The First International Conference on Digitalization and Smart Solutions
Nice / Saint-Laurent-du-Var, France
November 16 - 20, 2025
This event will be held in hybrid mode, with both on site and remote options.
Submission:
September 21, 2025
Notification:
October 12, 2025
Registration:
October 26, 2025
Camera Ready:
November 2, 2025
Submission deadline: September 21, 2025
- At a Glance
Conference Chairs
Prof. Dr.
Jaime Lloret Mauri
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Prof. Dr.
Lasse Berntzen
University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Advisory Board
Prof. Dr.
Augustin Prodan
Iuliu Haţieganu University, Romania
Prof. Dr.
Olga Levina
Technische Hochschule Brandenburg, Germany
Participate
- Call For Papers
DIGITAS focusses on the integration of digital technology in various facets of society. This conference will address key themes such as the intersection of social networks with societal dynamics, the evolution of smart cities, and the role of smart environments in enhancing living conditions. The themes intend to address how technological advancements in e-services and mobile solutions are driving accessibility, reducing pollution, and promoting sustainability.
Additionally, specific tracks will delve into the empowerment of citizens through digital apps and tools that foster a more participative society. Themes will extend to the synergy between Human-Machine Cooperation and Smart Solutions and their implications for improving service delivery and governance. Additional themes will also tackle significant challenges including the impact of digital trends and AI adoption at large scale, the scalability of digital services, and the overarching risks associated with digitalization in society.
Each theme is designed to stimulate discussion, catalyze collaborative efforts, and encourage the adoption of innovative solutions that align with our vision for a sustainable digital future.
Professionals from industry, government, and academia, researchers, engineers, practitioners, and students are invited to contribute. DIGITAS welcomes 1) full papers presenting significant research, development, application, position, or survey, 2) short papers on work-in-progress, 3) posters, 4) contributed talk presentations, as well as workshops, thematic sessions, and demos.
Prospective authors are invited to submit original, unpublished works, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following.
Topics
- Social Networks
- Society and digital skills
- Social intelligence
- Social computing
- Big social data
- Machine learning and societal analysis
- Natural, multimodal and adaptive user interfaces
- Internet of Things (IoT) and social benefits/impact
- Smart environments and e-learning process
- Smart classes, labs and campuses
- Digital urban services
- Smart Cities – sensing, realization and optimization
- 5G communications, IoT devices and smart systems
- Smart cities design for well-being and e-health
- 6G, satellite communications and sensing in Smart cities
- Energy efficiency and renewable energy
- Green IoT
- Economic and environmental sustainability
- Social, cultural and education sustainability
- Human settlements and sustainable development
- Social responsibility
- Digital accessibility and mobile/wearable technologies
- Urban metering: pollution and traffic monitoring
- Sustainable cities and communities
- Online communities
- eGovernments and m-Governments
- eBusiness and m-Business
- Large e-Commerce
- e-Voting
- Online service and products ranking/evaluation
- Online knowledge sharing
- Online shopping
- Social commerce acceptance
- Personalized systems and services
- Booking and travel e-services
- Mobile and human-centered sensing
- Citizen analytics
- Human-centric systems
- IoT systems for emerging and developing economies
- Crowd sensing and social sensing techniques, applications, and systems
- Opinion diversity and crowd performance
- Crowdsourcing
- Digital crowdfunding platforms
- Corporate/Civil apps
- Meeting/communication platforms: WebEx, WhatsApp, etc.
- Social tools (FaceBook,Tweets, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.)
- Analysis of blogs and vlogs
- Digital kiosks
- Tracking apps
- Health-related apps
- Banking and shopping apps
- News apps
- Human-computer/robot interaction
- Collaborative robotics (Cobots)
- Virtual personal assistant for e-Health
- Tele-assistance and tele-rehabilitation
- Participatory tele-health systems
- Social media capability
- Digital social movements
- Voluntary professional associations
- Virtual communities and collaboration
- Government predictions based on big data and deep learning
- Conversational group recommenders
- Behavioral and social crowd prediction
- Digital healthcare services
- Ambient, active and assisted living
- Digital multi-modal transport systems and crowdsensing
- Digital banking services
- Mobile technologies and self-healthcare
- Online education
- Drone-based services
- Agricultural services
- Industry 4.0/5.0 services
- Meteorological applications and weather prediction
- Nation-wide warning services
- Digital Literacy
- Digital manipulation
- Manipulation by design
- True/Fake News and Fake News Detection
- Aging and de-aging applications
- Child protection and online-abuse
- Threat models in IoT
- Safety and smart phone use
- Security context in public and private organizations
- Digital rights management
- Emergency management social media
- Negative online effects on healthcare
- Security and reliability of e-voting machines
- Cybersecurity risks
- Smart home security and privacy
- Security awareness
- Digital forensics
- Legal, ethics, and social aspects
Instructions for Authors
For more information on the submission process, please consult The Detailed Instructions for Authors.
