<div dir="ltr"><p align="left" style="margin-top:0.53cm;margin-bottom:0.26cm;line-height:0.55cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#323045"><font face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt">[Dear Colleagues, a</font></font><font face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt">pologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]</font></font></font></font></font></p><p align="center" style="margin-top:0.53cm;margin-bottom:0.26cm;line-height:0.55cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#323045"><font face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size:16pt">The Second IEEE International Workshop on Computing for Pandemics (COMPandemics2021)</font></font></font></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.3pt;line-height:0.61cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#414142"><font face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">NOVEMBER 15-17, 2021, TARTU, ESTONIA</font></font></font></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.26cm;line-height:0.57cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt"><u><a href="http://intelligenttech.org/COMPandemics2021/" target="_blank">http://intelligenttech.org/COMPandemics2021/</a></u></font></font></font></p><p align="center" style="margin-top:0.53cm;margin-bottom:0.26cm;line-height:0.55cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#323045"><font face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Colocated with</font></font></font></p><p align="center" style="margin-top:0.53cm;margin-bottom:0.26cm;line-height:0.55cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#323045"><font face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="en-AE">The Second International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications (IDSTA2021)</span></font></font></font></font></font></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:0.61cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></p><p align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0.26cm;line-height:0.57cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt"><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b></font></font></font></p><p align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0.26cm;line-height:0.57cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Epidemics and Pandemics, such as COVID-19, have a great bad impact on medical, social, educational and economical life. To reduce this impact and learn how to early detect and manage future pandemics, great efforts are needed from researchers from different fields from academia and industry. Computing and AI are playing vital rules in our everyday life and can be very useful in dealing with pandemics. The international workshop on Computing for Pandemics is an international forum that aims to give researchers from different fields the opportunity to present their contributions to the field. We solicit contributions covering various topics in the field that include but are not limited to:</font></font></font></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:14.95px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Early detection of pandemics</font></font></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:14.95px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Modeling spreading of the pandemic</font></font></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:14.95px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Social media analysis for pandemics</font></font></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:14.95px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Pandemic Medical data analysis</font></font></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:14.95px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">CAD for Pandemic infection diagnosis</font></font></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:14.95px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Intelligent Mobile Applications for Pandemic</font></font></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:14.95px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Pandemic Surveillance systems</font></font></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:14.95px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">IoT for Pandemics</font></font></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:14.95px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Pandemic Data anonymization</font></font></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:14.95px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Pandemic Data collection</font></font></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:14.95px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Pandemic infection tracking</font></font></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:14.95px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Management solutions for Pandemics</font></font></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="justify" style="margin-bottom:0.26cm;line-height:0.57cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">AI for Pandemics</font></font></font></p></li></ul><p align="left" style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:14.04px"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt"><b>FULL PAPER IMPORTANT DATES</b></font></font></font></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:14.04px;background:transparent"><font color="#ff0000"><font style="font-size:12pt">Full paper submission: </font></font><font color="#ff0000"><font style="font-size:10pt">September 10th, 2021</font></font><font color="#ff0000"></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:14.04px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font style="font-size:12pt">Full paper acceptance notification: September </font><font style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="en-AE">30th</span></font><font style="font-size:12pt">, 2021</font></font></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:14.04px;background:transparent"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Full paper camera-ready submission: October 20th, 2021</font></font></font></p></li></ul><p align="left" style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:14.04px"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt"><b>Submission Site:</b></font></font></font></p><p align="left" style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:14.95px"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compandemics2021" target="_blank"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="zxx"><u>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=compandemics2021</u></span></font></font></font></a></p><p align="left" style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:14.04px"></p><p align="left" style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:14.04px"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt"><b>Paper format</b></font></font></font></p><p align="left" style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:14.95px"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Submitted papers (.pdf format) must use </font></font></font><a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html" target="_blank"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="zxx"><u>the A4 IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings</u></span></font></font></font></a><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">. Please remember to add Keywords to your submission.</font></font></font></p><p align="left" style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:14.04px"></p><p align="left" style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:14.04px"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt"><b>Length</b></font></font></font></p><p align="left" style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:14.04px"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Submitted papers may be 6 to 8 pages. Up to two additional pages may be added for references. The reference pages must only contain references. Overlength papers will be rejected without review.</font></font></font></p><p align="left" style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:14.04px"><b style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,serif;color:rgb(88,89,91);background-color:transparent">Publication:</b><br></p><p align="left" style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:14.04px"><font color="#58595b"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">All papers that are accepted, registered, and presented in IDSTA2021 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore for possible publication.</font></font></font></p><p align="left" style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.28cm;line-height:14.04px"></p><p align="left" style="background:transparent;margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:14.95px"><font face="calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">Best regards,</font></font></p></div>