<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p id="gmail-u3077fecd" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]</span></p><p id="gmail-u575a4ca1" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">Call For Papers</span></p><p id="gmail-u419121d8" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">=============================================================================</span></p><p id="gmail-ube58bd25" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">CFP IEEE DependSys 2021</span></p><p id="gmail-u138488c7" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">The 7th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications</span></p><p id="gmail-ua4e4909c" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">Dec. 17-19, Haikou, China</span></p><p id="gmail-u4dad8fbb" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">[Submission Deadline: Sep. 15][10+ Journal Special Issues]</span></p><p id="gmail-u4c06fefc" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><br></p><p id="gmail-ub7abd3f4" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><a href="http://www.ieee-cybermatics.org/2021/dependsys/" target="_blank" class="gmail-ne-link"><span class="gmail-ne-text">http://www.ieee-cybermatics.org/2021/dependsys/</span></a></p><p id="gmail-u719f4e19" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><br></p><p id="gmail-u33ff0884" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">IEEE DependSys 2021 conference is the 7th event in the series of conferences which offers a timely venue for bringing together new ideas, techniques, and solutions for dependability and its issues in sensor, cloud, and big data systems and applications. As we are deep into the Information Age, huge amounts of data are generated every day from sensors, individual archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprises and Internet in various scales and format which will pose a major challenge to the dependability of our designed systems. As these systems often tend to become inert, fragile, and vulnerable after a period of running. Effectively improving the dependability of sensor, cloud, big data systems and applications has become increasingly critical.</span></p><p id="gmail-u368eb66d" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><br></p><p id="gmail-u2f058cd4" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-he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yle="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">3. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering</span></p><p id="gmail-u86a9bc70" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">SI on The Nexus Between Edge Computing and AI for 6G Networks</span></p><p id="gmail-u9c6e52ee" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><a href="https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse/cfp/nexus-between-edge-computing-and-ai-6g-networks" target="_blank" class="gmail-ne-link"><span class="gmail-ne-text">https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse/cfp/nexus-between-edge-computing-and-ai-6g-networks</span></a></p><p id="gmail-u16d355ac" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">3. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics</span></p><p id="gmail-ubeec3838" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">SI: 聽Deep Learning-Empowered Big Data Analytics in Biomedical Applications and Digital Healthcare</span></p><p id="gmail-u106f5ea6" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><a href="https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/tb/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-deep-learning-empowered-big-data-analytics-in-biomedical-applications-and-digital-healthcare" target="_blank" class="gmail-ne-link"><span class="gmail-ne-text">https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/tb/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-deep-learning-empowered-big-data-analytics-in-biomedical-applications-and-digital-healthcare</span></a></p><p id="gmail-u2f69a72e" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">5. Security and Communication Networks</span></p><p id="gmail-u2b9a120f" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">SI on Protocols, Technologies, and Infrastructures for Secure Mobile Video Communications</span></p><p id="gmail-uf7300f08" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><a href="https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/926306/" target="_blank" class="gmail-ne-link"><span class="gmail-ne-text">https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/926306/</span></a></p><p id="gmail-ud2604664" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">6. MDPI Sensors</span></p><p id="gmail-ue9ac5879" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">SI on Recent Advances in Algorithm and Distributed Computing for the Internet of Things</span></p><p id="gmail-u56e047bf" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Algorithm_Distributed_Computing_IOT" target="_blank" class="gmail-ne-link"><span class="gmail-ne-text">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Algorithm_Distributed_Computing_IOT</span></a></p><p id="gmail-uef464bd9" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">7. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks</span></p><p id="gmail-ue08de4e5" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">SI: Privacy-Preserving Solutions in the Internet of Things</span></p><p id="gmail-u19e59e87" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/page/dsn/collections/special-issues/privacy-preserving-solutions-in-the-internet-of-things" target="_blank" class="gmail-ne-link"><span class="gmail-ne-text">https://journals.sagepub.com/page/dsn/collections/special-issues/privacy-preserving-solutions-in-the-internet-of-things</span></a></p><p id="gmail-uade18a81" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">8. IET Communications</span></p><p id="gmail-u129eb83b" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">SI on Intelligent Metasurfaces for Smart Connectivity</span></p><p id="gmail-uee79547d" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><a href="https://digital-library.theiet.org/files/IET_COM_CFP_IMSC.pdf" target="_blank" class="gmail-ne-link"><span class="gmail-ne-text">https://digital-library.theiet.org/files/IET_COM_CFP_IMSC.pdf</span></a></p><p id="gmail-u55341287" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">9. Building and Environment</span></p><p id="gmail-ud6055bdf" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">SI: AI and IoT