<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">******************************</span><span style="font-size:10pt">******************************</span><span style="font-size:10pt">******************************</span><span style="font-size:10pt">******</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">CFP - Apologies for cross posting</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"> <br>************************************************************************************************</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">CNS2019 - The International Workshop on Cognitive and Neural Systems</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext"><br>In conjunction with <b>SNAMS-2019 - The Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security</b><br><b>October 22-25, 2019, Granada, Spain - <a href="http://emergingtechnet.org/CNS2019/" target="_blank">http://emergingtechnet.org/CNS2019/</a></b><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to CNS 2019 via the official submission system at <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cns2019" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cns2019</a> . This can include, technical and experimental, theoretical, conceptual, or a survey. All submissions will be peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Call for papers</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext"><br></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Conversation is an essential social activity for humans. Intelligent systems that can handle natural language are actually deployed on personal or home devices or embedded in humanoid robots, and try to enable social interactions between computers and humans in order to assist, enable, or entertain. Even though they have significantly improved their abilities in recognizing and synthetizing speech, they often fail to meet expectations of having a real dialogue with humans. Indeed, they essentially try to provide a more or less adequate imitation of how humans converse, bringing the interlocutor into stereotyped conversations, but without developing real understanding of language or learning and using robust and meaningful representations of physical concepts, objects and events of the external world.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">This workshop is intended to provide an overview of the research being carried out in the areas of Cognitive and Neural systems designed to acquire capabilities for language learning, understanding, production and grounding, interactively or autonomously from data, also operating on portable and embedded devices or with preliminary quantum computing developments. To this aim, the workshop aims to gather researchers with broad expertise in various fields — computer vision and natural language processing, cognitive science and psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics, computational modeling and neuroscience — to discuss their cutting edge work in these exciting areas with original contributions covering the whole range of theoretical and practical aspects, technologies and systems.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Topics</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Natural Language Understanding<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Natural Language Generation<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Natural Language Grounding<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Computer and Cognitive Vision<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Conversational Systems/Interfaces<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Human-like Reasoning and Adaptive Behavior<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Computer/Human Interactive Learning<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Search and Information Retrieval<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Machine/Deep Learning from huge amounts of heterogeneous data<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Reinforcement Learning<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Emotional Intelligence<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Neuroscience-Inspired Cognitive Architectures<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Trustworthy and Explainable Artificial Intelligence<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Cognitive and Social Robotics<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Quantum Machine Intelligence<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Intelligence on portable and embedded devices<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Law, Education, Transportation, Retailing, Telecommunication, Multimedia<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><h4 style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings<u></u><u></u></span></h4><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (<a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" target="_blank">IEEE Templates</a>). All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 6 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 peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the SNAMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. <br>Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 6 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. 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. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Journal Special Issues</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><br></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">the special issue <b>Natural Language Processing: Emerging Neural Approaches and Applications</b> of <i>Applied Sciences</i>, section <i>Computing and Artificial Intelligence</i> (<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/NLP" target="_blank">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/NLP</a>).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:35.7pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><u></u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Quantum Machine Intelligence</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext"> (<a href="https://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/journal/42484" target="_blank">https://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/journal/42484</a> )<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Important Dates </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Submission Date: 1st July, 2019<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Notification to Authors: 20th August, 2019<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Camera Ready Submission: 5th September, 2019<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Technical Program Committee </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Giovanni Acampora, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Flora Amato, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Angelo Cangelosi, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Matteo Cavaliere, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Giuseppe De Pietro, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking - National Research Council of Italy (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">ICAR-CNR</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">, Naples, Italy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Alessandro Di Nuovo, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Bruno Golosio, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Xavier Hinaut, Inria, Bordeux, France<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Alessandro Maisto, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Stefano Melacci, University of Siena, Siena, Italy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Marco Palomino, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Wojciech Samek, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="gmail-m_4044911458803315722m_-4922859879986892199default" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">General Co-Chairs:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Massimo Esposito, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking - National Research Council of Italy (ICAR-CNR), Naples, Italy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Giovanni Luca Masala, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Technical Program Co-Chairs:<span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Andrea Calimera, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ioanna Giorgi, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Aniello Minutolo, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking - National Research Council of Italy (ICAR-CNR), Naples, Italy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Marco Pota, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking - National Research Council of Italy (ICAR-CNR), Naples, Italy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Publication and Publicity Co-Chairs:<span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Emanuele Damiano, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking - National Research Council of Italy (ICAR-CNR), Naples, Italy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Raffaele Guarasci, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking - National Research Council of Italy (ICAR-CNR), Naples, Italy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Organization Chair:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sandra Sendra, Universidad de Granada, Spain<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Moayad Aloqaily, Carleton University, Canada<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> </span></p></div>