Call for Papers

All papers must be submitted using EasyChair.

Paper Submission deadline: Thursday May 23, 2024 (AoE)

Any questions regarding the submission process can be sent to conference organizers: lod@icas.cc.

Please prepare your paper in English using the Springer Nature – Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) template, which is available here. Papers must be submitted in PDF.

Types of Submissions

When submitting a paper to LOD 2024, authors are required to select one of the following four types of papers:

• Long Paper / Late Breaking Paper: original novel and unpublished work (min. 12 pages, max. 15 pages, including References, in Springer LNCS format), the long papers and the late breaking papers, if accepted, will be published in the Springer-Nature LNCS conference proceedings;
• Short Paper: an extended abstract of novel work (min. 6 pages, max. 11 pages, including References, in Springer LNCS format), the short papers, if accepted, will be published in the Springer-Nature LNCS conference proceedings;
• Work for Oral Presentation only (no page restriction; any format). For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference.

Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are available in Overleaf.

Submitted papers must adopt the following to two rules:

• author names and institutions must be omitted, and
• references to authors’ own related research work must be in the third person.

Each paper submitted will be rigorously evaluated. The evaluation will ensure the high interest and expertise of reviewers. Following the tradition of LOD, we expect high-quality papers in terms of their scientific contribution, rigor, correctness, novelty, clarity, quality of presentation and reproducibility of experiments.
Accepted papers must contain significant novel results. Results can be either theoretical or empirical. Results will be judged on the degree to which they have been objectively established and/or their potential for scientific and technological impact.

Authors should consult Springer’s Instructions for Authors of Proceedings and use either the LaTeX or the Word templates provided on the authors’ page for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a License-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

If any of the authors contributing to LOD are interested in Open Access or Open Choice, please refer to our webpage for prices and additional information. Springer teams would need the invoicing address and the CC-BY licence-to-publish agreement at the same time as the files for the publication

All accepted long papers  will be published in a volume of the series on Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) from Springer – Nature after the  conference (Conference Post-Proceedings). Instructions for preparing and submitting the final versions (camera-ready papers) of all accepted papers will be available later on.

We can now include ORCID for authors of the proceedings. See this announcement and the guidelines (editor guidelines, section 4.7) for more information. For more information see this link.

Past LOD Proceedings:

• LOD 2023 Proceedings: (TBA)
• LOD 2022 Proceedings: Springer LNCS, volumes 13811 and 13810, 8th International conference on machine Learning, Optimization & big Data – LOD, September 18-22, Revised Selected Papers.
• LOD 2021 Proceedings: Springer LNCS, volumes 13163  and 13164, 7th International conference on machine Learning, Optimization & big Data – LOD, October 4-8, Revised Selected Papers.
• LOD 2020 Proceedings: Springer LNCS, volumes 12565 and 12566, 6th International conference on machine Learning, Optimization & big Data – LOD, July 19-23, Revised Selected Papers.
• LOD 2019 Proceedings: Springer LNCS, volume 11943, 5th International conference on machine Learning, Optimization & big Data – LOD, September 10-13, 2019, Revised Selected Papers.
• LOD 2018 Proceedings: Springer LNCS, volume 11331, 4th International Conference on machine Learning, Optimization & big Data, LOD 2018, September 13-16, Revised Selected Papers.
• MOD 2017 Proceedings: Springer LNCS, volume 10710: 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization & Big Data, MOD 2017, September 14-17, Revised Selected Papers.
• MOD 2016 Proceedings, Springer LNCS, volume 10122: 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization & Big Data, MOD 2016, August 26-29. Revised Selected Papers.
• MOD 2015 Proceedings, Springer, LNCS volume 9432: 1st International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization & Big Data, MOD 2015, July 21-23. Revised Selected Papers.