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We apologize for multiple posting. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Please kindly disseminate this Call for
Papers to your colleagues, students and contacts</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">                              </span><span style="font-size:12pt">                              </span><span style="font-size:12pt">                              </span><span style="font-size:12pt">              </span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">***********************************************************</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">***********************************************************</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">VII IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational
Intelligence, LA-CCI 2020.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(46,116,181)">November 4 - 6, 2020</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">XVI IEEE Latin American
Summer School on Computational Intelligence, EVIC 2020.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(46,116,181)">November 2 - 4, 2020</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Aula Magna - Universidad de La Frontera - </span></b><b style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Temuco. CHILE</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:red">***********************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:red"> PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY
29, 2020</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:red">***********************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">We are pleased to invite you to participate in <b>LA-CCI 2020 </b>which
will be held this year in Temuco, Chile, jointly with the XVI Summer School on
Computational Intelligence, <b>EVIC 2020, </b>that will be from November 2-4. LA-CCI provides a high-level
international forum for scientists, researchers, engineers, professionals and
educators as well as for young researchers and students to disseminate their
latest research results and <b>exchange views on the future research of
Computational Intelligence</b> (please visit </span><span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><a href="http://la-cci.org/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">http://la-cci.org/</a></span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> for more information). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Temuco is a southern city surrounded by parks, lakes, volcanic
landscapes that give it a natural beauty and touristic charm. It belongs to the
Araucanía Region of Chile and has an important influence of native Mapuche
people that preserve a distinctive culture. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><br></span></p><div><b>-CFP page in the website:</b>   <a href="http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2020/call-for-paper-2020/" target="_blank">http://la-cci.org/la-cci-2020/call-for-paper-2020/</a></div><div><b>-Direct link for the 1st CFP Poster: </b><a href="http://la-cci.org/wp-content/uploads/LA-CCI2020/Call-For-Papers-1-LA-CCI-2020-POSTER-1.pdf" target="_blank">http://la-cci.org/wp-content/uploads/LA-CCI2020/Call-For-Papers-1-LA-CCI-2020-POSTER-1.pdf</a></div><div><b>-Direct link for the 1st CFP Poster: </b><a href="http://la-cci.org/wp-content/uploads/LA-CCI2020/Call-For-Papers-1-LA-CCI-2020-DESCRIPTION.pdf" target="_blank">http://la-cci.org/wp-content/uploads/LA-CCI2020/Call-For-Papers-1-LA-CCI-2020-DESCRIPTION.pdf </a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">MAIN TOPICS (NOT LIMITED TO):</span></u></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">(NEW) Ethical, Humane & Sustainable Applications of Computational Intelligence: </span></strong></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">– Social & Environmental
Responsibility (</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals</a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">);</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Governability
/ Democracy protection;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Privacy,
Individualization, Transparency and Safety challenges;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Human
judgment in Machines;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Social
Ethical Computation;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">–
Responsible Marketing, etc.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <strong>(1)
Evolutionary & Swarm Computation:</strong></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">–
Evolutionary computation;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Swarm
intelligence;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">–
Artificial immune systems;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Novel
metaheuristics and hyperheuristics;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Memetic
and Collective intelligence;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Nature
and Bio-inspired methods;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">–
Artificial life.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <strong>(2) Neural
& Learning Systems:</strong></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Machine
learning;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Neural
Computation (+Weightless Systems);</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Complex
systems;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">–
Wavelets;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">–
Molecular and quantum computing;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">–
Brain-machine interfaces;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Network
Sciences;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Local
search methods.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <strong>(3) Fuzzy
& Stochastic Modeling:</strong></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Fuzzy
logic;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Fuzzy
optimization and design;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Fuzzy
pattern recognition;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Fuzzy
control & decision making/support;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Rough
sets;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Uncertainty
analysis;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">–
Fractals;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Game
theory;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Social
Simulation;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">–
Multi-agent systems;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Symbolic
Systems;</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– Grey
systems.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">KEY SPEAKERS</span></u></b></p><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:none">
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dr. Carlos A. Coello Coello</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Affiliation</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">CINVESTAV-Instituto
  Politécnico Nacional</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Departamento
  de Computación</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Mexico
  City,MEXICO.</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Topic</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Evolutionary & Swarm Computation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Short
  Biography</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Carlos A. Coello Coello
  received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Tulane University, New
  Orleans, LA, USA, in 1996. He is a Professor (CINVESTAV-3F Researcher) with
  the Department of Computer Science of CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico. He
  has authored and co-authored over 450 technical papers and book chapters. His
  publications currently report over 33 000 citations in Google Scholar with an
  H-index of 70. His current research interests include evolutionary
  multiobjective optimization and constraint-handling techniques for
  evolutionary algorithms. Dr. Coello Coello was a recipient of the 2007
  National Research Award from the Mexican Academy of Sciences in the area of
  exact sciences, the 2013 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, and the 2012 National
  Medal of Science and Arts in the area of Physical, Mathematical and Natural
  Sciences. </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"></span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dr. Alice E. Smith </span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Affiliation</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Department of Computer
  Science and Software Engineering</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Auburn University,
  Auburn, AL, USA</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Topic:</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Stochastic Modelling</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Short
  Biography</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Alice E.
