<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-38e34ef1-7fff-e60f-5ebc-c2dd6dce3102"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/66BeQzcDbYWaj4ELvfii7kEg0OAmWk1B8HeFEeBnTcKdurZEuEufyQTYmV40IcHysbiHRVje_XL_BB_YyKoyCwOaU3vm0rd6Q2tmSp5JhAuCSokf9ymdRGIVzoQlXrIAB-hIAkBc" width="624" height="156" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);"></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:3pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MPP 2019 -- 8th Workshop on Parallel Programming Models - Special Edition on IoT and Machine Learning</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://mpp-conf.org" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://mpp-conf.org</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In Conjunction with IPDPS 2019, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.ipdps.org" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.ipdps.org</span></a></p><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Papers</span></h2><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Recent trends in artificial neural networks, such as deep neural networks, and the Internet-of-Things – IoT, indicate that an increasing number of artificial intelligence -based applications will be running on smartphones, sensors and other IoT devices collecting and processing large amounts of data. Most of those devices have limited processing power and often rely on cloud services for compute-intensive tasks. However, real-time applications may not tolerate the latency of offloading tasks to a cloud server.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Another important aspect to consider, especially in applications that run on big systems and manipulate big data sets, is the trade-off between moving data to a remote processing element to increase parallelism and computing things locally to reduce communication and energy costs while keeping performance levels. Edge/Fog computing proposes bringing computation closer to where data is sitting, by adding computational capabilities to network devices and adding edge gateways/servers, possibly in multiple layers with different latencies and computing performance. Moreover, such systems are expected to be heterogeneous, including multi-core processors, GPUs, FPGAs, and even processors that are customized for certain applications.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In this scenario, writing parallel applications is a non-trivial task, but also mandatory if one wants to explore the potential of the aforementioned modern computing platforms, imposing new challenges to the scientific community: the creation of models and alternatives to ease parallelism exploitation by the average programmer, considering the peculiarities of the different computation devices. Moreover, the proposed solutions should tackle problems such as application deployment, resilience and scheduling/offloading of tasks, considering latency, bandwidth, response time and computing power. In these complex environments, Machine Learning is becoming an important trend for the autonomic operation.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MPP aims at bringing together researchers interested in presenting contributions to the evolution of existing models or in proposing novel ones, considering the trends on IoT and Machine Learning. MPP 2019 will be held in conjunction with The 33rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2019), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 20-24, 2019. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission Guidelines</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MPP invites authors to submit unpublished full and short papers on the subjects. Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, following the IEEE formatting guidelines. Page limits include references.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">List of Topics</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Topics of interest include (with special emphasis  on IoT, Fog, Edge Computing, and Machine Learning) :</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Novel execution models and languages for parallelism; </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Novel parallel programming techniques and architectures;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Heterogeneous programming models;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Synchronization mechanisms;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Storage techniques;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Load-balancing and scheduling mechanisms;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Error detection/recovery;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Theoretical analysis of systems;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Smart network devices;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Software-defined networks;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Integration of IoT, Fog, Edge and Cloud Computing;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Neural Networks inference and training on IoT, Fog, Edge and cloud environments;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Performance analysis; and</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applications.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Dates</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper submission deadline:</span><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(168,46,46);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 4, 2019</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Author notification:</span><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(168,46,46);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 25, 2019</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera-ready: </span><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(141,36,36);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(141,36,36);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(168,46,46);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">March 15, 2019</span><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Publication </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The proceedings of MPP will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and Computer Society Digital Library. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MPP is currently seeking for a journal to publish selected papers after the conference.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Venue</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MPP 2018 will be co-held with IPDPS at Hilton Rio de Janeiro Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More information will be available at the Conference website </span><a href="http://www.ipdps.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.ipdps.org/</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> .</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contact </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All questions about submissions should be emailed to </span><a href="mailto:mpp2019@googlegroups.com" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">mpp2019@googlegroups.com</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> .</span></p><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:5.1pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">General co-chairs</span></h2><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Leandro A. J. Marzulo - Google Research, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Felipe M. G. França - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ),  Brazil</span></p></li></ul><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:5.1pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program co-chairs</span></h2><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cristiana Bentes - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gabriele Mencagli - University of Pisa, Italy</span></p></li></ul><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:5.1pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Steering co-chairs</span></h2><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Andrew Putnam - Microsoft Research, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mauricio Pilla - Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil</span></p></li></ul><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:5.1pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Steering Committee</span></h2><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Daniel Mosse  -  University of Pittsburgh,  USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Edson Borin - </span><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Universidade Estadual de Campinas (</span><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">UNICAMP), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lúcia Drummond - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mario Dantas - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nader Bagherzadeh - University of California Irvine, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nelson Amaral - University of Alberta, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rodolfo Azevedo - UNICAMP, Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sandip Kundu - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Vladimir Alves - NGD Systems, USA</span></p></li></ul><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:5.1pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program Committee</span></h2><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Albert Y. Zomaya - University of Sydney, Australia</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Aletéia Araújo - Universidade de Brasília, Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alexandre da Costa Sena - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alexandre Solon Nery - Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alexandre Sztajnberg - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Arthur Francisco Lorenzon - Universidade Federal do Pampa (UNIPAMPA), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Carla Osthoff - Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Claudia Di Napoli - CNR, Italy</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Claude Tadonki - Mines - ParisTech,  France</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cristina Boeres - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dalvan Griebler - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Diego Dutra - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Edward Moreno - Universidade Federal do Sergipe, Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elias Mizan - Wave Computing, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Flavia Delicato - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gabriel Paillard - Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Igor Machado Coelho - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kazutomo Yoshii - Argonne National Laboratory, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Krommydas </span><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(49,49,49);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Konstantinos - Intel, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Luciana Arantes  -  Université Paris 6 Pierre et Marie Curie,  France</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maria Clicia Stelling de Castro - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mauricio Breternitz - Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, Portugal</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Michael Frank - MagiCore Inc., USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rajesh Sankaran - Argonne National Laboratory, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rafael dos Santos - ARM, United Kingdom</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rekai Gonzalez Alberquilla - ARM, UK</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Roberto Souto - Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Silvio Stanzani - Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tiago A. O. Alves – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Walid Najjar - University of California Riverside, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wei Li - University of Sydney, Australia</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(48,48,48);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Zehra Sura - IBM, USA</span></p></li></ul><br><br></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;word-wrap:break-word">–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;word-wrap:break-word">Felipe M. G. França, PhD<br>Professor of Computer Science and Engineering<br>Systems Engineering and Computer Science Program, COPPE</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;word-wrap:break-word">Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro<br>P.O. Box 68511, 21941-972, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil<br><a href="mailto:felipe@ieee.org" target="_blank">felipe@ieee.org</a><br><a href="mailto:felipe@cos.ufrj.br" target="_blank">felipe@cos.ufrj.br</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="line-height:normal;word-wrap:break-word">–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––</div></div></div></div></div>