<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#000000"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Dear esteemed colleagues,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Trust all of you and your near and dear ones are safe and do</span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">ing well amidst the prevailing unprecedented situation. Pls. stay vigilant and take utmost care.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Thanks very much for your overwhelming support for  ISCMI20 </span><a href="http://iscmi.us/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt">http://iscmi.us/</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"> , the annual flagship event of IICCI </span><a href="http://iicci.in/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt">http://iicci.in/</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt"> , espec<span style="color:black">ially in such tumultuous time. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">As you know, due to the covid-19 pandemic, this year the conference would be held in virtual mode. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">At the end of paper submission deadline (yesterday), many peers had expressed d</span><span style="font-size:14pt">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 for a last time till 20^th Sept, 2020.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt"> Hope </span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">if not being able to subm</span><span style="font-size:14pt">it so far, you will avail the opportunity  & upload your papers too.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Just to refresh your memory, a few pertinent points of </span><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">ISCMI20 are :<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px">Proceedings</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px"><br>The proceedings of all the previous 6 lSCMl conferences  (2014-19) are available at IEEE Xplore.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px">Also the papers of all the hitherto held  lSCMl are indexed by Scopus & Ei Compendex<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px">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"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px">https://www.springer.com/journal/521</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px">).<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="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px"><br>Suash Deb </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px">General Chair, ISCMI20</span></p></div></div>