<html>
  <head>

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>
    </p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="line-height:22.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
      text-autospace:none"><span
        style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;
        mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">[Apologies if you got
        multiple copies of this
        invitation]</span></p>
    <b><span
        style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#843C0C;mso-themecolor:accent2;
mso-themeshade:128;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#843C0C;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:
accent2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:
        lumm=50000;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></b>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:22.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#843C0C;mso-themecolor:accent2;
mso-themeshade:128;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#843C0C;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:
accent2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:
          lumm=50000;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">International
          Workshop on Artificial
          Intelligence & Edge Computing (AIEC 2020)</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:22.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="center"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#2E75B6;mso-themecolor:accent5;
mso-themeshade:191;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:
accent5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:
        lumm=75000;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.google.com/view/waiec/">https://sites.google.com/view/waiec/</a></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:14.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="center"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
        color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">in conjunction
        with</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:17.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="center"><b><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
          color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">The Fifth
          International Conference on Fog
          and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020)</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:17.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="center"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
        color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">and </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:17.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="center"><b><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
          color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">The Seventh
          International Conference on
          Software Defined Systems (SDS 2020)</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:14.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none" align="center"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:#2E75B6;mso-themecolor:accent5;mso-themeshade:191;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:
#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:accent5;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:
100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=75000;mso-ansi-language:
        EN-US" lang="EN-US">Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
      none"><b><span
          style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#843C0C;mso-themecolor:accent2;
mso-themeshade:128;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#843C0C;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:
accent2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:
          lumm=50000;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">AIEC 2020 CFP</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US">Artificial Intelligence (AI) became a
        popular wide area for the latest- generation of
        software-oriented solutions.
        Lately, AI has been considered as a hot topic due to its huge
        applications and
        it attracted attention from academia as well as industrial and
        end users while
        receiving positive media coverage. AI is advancing at
        considerable speed and
        lead to many widely beneficial applications, variant from
        Machine Translation
        to Medical Image Computing. From R&D perspectives, AI
        acquires incredible
        amounts of progress in terms funding investors devoted on AI
        applications. </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US">According to AI efforts, Edge Computing
        (EC) has become an essential solution to overcome the
        strangulation of emerging
        technology development according to its benefits of minimizing
        data transmission,
        reducing service latency and easing cloud computing pressure.
        Also, the scope
        of EC is very diverse on large application area, such as smart
        grid and smart
        city, logistics and transportation, manufacturing and
        healthcare. Furthermore,
        the EC provide significant gains which include low-latency thus
        allowing close
        cooperation in sophisticated mobile applications and on the core
        network to
        reduce traffic volume as data streaming along the way to the
        distant data
        center is no longer necessary. The evolution of new technologies
        of
        communication such as 5G made communication so much easier where
        the latency is
        lower and memory bandwidth is higher, the border between edge
        infrastructure
        and mobile devices will be even imprecise and EC will become
        more attractive. </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US">The Workshop on Artificial Intelligence
        & Edge Computing (AIEC) aims to bring together researchers
        and
        practitioners from both academia and industry who are working on
        Artificial
        Intelligence and Edge Computing as well as their integration, to
        exchange
        research ideas and identify new research challenges in this
        emerging field. </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
      margin-left:0cm;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
minor-latin;color:#843C0C;mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:
#843C0C;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:accent2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:
100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000;mso-ansi-language:
          EN-US" lang="EN-US">Topics</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US">The Workshop on Artificial Intelligence
        & Edge Computing (AIEC) calls for contributions that address
        fundamental
        research and solutions issues in Artificial Intelligence and
        Edge Computing
        including but not limited to the following : </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Big
        Data mining at the Edge</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Machine
        Learning at the edge</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Architectures
        of Edge AI for
        IoT </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Security
        on the Edge</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Resource-friendly
        Edge AI
        Model Design</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Resource
        Management for Edge
        AI </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Applications/services
        for Edge
        AI</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Communication
        and Networking
        Protocols for Edge AI</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:11.0pt
      36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Software
        Platforms for Edge</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="line-height:14.0pt;tab-stops:28.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><span
        style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:#843C0C;mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:
#843C0C;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:accent2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:
100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000;mso-ansi-language:
          EN-US" lang="EN-US">Important Dates </span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1
      lfo2;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><b><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
          minor-latin;color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Submission
          Date: 23<sup>th</sup>
          February, 2020 </span></b><span
        style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:red;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1
      lfo2;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Notification
        to Authors: <b>1<sup>st</sup>
          March, 2020</b></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1
      lfo2;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Camera
        Ready Submission: <b>10<sup>th</sup>
          March, 2020</b></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="line-height:14.0pt;tab-stops:28.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><span
        style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:#843C0C;mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:
#843C0C;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:accent2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:
100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000;mso-ansi-language:
          EN-US" lang="EN-US">Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings </span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US">Papers selected for presentation will
        appear in the FMEC Proceedings, which will be published by the
        IEEE Computer
        Society and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers
        must be 6 pages
        in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column
        format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF
        format, and
        submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper
        must not exceed
        the stated length (including all figures, tables and
        references). Submitted
        papers must present original unpublished research that is not
        currently under
        review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following
        these guidelines
        may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after
        the due date,
        exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also
        not be
        considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further
        information or
        clarification. </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="line-height:17.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
      text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:#843C0C;
mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#843C0C;
mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:accent2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;
mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
          lang="EN-US">Submission
          System </span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
          color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><a
href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dwaiec2020&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNF_y9eZ2vonO6ke1BqVLT4ML4tZEQ"><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0000E9;font-weight:normal">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waiec2020</span></a></span></b><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:17.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:#843C0C;mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:
#843C0C;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:accent2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:
100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000;mso-ansi-language:
          EN-US" lang="EN-US">Journal Special Issues </span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify;line-height:
      14.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US">Selected papers from the will be invited
        to submit an extended version to the following journal. Papers
        will be selected
        based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the
        Journal’s theme.