  Smith is the Joe W. Forehand/Accenture Professor of Industrial and Systems
  Engineering at Auburn University with a joint appointment in Computer Science
  and Software Engineering. She holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering
  from Rice University, an MBA from Saint Louis University and a doctorate in
  engineering management and systems engineering from Missouri University of
  Science and Technology.  She has authored papers with over $2,000 ISI
  Web of Science citations and has been a principal investigator on projects
  with funding totaling over $6 million. She is an area editor of INFORMS Journal
  on Computing and Computers & Operations Research and an associated editor
  of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.<b></b></span></p>
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  <td width="236" valign="top" style="width:176.95pt;border-right:1pt solid windowtext;border-bottom:1pt solid windowtext;border-left:1pt solid windowtext;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dr. Hava Siegelmann</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Affiliation</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">University of
  Massachusetts Amherst</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Department
  of Computer Science</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">MA,USA.</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Topic</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Neural & Learning
  System</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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  <td width="353" valign="top" style="width:264.45pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1pt solid windowtext;border-right:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0cm 5.4pt">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Short
  Biography</span></b></p>
  <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Dr. Hava Siegelmann earned a Ph.D. from Rutgers
  University, an M.S. from The Hebrew University, and a B.A. from Technion, all
  in computer science.</span></p>
  <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Her academic distinctions include the Rutgers
  Doctoral Fellowship of Excellence. In 2015, the National Institutes of Health
  named Siegelmann one of 16 presidential BRAIN Initiative awardees for her
  work on energy- constrained brain activation. She is the 2016 recipient of
  the Hebb Award of the International Neural Network Society as well as the
  2017-9 IEEE distinguished lecturer. Dr. Siegelmann also serves as a core
  member of the university’s Neuroscience and Behavior program and of the BINDS
  lab (Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems), focused on
  biological learning mechanisms. She co-originated “support vector clustering”
  with Vladimir Vapnik, which has become one of the most widely used clustering
  algorithms in industry. She also created a sub-field of computation with her
  discovery of Super-Turing computation.</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></b></p>
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  <td width="236" valign="top" style="width:176.95pt;border-right:1pt solid windowtext;border-bottom:1pt solid windowtext;border-left:1pt solid windowtext;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dr. Piero P. Bonissone</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Affiliation</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">GE Global
  Research</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">One
  Research Circle</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Niskayuna,
  NY 12309, USA</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Topic</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Fuzzy Modelling</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></b></p>
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  <td width="353" valign="top" style="width:264.45pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1pt solid windowtext;border-right:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0cm 5.4pt">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 1.2pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Short
  Biography</span></b></p>
  <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Piero Bonissone received the BS
  degree in EE/ME from the University of Mexico City, in 1975, the M.S. in ME
  from UC Berkeley, in 1978, and the PhD in EECS from UC Berkeley, in 1979. He
  was a computer scientist at the General Electric Corporate Research and
  Development Center (GE CRD) since 1979. Dr. Bonissone has carried out
  research and projects in Artificial Intelligence, expert systems, simulation,
  fuzzy sets, soft computing, and data mining. In 1989 he received the Dushman
  Award from GE CRD for his work on reasoning with uncertainty. Dr. Bonissone
  has published more than a hundred articles in the area of expert systems,
  approximate reasoning, fuzzy sets, pattern recognition, decision analysis,
  and soft computing. He received seven patents from the U.S. Patent Office for
  his work on reasoning with uncertainty and fuzzy control.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p>
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</tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">XVI IEEE LATIN AMERICAN
SUMMER SCHOOL ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE</span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">The Latin American Summer School on Computational Intelligence (EVIC) is
an annual event held in Chile since 2004 with the objective of disseminating
the foundations and recent advances of Computational Intelligence, Artificial
Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Intelligent Control, among
others, to the universities and business public of Chile and Latin America.
EVIC is organized by the Chilean chapter of the IEEE CIS.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">LA-CCI POSTGRADUATE THESES
CONTEST (PTC)</span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">The Postgraduate Theses Contest (PTC) promotes the integration and
cooperation of young researchers in Computational Intelligence areas, providing
greater visibility of the work done. 
