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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The 20th International Conference on Computer
and Information Technology (CIT-2021) </span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">London, UK, 20-22 December 2020</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">INTRODUCTION<br>
=============</span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">CIT-2021 is the 20th edition
of the highly successful International Conference on Computer and Information
Technology. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for scientists,
engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results,
experiences and work-in-process on all aspects of computer and information
technology. CIT has become a major platform for researchers and industry
practitioners from different fields of computer and information technology.
Each year, CIT attendees appreciate and benefit from multidisciplinary
exchanges in computer and information technology. In previous years, CIT has
attracted many high quality research papers spanning over the various aspects
of information technology, computing science and computer engineering. These
papers highlight foundational work that strives to push beyond limits of
existing computer technologies, including experimental efforts, innovative
systems, and investigations that identify weaknesses in existing IT services.</span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">CIT-2021 is planned to be
hosted in London, UK. However, if the COVID-19 situation and associated travel
restrictions remain, the conference will be held virtually. All accepted papers
are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and will be indexed by Engineering
Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will be invited post conference
to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals to be
planned in conjunction with the conference.</span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SCOPE AND TOP</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CS</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">================</span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p>

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Computer Science</span></p>

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Information Technology</span></p>

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Networking and Communications</span></p>

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Information Security</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT
DATES<br>
================</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Paper Submission Deadline:   8 October 2021</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Authors Notification:              8 November 2021</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Camera-Ready Paper Due:     1 December 2021</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Early Registration Due:          1 December 2021</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference Date:                    20-22 December 2021</span></p>

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINE<br>
==========================</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All papers
need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website
( </span><a href="https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/cit2021-submission/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/cit2021-submission/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be
published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or
10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE
Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10
fonts).</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:22.7pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Once
accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings
published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the
authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the
conference.</span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoPlainText" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES</span></p>

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papers selected from the conferences, after further extensions, will be
recommended for submission and publication in the Special Issues of the
following prestigious journals:</span></p>

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ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks </span></p>

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IEEE Internet of Things</span></p>

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</span><a href="https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration-line:none">IEEE Transactions on Network Science
and Engineering</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

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Computer Communications (Elsevier)</span></p>

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Soft Computing (Springer)</span></p>

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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Hindawi)</span></p>

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