Luca Borgianni
University of Pisa, Italy
FIRST EDITION Workshop at ICIN 2027
1st Workshop on
LESS 2027.
Learning to Extract and Send Semantics
Application-driven semantic extraction
Exploring the extraction, representation, communication, and evaluation of task-sufficient semantic information, from physical observations to downstream application decisions.
15 March 2027Pisa, ItalyCo-located with ICIN 2027
RESEARCH FOCUS / APPLICATION-LEVEL SEMANTIC SUFFICIENCYEXPLORE THE SCOPE
01 / SCOPE
From observations
to application decisions.
Which information does a receiving application actually require, and how can its sufficiency be demonstrated?
Traditional communication systems transport source data without asking whether the downstream task needs those observations in full. LESS studies the preceding engineering question: how should task-relevant information be specified, extracted, represented, placed across device, edge and cloud, and delivered to the application?
The workshop connects semantic, goal-oriented and task-oriented communication with application-aware sensing, Edge AI, distributed inference and experimentally validated networked systems. The emphasis is on the complete observation-to-decision chain, not semantic abstraction in isolation.
APPLICATION AND TASK
SOURCE OBSERVATIONS
TASK-RELEVANT INFORMATION
Wearable movement analysis
Continuous IMU measurements
Gait phase or cadence
Acoustic event detection
Raw audio stream
Event or recognized intent
Industrial condition monitoring
High-rate vibration signal
Operating state or anomaly
Illustrative mappings, not prescribed use cases or results. A submission must define its own application requirements and evaluate them.
RESEARCH FOCUS
Application-driven semantics.
What information does a downstream application need? How can it be extracted and communicated? LESS 2027 welcomes contributions that investigate how these choices affect application performance, communication overhead, latency, and computing-resource consumption.
Read the full scope and topics ↗04 / IMPORTANT DATES
Important dates.
Current ICIN 2027 workshop deadlines. Please check the conference website for updates.
LESS 2027
03 Jan 2027
Paper submission
LESS 2027
18 Jan 2027
Acceptance notification
LESS 2027
07 Feb 2027
Camera-ready submission
Workshop date*
15 Mar 2027
LESS 2027 · Pisa, Italy
* Workshop scheduling is subject to the final ICIN 2027 program. The host conference runs 15–18 March 2027.
Explore LESS 2027
- Call for Papers ↗Detailed scope, technical topics and the application-grounded research requirement.
- Submission ↗What a contribution is expected to establish and submission details as they become official.
- Program ↗Planned half-day format and forthcoming final schedule.