III International Symposium on "Knowledge Generation and Transfer for Digital Transformation" (SITIC2025)
as part of the
5th International Scientific Convention on Science, Technology, and Society
Central University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas
Villa Clara Keys, Cuba
October 20-24, 2025

https://convencion.uclv.cu/

Purpose and Scope of the Event

The development of modern societies cannot be conceived without informatization. The digital transformation of all socio-economic processes allows the increase of their efficiency and effectiveness, for which it is necessary the use of Advanced Industrialization Technologies, also called Enabling Technologies of digital transformation. This information-based revolution generates a continuous development of the formats and ways in which information is searched, retrieved, processed and used.

It is not possible to advance in this development environment without closing the R&D&I cycle, for which knowledge transfer plays a major role. The knowledge generated during research must be converted into useful technologies to solve problems and introduced into production processes. On the other hand, the development of innovative IT products and services, which will make it possible to achieve technological independence and the generation of exportable products, is not possible without the incorporation of new computational methods and from the company's own know-how.

The III Symposium “Generation and Transfer of Knowledge for Digital Transformation” is oriented to disseminate the main scientific results achieved in the field of information technologies and promote a framework for scientific exchange on these, within the academic-scientific center and from this with the productive and services sector; which ensures the updating of existing knowledge in this field and its transfer to different actors of society. In summary, the Symposium will be focused on cutting-edge technologies in Computing and the university-enterprise relationship in the field of IT based on knowledge transfer and innovation.

The event includes tutorial courses, specialized conferences and paper presentations.

Topics

     1-    University-Business relationship for IT development: Importance of technology watch, knowledge dissemination and foreign investment in the ICT sector. Knowledge transfer and innovation in the Cuban software industry. Protection and commercialization of software. Experiences and good practices in the export of software and IT services.

   2- Management of open science and digital transformation for the sustainable development of society: 1. Open scientific production and communication: Current events and challenges of open access to scientific publications. Research data management. Development of open educational resources. Open evaluation of scientific activity. Initiatives to stimulate citizen participation in scientific activity. Infrastructure and regulatory frameworks for Open Science: Training of students, researchers and citizens in general. Policies and models. Platforms and systems. Research support services. Initiatives and collaboration for the development of Open Science. Digital transformation of society: Data governance. Social impact. Open government. Open archives. Social networks.

     3-  Artificial Intelligence and Data Science: 1. Techniques for knowledge discovery: Non-standard machine learning, Explainable artificial intelligence, Soft computing and metaheuristics, Distributed algorithms for machine learning, Deep neural networks, Mining massive data, Natural language processing, Text mining, Sentiment analysis. Data engineering. Trusted, secure AI, Artificial Intelligence Governance. Computer vision and signal processing and analysis. 2. Data science infrastructures: Data analytics based on high performance computing and cloud computing. Heterogeneous infrastructures to deliver HPC and Bigdata. Cloud computing platforms for the deployment of supercomputing services. Best practices in the use of DevOps techniques. OpenStack as a service infrastructure for HPC and BigData. Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science: Industry 4.0, IoT, System Simulation and Digital Twins, Smart Factories, etc.

Sub-event: III International Workshop on Technologies and Applications of Semantic Web in the Context of the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)

Interoperability between applications and artifacts. Usability and user experience in Semantic Web and AIoT application environments. Data representation and integration in AIoT and Semantic Web. AIoT and Semantic Web control models. Public services and Semantic Web applications based on AIoT. Architectures for Open and Linked Data in AIoT and Semantic Web. Use of learning and machine learning models and algorithms in AIoT and Semantic Web. Search and retrieval of information through AIoT and Semantic Web ecosystem.

Special Session:

As part of the Symposium, a Seminar on the topic “Trustworthy AI” will be developed. The accelerated development of applications of AI methods in solving socio-economic problems increasingly leads to the need to achieve a trustworthy and secure AI, and the establishment of clear lines for better governance of AI.

On the other hand, new developments in AI make it more complex to deal with these aspects; and give rise to other issues of analysis and projection related to the scope that this discipline will reach. One question today is whether we will move from weak (or narrow) AI to strong or general AI; and how far we can talk about the reasoning capacity of intelligent systems instead of a performance based only on pattern recognition. As a motivation for this debate, the article Google's ChessBench: a new era of chess and reasoning AI is recommended (https:// theconversation.com/chessbench-of-google-starts-a-new-era-of-chess-and-reasoning-AI-242606).

Dr. Francisco Herrera, Professor at the University of Granada, an internationally recognized expert, has been invited to coordinate these special sessions.

Those interested may submit papers, even if they are not completed research on these topics.

Rules for the submission of contributions and publications

Contributions must be original and must be adapted to the themes of the event. The contributions will be submitted to a review process by the scientific committee of the symposium and evaluated according to criteria of scientific rigor, timeliness and contribution to the areas of knowledge in the fundamental thematic axes.

The papers must be written according to the format established in the call for papers of the UCLV Scientific Convention 2025, in Spanish or English, with a maximum length of 6 pages. They should be uploaded to the symposium website.

There are several alternatives for the publication of accepted papers.

The abstracts of the accepted papers will be published in the convention proceedings under the Samuel Feijoó Publishing House of the Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas, with ISBN.

In the case of papers related to Artificial Intelligence, whether they are applications or theoretical contributions in this field, a selection of papers will be made to be published in a volume of the Springer series “Communications in Computer and Information Science” (https://www.springer.com/series/7899), together with the papers approved for presentation at the international scientific event Workshop on Engineering Applications 2025 (WEA 2025) to be held in Colombia. Those interested in this option should send their papers written in English.

In the case of the International Semantic Web Workshop, it has been agreed with IG Global to publish the accepted papers in a book entitled “LLM, knowledge graphs and semantic web: revolutionizing data processing, knowledge extraction and AI capabilities”; where accepted papers in the area of Artificial Intelligence will also be considered. It will be referenced by Scopus.

The publication in scientific journals of extended versions of the papers will be managed, for which the papers will be selected according to their rigor and scientific level and according to the characteristics of the journal; among them Revista Cubana de Ciencias Informáticas (https://rcci.uci.cu), Revista Cubana de Transformación Digital (https://rctd.uic.cu) and Advanced Notes in Information Science (https://anis.pro-metrics.org).

Lectures and Tutorial Courses

Lectures will be given in person or virtually by renowned Cuban and foreign specialists, to be announced at a later date.

Pre-event courses will be given virtually.

More information on the conferences and pre-event courses can be found on the Convention website.

Dates of interest

Deadline for submission of abstracts and papers: May 20, 2025

Notification to authors on the outcome of the review of papers: June 15, 2025

Deadline for submission of final version of abstract for publication: June 30, 2025

Submission of final version of accepted papers for publication in the Springer series “Communications in Computer and Information Science”: June 30, 2025

Virtual Event

The symposium will be held both in person and virtually. The program will be organized in work sessions, where the text in pdf format, a presentation in pdf format and a video of up to 10 minutes with the oral presentation will be available for each accepted paper. All this information will be available offline during the entire period of the event. Participants will be able to make comments or ask questions to the authors. All materials will be available to those registered for the symposium.

Organizing Committee
President of the Organizing Committee:
Dr.C. Daniel Gálvez Lio

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

Executive Secretary: 
Dr.C. Gheisa Lucia Ferreira Lorenzo

Scientific Committee of the Symposium
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

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