<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:#0433ff">The 14th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC)</span></i><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-4764060144894464449m_-6103662707550985495WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:#0433ff">August 19-21, 2019</span></i><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:#0433ff">Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada <span class="m_-4764060144894464449m_-6103662707550985495xapple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"><a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-19/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954f72">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-19/</span></a> <span class="m_-4764060144894464449m_-6103662707550985495xapple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">Future Networks and Communications (FNC) research effort will help achieving a major promise of the emerging technologies such as, ubiquitous access to broadband, supporting vital applications in our daily lives such as health, energy consumption, environment transport, entertainment or education. The scope of FNC is the development of energy-efficient future network infrastructures that support the convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile, wired and wireless broadband network technologies as enablers of the future Internet. This includes but not limited to ubiquitous fast broadband access and ultra-high speed end-to-end optical connectivity, supporting open services and innovative ambient applications. Scope also embraces novel and evolutionary approaches to tackle network architectures, taking due consideration of users and societal needs for success.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">Important Dates</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">---------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">- Workshop Proposal Due: February 15, 2019</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">-<span class="m_-4764060144894464449m_-6103662707550985495xapple-converted-space"> </span><span style="background:yellow">Paper Submission Due:    April 18, 2019 (<b>Extended</b>)</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">- Acceptance Notification:   May 25, 2019</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">- Final Manuscript Due:      June 25, 2019</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">Publication</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">-----------------</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">All FNC 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<span class="m_-4764060144894464449m_-6103662707550985495xapple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.elsevier.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954f72">www.Elsevier.com</span></a><span class="m_-4764060144894464449m_-6103662707550985495xapple-converted-space"> </span>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 the following special issues:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing  (IF: 1.588), by Springer (<a href="http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954f72">http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652</span></a>)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (<a href="http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954f72">http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index</span></a>)  <span class="m_-4764060144894464449m_-6103662707550985495xapple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645" target="_blank"><span style="color:#954f72">http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645</span></a>)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">FNC 2019 will be held in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#38571a">MobiSPC</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1f497d">:<span class="m_-4764060144894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