<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">The 15th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC2018) will be held on January 12-15, 2018 in Las Vegas, NV, USA. CCNC2018 will be held in conjunction with the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"> </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">The CCNC 2018 Organization Committee invites members of the research, development, and practitioner communities to submit workshop proposals. Workshops provide a forum for people to discuss areas of special interest pertinent to consumer communications and networking with like-minded researchers and practitioners. Workshops aim at examining an area in a less formal, more open environment for the free exchange of views, and possibly in a more focused way than in the main track of the conference itself. Workshop proposals are welcomed in all areas of consumer communications and networking.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">CCNC workshops will be organized on the first and last day of the conference (January 12 and 15).</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Proposal Format:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">The workshop organizers should submit a workshop proposal by May 21, 2017. Each Workshop proposal is limited to 2-3 pages and should include:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Title of workshop and proposed URL of site to host CFP, program etc.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Theme of the workshop and topics of interest, and how these relate to the overall conference.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Names, affiliations, and a short bio (up to 200 words) of the organizers.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Brief description (up to 1 page) of research, industry, and practitioners’ topics of interest that the workshop will address, and why the workshop is of interest to the conference participants.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Expected number of participants and potential program committee members.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Description of the publicity plan on how to attract participants and submissions.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Planned format: participant selection, time line, type of contributions, discussions and integration of non-presenting participants:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Full-day workshops should aim for 8-9 accepted papers or invited technical talks. Half-day workshops should aim for 4-5 accepted papers or invited technical talks. Indicate the maximum length of the papers to be submitted.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">If the workshop will include invited technical talks (i.e., presentation of a non-peer-reviewed paper ), the proposal should include a subset of invited speakers who are willing to attend and participate if the workshop is accepted.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">If applicable, a description of past editions of the workshop, including location (i.e., which conference), dates, number of submitted and accepted papers, and number of attendees.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">A draft workshop call for papers with the names, affiliations, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of the workshop organizers.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">The review criteria for workshop proposals is merit based and priority will be given to workshops with topics relevant to the conference theme. Accepted workshop papers will be published in the IEEE CCNC 2018 Conference Proceedings and subitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">All proposals and questions should be submitted to the Workshops Co-chairs.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"> </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Workshops Co-Chairs:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Qusay Mahmoud, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada mail</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Omar Badreddin, University of Texas El Paso, USA mail</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Important Dates:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Workshop proposals due: May 21, 2017</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Workshop proposals acceptance notification: June 5, 2017</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Workshop papers due: September 15, 2017</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Workshop papers acceptance notification: October 25, 2017</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Final camera ready: November 4, 2017</div></div></body></html>