IEEE CSR SDG Workshop       2025 IEEE CSR Workshop on Synthetic Data Generation for a Cyber-Physical World (SDGCP) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 - 6 August 2025 ● Chania ● Crete, Grece ● In-person event ● Workshop: https://www.ieee-csr.org/sdgcp Submission portal: https://www.ieee-csr.org/registration Synthetic datasets that reflect the statistical properties of authentic data allow to share research insights and findings without compromising privacy or proprietary interests. This approach not only promotes transparency and reproducibility in research but also encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge sharing. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the main areas utilizing generated synthetic data. Privacy issues arise once the dataset contains sensitive features playing a role in training AI systems. Because data collection is expensive and time-consuming, given some shortcomings such as low volume of data, non-compliance with regulations, and bias, we not only may achieve biased and low-performance models but also violate privacy principles. Synthetic data generation can facilitate analysis, the need for data augmentation, or prevent data breaches in highly sensitive domains, rather than weak anonymization approaches. Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), Variational Autoencoders (VAE), and Agent-based modeling (ABM) are among the most common synthetic data generation algorithms. However, it is critical to recognize the limitations of synthetic data generation, particularly in capturing the intricacies and interdependencies present in real-world systems. While synthetic datasets can mimic statistical distributions and patterns, they may struggle to replicate the nuanced relationships and contextual nuances inherent in complex phenomena. By leveraging advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational modeling, researchers can strive to bridge the gap between synthetic and authentic data, unlocking new opportunities for insight and innovation in fields as diverse as healthcare, finance, social sciences, and beyond. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the IEEE CSR 2025 conference as a physical event, during August 4–6, 2025. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following: * Generating synthetic data compliance with regulations * Privacy preserving in healthcare data * Algorithms for debiasing dataset (in the preprocessing phase of ML modeling) * Algorithms for debiasing the ML models’ results * Uncovering and mitigating synthetic data algorithmic bias * Assurance and certification of the dataset and ML models * Synergy of ABM with ML focusing on the rule extraction * Domain dependent/independent synthetic data generation challenges and opportunities * FAIR (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reuse) and ethical synthetic data generation * Explainability and interpretability aspects in synthetic data generation ## Important Dates * Paper submission deadline: April 14, 2025 * Authors’ notification: May 5, 2025 * Camera-ready submission: May 26, 2025 * Registration deadline (authors): May 26, 2025 * Workshop dates: August 4–6, 2025 ## Workshop Chairs * Samira Maghool, Università degli Studi di Milano (IT) * Faiza Allah Bukhsh, University of Twente (NL) ## Organizing Commitee * Faiza Allah Bukhsh, University of Twente (NL) * Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano (IT) * Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University (AE) * Samira Maghool, Universita degli Studi di Milano (IT) ## Technical Program Committee * Juba Agoun, Universite Lumiere Lyon 2 (FR) * Marco Angelini, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (IT) * Valerio Bellandi, Università degli Studi di Milano (IT) * Rob Bemthuis, University of Twente (NL) * Nicola Bena, Università degli Studi di Milano (IT) * Filippo Berto, Università degli Studi di Milano (IT) * Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano (IT) * Elena Casiraghi, Università degli Studi di Milano (IT) * Marco Cremonini, Università degli Studi di Milano (IT) * Maya Daneva, University of Twente (NL) * Mohammadreza Fani Sani, Microsoft (US) * Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE) * Rabia Maqsood, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (PK) * Afshin Montakhab, Shiraz University (AE) * Azzam Mourad, Lebanese American University (LB) * Ehsan Ullah Munir, Comsats University (PK) * Anastasija Nikiforova, University of Tartu (EE) * Alessandro Palma, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (IT) * Mirela Riveni, University of Groningen (NL) * Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology (PL) ## Publicity Chair * Filippo Berto, Università degli Studi di Milano (IT) Please don't hesitate to ask further questions. This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at https://www.ieee-csr.org/sdgcp/ Organizers can be contacted at samira.maghool@unimi.itmailto:samira.maghool@unimi.it and f.a.bukhsh@utwente.nlmailto:f.a.bukhsh@utwente.nl . Filippo Berto Ph.D., Research Fellow Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano Homepagehttps://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhomes.di.unimi.it%2Fberto%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cmusawp1%40di.unimi.it%7C45f197050ddd4af8c60d08dd6869687c%7C13b55eef70184674a3d7cc0db06d545c%7C0%7C0%7C638781524100964768%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2F7cSrfaevbOtQAPAh7Rv510UQkl%2BUuaJNUX%2FIaen0ds%3D&reserved=0 filippo.berto@unimi.itfilippo.berto@unimi.it</a>>