<div dir="ltr"><p align="center" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin:0px;text-align:center;line-height:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">16th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications <span class="gmail-il">AICCSA</span> 2019</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">3 November to 7 November, 2019<u></u><u></u></span></strong></font></p><p align="center" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin:0px;text-align:center;line-height:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">http://www.<span class="gmail-il">aiccsa</span>.net/AICCSA2019</font></span></a></span></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;margin:0px;line-height:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><u></u> <u></u></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000">The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) is the premier conference covering all contemporary areas in computer systems and applications and hence it is an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and rapidly changing disciplines. AICCSA 2019, to be held in the lovely and highly vibrant city of Abu Dhabi in UAE.<br><br>We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to AICCSA’18 via the official submission system for the conference <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2019.">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2019.</a> Submission may include, technical and experimental study, theoretical study, conceptual study, or a survey. All submissions will be peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. <br><br>Topics of interest will fall under one or more of the conference tracks. Click on each track for more information.</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000"><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/29-track-1" target="_blank">Track 1: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning</a><br><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/37-track-2" target="_blank">Track 2: Semantics, Knowledge and Cyber Systems</a><br><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/30-track-3" target="_blank">Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust</a><br><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/31-track-4" target="_blank">Track 4: IoT, IoV, IoEnergy, IoHealthcare</a><br><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/32-track-5" target="_blank">Track 5: High Performance Computing</a><br><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/33-track-6" target="_blank">Track 6: Databases and Information Systems</a><br><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/34-track-7" target="_blank">Track 7: Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing</a><br><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/35-track-8" target="_blank">Track 8: Parallel and Distributed Systems</a><br><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/36-track-9" target="_blank">Track 9: Data Science</a><br><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/28-track-10" target="_blank">Track 10: Software Engineering</a><br><a href="http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/53-track-011" target="_blank">Track 11: VLSI Design and Systems<br></a> </font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Submissions Guidelines and PROCEEDINGS</strong><br>Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column conference format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically on easychair at <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2019.">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2019.</a> A full paper must not exceed 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification.<br>All submissions are blind peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion.<br>Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers.</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000"><br><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines</strong><br>AICCSA 2019 uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity or affiliation.<br><br><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript</strong><br>Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows:<br>• Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”.<br>• Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier<br>• Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper.<br>• Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’.<br>• For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’<br>• Remove references to funding sources<br>• Do not include acknowledgments<br>• Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized.</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Special Issues</strong><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><br></strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage.</span><br><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Important Dates</strong><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"> </strong></span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Main Conference / Symposium</strong><font color="#000000"> </font><br><font color="#000000">• </font><font color="#ff0000">Paper Submission Due Date: April 15, 2019 </font><br><font color="#000000">• Notification to authors: June 30, 2019</font><br><font color="#000000">• Camera-ready papers due: August 1, 2019</font><br><font color="#000000">• Early registration due (Authors): August 1, 2019</font><br><font color="#000000">• Later registration due: September 24, 2019</font></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">PhD Forum</strong><br>• </font><font size="4"><font color="#ff0000">Paper submission deadline: MAY 30, 2019</font><br><font color="#000000">• Notification to authors: June 30, 2019 </font><br><font color="#000000">• Camera-ready papers due: August 1, 2019</font><br><font color="#000000">• Early registration due: August 1, 2019</font></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Workshop Proposals</strong><br>• </font><font color="#ff0000"><font size="4">Workshop proposals due: </font> <span style="font-size:large">April 10, 2019</span>  </font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>• Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2019</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:1.5em;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4"><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Posters & Demonstration</strong><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">• </span><font color="#ff0000">Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2019</font><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">• </span><font color="#000000">Notification to authors: June 30, 2019</font><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">• </span><font color="#000000">Camera-ready papers due: August 1, 2019</font><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">• </span><font color="#000000">Early registration due: August 1, 2019</font></font></p></div>