        All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent
        original unpublished
        research work. Further details will be made available at a later
        stage. </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:22.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
color:#843C0C;mso-themecolor:accent2;mso-themeshade:128;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:
#843C0C;mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor:accent2;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:
100.0%;mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms:lumm=50000;mso-ansi-language:
          EN-US" lang="EN-US">Committee</span></b><b><span
          style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
          color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:
      none"><b><span
          style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
          lang="EN-US">Workshop
          Organizers</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1
      lfo3;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Otman
        Manad, Umanis research
        & Innovation, France (Chair)</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1
      lfo3;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Tarek
        Menouer, Umanis research
        & Innovation, France (Chair)</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1
      lfo3;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Larbi
        Boubchir, University of
        Paris 8, France </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1
      lfo3;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Samir
        Ouchani, LINEACT/CESI
        Group, Aix-en Provence, France </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:17.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Times;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;
          mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Program Committes </span></b><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
        color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">(To be
        completed)</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1
      lfo4;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Elhadj
        Benkhelifa,
        Staffordshire University, UK</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1
      lfo4;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Wanying(Alice)
        Ding, Drexel
        University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1
      lfo4;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Larbi
        Boubchir, University of
        Paris 8, France </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1
      lfo4;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Abdellah
        Mokrane, University of Paris 8,
        France<span style="color:black"></span></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1
      lfo4;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Sara
        Rodríguez González,
        Bisite Research Group, University of Salamanca, Spain </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1
      lfo4;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Nitin
        Sukhija, Slippery Rock
        University of Pennsylvania, USA </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1
      lfo4;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Otman
        Manad, Umanis research
        & Innovation, France</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1
      lfo4;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Tarek
        Menouer, Umanis research
        & Innovation, France</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1
      lfo4;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Samir
        Ouchani, LINEACT/CESI
        Group, Aix-en Provence, France </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1
      lfo4;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Abdeltawab
        Hendawi, University
        of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1
      lfo4;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Oussama
        Mounnan, ENSA Cadi
        Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:
      -36.0pt;line-height:14.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1
      lfo4;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
      mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
            style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
        minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Mohamed
        El-Amine Brahmia, CESI
        Group, Strasbourg, France</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"
      style="line-height:14.0pt;tab-stops:28.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:
      none;text-autospace:none"><span
        style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times">Please send any
        inquiry on AIEC
        2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: <u><span
            style="color:blue"><a
              href="mailto:emergingtechnetwork@gmail.com"
              target="_blank">emergingtechnetwork@gmail.com</a></span></u></span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span
        style="font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:
        Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
        lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
    <p>
      <style>
<!--
 /* Font Definitions */
 @font-face
        {font-family:"Cambria Math";
        panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
        mso-font-charset:0;
        mso-generic-font-family:roman;
        mso-font-pitch:variable;
        mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Calibri;
        panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;
        mso-font-charset:0;
        mso-generic-font-family:swiss;
        mso-font-pitch:variable;
        mso-font-signature:-536859905 -1073732485 9 0 511 0;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Times;
        panose-1:0 0 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 0;
        mso-font-charset:0;
        mso-generic-font-family:auto;
        mso-font-pitch:variable;
        mso-font-signature:-536870145 1342185562 0 0 415 0;}
 /* Style Definitions */
 p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
        {mso-style-unhide:no;
        mso-style-qformat:yes;
        mso-style-parent:"";
        margin:0cm;
        margin-bottom:.0001pt;
        mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
        font-size:12.0pt;
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
        mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
        mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
        mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
        mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;
        mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
        mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
        mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
        mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:#0563C1;
        mso-themecolor:hyperlink;
        text-decoration:underline;
        text-underline:single;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
        {mso-style-noshow:yes;
        mso-style-priority:99;
        color:#954F72;
        mso-themecolor:followedhyperlink;
        text-decoration:underline;
        text-underline:single;}
.MsoChpDefault
        {mso-style-type:export-only;
        mso-default-props:yes;
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
        mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
        mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
        mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
        mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;
        mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
        mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
        mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
        mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
        mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
        margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;
        mso-header-margin:36.0pt;
        mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;
        mso-paper-source:0;}
div.WordSection1
        {page:WordSection1;}mso-level-start-at:0;
        mso-level-text:"";
        mso-level-tab-stop:none;
        mso-level-number-position:left;
        margin-left:0cm;
        text-indent:0cm;}
ol
        {margin-bottom:0cm;}
ul
        {margin-bottom:0cm;}</style></p>
    <div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
      <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type">
      <title></title>
      <small><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">_____________________________________________________</span><br
          style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Larbi Boubchir, PhD,
          SMIEEE</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Associate Professor-HDR</span><br
          style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">LIASD - University of
          Paris 8</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">2 rue de la Liberté,
          93526
          Saint-Denis, France</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102,
          102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Tel. (+33) 1 49 40 67
          95</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Email.
          <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:larbi.boubchir@ai.univ-paris8.fr">larbi.boubchir@ai.univ-paris8.fr</a></span><br style="color:
          rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/~boubchir/">http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/~boubchir/</a></span><br
          style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">_____________________________________________________</span></small><br>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>