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This Conference Proceedings volume contains the written versions of the contributions presented during the 6th International Conference on Smart City Applications.The event had been planned to organized in Safranbolu Campus of Karabuk University, Turkey. Then, it has been converted to the online conference because of the Covid-19 situation. It took place with the motto of “Virtual Safranbolu” by inspiring historical UNESCO Heritage city Safranbolu, on October 27–29, 2021. The conference provided a setting for discussing recent developments in a wide variety of topics including Geo-Smart Information Systems, Smart Cities, 3D City Modeling and Visualization, Smart Building and Home Automation, Smart Environment and Smart Agriculture, Location Based Services, GeoInformation for Mobile, Wearable Technologies and Wireless Sensor Networks, Building Information Modeling, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Big Data and Urban Data Analytics, Smart Healthcare, Smart Economy and Digital Business, Smart Education and Intelligent Learning System, and etc.The event has been a good opportunity for the more than 400 participants coming from 43 countries of the world to present and discuss topics in their respective research areas. In addition, five keynote speakers presented latest achievements on their fields; Domingos Santos “Smart Cities Strategies: Critical Sucess Factors”, Mohsen Kalantari Soltanieh “Smart buildings to Smart cities – The role of BIM and GIS integration”, Ksentini Adlen, “Zero Touch Management and Orchestration of Network Slices in 5G and Beyond Networks”, Bakr M.Aly Ahmed, “Smart Sustainable Urbanism”, Yusuf Arayıcı, “Design for Energy:Prosumer Buildings”.The 86 papers that were selected as a result of review process and presented during the conference were accepted for the final publication in the ISPRS Archives.We would like to thank all participants, organizing and scientific committee members, and session chairs for their contributions to the conference program and these Proceedings.

With the continued growth of confirmed cases of COVID-19, a highly infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2, there is an urgent need to find ways to help clinicians fight the virus by reducing the workload and speeding up the diagnosis of COVID-19. In this work, we propose an artificial intelligence solution “AI_COVID” which can help radiologists to know if the lungs are infected with the virus in just a few seconds.AI_COVID is based on a pre-trained DenseNet-121 model that detects subtle changes in the lungs and an SVM classifier that decides whether these changes are caused by COVID-19 or other diseases. AI_COVID is trained on thousands of frontal chest x-rays of people who have contracted COVID-19, healthy people, and people with viral or bacterial pneumonia. The experimental study is tested on 781 chest x-rays from two publicly available chest x-ray datasets COVID-19 radiography database and COVIDx Dataset. The performance results showed that our proposed model (DenseNet-121 + SVM) demonstrated high performance and yielded excellent results compared to the current methods in the literature, with a total accuracy of 99.74% and 98.85% for binary classification (COVID-19 vs. No COVID-19) and multi-class classification (COVID-19 vs. Normal vs. Pneumonia), respectively.

In this paper, are presented the preliminary results of the A.I.D.A. (Auto Immunity: Diagnosis Assisted by computer) project which is developed in the frame of the cross-border cooperation Italy-Tunisia. According to the main objectives of this project, a database of interpreted Indirect ImmunoFluorescence (IIF) images on HEp 2 cells is being collected thanks to the contribution of Italian and Tunisian experts involved in routine diagnosis of autoimmune diseases. Through exchanging images and double reporting; a Gold Standard database, containing around 1000 double reported IIF images with different patterns including negative tests, has been settled. This Gold Standard database has been used for optimization of a computing solution (CADComputer Aided Detection) and for assessment of its added value in order to be used along with an immunologist as a second reader in detection of auto antibodies for autoimmune disease diagnosis. From the preliminary results obtained, the CAD appeared more powerful than junior immunologists used as second readers and may significantly improve their efficacy.

11th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Vienna, AUSTRIA, SEP 02-06, 2015; International audience; no abstract

In this paper, a new design of a compact circular shaped microstrip antenna with multifrequency bands is presented. The proposed antenna has a wideband which covers PCS/DCS, UMTS and WLAN bands. Several properties of the proposed compact antenna such as impedance bandwidth, radiation pattern and gain have been numerically and experimentally investigated.

International audience; Auto-reactive cytotoxic T lymphocytes play a key role in the progressive loss or destruction of melanocytes in vitiligo but the mechanism underlying the loss of self-tolerance is unknown. A deregulation of regulatory T-cell biology has recently been suggested. The analysis of the suppressive effects of peripheral T regulatory cells in vitiligo patients revealed a functional defect in seven of 15 cases. This defect was strongly correlated with disease activity. The evaluation of the percentage of peripheral regulatory T lymphocytes did not reveal any intrinsic quantitative defect. Yet, a decrease in the percentage of such cells was noted in patients with progressive forms, suggesting a recruitment of regulatory T cells from the peripheral blood to the site of injury. This was further corroborated by the significant increase of Forkhead box P3 expression in the vitiliginous skin of patients. Our data support the involvement of a functional defect of peripheral regulatory T cells in the pathogenesis of vitiligo and open new possibilities to advance therapeutic approaches.

International audience; Peu à peu les sciences interviennent dans les dictionnaires. Le dictionnaire a de plus en plus une vocation sociale. Ce sont les Larousses et les Littrés qui donnent la mesure. Aujourd'hui, c'est l'informatique qui apporte sa contribution à l'élaboration de dictionnaires. L'ordinateur a bouleversé la lexicographie, la lexicologie et le dictionnaire même. Le dictionnaire s'appuie de plus en plus largement sur des bases de données. La répartition entre dictionnaire de langue général et dictionnaire spécialisé semble s'amenuiser, le nouveau type de dictionnaire étant en mesure de répondre en fonction des intérêts de l'usager. C'est l'ère du dictionnaire à la carte qui s'ouvre.

Peu à peu les sciences interviennent dans les dictionnaires. Le dictionnaire a de plus en plus une vocation sociale. Ce sont les Larousses et les Littrés qui donnent la mesure. Aujourd'hui, c'est l'informatique qui apporte sa contribution à l'élaboration de dictionnaires. L'ordinateur a bouleversé la lexicographie, la lexicologie et le dictionnaire même. Le dictionnaire s'appuie de plus en plus largement sur des bases de données. La répartition entre dictionnaire de langue général et dictionnaire spécialisé semble s'amenuiser, le nouveau type de dictionnaire étant en mesure de répondre en fonction des intérêts de l'usager. C'est l'ère du dictionnaire à la carte qui s'ouvre.

93 ref. chap. 16; National audience