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<b><span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The 20th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (<span class="x_x_x_markvwcvt7xfz" style="margin:0px">CIT</span>-2021)</span></b></p>
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<a href="https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/cit2021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/<span class="x_x_x_markvwcvt7xfz" style="margin:0px">cit</span>2021/</span></a><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">London, UK, 20-22 December 2021</span></b><span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt">INTRODUCTION<br>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt"><span class="x_x_x_markvwcvt7xfz" style="margin:0px">CIT</span>-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.<span> </span><span class="x_x_x_markvwcvt7xfz" style="margin:0px">CIT</span><span> </span>has
become a major platform for researchers and industry practitioners from different fields of computer and information technology. Each year,<span> </span><span class="x_x_x_markvwcvt7xfz" style="margin:0px">CIT</span><span> </span>attendees appreciate and benefit
from multidisciplinary exchanges in computer and information technology. In previous years,<span> </span><span class="x_x_x_markvwcvt7xfz" style="margin:0px">CIT</span><span> </span>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>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt"><span class="x_x_x_markvwcvt7xfz" style="margin:0px">CIT</span>-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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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SCOPE AND TOP</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I</span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CS</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 1: Computer Science</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 2: Information Technology</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 3: Networking and Communications</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 4: Information Security</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:Symbol"><span style="margin:0px">·<span style="margin:0px; font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Paper Submission
Deadline: 8 October 2021</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:Symbol"><span style="margin:0px">·<span style="margin:0px; font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Authors Notification:
8 November 2021</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:Symbol"><span style="margin:0px">·<span style="margin:0px; font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Camera-Ready
Paper Due: 1 December 2021</span></p>
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Due: 1 December 2021</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:Symbol"><span style="margin:0px">·<span style="margin:0px; font-size:7pt; font-family:"Times New Roman""> <span> </span></span></span></span><span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference
Date: 20-22 December 2021</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE<br>
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<span style="margin:0px; 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/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/<span class="x_x_x_markvwcvt7xfz" style="margin:0px">cit</span>2021-submission/</span></a><span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span>)
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>
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<span style="margin:0px; 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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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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:</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- IEEE Internet of Things</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:windowtext">IEEE
Transactions on Network Science and Engineering</span></a><span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Computer Communications (Elsevier)</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Soft Computing (Springer)</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:11pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Hindawi)</span></p>
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