<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Please accept our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Call for Papers<br></span></b><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk_icist_&d=DwMFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=0w3solp5fswiyWF2RL6rSs8MCeFamFEPafDTOhgTfYI&m=1qLQZSw_zRDaWakFTm1ODH7SHhlALsnXkb8o0c-YAmI&s=OtfbPbg0PVkoi16BNjQU95Do88pb7QkRR0NMgiZdLQE&e=" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/<span class="gmail-m_-6452266502799968160gmail-m_4689146583712147699gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">icist</span></span>/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Following the successes of previous events, the 9th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (<span class="gmail-m_-6452266502799968160gmail-m_4689146583712147699gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">ICIST</span></span> 2019) will be held in Hulunbuir (Hulunbeier), Inner Mongolia, China during August 2-5, 2019. Situated in northeastern China near the borders of Russia and Mongolia, Hulunbuir features picturesque grassland and nomadic culture.<br><br><span class="gmail-m_-6452266502799968160gmail-m_4689146583712147699gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">ICIST</span></span> 2019 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of research and applications in related fields. The conference will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular topics.<br><br>Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (8 pages maximum) by the submission deadline through the online submission system. In addition, proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the conference are solicited. Special session organizers are invited to enlist six or more papers with cohesive topics to form special sessions. The Proceedings has been contracted to be included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library and will be submitted for EI indexing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Important Dates</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Special session proposals deadline: March 1, 2019</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Paper submission deadline: April 1, 2019</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2019</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Camera-ready copy and author registration: June 1, 2019</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Conference: August 2-5, 2019</span></p></div></div></div></div>