Applications of Smart Buildings and Smart Environment Design, Construction and Maintenance</span></p><p id="gmail-ub991934c" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/building-and-environment/call-for-papers/ai-and-iot-applications-of-smart-buildings-and-smart-environment-design-construction-and-maintenance" target="_blank" class="gmail-ne-link"><span class="gmail-ne-text">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/building-and-environment/call-for-papers/ai-and-iot-applications-of-smart-buildings-and-smart-environment-design-construction-and-maintenance</span></a></p><p id="gmail-u7cdb68ec" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">10. Journal of Systems Architecture</span></p><p id="gmail-u7537c16a" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">SI: Cloud-Edge-End Architecture for Internet of Things Applications</span></p><p id="gmail-u8918ed8a" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-cloud-edge-end-architecture-for-internet-of-things-applications-vsi-cloud-edge-end-iot" target="_blank" class="gmail-ne-link"><span class="gmail-ne-text">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-cloud-edge-end-architecture-for-internet-of-things-applications-vsi-cloud-edge-end-iot</span></a></p><p id="gmail-uf0fef249" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">11. Information</span></p><p id="gmail-ufa9b7212" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">SI: "Crossing 鈥淒ata, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom鈥?Models鈥擟hallenges, Solutions, and Recommendations"</span></p><p id="gmail-u2973dfce" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/DIKW_RA_2021" target="_blank" class="gmail-ne-link"><span class="gmail-ne-text">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/DIKW_RA_2021</span></a></p><p id="gmail-u7a1e717b" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><br></p><p id="gmail-uaeefb7b8" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">* More special issues will be added later.</span></p><p id="gmail-ucbcd9199" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><br></p><p id="gmail-u16f21c34" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><br></p><p id="gmail-u80b77227" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">==================</span></p><p id="gmail-u1f7df6b7" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">Important Dates</span></p><p id="gmail-uedf5d030" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">==================</span></p><p id="gmail-u75cd4057" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">Paper Submission Deadline: 15 September, 2021</span></p><p id="gmail-u0e45f7d4" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">Authors Notification: 15 October, 2021</span></p><p id="gmail-u1488b069" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">Final Manuscript Due: 15 November, 2021</span></p><p id="gmail-ufde90c59" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">Conference Date: 17-19 December, 2021</span></p><p id="gmail-uf0badfd2" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><br></p><p id="gmail-uc5ac162d" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><br></p><p id="gmail-u75604c89" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">==================</span></p><p id="gmail-u1ebe36f2" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to</span></p><p id="gmail-u577ef763" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">==================</span></p><p id="gmail-u93c8aa77" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">Track 1: Dependability and Security Fundamentals and Technologies</span></p><p id="gmail-uc89b1278" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Concepts, theory, principles, standardization and modelling, and methodologies</span></p><p id="gmail-u3100275f" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Dependability of sensor, wireless, and Ad-hoc networks, software defined networks</span></p><p id="gmail-u164b016d" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Dependability issues in cloud/fog/edge</span></p><p id="gmail-u502ef7de" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Security and privacy</span></p><p id="gmail-ueab167c2" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Security/privacy in cloud/fog/edge</span></p><p id="gmail-ua85055f6" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Homomorphic encryption, differential privacy</span></p><p id="gmail-u5cd1d5e5" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Blockchain security</span></p><p id="gmail-u36a8c158" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Artificial intelligence</span></p><p id="gmail-u8115c096" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Big data foundation and management</span></p><p id="gmail-uf2c7532e" class="g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d Technology, China</span></p><p id="gmail-uc59676cc" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><br></p><p id="gmail-u585fbd1f" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">Steering Committee</span></p><p id="gmail-u21464130" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Jie Wu, Temple University, USA (Chair)</span></p><p id="gmail-u7a758d2e" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA (Chair)</span></p><p id="gmail-ufb1a2411" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China</span></p><p id="gmail-ucd78af1c" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy</span></p><p id="gmail-ufae08bcd" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong</span></p><p id="gmail-ua90caee8" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada</span></p><p id="gmail-uc4cfb05e" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan</span></p><p id="gmail-ue67eea32" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA</span></p><p id="gmail-ue077109b" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- A. B. M Shawkat Ali, The University of Haikou, China, Haikou, China</span></p><p id="gmail-u31c5a16e" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA</span></p><p id="gmail-u637db4d3" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh</span></p><p id="gmail-ua1ae0f1a" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:22.4px;margin:0px;padding:0px;min-height:24px"><span class="gmail-ne-text">- Kenli Li, Hunan University, China</span></p><p id="gmail-u6e4688ac" class="gmail-ne-p" style="color:rgb(49,53,59);font-family:Verdana,"Microsoft Yahei",SimSun,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:2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