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<p align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">15th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">AICCSA</span><span> </span><span class="gmail-il">2018</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></span><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">October 28th to November 1st,<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">2018</span><span></span></span></strong></p><p align="center" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/call-for-contributions/call-for-papers" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://www.<span class="gmail-il">aiccsa</span>.net/<wbr>AICCSA2018/call-for-<wbr>contributions/call-for-papers</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span> </span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Call for Full Paper<span></span></span></strong></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (<span class="gmail-il">AICCSA</span>) is the premier conference covering all contemporary areas in computer systems and applications and hence it is an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and rapidly changing disciplines.<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">AICCSA</span><span> </span><span class="gmail-il">2018</span>, to be held in the lovely and highly vibrant city of Aqaba in Jordan.<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">AICCSA</span>’18 via the official submission system for the conference </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2018" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(9,81,151)">https://easychair.<wbr>org/conferences/?conf=<wbr>aiccsa2018</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">. Submission may include, technical and experimental study, theoretical study, conceptual study, or a survey. All submissions will be peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. <span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Topics of interest will fall under one or more of the conference tracks. Click on each track for more information.<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/28-track-1" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(9,81,151)">Track 1: Advances in Knowledge Engineering</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/29-track-2" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(9,81,151)">Track 2: Advances in Artificial Intelligence</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/30-track-3" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(9,81,151)">Track 3: Advances in Linguistics</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> <span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/31-track-4" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(9,81,151)">Track 4: Advances in Networks</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> <span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/32-track-5" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(9,81,151)">Track 5: Advances in Sensors</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> <span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/33-track-6" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(9,81,151)">Track 6: Advances in Information Systems and Security</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> <span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/34-track-7" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(9,81,151)">Track 7: Advances in Image processing, Computer Vision</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> <span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/35-track-8" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(9,81,151)">Track 8: Advances in Computing</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> <span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/36-track-9" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(9,81,151)">Track 9: Advances in Data Science</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> <span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/37-track-10" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(9,81,151)">Track 10: Advances in Software Engineering</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> <span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/38-track-11" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(9,81,151);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Track 11: Advances in Multimedia, Gamification and Serious Games</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><span> </span></span></strong></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Submissions Guidelines and PROCEEDINGS<span></span></span></strong></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column conference format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically on easychair at<span> </span></span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2018" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(9,81,151)">https://easychair.org/<wbr>conferences/?conf=aiccsa2018</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">. A full paper must not exceed 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification.<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">All submissions are blind peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion.<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers.<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines<span></span></span></strong></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span class="gmail-il">AICCSA</span><span> </span><span class="gmail-il">2018</span><span> </span>uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity or affiliation.<br><br><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript<span></span></span></strong></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process, the key items that need to be observed are as follows:<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">• Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”.<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">• Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">• Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper.<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">• Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’.<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">• For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">• Remove references to funding sources<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">• Do not include acknowledgments<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">• Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized.<span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Important Dates<span></span></span></strong></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Paper Submission Due Date: March 30,<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">2018</span><span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Notification to authors: June 30,<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">2018</span><span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Camera Ready: August 1,<span> </span><span class="gmail-il">2018</span><span></span></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Special Issues<span></span></span></strong></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:white;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to some selected journal. Journals will be announced soon. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">

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