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Computations (NMIC)</span></b></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2020</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Papers</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:10pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The new
computation technologies, such as big data analytics, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">modern machine learning technology</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, artificial
intelligence (AI), blockchain, and security processing, have the great
potential to be embedded into network to enable it to be intelligent and
trustworthy. On the other hand, Information-Centric Networking (ICN),
software-defined network (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), network
slicing, and data center network have emerged as the novel networking paradigms
for fast and efficient delivering and retrieving data. Against this backdrop,
there is a strong trend to move the computations from the cloud to not only the
edges but also the resource-sufficient networking nodes, which triggers the
convergence between the emerging networking concepts and the new computation
technologies.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:10pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The ultimate goals
for networking researches include intelligence, trust, and efficiency, which
can be enhanced by or benefit for the intelligent computations. There are many
open challenges for the emerging network concepts to meet the intelligent
computations: what computations should be embedded; which node should be enforced
with the computation; how can the computations, such as big data analytics,
security, AI, machine learning, blockchain, be seamlessly embedded into the
network and enable it to be efficient, trustworthy and accountable; how to fast
locate the required and suitable computation nodes; how to efficiently transfer
data through series of computation nodes; how to efficiently collect and
process the big networking data; how to design networking architectures and
protocols to easily support the efficient and diverse computations; how to
achieve ultra-low latency communications with distributed computations; and how
to migrate from the Internet to the computation-enabled network.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:10pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The NMIC</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> workshop 2020 solicits the papers that
address the technical challenges and applications of the distributed
computations for networking, the intelligent computations supported by the
novel networking technologies, and the enforcement of series of computations.
We envision that the combination of computations with networking will provide
more effective computation support for applications and enable the network to
be more intelligent, trustworthy, and efficient. The areas of interests
include, but are not limited to, the following:</span></p>

<ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Networking
     architecture and protocols for integrating caching, computation, and
     communications </span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Machine
     learning, data mining and big data analytics in networking</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In-network
     computation for future networks, inter-data center networking and 5G</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Information-centric
     networking with/for computations</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intelligent
     Internet edge integrating edge, fog, and mobile edge computing with
     networking</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Intelligent
     service function/computation chaining</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Security,
     privacy, trust, accountability for/with intelligent computation networking</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Collection
     and processing for big network data</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Distributed
     computations for network anomaly detection and security</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Integrating
     Blockchain with networking </span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Network
     function virtualization, software-defined network, and network slicing for
     distributed computations</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Networking
     computations for big data, streaming, IoT, and AR/VR</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In-network
     data computations for network measurement and management</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Distributed
     artificial intelligence with/for networking </span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Data modelling and applications of
     networking</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Big
     data networking in healthcare, V2V, smart cities, industry and other
     applications</span></li>
</ul>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" align="left" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Important Dates</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.25in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission deadline:
<b><span style="color:red">February 15, 2020</span></b></span></p>

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notification: April 1, 2020</span></p>

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15, 2020</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.25in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">July
8-10, 2020</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.25in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">TPC Chairs </span></b></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">•<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><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dijiang
Huang, Arizona State University, USA </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">•<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><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ruidong
Li, National Institute of Informationand Communications Technology (NICT),
Japan</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">•<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><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Michele
Nogueira, Federal University ofParana, Brazil</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.25in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Web Chair </span></b></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">•<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><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ka-Cheong
Leung, The University ofHong Kong, China</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.25in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publicity Chairs </span></b></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">•<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><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ouns Bouachir,
Zayed University, UAE</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">•<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><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Moayad
Aloqaily, Gnowit Inc., Canada</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">•<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><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Safa
Otoum, University of Ottawa, Canada</span></p>

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</span></b></p>

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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jie Li,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China</span></p>

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Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA</span></p>

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Asaeda, NICT, Japan</span></p>

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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Xiaoming
Fu, University of Goettingen, Germany</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p></div>