Hosted by RMIT University in Vietnam, the topics covered all things technology, ranging from smart computing and computational modelling, to Artificial Intelligence (AI), cyber security, language and speech processing, and the Internet of Things.
The event attracted researchers and experts from the US, Australia, France, Singapore, Philippines, Korea, Italy and Vietnam.
The primary conference organiser and RMIT School of Science & Technology lecturer Dr Dinh Ngoc Minh said that each of the 132 research submissions received an average of 2.9 reviews provided by over 100 research fellows and IT experts.
“The extensive peer-review process accepted 61 full papers and eight short papers which were published by the world’s largest technical professional organisation - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE,” Dr Minh said.
International keynote speakers also presented on a range of topics that included translational computer science, robotics systems, and behaviour modelling framework.
One of the two keynote speakers from RMIT University, Director of the ISE Enabling Capability Platform and Professor of Information Retrieval Mark Sanderson, presented a roadmap for establishing a new interdisciplinary research community around ‘Conversational Search’ to “exploit the Conversational Search Paradigm for effectively satisfying the existing diversity of information needs”.
“This kind of ‘information-providing dialogs’ will increasingly happen en-passant and spontaneously, and probably will be triggered by smart objects with which we are surrounded such as intelligent assistants like Alexa, domestic appliances, environmental control devices, toys, or autonomous robots and vehicles,” he said.