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First Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your<br>
colleagues and networks ** </span>  </p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">December 12-15, 2020</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Proceedings of ISDA’19: <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-49342-4" style="color:blue">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-49342-4</a></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Indexed by: SCOPUS, Thomson ISI Web of Science, DBLP
etc.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">History of ISDA series: <a href="http://www.mirlabs.org/isda20/previous.php" style="color:blue">http://www.mirlabs.org/isda20/previous.php</a></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Paper submission due: October 15, 2020</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Notification of paper acceptance: November 15, 2020</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Registration and Final manuscript due: November 25,
2020</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">**About ISDA 2020**</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The International Conference on Intelligent Systems
Design and Applications (ISDA) is a major international conference bringing
together researchers, engineers, and practitioners who work in the areas of
intelligent systems and its applications in industry and the real world. Every
year, ISDA attracts authors from over 30 countries. After the success of the
19th conference, which was held online, this year's event will be held during
December 12-15, 2020.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ISDA 2020 is expected to provide an opportunity for
researchers to meet and discuss the latest solutions, scientific results and
methods in solving intriguing problems in the fields of artificial intelligence
and its real world applications. The conference programme will include
workshops, special sessions and tutorials, along with prominent keynote
speakers and regular paper presentations in parallel tracks. All submitted papers
will be reviewed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality,
significance, quality and clarity. Conference contents will be submitted for
inclusion in Springer as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I)
databases.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Intelligent Image and Signal Processing</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Intelligent Internet Modeling</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Intelligent Data mining</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Intelligent Control and Automation</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Intelligent Knowledge Management</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Innovative Information Security</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Innovative Networking and Communication Techniques</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Web Intelligence</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Intelligent Software Engineering</p>

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submission page from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference
website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs,
USA</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ana Madureira, ISEP, Porto, Portugal</p>

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University, Lithuania</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dr. Ajith Abraham</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org" style="color:blue">ajith.abraham@ieee.org</a></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dr. Jyotshna Dongardive</p>

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