Page 5 - Proceedings of the 2018 ITU Kaleidoscope

Foreword

Chaesub Lee
Director
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

ITU Kaleidoscope academic conferences have gained a reputation for addressing ‘frontier’ topics of
growing strategic relevance to ITU membership. Kaleidoscope 2018: Machine Learning for a 5G
Future exemplified this focus on the future.

Kaleidoscope is ITU’s flagship academic event. Now in its tenth edition, the conference supports
productive dialogue between academics and standardization experts. I would like to express my
gratitude to the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional for stimulating this dialogue as the host of
Kaleidoscope 2018 in Santa Fe, Argentina, 26-28 November 2018.

In presentations of academic research on Machine Learning, tutorials on breakthroughs in the field,
and the future-looking ‘Jules Verne’s corner’, Kaleidoscope 2018 investigated the development and
application of Machine Learning from the perspectives of technology as well as society, law,
economics and ethics.

The conference showcased research into Machine Learning’s ability to support the smarter use of
network generated data, highlighting new opportunities for network operators and service providers
to adapt to changes in traffic patterns, security risks and user behavior. These discussions proved of
great benefit to ITU’s analysis of Machine Learning’s expected contribution to ITU standards in areas
such as coding algorithms; data collection, storage and management; and network management and
orchestration.

I would like to express my great appreciation to the Kaleidoscope community and the larger ITU
Academia membership for their enduring support to this series of conferences. With over
150 academic and research institutes now members of ITU, the Kaleidoscope series is certain to
continue growing in strength.

My sincerest thanks go to the hosts of Kaleidoscope 2018, the Modernization Government Secretariat
of Argentina, the Government of the Province of Santa Fe and the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional,
Santa Fe Regional Faculty; our technical co-sponsors, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) and the IEEE Communications Society; our supporters, the Santa Fe Lottery and
NEC; our partners, Waseda University, the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan, the
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, the Chair of
Communication and Distributed Systems at RWTH Aachen University, the European Academy for
Standardization, and the University of the Basque Country; our local partners, Comisión Técnica
Regional de Telecomunicaciones, Comisión Interamericana de Telecomunicaciones, Centro
Internacional de Investigación Científica en Telecomunicaciones, Tecnologías de la Información y
las Comunicaciones, Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet, Centro de

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