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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">The 20th IFIP
International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (<b>NPC 2024</b>)<b></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">December 7-8,
Haikou, China</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Website: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="https://www.npc-conference.com/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><b><span style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">https://www.npc-conference.com/#/npc2024</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">=================================================</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">The IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel
Computing (<b>NPC</b>) is a prestigious
annual gathering that serves as a global platform for researchers, academics,
and industry professionals to explore and exchange cutting-edge ideas, research
findings, and innovative solutions in the fields of network, distributed and parallel
computing. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">NPC is one of the CCF (China Computer Federation) recommended
Conferences (C series, Computer Architecture/Parallel and Distributed
Computing/Storage System), and also a C recommended conference under the
ranking system by CORE, the Computing Research and Education Association of
Australasia.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">===================================================</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-weight:normal"></span></strong></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 21pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:normal">l<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Scope and Topics</span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">Topics of interests include, but not limited to:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Network,
distributed and parallel computing applications and algorithms</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">• </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Network, distributed and
parallel computing issues and opportunities with artificial intelligence
applications.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black"> Network, distributed and
parallel algorithms for computational and data-enabled scientific, engineering,
biological, and medical applications.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black"> Network, distributed and
parallel algorithms for accelerators, neuromorphic architectures, and other
emerging architectures.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Network,
distributed and parallel computing architectures and systems</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Computing and network
convergence technologies and systems, computing power networks, computing
utility</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Emerging architectures and
systems at all scales, from embedded, device, edge to cloud</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Novel distributed and parallel
architectures and systems for AI model training and inference,  domain-specific accelerators for AI</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">High-performance computing,
systems for enabling parallelism at extreme scale </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Power-efficient and green
computing systems</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Non-traditional Computing
Technology</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Neuromorphic architectures and
cognitive computing accelerators</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Heterogeneous multicore
architectures and accelerators</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">In-Memory and near-data
computing</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Network and interconnect
architectures</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Storage systems with novel
architectures</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Network,
distributed and parallel computing software environments and tools</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black"> Programming models and
compilation for existing and emerging platforms.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black"> Dataflow programming models,
frameworks, languages and environments for data-enabled platforms.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black"> Virtualization of machines,
networks, and storage.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black"> I/O, file systems, and data
management.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"> Resource management, scheduling, and load balancing.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></strong></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 21pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Wingdings;font-weight:normal">l<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> 
</span></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Steering Committee</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Hai
Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (Co-Chair)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California,
Irvine, USA (Co-Chair)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Stéphane Zuckerman, Universitéde
Cergy-Pontoise, France (Vice Chair)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Chen Ding, University of Rochester, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Tony Hey, Science and Technology Facilities
Council, UK</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Yoichi Muraoka, Waseda University, Japan</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern
California, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Daniel Reed, University of Utah, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Weisong Shi, University of Delaware, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Ninghui Sun, The Institute of Computing
Technology, CAS, China</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Zhiwei Xu, The Institute of Computing
Technology, CAS, China</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> </span></strong></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 21pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:normal">l<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Organizing Committee</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">General Co-Chairs:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Deke Guo, National University of Defense
Technology, China</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Chen Liu, Clarkson University, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Program Co-Chairs:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Xu Chen, Sun Yat-sen University, China</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Local Chair:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Xia Xie, Hainan University, China</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Publicity Co-Chairs:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Shiqiang Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,
USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Cheng Li, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">University of Science and Technology of China,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black"> China</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Tingting Yuan, University of Goettingen, Germany
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Registration Chair:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Xiaohui Peng, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">The Institute of Computing Technology, CAS,
China</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Publication Chair:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Lingjun Pu, Nankai University, China</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Web and Information System Chair:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Tao Ouyang, Sun Yat-sen University, China</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Finance Chair:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">Ran Zheng, Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, China</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></strong></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 21pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:normal">l<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Important Dates:</span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Paper submission: August 15, 2024</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Author notification: October 01, 2024</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Camera-Ready: October 15, 2024</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Registration: October 15, 2024</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:black">Conference date: December 7-8, 2024</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Papers reporting
original and unpublished research results and experience are solicited. All
paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair:</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-weight:normal"></span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-weight:normal"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=npc2024" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=npc2024</a></span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">All Papers
should be formatted using the Springer-LNCS template, and must not exceed 12
pages. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-LNCS, which are
indexed by EI and Scopus.</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-weight:normal"></span></strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">As of February
9th, 2024, citizens of the 59 Visa Free eligible countries holding ordinary
passports may enter Hainan Province (Haikou is the provincial capital city) for
up to 30 days without a visa. Please visit here for more information: </span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-weight:normal"></span></strong></p>

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