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accept our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.</span></p>

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</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Following
the successes of previous events, the 9th International Conference on
Information Science and Technology (ICIST 2019) will be held in Hulunbuir
(Hulunbeier), Inner Mongolia, China during August 2-5, 2019. Situated in
northeastern China near the borders of Russia and Mongolia, Hulunbuir features
picturesque grassland and nomadic culture.<br>
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ICIST 2019 aims to provide a high-level international forum for scientists,
engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of research and
applications in related fields. The conference will feature plenary speeches
given by world renowned scholars, regular sessions with broad coverage, and
special sessions focusing on popular topics.<br>
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Authors are invited to submit full-length papers (8 pages maximum) by the
submission deadline through the online submission system. In addition,
proposals for special sessions within the technical scopes of the conference
are solicited. Special session organizers are invited to enlist six or more
papers with cohesive topics to form special sessions. The Proceedings has been
contracted to be included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library and will be submitted
for EI indexing.</span></p>

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Dates</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Special session proposals deadline:
March 1, 2019</span></p>

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1, 2019</span></p>

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2019</span></p>

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registration: June 1, 2019</span></p>

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