<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><b class="">*** LAST MILE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION ***</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">23rd Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI 2019)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus, November 28-30, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="https://www.unic.ac.cy/pci2019" class="">https://www.unic.ac.cy/pci2019</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">*** Submission Deadline: September 17, 2019 ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">*** Proceedings to be published by ACM ICPS ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The University of Nicosia, the University of Cyprus, the Open University</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Cyprus and the Greek Computer Society organize the 23rd Pan-Hellenic</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Conference on Informatics (PCI 2019) in Nicosia, Cyprus on November</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">28-30, 2019.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">PCI 2019 aims to provide an effective channel of communication among</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">researchers, practitioners, decision-makers and entities concerned with the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">latest research, scientific development and practice on ICT to discuss current,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">state-of-the-art topics that are of relevance and significance for national</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">competitiveness as well as for sustainable, robust and equitable regional</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">development. Submissions to PCI 2019 might cover, but are not limited, to</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">the following topics:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Algorithms & Data Structures</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Artificial Intelligence</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Bioinformatics</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Bio & Nature Inspired Computing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Blockchain Technologies</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Cloud Computing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Communication & Information Systems Security and Privacy </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Computational Science </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Computer & Communication Networks</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• CRM & ERP Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Databases</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Data Mining</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Digital Libraries</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Digital Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Distributed Computing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• eCommerce, eBusiness, eHealth</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Telecommunication Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Wireless & Mobile Computing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Learning Technologies</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Graphics, Visualization, Multimedia & Virtual Reality</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Grid, Cluster & P2P Computing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Hardware & Architecture</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Embedded Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Human-Computer Interaction</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Image and Video Processing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Information Retrieval</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Information Society: Legal and Regulatory Issues</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Information Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Information Theory</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Knowledge Based Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Numerical & Scientific Computation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Open Source Software</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Operating Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Parallel & Distributed Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Programming Languages</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Signal Processing</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Software Engineering</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">PCI 2019 encourages the submission of high quality papers with original</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">content in the following tracks: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Research Paper: full paper (8 pages) describing original and unpublished</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">results of conceptual, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">of Computer Science.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Research Project Results: extended abstract (2 pages) presenting the results</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">of funded completed or ongoing research projects at national or European</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">level.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Industry: extended abstract (2 pages) presenting novel industrial solutions,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">success stories, and challenges that are encountered in an industry setting</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">when adopting IT technologies.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Templates for submissions can be found at the ACM SIG proceedings website: </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template" class="">https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template</a> .</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Papers should be submitted via EasyChair using the following link:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=pci2019" class="">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=pci2019</a> .</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The submitted research papers and extended abstracts will be peer-reviewed</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">on the basis of technical quality, relevance to scope of PCI, originality,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">significance, and clarity. Note that submitted papers should have neither</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">The working language of the conference is English and the papers should be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">written in that language.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">As in previous years, the final version of the research papers accepted for</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">presentation at PCI 2019 will be published by ACM in the ICPS Series and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">will be included in the ACM Digital library. The accepted extended abstracts</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">will be allocated either a demo or poster slot during the conference. At</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">least one author of each accepted paper or abstract is expected to register,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">attend the conference and present their contribution.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Invited Speakers</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Professor George Chrysanthou</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Professor George Giaglis</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Important Dates</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Paper submission deadline: September 17, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: October 17, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Submission of camera ready papers: October 24, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Author registration: October 24, 2019</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class="">Organization</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">General Chairs</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Yannis Manolopoulos, Open University Cyprus, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Athena Stassopoulou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">Program Chairs</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Ioanna Dionysiou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Ioannis Kyriakides, University of Nicosia, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">Local Advisory Committee</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Demetris Trihinas (chair, University of Nicosia)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Achilleas Achilleos (Frederick University Cyprus)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Panayiotis Andreou (University of Central Lancashire-Cyprus)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Christodoulos Efstathiades (European University Cyprus)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Angelika Kokkinaki (University of Nicosia)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Ioannis Krikidis (University of Cyprus)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Jahna Otterbacher (Open University Cyprus)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Vicky Papadopoulou (European University Cyprus)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Nearchos Paspallis (University of Central Lancashire-Cyprus)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Michalis Sirivianos (Cyprus University of Technology)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Stavros Stavrou (Open University Cyprus)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Demetris Zeinalipour (University of Cyprus)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">Proceedings Editor</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Harald Gjermundrod (University of Nicosia)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">Steering Committee</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Christos Douligeris (Greek Computer Society)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Nikitas Karanikolas (Greek Computer Society)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Christos Koilias (Greek Computer Society)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Cleo Sgouropoulou (Greek Computer Society)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">• Ioannis Voyatzis (chair, Greek Computer Society)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>