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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun">The 20th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT-2021)
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<a href="https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/cit2021/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/cit2021/</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">London, UK, 20-22 December 2021</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">INTRODUCTION<br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">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.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">SCOPE AND TOP</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:SimSun">I</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">CS<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Track 1: Computer Science<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Track 2: Information Technology<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Track 3: Networking and Communications<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Track 4: Information Security<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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<li><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Paper Submission Deadline:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>8 October 2021<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Authors Notification:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>8 November 2021<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Camera-Ready Paper Due:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>1 December 2021<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Early Registration Due:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>1 December 2021<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Conference Date:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>20-22 December 2021<o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE<br>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website ( </span><a href="https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/cit2021-submission/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/cit2021-submission/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
) 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).<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">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.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Distinguished papers selected from the conferences, after further extensions, will be recommended for submission and publication in the Special Issues of the following
prestigious journals:<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- IEEE Internet of Things<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- </span><a href="https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext;text-underline:none">IEEE Transactions
on Network Science and Engineering</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Computer Communications (Elsevier)<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Soft Computing (Springer)<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Hindawi)</span></p>
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