<div dir="ltr"><h1 align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:16pt;text-indent:7.1pt">Call for Papers</span><br></h1><h2 align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:2pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-CA">The 13th IEEE International Workshop <b>on </b></span><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:red">Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web-based Service Architectures</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:red"> </span><span lang="EN-CA">(PEDISWESA’2021)</span></h2><h1 align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://icnetlab.org/PEDISWESA2021/index.php" target="_blank">http://icnetlab.org/PEDISWESA2021/index.php</a></span></p></h1><h2 align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:2pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-CA">in conjunction with</span></h2><h2 align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:2pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-CA">The </span><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:red">26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:red"> </span><span lang="EN-CA">(ISCC)</span></h2><h1 align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:13pt">2021 September 5th to 8th - Athens, Greece, September 2021</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="https://iscc2021.unipi.gr/" target="_blank">https://iscc2021.unipi.gr/</a><b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:7.1pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p></h1><h1 style="text-indent:0in;margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-CA">Scope Objectives</span></h1><h1 align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The advancements in distributed systems and web-based architectures have led to the continuous need for state-of-the-art performance evaluation mechanisms. The advancements in enabling technologies for the Tactile Internet have led to an ever more push towards advanced paradigms for communication performance evaluation. Given that most architectures and frameworks,  such as the Tactile Internet, are becoming increasingly large and complex to manage in a centralized manner, numerous challenges need to be addressed and resolved before such systems become available for use on a large scale level. The multi-dimensional data incorporated in such complex systems, in addition to the enforced high-reliability constraints, add more challenges to the design of these systems. </span><span lang="EN-CA">Quantitative analysis can be very difficult and might be intractable because of the state space explosion. New methods and tools have recently emerged for these kinds of complex systems, especially ones that rely on the use of distributed and intelligent solutions. The incorporation of machine learning has led to not only an increase in system accuracy but also will speed up the process of performance evaluation.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-ind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font><font color="#2f5496"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.5pt"></span></font></p></h1><h1 style="text-indent:0in;margin:12pt 0in;text-align:justify;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><a name="m_5693976483929841949_m_7709370978963362754_m_7929627430375215706_m_-7654652016060741685__heading=h.8pjt6khvbld3" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></a><span lang="EN-CA">PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</span></h1><h1 style="text-indent:0in;margin:12pt 0in;text-align:justify;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000">Authors are invited to submit original contributions that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers must conform with the A4 IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings and not exceed 6 pages (including title, abstract, figures, tables, and references). One additional page may be added at an additional cost. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Papers should be submitted through EDAS:</font></span> </h1><h1 style="text-indent:0in;margin:12pt 0in;text-align:justify;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://edas.info/N28545" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://edas.info/N28545</span></a></span><u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></u></h1><h1 style="text-indent:0in;margin:12pt 0in;text-align:justify;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><a name="m_5693976483929841949_m_7709370978963362754_m_7929627430375215706_m_-7654652016060741685__heading=h.ms3gck8ccyqw" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></a><span lang="EN-CA">PROCEEDINGS:</span></h1><h1 align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:7.1pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000">Accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2021 Proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC Proceedings have been indexed in the past by ISI, dblp and Scopus. This makes the ISCC conference one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both Computer and Communications areas.</font></span></p></h1><h1 style="text-indent:0in;margin:15pt 0in 7.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal">Steering Committee:<br><a name="m_5693976483929841949_m_7709370978963362754_m_7929627430375215706_m_-7654652016060741685__heading=h.z1py9c6x7c3m" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></a></h1><h1 align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-CA">Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><font color="#000000">Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris, France</font></span><font color="#2f5496"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></font></li></ul></h1><h1 style="text-indent:0in;margin:15pt 0in 7.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-CA">Technical Program Co-Chairs:</span></h1><h1 align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-CA">Safa Otoum, Zayed University, UAE</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-CA">Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><font color="#000000">Nadra Guizani, University of Texas at Arlington, USA</font></span></li></ul></h1><h1 style="text-indent:0in;margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-CA">Important Dates</span></h1><h1 align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:12pt 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:7.1pt;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Paper submission deadline:</font><font color="#ff0000"> <b style="font-size:11pt;text-indent:7.1pt"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12pt"><strike>June 15th, 2021 </strike> 1st of July, 2021</span></b></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Notification of paper acceptance:  <span style="text-indent:9.46667px">18th</span> of July, 2021 </font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Submission of camera-ready papers due: 25th of July, 2021</font></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0in 0in 14pt 0.5in;color:rgb(47,84,150);text-align:left;text-indent:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></p></h1></div>