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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Full papers, work-in-progress papers, and poster abstracts shall be submitted using the Springer LNCS format. Submitted full papers should not exceed 12 pages, work-in-progress papers should not exceed 8 pages (including references and appendices) and poster abstracts (4 pages). </span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For further details, visit the GECON 2018 Web page. Paper submissions for the general conference track and for the special sessions are all managed through EasyChair at (</span><a
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"> </span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS. Extended versions of up to 10 accepted papers in the Computer Science field will be invited for publication in a special issue of the Elsevier Journal of Future Generation Computing Systems. For papers targeting mainly business and economic aspects, a special issue of the Springer Electronic Markets Journal with up to 5 papers is foreseen. </span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Advances in distributed systems technology have allowed for the provisioning of IT services on an unprecedented scale and with increasing flexibility. As a global market for infrastructures, platforms and software services emerge the need to understand and deal with these implications, and a multitude of new challenges is quickly growing. Therefore, the general topics of interest at GECON 2018 are:</span></span></p>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Software service platforms and networked systems</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Analysis of software industry and cloud computing industry</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Decision support for service selection and procurement</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Revenue and energy</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">‐</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">aware resource management</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Pricing schemes, service level agreements (SLAs), and revenue models</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Negotiation, enforcement and monitoring of service level agreements</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Open source ecosystem</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Economically efficient resource allocation, scheduling, and capacity planning</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Automated trading and bidding support tools</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Incentive design, strategic behavior & game theory</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Development of sustainable infrastructures</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Desktop grids, volunteer computing and crowd-sourcing</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Metering, accounting, and billing</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Business models and strategies for SMEs</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Trust, reputation, security, and risk management</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Reports and analysis on operational markets and test</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">‐</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">beds</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Economics of big data, software, services, service composition, and selection</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Cost modeling, cost</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">‐</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">benefit analysis</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Performance monitoring, optimization and prediction</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Community networks, social network systems, and resource sharing models</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Techno</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">‐</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">economic analysis: Emerging computing paradigms (fog, edge, osmosis computing), and technologies (micro</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">‐</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">services, containers)</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Efficient resource management based on different virtualization technologies</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Cross-technology, self-managing mechanisms, tooling to increase productivity in Platform-as-a Service environments.</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Smart grids, smart cities, smart buildings, energy-aware infrastructures and services</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Standardization, interoperability, and legal aspects</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Economics of IaaS, SaaS, PaaS and Federation of resources</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Economic modeling of networks, systems, software, and data</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Service Science</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Clouds & Services for Internet</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">‐</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">of</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">‐</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Things</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Computational and economic aspects of blockchain</span></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Machine learning, Cognitive Systems and Data Science for system management</span></span></p></li>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">GECON 2018 is running three </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">special sessions this year:</span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"> </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Special Session on </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IT Service Ecosystems enabled through Emerging Digital Technologies</span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Using technologies including open APIs, digital platforms, IoT, wearable technology, and cloud computing, new business ecosystems become possible. Well-functioning and innovative digital businesses in this ecosystem continuously monetize, manage, and measure information as an asset for having a competitive advantage in the market. The ecosystems are based on a new way of integration of people, resources, processes, and technologies. This also affects the management of systems and resources (e.g., network management and cloud management). Techno-economic analyses (e.g., value creation modeling) are vital for understanding the requirements for an uninterruptible operation of infrastructure, the needs for future technologies, sustainable business operation, and a society that benefits. In this call, we are inviting submissions of papers in the following areas:</span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;padding:0pt
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Software ecosystems</span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;padding:0pt
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- IT service platforms</span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;padding:0pt
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Digital business model innovation (opportunities and barriers)</span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;padding:0pt
0pt 0pt 54pt"><span
