<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Call

for Papers</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">The

First International Workshop on </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">Network Meets Intelligent Computations</span><span lang="EN-US"> (</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">NMIC</span><span lang="EN-US">)</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.eee.hku.hk/~kcleung/service/NMIC/2019/cfp.html" style="color:blue">https://www.eee.hku.hk/~kcleung/service/NMIC/2019/cfp.html</a></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background:lime"> </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Organized in conjunction

with</span></p>

<h2 align="center" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt 14.4pt;text-align:center;text-indent:0cm;break-after:avoid;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style:normal">The 39th IEEE

International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2019), <span lang="EN-US" style="font-style:normal">7<span lang="EN-US" style="font-style:normal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-style:normal">July<span lang="EN-US" style="font-style:normal"> - <span lang="EN-US" style="font-style:normal">10<span lang="EN-US" style="font-style:normal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-style:normal">July<span lang="EN-US" style="font-style:normal"> 2019, Dallas,

Texas, USA</span></b></h2>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:10pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">The new

computation technologies, such as big data analytics, </span><span lang="EN-US">modern machine learning technology</span><span lang="EN-US">, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and security processing,

have the great potential to be embedded into network to enable it to be

intelligent and trustworthy. On the other hand, Information-Centric Networking

(ICN), software-defined network (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), network

slicing, and data center network have emerged as the novel networking paradigms

for fast and efficient delivering and retrieving data. Against this backdrop,

there is a strong trend to move the computations from the cloud to not only the

edges but also the resource-sufficient networking nodes, which triggers the

convergence between the emerging networking concepts and the new computation

technologies.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:10pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">The ultimate

goals for networking researches include intelligence, trust, and efficiency,

which can be enhanced by or benefit for the intelligent computations. There are

many open challenges for the emerging network concepts to meet the intelligent

computations: what computations should be embedded; which node should be

enforced with the computation; how can the computations, such as big data

analytics, security, AI, machine learning, blockchain, be seamlessly embedded

into the network and enable it to be efficient, trustworthy and accountable;

how to fast locate the required and suitable computation nodes; how to

efficiently transfer data through series of computation nodes; how to

efficiently collect and process the big networking data; how to design

networking architectures and protocols to easily support the efficient and

diverse computations; how to achieve ultra-low latency communications with

distributed computations; and how to migrate from the Internet to the

computation-enabled network.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:10pt;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">The NMIC</span><span lang="EN-US">

workshop 2019 solicits the papers that address the technical challenges and

applications of the distributed computations for networking, the intelligent

computations supported by the novel networking technologies, and the

enforcement of series of computations. The areas of interests include, but are

not limited to, the following:</span></p>

<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc">

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Networking

     architecture and protocols for integrating caching, computation, and

     communications </span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Machine learning,

     data mining and big data analytics in networking</span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">In-network

     computation for future networks, inter-data center networking and 5G</span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Information-centric

     networking with/for computations</span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Intelligent

     Internet edge integrating edge, fog, and mobile edge computing with

     networking</span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Intelligent

     service function/computation chaining</span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Security, privacy,

     trust, accountability for/with intelligent computation networking</span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Collection and processing

     for big network data</span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Distributed computations

     for network anomaly detection and security</span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Integrating

     Blockchain with networking </span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Network function

     virtualization, software-defined network, and network slicing for

     distributed computations</span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Networking

     computations for big data, streaming, IoT, and AR/VR</span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">In-network data

     computations for network measurement and management</span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Distributed

     artificial intelligence with/for networking </span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Data modelling and applications of networking</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></li>

 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Big data networking

     in healthcare, V2V, smart cities, industry and other applications</span></li>

</ul>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Selected

papers will be recommended to EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and

Networking or IEEE Network Magazine for potential publications.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US">Submission Procedure</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">All submissions should follow the </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">IEEE 8.5? x 11? Two-Column Format</span></a><span style="color:black">. Each submission can have up to 6 pages. Authors of

accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">. </span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Submission link: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/submission_new.cgi?a=21057181#">https://easychair.org/conferences/submission_new.cgi?a=21057181#</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Committee:</span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> </span></span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Technical Program Chairs:</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University,

USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">

</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Ruidong Li, National

Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Michele Nogueira, Federal University of

Paraná, Brazil</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Web</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> Chair</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><br>

<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Ka-cheong Leung, Hongkong University</span></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Publicity Chair</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><br>

<span class="gmail-im">Moayad Aloqaily, Gnowit Inc. Ottawa, Canada</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-im"><span lang="EN-US">Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="gmail-im"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Steering

Committee:</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Jie Li, Shanghai Jiao

Tong University, China</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of

Technology, USA</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Hitoshi Asaeda, NICT,

Japan</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Xiaoming Fu, University

of Gottingen, Germany</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Important Dates</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Paper submission deadline: </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">March</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">15</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">, 201</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">9</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Author notification</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">: </span><b><span lang="EN-US">April</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> 2</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">5</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">, 2019</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Camera ready: </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">May</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> 10, 2019</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US">Conference and Workshops:

</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">July 7-10, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">2019</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>

<h4 style="margin:2pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-indent:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></h4>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></p></div>