To submit your work to this event:
- Scientific Board
- Laura Alcaide Muñoz, Universidad de Granada, Spain
- Ilija Bašicevic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
- Zakariya Belkhamza, Ahmed Bin Mohammed Military College, Doha, Qatar
- Lasse Berntzen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
- Dejiu Chen, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Sunil Choenni, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (RUAS) / Research and Data Centre – Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, Netherlands
- Fernanda Faini, Università Telematica Pegaso, Italy
- Francisco Falcone, UPNA, ISC and TEC Monterrey, Spain
- Benjamin Ghansah, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
- Paulo R. L. Gondim – University of Brasília, Brazil
- Javier Gozalvez, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche (UMH), Spain
- Damas Gruska, Comenius University, Slovakia
- Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Javier Ibanez-Guzman, Renault Group (Ampere Software Technologies), France
- Hongzhi Kuai, School of Artificial Intelligence | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
- Olga Levina, Technische Hochschule Brandenburg | Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- David Lizcano Casas, Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain
- Jaime Lloret Mauri Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- Renato Mariz de Moraes, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil
- Oliver Michler, Technical University Dresden, Germany
- John Morison, MRIA, School of Law, Queen’s University, N. Ireland UK
- Dmitry Namiot, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
- Augustin Prodan, Iuliu Hatieganu University, Romania
- Enrique Romero-Cadaval, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain
- Imad Saleh, Paragraphe Lab. (EA 349) | Research Laboratory in the Sciences of Information & Communication, Psychology and Ergonomy | Univ. Paris 8, France
- Inga F. Schlömer, IU Internationale Hochschule · Fernstudium, Germany
- Hugerles S. Silva, University of Brasília (UnB), Federal District, Brazil
- Genanew B. Worku, Dubai Business School | University of Dubai, UAE
- Sotirios Ziavras, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
- Submit an Article
Before submitting, please consult The Detailed Instructions for Authors.
To submit your work to this event:
- Camera Ready
Prepare the camera-ready following these guidelines:
- Ensure the paper is formatted according to the IEEE formatting template. See https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates
- Consider all the comments from the reviewers that were sent with your acceptance notification email.
- Do NOT include page numbers or any copyright information.
- The length is 6 pages of text (including figures and references) in the standard IEEE two-column format above, with the possibility of 2 extra pages.
Upload your camera-ready here: DTR Society Press (link will be available once the review process concludes)
- Registration
Instructions for registration will be posted as soon as the review process concludes.
- Publication
All accepted and registered papers (full papers and short/work in progress papers), regardless of presentation mode, will be published in the conference Proceedings under an ISBN reference and included in the Digital Library.
Proceedings: DRT Society Press
Library: DTR Society Digital Library
Accepted and registered Posters and Contributed Talks, regardless of presentation mode, will be posted on the conference webpage.
- Presentation
All accepted and registered contributions are allotted a presentation slot of 25 minutes in the conference program.
We encourage everyone to attend the conference and present in person, but we recognize that this may not always be feasible. Authors who are unable to attend physically have the option to send their presentation slides in advance to be posted online. If a prerecorded presentation video is provided, it will also be made available.
Authors who will present in person at the conference location also have the option to send their presentation slides to be posted.
The in-person sessions from the conference location will not be streamed.
- Conference Venue
The conference will take place at:
Novotel Nice Airport Cap 3000
40 Avenue de Verdun
06700 SAINT LAURENT DU VAR
France
Phone: +33 4 93 19 55 55
Email: h0414@accor.com
For more information about the conference venue, please consult the Novotel Nice Airport Cap 3000 page we have put together.
- Touristic Information
For places to visit around the conference location, please consult the Nice / Saint-Laurent-du-Var touristic information page.
- Program
| Location Novotel Nice Aeroport Cap 3000 Day 1: Sunday, November 16 |
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| Time | Conference Room #1 | |
| 12:00 – End of Day | Participant Registration | |
| Invited Speeches | ||
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Welcome Reception | |
| Day 2: Monday, November 17 | ||
| Time | Conference Room #1 | Conference Room #2 |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | Opening Remarks | |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Invited Speech | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Afternoon Break | |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 20:00 – 22:00 | Social Dinner | |
| Day 3: Tuesday, November 18 | ||
| Time | Conference Room #1 | Conference Room #2 |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Invited Speech | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Afternoon Break | |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| Day 4: Wednesday, November 19 | ||
| Time | Conference Room #1 | Conference Room #2 |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Invited Speech | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Afternoon Break | |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Presentations Session | Presentations Session |
| Day 5: Thursday, November 20 | ||
| Time | Conference Room #1 | |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Invited Speech | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Presentations Session | |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Presentations Session | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Closing Remarks | |