The SIS 2025 Scientific Program Committee invites all academics, researchers, PhD students and practitioners to submit an original short paper of 4 to 6 pages for the forthcoming SIS conference on “Statistics for innovation”, which will be held in Genova (Italy), June 16-18, 2025.
Deadline for submission: February 23, 2025
Both methodological and applied contributions that explore the role of statistics and data science in fostering innovation in diverse fields, such as business, industry and finance, technology, environment, health and medicine, official statistics, public policy, welfare and social issues, etc., will be appreciated. Submissions that promote innovations in statistical theory, methods, and applications will also be very welcome.
A limited number of papers focused on machine learning, statistical learning, fairness and explainability, artificial intelligence, and big data analytics could be selected by the Scientific Program Committee for presentation – with authors’ accordance – in the satellite event on Sustainable, Accurate, Fair and Explainable Machine Learning (SAFE-ML) held in Pavia (Italy), June 19, 2025.
Papers can be submitted for contributed or poster sessions. SIS and conference sponsors will offer awards for the best posters.
Submission guidelines
Short papers (max 4 to 6 pages, including tables, figures and references) must include an abstract (max 200 words) and keywords (max 4). Names and affiliations of all authors with the designated corresponding author and email address are also required. Short papers must be written in English and prepared according to Springer’s proceedings guidelines using LaTeX or Word templates.
Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format following the submission process provided on this website.
All submissions, except invited talks, will be blind-reviewed and notification of acceptance will be issued by April 6, 2025.
The final versions of the short papers (in invited, contributed and poster sessions) must be submitted by April 27, 2025.
After acceptance, at least one conference registration and its corresponding payment is required for each accepted paper to be included in the Conference program and presented at the meeting.
Short papers will be published in the conference proceedings book by Springer Nature, only if accompanied by a Licence to Publish (LtP) agreement. Concerning the final and complete manuscript, the source files (TeX/Word files, figure files, etc.), the LtP agreement and a reference PDF are needed for the production.
Attendance at the satellite event Sustainable, Accurate, Fair and Explainable Machine Learning (SAFE-ML) held in Pavia, June 19, 2025, is free. Still, at least one conference registration at SIS 2025 and its corresponding payment is required to present a paper accepted at the satellite event. Availability to present the accepted paper at the SAFE-ML event has to be declared in the submission procedure.
For any question about submissions, please email to sis2025@unige.it
After the SIS 2025 Conference and the SAFE-ML satellite event, an extended version of the presented papers could be submitted for publication in two international journals:
- fast-track procedure for 8 selected manuscripts in the “Statistical Methods and Applications (SMAP)” journal.
- Special Issue on “Safe Machine Learning” in the “Statistics” journal.
Further details will be provided later on this website.