Among the registered participants, the PTC will select and award the
best doctoral thesis and the best master’s thesis on Computational
Intelligence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">A valid thesis or dissertation has to completed, duly defended and
approved during the period January 2018 to June 2020.The theses will be
evaluated based on their:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">(1) Scientific and technological contributions, generated by the work;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">(2) Potential impact on society; and,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">(3) Potential impact on the state of the art on Computational
Intelligence & associated areas.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">ROUND TABLES AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES</span></u></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Social challenges (ethics, human rights, indigenous, education),
environment and CI applications.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">CI and development.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Invitation to school teachers and students of the region to talk about
the advances,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">opportunities of CI and
answer their questions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">IMPORTANT DATES </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Paper submissions:   29 May 2020</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Acceptance notification:  </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">3 August 2020</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Final paper submission:  </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">31 August 2020</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Early Registration:  </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">30 September 2020</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Theses Contest Deadline: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">July 31, 2020<b><br>
Theses Contest Result Notification: </b>August 31, 2020<b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">EVIC Poster Deadline:  </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">2 October 2020</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">EVIC Poster Notification:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> 9 October 2020</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">SUBMISSIONS </span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> Paper length will be up to 6 pages.  Papers must be written in MS-Word or Latex. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> Papers
must be written in English.  Papers will
be submitted using the Easychair System. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">POST-PROCEEDINGS </span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Presented papers will be published in the
conference proceedings and made available via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library,
and (per IEEE’s policy) submitted to the Scopus database for indexing. At least
one paper author must register and present the paper at the event.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">STEERING COMMITTEE</span></u></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;background:rgb(250,250,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.fbln.pro.br/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Fernando Buarque de Lima Neto</a></span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">–<a href="http://poli.br/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Universidade de Pernambuco (Brazil)</a>
Founder & Board of Directors of LA-CIS] [*** Steering Committee
Coordinator]</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;background:rgb(250,250,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://entrepreneurship.ieee.org/speaker/gary-fogel/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Gary Fogel</a></span></b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">,</span></span><b style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">C<b>hief Executive Officer of <span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://www.natural-selection.com/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Natural
Selection, Inc.</a> </span>(USA)</b></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;background:rgb(250,250,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://cristianrodriguezrivero.blogspot.com.ar/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Cristian
Rodriguez Rivero</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">–<span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://www.unc.edu.ar/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)</a></span>
[Founder & Board of Directors of LA-CIS] [Past-General Chair of LA-CCI
2014 – Bariloche, Argentina]</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;background:rgb(250,250,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">4.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.ucsp.edu.pe/~ytupac/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Yván Jesús Túpac Valdivia</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – <span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://www.ucsp.edu.pe/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Universidad
Católica San Pablo (Peru)</a></span> [Founder & Board of Directors of
LA-CIS] [Past-General Chair of LA-CCI 2017 – Arequipa, Peru]</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;background:rgb(250,250,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">5.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carmelofilho/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Carmelo José
Albanez Bastos-Filho</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – <span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://poli.br/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Universidade de Pernambuco
(Brazil)</a></span> [Founder Member of LA-CIS]</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;background:rgb(250,250,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">6.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://silverio.net.br/heitor/index.html" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Heitor Silvério Lópes</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – <span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://portal.utfpr.edu.br/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Universidade
Federal Tecnológica do Paraná (Brazil)</a></span> [Past-General Chair of LA-CCI
2015 – Curitiba, Brazil]</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;background:rgb(250,250,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">7.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><a href="http://190.216.132.131:8081/cvlac/visualizador/generarCurriculoCv.do?cod_rh=0000627046" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Alvaro David Orjuela-Cañón</font></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – <span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://www.urosario.edu.co/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)</a></span> [Past-General Chair of LA-CCI 2016 –
Cartagena, Colombia]</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;background:rgb(250,250,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">8.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cucei.udg.mx/doctorados/electronica/directorio/dra-alma-yolanda-alanis-garcia-nuevo" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Alma
Yolanda Alanis Garcia</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">– <span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://www.cucei.udg.mx/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico)</a></span>
[Past-General Chair of LA-CCI 2018 – Guadalajara, Mexico]</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;background:rgb(250,250,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">9.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Otilia_Alejandro_Molina" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Otilia
Maria Alejandro Molina</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – <span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://www.espol.edu.ec/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Escuela Superior
Politecnica del Litoral, ESPOL (Ecuador)</a></span> [Past-General Chair of
LA-CCI 2019 – Guayaquil, Ecuador]</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;background:rgb(250,250,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">10.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.telematica.ufro.cl/Docentes.html" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Gloria Millaray
