<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email]</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">*** IEEE (ISPA-2019,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">BDCloud</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">-2019, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">SocialCom</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">-2019</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">, SustainCom</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">-2019) International Conferences ***</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">To be held in Xiamen, China, 16-18 December 2019.</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">*** The paper submission deadline is extended to 23 September 2019 (firm deadline) ***</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">The 17th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA-2019) <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://ispa2019.com/" style="color:purple">http://ispa2019.com/</a></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The 9th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud-2019) <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://ccce.mju.edu.cn/BDCloud2019/" style="color:purple">http://ccce.mju.edu.cn/BDCloud2019/</a></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The 12th IEEE International Symposium on Social Computing and Networking</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">(SocialCom-2019) <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="https://hpc.fafu.edu.cn/conference/SocialCom2019/index.php" style="color:purple">https://hpc.fafu.edu.cn/conference/SocialCom2019/index.php</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Courier New""></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The 9th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SocialCom-2019)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="https://hpc.fafu.edu.cn/conference/SustainCom2019/index.php" style="color:purple">https://hpc.fafu.edu.cn/conference/SustainCom2019/index.php</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Courier New""></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Sponsored by</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC)</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">===============</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Paper Submission Deadline: 23 September 2019</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Authors Notification: 22 October 2019</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Camera-Ready Paper Due: 17 November 2019</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Early Registration Due: 17 November 2019</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Conference Date:16-18 December 2019</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">==========================</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference websites with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page:</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/" style="color:purple">http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Courier New""></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><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></span><span style="font-family:"Courier New""></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Once accepted, the paper will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