<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">16th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications <span class="gmail-il">AICCSA</span> 2019 <br>November 3rd to November 7th, 2019</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (<span class="gmail-il">AICCSA</span>) 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. <span class="gmail-il">AICCSA</span> 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 <span class="gmail-il">AICCSA</span>’19 via the official submission system for the conference </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,153)"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2019" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(9,81,151);text-decoration-line:none">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2019</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">. 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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,153)"><a href="http://aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/29-track-1" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(9,81,151);text-decoration-line:none">Track 1: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,153)"><a href="http://aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/37-track-2" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(9,81,151);text-decoration-line:none">Track 2: Semantics, Knowledge and Cyber Systems</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,153)"><a href="http://aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/30-track-3" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(9,81,151);text-decoration-line:none">Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,153)"><a href="http://aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/31-track-4" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(9,81,151);text-decoration-line:none">Track 4: IoT, IoV, IoEnergy, IoHealthcare</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,153)"><a href="http://aiccsa.net/AICCSA2019/13-tracks/32-track-5" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(9,81,151);text-decoration-line:none">Track 5: High Performance Computing</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,102,153)"><a href="http://aiccsa.n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ughout 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><b><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript</span></b><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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Special Issues<br></span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">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><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br><br></span><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Important Dates </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Main Conference / Symposium</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> <br>• Paper Submission Due Date: <s><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">April 15, 2019</span></s> extended to </span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:red;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">May 08, 2019</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><br>• Notification to authors: June 30, 2019<br>• Camera-ready papers due: August 1, 2019<br>• Early registration due (Authors): August 1, 2019<br>• Later registration due: September 24, 2019</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">PhD Forum</span></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;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-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">• Paper submission deadline: May 30, 2019<br>• Notification to authors: June 30, 2019 <br>• Camera-ready papers due: August 1, 2019<br>• Early registration due: August 1, 2019</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:init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