id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- New value creation models over new technologies such as cloud computing, IOT, wearable Tech, blockchain</span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;padding:0pt
0pt 0pt 54pt"><span
id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Digital transformation and event thinking</span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;padding:0pt
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Open source software</span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;padding:0pt
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Implementations of distributed business logics</span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;padding:0pt
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Digital process re-engineering</span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;padding:0pt
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Data-driven business model innovation (Acceptance and Barriers)</span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;padding:0pt
0pt 0pt 54pt"><span
id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Social Impact of Digital Business Transformations</span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;padding:0pt
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Software service systems</span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Contact :</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Somayeh Khaghighi (Amsterdam University , Netherlands) - </span><a
href="mailto:skhaghighi@gmail.com" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">skhaghighi@gmail.com</span></a></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Special Session on </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Machine</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Learning, Cognitive Systems and Data Science for System Management</span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It is well recognized in this digital world, businesses, government, and people depend on reliable technical infrastructure for all aspects of daily operations such as Real Estate, Banking, retail, transportation and even socializing. And today, with the growing trend for the internet of thing, demands for a safe management system has tremendously increased. Infrastructure failures are expensive, e.g., network downtime or outages should be avoided by all means as it might impact business operations and might, also, generate a tremendous cost due to the Mean Time to Repair in Network Infrastructure (MTR). There are many reasons why infrastructure such computers, devices, network, Information systems management failures occur. According to some studies, human errors account is often cited. Therefore, several studies focus on defining new approaches that could help to automate some of the operation function of the systems management. Today, the emerging trend is to use techniques from Artificial Intelligence such as Machine Learning and data science in order to increase systems Management performance. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In this call, we are inviting submissions of papers in the following areas:</span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Machine Learning and their potential applications in Systems Management</span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Self-Autonomous System Management</span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Network, Devices and Computers Management</span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IT and IoT Infrastructure</span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Software as a Service</span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">AI & Cloud computing</span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Robots, drones network management</span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(56,56,56);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Advanced Software for Managed Service Providers</span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contact:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Aurilla Aurelie Arntzen (University of South-Eastern, Norway) - </span><a
href="mailto:Aurilla.Aurelie.Arntzen@usn.no"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Aurilla.Aurelie.Arntzen@usn.<wbr>no</span></a></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"> </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Special Session on Blockchain Technologies and Economics</span></span></p>
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id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The blockchain technology is raising increasing expectations, with many promising applications being proposed in several fields that go far beyond the crypto-currency applications that have popularized the technology. </span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
id="gmail-m_-8434498060306163131gmail-m_2762041846386908862gmail-m_789263416779276034gmail-docs-internal-guid-0b69c718-68a5-19f4-e7d9-3e9bcf73b035"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The special session on Blockchain Technology and Economics will focus on the theory and the applications of Blockchains to systems and service infrastructures, their impact on the economics and management of these services, the performance and modeling of blockchain based systems, the viability of new economic and business models, as well as on issues that stem from the new applications and involve essential properties of the affected systems, including but not limited the legal, privacy and security viewpoints. This special sessions invites submissions related to:</span></span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Lightweight protocols based on blockchain</span></p>
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0pt 0pt 18pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Contacts: Paolo Mori (CNR-IIT, Italy) </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><a
href="mailto:paolo.mori@iit.cnr.it" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">paolo.mori@iit.cnr.it</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; Stefano Bistarelli (University of Perugia, Italy)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a
href="mailto:bista@dmi.unipg.it" target="_blank"
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Massimo Coppola (ISTI-CNR, Italy)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> - </span><a href="mailto:massimo.coppola@isti.cnr.it" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">massimo.coppola@ist<wbr>i.cnr.it</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Emanuele Carlini (ISTI-CNR, Italy)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> - </span><a href="mailto:emanuele.carlini@isti.cnr.it" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">emanuele.carlini@isti.cnr.it</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p></li>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference Vice-Chairs</span></p>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Jörn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea) </span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">José Ángel Bañares (University of Zaragoza, Spain)</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK)</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Congduc Pham (University of Pau, France)</span></p></li>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proceedings Chair</span></p>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Daniele D’Agostino (IMATI-CNR, Genova, Italy)</span></p></li>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Industrial Session Chair</span></p>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Patrizio Dazzi </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(53,55,68);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (ISTI-CNR, Italy)</span></p></li>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Steering Committee</span></p>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Jörn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea) </span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Jose Angel Bañares (Zaragoza University, Spain)</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Steven Miller (Singapore Mgnt University, Singapore)</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Maria Nikolaidou (Harokopio University of Athens, Greece) </span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Omer F. Rana (Cardiff University, UK)</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Konstantinos Tserpes (Harokopio University, Greece)</span></p></li>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program Committee</span></p>
