6th International Workshop on Artificial intelligence and machine learning for Emerging Topics (ALLEGET)

About Workshop on Artificial intelligence and machine learning for Emerging Topics

Multimedia content, ranging from text, images, videos, to audio, obtained from users and physical devices, paves the way for a novel research avenue centered on the analysis and interpretation of multi-modal information. This research is giving place to Social Intelligent Environments as the result of a combination of IEs and online social networks (OSN) as the primary source of multimedia content. This workshop seeks mechanisms adept at extracting, fusing and analysing data from multiple sources based on Artificial Intelligence techniques, emphasizing the inherent data heterogeneity characteristic of OSN integrated as part of any Intelligent Environment.

This workshop focuses on intelligent solutions for social-media processing that considers such an inherent heterogeneity. This way, mechanisms able to extract knowledge from multimedia data posted by users in online social media platforms or the fusion of different types of data coming from these feeds would be of special interest.

This workshop will be held as a co-located event in the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'26) .

Topics of interest

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following ones:

Microtexts analysis

Techniques for image analysis

Techniques for audio analysis

Social-media crowdsensing

Intelligent forecasting applications

Knowledge-based method

Sentiment analysis

Environmental problems for Intelligent Environments

Sentiment analysis

AI for Environmental problems

Information Fusion strategies

Smart mobility

Soft Data Fusion in Smart Systems

Fusion techniques for user-generated data

Multisensor data-fusion techniques

Submissions

Instructions for Authors:

All papers will be submitted to a peer review process by referees with experience in the area. This process will result in constructive feedback to the authors and the selection of the best contributions to be presented at the workshop and published in the proceedings. Authors wishing to participate in this event should format their papers according to the IOS Press style, with a length of at least 6 but no more than 10 pages.

Latex and Word templates can be found in https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions Papers must be submitted using this link: EasyChair-ALLEGET'26

All accepted papers will be published in an Open Access volume in the Book Series on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments Series (IOS Press). The Workshops Proceedings published by this Book Series are indexed in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S) by Thomson Reuters.

Important Date

Submissions deadline: 13 March 2026

Notification acceptance: 10 April 2026

Camera-ready submission: 17 April 2026

Workshop dates: 15-18 June 2026

Keynote Speaker

Bioinspired Simheuristics for Effective Crowd Evacuation

Optimizing emergency exit placement in complex indoor environments is a critical challenge. This talk will show how a simulation-based framework driven by a probabilistic cellular automaton can be used to model emergent pedestrian dynamics. Agent movement follows a differential desirability gradient, combining rational pathfinding with dynamic repulsion fields, thus capturing behaviors from orderly evacuation to chaotic scattering. To navigate the complex, non-linear search space of exit configurations, evolutionary and memetic simheuristics can be used. By integrating global evolutionary search with local, derivative-free intensification, such an approach overcomes the lack of analytical gradients, identifying optimal layouts that significantly minimize evacuation times and non-evacuee counts in dense, obstacle-rich scenarios.

Carlos Cotta

Carlos Cotta obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Malaga in 1998, and has held the position of Full Professor at the same institution since 2017. His primary research area centers around heuristic optimization using hybrid and memetic approaches, with a strong emphasis on both algorithmic issues and practical applications. Throughout his career, he has contributed to this field authoring over 250 scientific publications and leading various research projects. Presently, his research interests are primarily focused on simulation-based optimization and algorithmic resilience.

Previous Edition

ISOCLOD'20, Madrid, Spain, 21st July 2020 (virtual workshop due to COVID-19). Proceedings

SMAIE'20, Madrid, Spain, 21st July 2020 (virtual workshop due to COVID-19). Proceedings

ALLEGET'21, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 23rd July 2021 (hybrid workshop due to COVID-19). Proceedings

ALLEGET'22, Biarritz, France, 23rd Jun 2022 (hybrid workshop). Proceedings

ALLEGET'23, Mauritius, 27th Jun 2023 (hybrid workshop). Proceedings

ALLEGET'24, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 20th Jun 2024 (hybrid workshop). Proceedings

ALLEGET'25, Darmstadt, Germany, 21st Jun 2025 (hybrid workshop). Proceedings

Program Comitte

María del Carmen Garrido Carrera (University of Murcia, Spain)

Germán Rodríguez Bermúdez (University Centre of Defence at the Spanish Air Force Academy, Spain)

Carlos Periñan Pascual (Polytechnic University of Valencia)

Sofia Ouhbi (United Arab Emirates University )

José María Cecilia Canales (Polytechnic University of Valencia)

José García Rodríguez (University of Alicante, Spain)

Albert García García (University of Alicante, Spain)

Francesco Leotta (SAPIENZA University of Roma, Italy)

Ramón Andrés Díaz Valladares (University of University of Montemorelos, Mexico)

Antonio Llanes Castro (Catholic University of Murcia, Spain)

Ginés David Guerrero (National Laboratory for High Performance Computing, Chile)

Jesús Antonio Soto Espinosa (Catholic University of Murcia, Spain)

Baldomero Imbernón Tudela (Catholic University of Murcia, Spain)

Mario Hernandez Hernandez (Autonomous University of Guerrero, Mexico)

Seop Na (Software Convergence Education Institute, Chosun University, Rep. of Korea)

Saeid Nahavandi (Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, IISRI, Deakin University, Australia)

Abdul M Mouazen (Ghent University, Belgium)

Paulo Moura Oliveira (UTAD University Vila-Real, Portugal)

José Boaventura Cunha (UTAD University Vila-Real, Portugal)

Josenalde Oliveira, (Agricultural School of Jundiaí- Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN, Macaíba, RN, Brazil)

Raúl Parada (Centre Tecnològic Telecomunicacions Catalunya, Spain)

Jaehwa Park (Chung-Ang University, Rep. of Korea)

Joan Melià Seguí, (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)

Carlos Monzo Sánchez, (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)

Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Andrea Vitaletti, (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Antonio Stasi, (Università di Foggia, Italy)

Rubén Emilio Muñoz Cabrera (University of Murcia, Spain)

Francisco Mora-Caselles(University of Murcia, Spain)

Antonio Serrano (Catholic University of Murcia, Spain)

Otman Aghzout (UAE, ENSA-Tetouan, Morocco)

Lakshmi G. (School of Environmental Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology Kerala, India)

R. S. Ajin (Idukki District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), India)

José-Fernán Martínez-Ortega (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

Carlos Tavares-Calafate (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)

Jason J. Jung (Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea)

Bogdan Ruszczak (Opole University of Technology, Poland)

Mercedes Valdes-Vela (University of Murcia, Spain)

Francisco Arcas (Catholic University of Murcia, Spain)

Nicolás José Fernández Martínez(Catholic University of Murcia, Spain)

Mercedes Rodriguez-Garcia(School of Engineering University of Cadiz, Spain)

Peyman Mashhadi(CAISR, Halmstad University, Sweden)

Mahmoud Rahat(CAISR, Halmstad University, Sweden)

Juan Morales García (University of Alicante, Spain)

Davide Bertozzi (University of Manchester, UK)

Lucas Laurens ( École nationale d’ingénieurs de Brest, ENIB, France)

Antonio Balderas-Alberico (University of Cádiz, Spain)

Sara Balderas-Díaz (University of Cádiz, Spain)

Gabriel Guerrero-Contreras (University of Cádiz, Spain)

Pedro J. Navarro (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain)

María Antonia Cárdenas Viedma (University of Murcia, Spain)

Venue

The workshop will be co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2026). Lisbon, Portugal

Program Chairs

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the program chairs.