The 9^th IEEE International Conference “Big Data, Knowledge and Control Systems Engineering” (BdKCSE’2023) aims to provide an open forum for the dissemination of current research progress, innovative approaches, and original research results on all aspects of Big Data Management, Technologies, and Applications. The organizer of the BdKCSE’2025 Conference is the John Atanasoff Society of Automatics and Informatics, with co-organizers the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Federation of the Scientific Unions in Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Association of Intelligent Systems, and Trakia University – Stara Zagora.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not under review elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and must follow the IEEE conference format. Papers must be submitted in PDF format in the EasyChair submission system

Each submission will be evaluated for originality, technical soundness, clarity, and relevance to the conference topics. Accepted papers will require at least one author to register and present the paper.

• Page Limit: Maximum 8 pages, including figures, tables, and references.
• Language: English
• Format: IEEE two-column conference template
• Templates: IEEE manuscript templates (MS Word / LaTeX)  https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
• Submission Platform: EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=bdkcse2025
• Submission Format: PDF only
• Review Type: Double-blind – authors must anonymize the manuscript before submission.

Publication: The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and available via IEEE Xplore.

Indexing: The accepted papers are submitted to Scopus, IEEE Xplore, Web of Science/Conference Proceedings Citation Index

Program Committee

Conference Chairs

• Honorary Chair – Acad. Vassil Sgurev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Chair – Corr. Member Lyubka Doukovska, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Program Committee

• Alexander Gegov, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
• Alzbeta Michalikova, Matej Bel University, Slovakia
• Chen Song Xi, Iowa State University, USA
• Edita Djambazova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Eulalia Szmidt, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Daniela Orozova, Trakia University – Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
• Darina Zaimova, Trakia University – Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
• George Boustras, European University, Cyprus
• Guy De Tre, Ghent University, Belgium
• Irina Radeva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• John Wang, Montclair State University, USA
• Katharina Wassilew, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Ljupco Kocarev, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, North Macedonia
• Lyuben Boyanov, University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria
• Maciej Krawczak, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
• Malinka Ivanova, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
• Milan Zorman, University of Maribor, Slovenia
• Neeli Prasad, Aalborg University, Princeton, USA
• Olexandr Kuzemin, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine
• Panagiotis Chountas, Westminster University, UK
• Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia
• Peter Popov, City St. George University of London, United Kingdom
• Radoslav Yoshinov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Song II-Yeol, Drexel University, USA
• Svetozar Ilchev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Tatiana Ivanova, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
• Tatiana Atanasova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Tomoko Saiki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Valentina Terzieva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Valeriy Perminov, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia
• Vyacheslav Lyashenko, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine
• Wojciech Piotrowicz, Hanken School of Economics, Finland

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to bdkcse-2025@ott-iict.bas.bg.