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<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Alvaro Arenas (IE University, Spain)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Aurilla Aurelie Arntzen - Univeristy of South-Eastern Norway, Norway</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ashraf Bany Mohammed (The University of Jordan, Jordan)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ivona Brandic (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Georg Carle (Technical University of Munich, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Costas Courcoubetis (sutd, Greece)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Patricio Domingues (ESTG - Leiria, Portugal)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Giancarlo Fortino (University of Calabria, Italy)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Felix Freitag (UPC, Spain)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Marc Frincu (West University of Timisoara, Romania)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Daniel Grosu (Wayne State University, USA)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Netsanet Haile (Seoul National University, South-Korea)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Chun-Hsi Huang (University of Connecticut, USA)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Bahman Javadi (Western Sydney University, Australia)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Odej Kao (TU Berlin, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Stefan Kirn (Univ. Hohenheim, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Bastian Koller (HLRS - University of Stuttgart, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Somayeh Koohborfardhaghighi (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">George Kousiouris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dieter Kranzlmüller (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dimosthenis Kyriazis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Jörg Leukel (Univ. Hohenheim, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dan Ma (Singapore Management University, Singapore)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Richard Ma (National University of Singapore, Singapore)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Roc Meseguer (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Mircea Moca (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Maurizio Naldi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Leandro Navarro (UPC, Spain)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Marco Netto (IBM, Italy)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Frank Pallas (KIT - Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">George Pallis (Dpt. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Cyprus)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dana Petcu (West University of Timisoara, Romania)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ioan Petri (Cardiff University, UK)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Radu Prodan (University of Innsbruck, Austria)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ivan Rodero (Rutgers University, USA)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Rizos Sakellariou (The University of Manchester, UK)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Benjamin Satzger (Microsoft, USA)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Lutz Schubert (OMI, University of Ulm, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Jun Shen (University of Wollongong, Australia)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Mathias Slawik (TU Berlin, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Aleksander A. Slominski (Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Stefan Tai (TU Berlin, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Bruno Tuffin (INRIA, France)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Iraklis Varlamis (Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Claudiu Vinte (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Stefan Wesner (HLRS, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Phillip Wieder (Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Goettingen, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ramin Yahyapour (Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Goettingen, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dimitrios Zissis (University of the Aegean, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, Greece)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Jeremy Cohen (Imperial College London, UK)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Saurabh Garg (IBM Research, USA)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Thomas Hess (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universite<wbr>t Munchen, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Tobias Knoch (Erasmus University, Netherlands)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Harald Kornmayer (Duale Hochschule Baden-Wuerttemberg Mannheim, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Leonardo Maccari (University of Trento, Italy)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dirk Neumann (University of Freiburg, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Rubem Pereira (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Peter Reichl (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Arunabha Sen (Arizona State University, USA)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich, Switzerland)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dora Varvarigou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Luis Veiga (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ivan Breskovic (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Nikolaus Forgo (University of Hannover, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Haiwu He (Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Matthias Hovestadt (Hanover University of Applied Sciences, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Byungtae Lee (KAIST, South-Korea)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Marin Litoiu (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering, Canada)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Syed Naqvi (Birmingham City University, UK)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dang Minh Quan (CREATE-NET, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Rajiv Ranjan (University of Melbourne, Australia)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Kwang Mon Sim (University of Kent, UK)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Katarina Stanoevska (University of St.Gallen, Switzerland)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ruediger Zarnekow (TU Berlin, Germany)</span></p></li>
<li style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols";color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:11.25pt"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Wolfgang Ziegler (Fraunhofer, Germany)</span></p></li>
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