<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#000000"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dear esteemed colleagues,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Trust all of you and your near and dear ones are safe and do</span><span style="font-size:14pt">ing well amidst the prevailing unprecedented situation. Pls. stay
vigilant and take utmost care.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">Thanks very much for your overwhelming support for  ISCMI20 </span><a href="http://iscmi.us/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:14pt">http://iscmi.us/</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt"> , the annual flagship event of IICCI </span><a href="http://iicci.in/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:14pt">http://iicci.in/</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt">
, especially in such tumultuous time.  After  1^st
round of paper submissions which ended today, the
Program Chairs have started processing all the submitted papers. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">At the same time, many peers had expressed d</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">isappointment at not being able to finish and submit papers due
to the current situation and had solicited more time for doing the needful. By considering
the current global scenario & paying heed to their request, we have
extended the deadline till 25^th July, 2020. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Hope </span><span style="font-size:14pt">if not being able to subm</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">it
so far, you will avail the opportunity  & upload your papers too.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Just to refresh your memory, a few pertinent points of </span><span style="font-size:14pt">ISCMI20 are :</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Proceedings</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
The proceedings of all the previous 6 lSCMl conferences are available at IEEE
Xplore.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Also the papers of all the hitherto held  lSCMl are indexed by Scopus & Ei
Compendex</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Apart from the lEEE published proceedings & availability at Xplore
etc., there is scope for a selected subset of papers to be considered for
publication at a special issue of the NCAA journal  (a Springer
publication with 2018 Impact Factor & 5 year Impact Factor of 4.664 &
3.570 respectively      </span><a href="https://www.springer.com/journal/521" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.springer.com/journal/521</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(34,34,34)">).<br>
<br>
<b>Prof. Zadeh Memorial lecture </b><br>
The annual llCCl Prof. Zadeh Memorial lecture at ISCMI 2020 will be delivered
by Prof. B-M Bernadette, the current President of IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society (Life Fellow, IEEE & also Fellow, IFSA).<br>
<br>Best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(34,34,34)">
Suash Deb                                                                        General Chair, ISCMI20 </span></p></div></div>