<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dear colleagues,</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">This is about <b>2021</b> 5</span><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics & Intelligent Systems (ISMSI21). </b>
The conference is slated to be held in <b>Victoria, Seychelles </b>during <b>April 10-11, 2021</b> <a href="http://ismsi.org/">http://ismsi.org/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">However, in case the prevailing global pandemic situation does not improve, the same may be held as a full-fledged virtual conference, as was for ISMSI20. <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>EURO ( The Association of European Operational Research Societies) /its spl. interest group on Metaheuristics</b> being the <b>technical sponsors</b> of the ISMSI21.<br><br>Due to the prevailing situation, and based on the requests from our peers we have extended the submission deadline. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br><b>Extended Submission Deadline</b><br>25th Dec, 2020</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br><b>Proceedings</b><br>As in the previous 4 editions, the proceedings of ISMSI21 will be published by <b>ICPS of ACM and published papers will be indexed by Ei Compendex & Scopus.</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Apart from the scope there is scope for a selected & subset of papers, after being extended, to be considered for publication at a special issue of the <b>NCAA journal (a Springer publication with 2019 Impact Factor & 5 year Impact Factor of 4.774 & 4.627 respectively) </b> <a href="https://www.springer.com/journal/521" target="_blank">https://www.springer.com/journal/521</a>).</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Some papers may also be considered for <b>EJOR, an Elsevier Publication ( 2019 Impact Factor & 5 year Impact Factor of 4.213 & 4.729 respectively)</b> <a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/european-journal-of-operational-research">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/european-journal-of-operational-research</a>
<br><br><b>Key Note Speeches</b><br>Leading scientists from USA & Europe will deliver the Keynote Speeches at the conference <a href="http://ismsi.org/keynote.html">http://ismsi.org/keynote.html</a><br><br>We hope to receive your manuscript(s) in the coming days.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Suash Deb</div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">General Chair, ISMSI21 </div></div></div>