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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='margin-left:20.5pt;background:white;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=1 valign=top style='width:1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td width=444 valign=top style='width:529.15pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:11.55pt'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#767171'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=xmsonormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#767171'>Call for Papers</span><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#767171'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'><br></span></b><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>The 9th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-19) </span></i></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xmsonormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.55pt'><i><u><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'><a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-19/"><span style='color:#954F72'>http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-19/</span></a></span></u></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=xmsonormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.55pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#003300'>IMPORTANT DATES</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Times",serif'>- <span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Workshops Proposals Due: February 15, 2019</span> <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Times",serif'>- Paper Submission Due: March 28, 2019 <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Times",serif'>- Acceptance Notification: May 25, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Times",serif'>- Camera-Ready Submission: June 25, 2019 </span><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#003300'>About</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>SEIT 2019 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#954F72'>www.Elsevier.com</span></a> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#954F72'>www.sciencedirect.com</span></a>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#954F72'>www.scopus.com</span></a>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (<a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#954F72'>http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/</span></a>). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#954F72'>www.scopus.com</span></a>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (<a href="http://www.engineeringvillage.com/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#954F72'>www.engineeringvillage.com</span></a>). This includes EI Compendex (<a href="http://www.ei.org/compendex" target="_blank"><span style='color:#954F72'>www.ei.org/compendex</span></a>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (<a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#954F72'>http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</span></a>). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication in journals special issues.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>SEIT 2019 will be held in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. Halifax is located on the east coast of Canada and is approximately a 6-hour flight from London, UK and a 2-hour flight from Toronto, Ontario. Halifax is a vibrant and modern city which is home to multiple academic institutions and where visitors can enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment from whale watching to Jazz festivals to world-class cuisine. Halifax is also home to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which contains the world largest collection of Titanic artifacts. Nova Scotia is a picturesque province with many National and Provincial parks, and as stated in the Guinness Book of World Records, has the highest tides in the world. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#003300'>Conference Main Tracks<span class=xapple-converted-space> </span></span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'><br>- Advanced Techniques for Energy Applications</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Energy Efficiency</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Energy Policy </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Environmental</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Green Sustainability</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Power Quality, Power Electronics and Electric Machines</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Power Systems</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Renewable Energies</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Sensing & Monitoring</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Smart Systems</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#003300'>Committees</span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'><br><i>General Chairs</i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Program Chairs</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Jesús Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif'> Eduardo Vaz, Eduardo Vaz, QRA Corp., Canada</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Local Chair</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif'>Wayne Groszko, Dalhousie University, Canada</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Workshops Chairs</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Hui Hou, Wuhan University of Technology, China </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>International Journals Chair</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Publicity Chairs</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Hakan Ergun, ESAT - KULeuven, Belgium</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif'>Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Advisory Committee</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Bilal A. Akash, American University of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Antonio J. Conejo, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Derek J Croome, University of Reading, UK</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Geert Deconinck, KU Leuven, Belgium</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Jatin Nathwani, University of Waterloo, Canada</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Saffa Riffat, University of Nottingham, UK</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Ali Sayigh,World Renewable Energy Congress / Network</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Technical Program Committee</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> <u><a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-19/#programCommittees"><span style='color:#954F72'>http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-19/#programCommittees</span></a></u> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>