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DeLTA is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

SCOPE

Deep Learning and Big Data Analytics are two major topics of data science, nowadays. Big Data has become important in practice, as many organizations have been collecting massive amounts of data that can contain useful information for business analysis and decisions, impacting existing and future technology. A key benefit of Deep Learning is the ability to process these data and extract high-level complex abstractions as data representations, making it a valuable tool for Big Data Analytics where raw data is largely unlabeled.



Machine-learning and artificial intelligence are pervasive in most real-world applications scenarios such as computer vision, information retrieval and summarization from structured and unstructured multimodal data sources, natural language understanding and translation, and many other application domains. Deep learning approaches, leveraging on big data, are outperforming state-of-the-art more “classical” supervised and unsupervised approaches, directly learning relevant features and data representations without requiring explicit domain knowledge or human feature engineering. These approaches are currently highly important in IoT applications.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. MODELS AND ALGORITHMS
2. MACHINE LEARNING
3. BIG DATA ANALYTICS
4. COMPUTER VISION APPLICATIONS
5. NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING


AREA 1: MODELS AND ALGORITHMS


  • Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)
  • Evolutionary Methods
  • Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)
  • Deep Hierarchical Networks (DHN)
  • Dimensionality Reduction
  • Unsupervised Feature Learning
  • Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)
  • Autoencoders

AREA 2: MACHINE LEARNING


  • Active Learning
  • Meta-Learning and Deep Networks
  • Deep Metric Learning Methods
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Learning Deep Generative Models
  • Deep Kernel Learning
  • Graph Representation Learning
  • Clustering, Classification and Regression
  • Classification Explainability

AREA 3: BIG DATA ANALYTICS


  • Extracting Complex Patterns
  • IoT and Smart Devices
  • Security Threat Detection
  • Semantic Indexing
  • Fast Information Retrieval
  • Scalability of Models
  • Data Integration and Fusion
  • High-Dimensional Data
  • Streaming Data

AREA 4: COMPUTER VISION APPLICATIONS


  • Image Classification
  • Object Detection
  • Face Recognition
  • Image Retrieval
  • Semantic Segmentation

AREA 5: NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING


  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Question Answering Applications
  • Language Translation
  • Content Filtering on Social Networks
  • Recommender Systems

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

DeLTA 2026 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations and an excessive number of co-authors.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published by Springer in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference.
The proceedings will be abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, INSPEC, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus and zbMATH. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 16 - 17 July, 2026

Paper Submission: March 3, 2026
Authors Notification: April 30, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: May 15, 2026

Paper Submission: April 16, 2026
Authors Notification: May 22, 2026
Camera Ready and Registration: June 5, 2026

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: March 18, 2026

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: March 18, 2026

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: June 12, 2026

Demos
Demo Proposal: June 12, 2026

Panels
Panel Proposal: June 12, 2026

SECRETARIAT

DeLTA Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: delta.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://delta.scitevents.org

VENUE

The conference will take place at the Vila Galé Porto hotel which is located in the beautiful and historical city of Porto in Portugal. Porto is considered to be one of the most beautiful historical towns in Portugal, with its remarkable architectural heritage shaped by history.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Carlo Sansone, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Emanuele Maiorana, Roma Tre University, Italy
Allel Hadjali, LIAS/ENSMA, Poitiers, France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Marco Antonio Aceves - Fernández, Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico
Anish Acharya, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
Saadat M Alhashmi, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Vijayan K Asari, University of Dayton, United States
Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania
Claudio Cusano, University of Pavia, Italy
Fadoua Drira, National Engineering School of Sfax, Tunisia
Ashraf Elnagar, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Eyad Elyan, Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
Valeria Feltrim, State University of Maringá, Brazil
Larissa Ferreira Rodrigues Moreira, Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil
Raffaella Folgieri, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Pedro Furtado, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
Francesco Gargiulo, ICAR CNR, Italy
Maki Habib, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Tarmizi Ahmad Izzuddin, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Rohit Kumar Kaliyar, Bennett University, India
Ido Kanter, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Chutisant Kerdvibulvech, NIDA, Thailand
Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
Meghana Kshirsagar, University of Limerick, Ireland
Chih-Chin Lai, National University Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China
Slimane Larabi, U.S.T.H.B. University, Algeria
Chang-Hsing Lee, Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan, Republic of China
Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea, Republic of
Fuhai Li, Washington University Saint Louis, United States
Tony Lindeberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Anke Meyer-Baese, Florida State University, United States
Parma Nand, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Emmanuel Okafor, Naif Arab University for Security Sciences, Saudi Arabia
George A. Papakostas, Information Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Yash Patel, Capella University
Gabriele Pieri, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Anitha S. Pillai, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, India
Mircea-Bogdan Radac, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman, National Library of Medicine, United States
Samira Sadaoui, Computer Science, University of Regina, Canada
Indrajit Saha, National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training & Research, India
Klemens Schnattinger, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), Germany
Jitae Shin, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, Republic of
Sunghwan Sohn, Mayo Clinic, United States
Minghe Sun, University Texas San Antonio, United States
Olarik Surinta, Mahasarakham University, Thailand
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, AGH University Science Technology, Poland
Francisco Arcas Túnez, Saint Anthony Catholic University of Murcia, Spain
Yuan-Kai Wang, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Hai Wang, Saint Mary's University, Canada
Theodore Willke, Intel Labs, Intel Corporation, United States
Jianhua Xuan, Virginia Tech, United States
Yusuf Yaslan, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

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