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</tr><tr><td style="background-color: rgb(24, 128, 143); width: 374px; font-size: 15px; font-family: arial;" valign="top"><p style="margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 20px;" valign="top"><a href="https://www.paams.net" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">University of Castilla-La Mancha<span> </span><br>
Toledo (Spain) | 20th - 22nd June, 2018</a></p>
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</tr><tr align="center" bgcolor="#fff" border="0"><td style="background-color: rgb(223, 238, 240); width: 600px; text-align: left; height: 29px; padding-left: 15px;"><p style="color: rgb(24, 128, 143); font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px;">INFORMATION</p>
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</tr><tr align="center" bgcolor="#fff" border="0"><td><p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 0px;">The aim of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a frame where students can present their on going research work and meet other students and researchers, and obtain feedback on future research directions.</p>
<p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 0px;">The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who are still far from completing their dissertation.</p>
<p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 0px;">All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with the aim to provide detailed and constructive feedback. The accepted submissions will be presented at the Doctoral Consortium and published in the conference proceedings.</p>
<p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 0px;">The submissions should identify:</p>
<ul style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 3px;">Problem statement</li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 3px;">Hypothesis</li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 3px;">Preliminary Results and/or Evaluation Plan</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 3px;">Reflections</li>
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</tr><tr align="center" bgcolor="#fff" border="0"><td><p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; padding: 0px 15px 15px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px;">All papers must be formatted according to the LNCS/LNAI template with a maximum length of 4 pages, including figures and references.</p>
<p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/word/splnproc1703.zip">Microsoft Word Format 2007</a></p>
<p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://resource-cms.springer.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/7117506/data/v1">Microsoft Word Format 2003</a></p>
<p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip">Latex Format</a></p>
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</tr><tr align="center" bgcolor="#fff" border="0"><td><p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; padding: 0px 15px 15px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px;">All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the<span> </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paams18" target="_blank">PAAMS 2018</a><span> </span>conference management system.</p>
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</tr><tr align="center" bgcolor="#fff" border="0"><td><p style="width: 540px; font-family: arial; padding: 0px 15px 15px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(74, 74, 74); line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px;">Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the<span> </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/11156" target="_blank">Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series</a>.</p>
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(Spain)</li>
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