Curilem Saldías</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> – <span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://www.ufro.cl/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Universidad de la Frontera (Chile)</a></span>
[*** This edition General Chair of LA-CCI 2020 – Temuco, Chile]</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;text-indent:3pt"> </span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21.3pt;background:rgb(250,250,250);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Invited
Members: <span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://www.fing.edu.uy/~cancela/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Héctor Cancela</a></span> /<span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://www.fing.edu.uy/~mpedemon/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Martin Pedemonte</a></span> – <span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://www.universidad.edu.uy/" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Universidad de la
Republica (Uruguay)</a></span> [*** Next General Chairs of LA-CCI 2021 –
Montevideo]</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;border:none">
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">GENERAL CHAIRS</span></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></u></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Millaray Curilem, </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco </span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Doris Sáez-Hueichapan, </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Universidad de Chile,
  Santiago </span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Nelson Aros,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco</span><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></u></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">HONORARY CHAIR</span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Pablo Estévez, </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Universidad de Chile, Santiago<b></b></span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">PROGRAM CHAIR</span></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></u></b></p>
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  <td width="438" style="width:328.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1pt solid windowtext;border-right:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0cm 5.4pt">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Cesar San Martin, </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco</span><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></u></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">SUMMER SCHOOL CHAIR</span></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></u></b></p>
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  <td width="438" style="width:328.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1pt solid windowtext;border-right:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0cm 5.4pt">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Fernando Huenupan, </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco</span><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></u></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">PUBLICATION CHAIR</span></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></u></b></p>
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  <td width="438" style="width:328.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1pt solid windowtext;border-right:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0cm 5.4pt">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Daniel Sbarbaro,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> Universidad de Concepción, Concepción (UDEC)</span><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></u></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">SPONSORS CHAIR</span></b></p>
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  <td width="438" style="width:328.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1pt solid windowtext;border-right:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0cm 5.4pt">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Gonzalo Acuña, </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago<b></b></span></p>
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  <td width="151" style="width:113.15pt;border-right:1pt solid windowtext;border-bottom:1pt solid windowtext;border-left:1pt solid windowtext;border-top:none;padding:0cm 5.4pt">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">TOPICS CHAIR</span></b></p>
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  <td width="438" style="width:328.25pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1pt solid windowtext;border-right:1pt solid windowtext;padding:0cm 5.4pt">
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Claudio Held,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> Universidad de Chile, Santiago</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Felipe Tobar, </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Universidad de Chile, Santiago<b></b></span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">María Cristina Riff,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María,
  Valparaíso</span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Pablo Huijse, </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia<b></b></span></p>
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questions about the Conference at </span><span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:%7bcesar.sanmartin@ufrontera.cl" style="color:blue" target="_blank">{cesar.sanmartin@ufrontera.cl</a>,
<a href="mailto:nelson.aros@ufrontera.cl" target="_blank">nelson.aros@ufrontera.cl</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">}.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt">---</span><br></p><div>Cordially, Fernando Buarque</div><div><div><a href="http://fbln.pro.br/images/FBLN_Footer.jpg" target="_blank">Prof. Dr. Fernando Buarque</a>, <font size="1">BSc MSc DIC-PhD(UK) Hab(BR) AvH-Fellow(GE), Sr. Memb. IEEE(USA)</font></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:-webkit-auto">Steering Committee Coordinator – Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (</span><a href="http://la-cci.org/" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:-webkit-auto" target="_blank">LA-CCI</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:-webkit-auto">)</span><br></font></div><div></div></div><div><font size="1" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="text-align:-webkit-auto">Senior Associate Professor  – PostGrad/Undergrad Program on Computing Engineering of UPE, Brazil (<a href="http://w2.portais.atrio.scire.net.br/upe-ppgec/index.php/pt/" target="_blank">PPG-EC</a> / </font><a href="http://www.ecomp.poli.br/" target="_blank" style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">E-Comp</a><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">)  </span></div><div><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Visiting Professor                 – School of Electrical Engineering/University of Johannesburg, South Africa (</span><a href="https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/febe/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank" style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">FEBE@UJ</a><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">)</span></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><div><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Visiting Int'l Professor          – School of Business and Economics-European Research Center for IS-WWU, Germany (</span><a href="https://www.ercis.org/" style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small" target="_blank">ERCIS</a><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">)</span><br></div><div><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Adjunct Professor (external) – Dept Electrical & Computer Engineering /Texas A&M University, USA (<a href="https://engineering.tamu.edu/electrical/profiles/buarque-de-lima-neto-fernando.html" target="_blank">ECE@TAMU</a></span><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">)</span></div><div><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Research Group Head        – Computational Intelligence Research Group of UPE, Brazil (</span><a href="http://www.cirg.ecomp.poli.br/" target="_blank" style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">CIRG@UPE</a><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">)</span><br></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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