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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">-- The 20th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent
Systems (HIS'20) --</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Proceedings of HIS'2019: <a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030493356" style="color:blue">https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030493356</a></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;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 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">History of HIS series:
<a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/his20/previous.php">http://www.mirlabs.net/his20/previous.php</a></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">HIS 2020: Scopus & UGC Approved Proceedings:</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">All accepted and registered papers will be published in AISC
Series of Springer, indexed in ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS,
Google Scholar and Springerlink. Proceedings will be made available during the
conference. Expanded versions of selected papers will be published in special
issues of internationally referred journals (indexed by SCI) and edited
volumes.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Paper submission due: October 15, 2020</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Notification of paper acceptance: November 15, 2020</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;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 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">**About HIS 2020**</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hybridization of intelligent systems is a promising research
field of modern artificial/computational intelligence concerned with the
development of the next generation of intelligent systems. A fundamental
stimulus to the investigations of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS) is the
awareness in the academic communities that combined approaches will be
necessary if the remaining tough problems in artificial/computational
intelligence are to be solved. Recently, Hybrid Intelligent Systems are getting
popular due to their capabilities in handling several real world complexities
involving imprecision, uncertainty and vagueness. HIS'20 builds on the success
of last years. HIS'20 is the 20th International conference that brings together
researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of soft computing,
computational intelligence, agents, logic programming, and several other
intelligent computing techniques. The aim of HIS'20 is to increase the
awareness of the research community of the broad spectrum of hybrid techniques,
to bring together AI researchers from around the world to present their
cutting-edge results, to discuss the current trends in HIS research, to develop
a collective vision of future opportunities, to establish international
collaborative opportunities, and as a result to advance the state of the art of
the field.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Proceedings are expected to be published by:</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, which is now
indexed by ISI Proceedings, DBLP. Ulrich's, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Zentralblatt
Math, MetaPress, Springerlink</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Papers maximum length is 10 pages.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- Papers must be formatted according to Springer format
(Latex/word) available at: <a href="http://www.springer.com/series/11156" style="color:blue">http://www.springer.com/series/11156</a></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">HIS 2020: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=his2020" style="color:blue">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=his2020</a></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">**HIS 2020 Organization**</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR
Labs), USA</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thomas Hanne, University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute Technology, Mexico </p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Tatiane Nogueira Rios, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Tzung-Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">**Technical Contact**</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dr. Ajith Abraham</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org">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>

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

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