<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">***Apologies <span class="gmail-il">for</span> <span class="gmail-il">cross</span>-<span class="gmail-il">postings!</span>***<br></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div>================================================</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">We are editing a Springer book entitled “</span><b><i><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,153)">Federated and Transfer Learning</span></i></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">” and inviting you to contribute a chapter. The contributed chapters can be theoretical, application-oriented, or combine theory and application in discussing challenges, emerging trends, and future directions. Please see the attached document for more details about the context and topics of this book.</span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">This Springer edited book solicits contributed chapters including but not limited to the following topics: Transfer learning (TL) and federated learning (FL), domain adaptation, zero-shot learning, one-shot learning, few-shot learning, multitask learning, meta-learning, domain confusion, self-taught learning, domain generalization, continual/lifelong learning, recent challenges in transfer learning, transfer learning for non-stationary environments, using deep learning for transfer learning, TL-based recommender systems, horizontal FL, vertical FL, transfer FL, recent trends in securing FL, personalization of FL, connection of FL to supervised learning, connection of FL to reinforcement learning, FL security for privacy-preserving, connection between FL and blockchain, multi-agent systems, deep learning frameworks for FL, and their applications.</span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Important Dates</span></b></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;backgro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variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span lang="ES-MX" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span></span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify"><b><span lang="ES-MX" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(68,84,106)">Boyu Wang</span></b></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">University of Western Ontario, Canada</span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Email: </span><span class="gmail-x_MsoHyperlink" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="mailto:bwang@csd.uwo.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">bwang@csd.uwo.ca</a></span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(68,84,106)">Matthew E. Taylor</span></b></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">University of Alberta, Canada</span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Email: </span><span class="gmail-x_MsoHyperlink" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="mailto:matthew.e.taylor@ualberta.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">matthew.e.taylor@ualberta.ca</a></span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify"><b><span lang="ES-MX" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(68,84,106)">Qiang Yang</span></b></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong</span></p><p class="gmail-x_MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,31,30);text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Email: </span><span class="gmail-x_MsoHyperlink" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="mailto:qyang@cse.ust.hk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">qyang@cse.ust.hk</a></span></span></p></div></div>