<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,255)">[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">******************************* IEEE </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IU</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CC-201</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">9</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CFP *****************************<span style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">18</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">th IEEE International Conference on </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ubiquitous</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Computing and Communications (</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IU</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CC-201</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">9</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">) </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://</span></span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://iucc2019.sau.edu.cn/">iucc2019.sau.edu.cn/</a></span></span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Shenyang, China</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, 2</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">23</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">October</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">201</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">9</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sponsored by</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC). </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">INTRODUCTION<br>=============</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">The technologies of computing and communications have undergone a series of evolutionary innovation over the past decades and improved the quality of human life significantly. Computing and communications in the 21st century faces an ever-increasing number of great challenges and revolutionary developments. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications is a revolutionary paradigm that aims to provide pervasive and reliable computing solutions and communication services anytime and anywhere. This emerging technology is built upon the rapid research and development advances in a wide range of key areas including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded systems, agent technologies, autonomic communication, and information security. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications has drawn significant interests from both academia and industry and continues to attract tremendous research efforts due to its promising new business opportunity in information technology and engineering. </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">The conference offers an important international platform and brings together the scientists, engineers, researchers, and students from academy and industry all over the world to share their latest work, exchange experiences and discuss the state-of-the-art challenges of ubiquitous computing and communications. IUCC 2019 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards the design, implementation and evaluation of ubiquitous computing and communications technologies, systems and applications. IUCC 2019 follows the tradition of a successful series of conferences that have been held all along the world, in places as Melbourne (Australia) in 2018, Guangzhou (China) in 2017, Granada (Spain) in 2016, Liverpool (UK) in 2015, Chengdu (China) in 2014, or Melbourne (Australia) in 2013. </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">IU</span><span style="font-size:11pt">CC-201</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt">9</span><span style="font-size:11pt">. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and will be indexed by Engineering Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will be invited post conference to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals to be planned in conjunction with the conference.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SCOPE AND TOP</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CS</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">================</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 2: Ubiquitous Communications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 3: Ubiquitous System, Services and Applications</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT DATES<br>================</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Paper Submission Deadline:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">31 July 2019 (Firm)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Authors Notification:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">             </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">25 August 2019</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Camera-Ready Paper Due:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">     </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">21 September 2019</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Early Registration Due:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">         </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">21 September 2019</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference Date:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">                    </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">21-23 October 2019</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE<br>==========================</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue"><a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" style="color:purple">https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a></span></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission sites:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue"><a href="http://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/iucc">hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/iucc</a></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.<span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">.</span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">============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