic data interfaces.

·        Security and Privacy in the Semantic Web: Security in publishing and consuming linked data, privacy and data protection.

·        Ontology Development: Methodologies and tools, ontology evaluation and maintenance.

·        Semantic Web and Big Data: Management of large volumes of semantic data. Large-scale analysis and processing techniques.

·        Semantic Web Trends: Impact on Web 3.0 and decentralized web, emerging trends.

Special Session: Trustworthy AI Seminar

As part of the Symposium, a seminar on “Trustworthy AI” will be held.
The accelerated development of AI-based applications for solving socio-economic challenges increasingly demands trustworthy and secure AI, as well as the establishment of clear governance frameworks.

At the same time, emerging AI developments make addressing these aspects more complex and raise new lines of analysis regarding the future scope of this discipline.
Today, the question is no longer if we will transition from narrow AI to strong or general AI, but rather when this will happen—and to what extent we can truly speak of reasoning capabilities in intelligent systems, beyond pattern recognition performance.

As a motivation for this debate, participants are encouraged to read Google’s article ChessBench: A new era of chess and reasoning AI begins (https://theconversation.com/chessbench-de-google-arranca-una-nueva-era-del-ajedrez-y-la-ia-que-razona-242606).

To coordinate this special session, Dr. Francisco Herrera, Professor at the University of Granada and internationally renowned expert, has been invited. He will deliver a keynote lecture and lead working sessions and panel discussions.

Submissions of papers on these topics are welcome, even if the research is still in progress.

Guidelines for Submissions and Publications

Submitted papers must be original and aligned with the themes of the event. Contributions will be reviewed by the Symposium’s Scientific Committee and evaluated based on scientific rigor, relevance, and contribution to the core thematic areas.

Abstracts must follow the format established in the call for papers of the 2025 UCLV Scientific Convention, and may be written in Spanish or English, with a maximum length of one page. Submissions must be uploaded to the Symposium’s website by May 30, 2025. For more information, visit: http://convencion.uclv.cu/es/

There are several options for the publication of accepted papers:

·        Abstracts of accepted presentations will be published in the Convention Proceedings, edited by Editorial Samuel Feijóo of the “Marta Abreu” Central University of Las Villas, with an ISBN.

·        In the case of Artificial Intelligence-related papers—whether applications or theoretical contributions—a selection of the best papers will be published in a volume of the Springer series “Communications in Computer and Information Science” (https://www.springer.com/series/7899), together with selected papers from the International Scientific Event "Workshop on Engineering Applications 2025 (WEA 2025)" to be held in Colombia.
Interested authors whose papers are selected for this opportunity must submit their full papers in English by June 15, 2025, which will undergo a peer review process.

·        For the International Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies, an agreement has been made with IGI Global for the publication of accepted papers in a book titled:
“LLMs, Knowledge Graphs, and the Semantic Web: Revolutionizing Data Processing, Knowledge Extraction, and AI Capabilities”,
which will also include accepted papers from the AI domain.
This publication will be indexed by Scopus.

·        Additionally, extended versions of selected papers may be published in scientific journals following the convention, depending on their scientific quality and suitability for the journal’s scope. Target journals include:

o   Revista Cubana de Ciencias Informáticas (https://rcci.uci.cu)

o   Revista Cubana de Transformación Digital (https://rctd.uic.cu)

o   Advanced Notes in Information Science (https://anis.pro-metrics.org)

Keynotes and Tutorial Courses

Keynote lectures will be delivered in person or virtually by renowned Cuban and international experts, whose participation will be announced in due course.
Pre-event tutorial courses will be offered virtually.

More information about keynotes and pre-event courses will be available on the Convention website. The following pre-event courses are currently scheduled:

·        Analysis, Visualization, and Processing of Geographic Information

·        Open Peer Review and Its Implications for Authors

·        Introduction to Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

·        Knowledge Graphs, LLMs, and Agents

Important Dates

·        Deadline for abstract submission: May 30, 2025

·        Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2025

·        Deadline to submit final abstract for publication: June 30, 2025

·        Deadline to submit full papers for Springer CCIS series: June 15, 2025

Virtual Event

The Symposium will be held both in-person and virtually. The program will be organized into thematic sessions. For each accepted presentation, the following materials will be made available:

·        A PDF abstract

·        A PDF presentation

·        A video of up to 10 minutes with the oral presentation

All materials will be available offline throughout the entire duration of the event.
Participants will be able to post comments or questions to the authors.
All registered attendees will have access to the full set of materials.

Organizing Committee
Chair of the Organizing Committee: 
Dr.C. Amed Abel Leiva Mederos

Chair of the Scientific Committee: 
Dr.C. Rafael Bello Pérez

Executive Secretary:
Dr.C. Gheisa Lucia Ferreira Lorenzo

Members of the Scientific Committee
Dr.C. Carlos García González
Dr.C. Deborah Galpert Cañizares
Dr.C. Yusely Ruiz González
Dr.C. María Josefa Peralta González
Dr.C. Grizly Meneses Placeres
Dr.C. María M. García Lorenzo
Dr.C. Amed Leyva Mederos
Dr.C. Alberto Taboada Crispi
Dr.C. Manuel Osvaldo Machado Rivero
Dr.C. Héctor Cruz Enríquez
Dr.C. Yanet Rodríguez Sarabia

Website and Communications Administrator:
MSc. Erik Silverio Pombrol
Contact Email:
sitic@uclv.cu