<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br></span></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP to your network.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">*********************************************************</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">MIC 2022 - 14th Metaheuristics International Conference</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">11-14 July 2021, Ortigia-Syracuse, Italy</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><a href="https://www.ants-lab.it/mic2022/" target="_blank" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(204,102,0);text-decoration:none;font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">https://www.ANTs-lab.it/mic2022/</a><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">*********************************************************</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">** Submission deadline: 30th March 2022 **</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">*Scope of the Conference</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">========================</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">The Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC) conference series was established in 1995 and this is its 14th edition! </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">MIC is nowadays the main event focusing on the progress of the area of Metaheuristics and their applications. As in all previous editions, provides an opportunity to the international research community in Metaheuristics to discuss recent research results, to develop new ideas and collaborations, and to meet old and make new friends in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Considering the particular moment, the conference will be held in presence and online mode. Of course, in case the conference will be held in presence, the organizing committee will ensure compliance of all safety conditions.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">MIC 2022 is focus on presentations that cover different aspects of metaheuristic research such as new algorithmic developments, high-impact and original applications, new research challenges, theoretical developments, implementation issues, and in-depth experimental studies. </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">MIC 2022  strives a high-quality program that will be completed by a number of invited talks, tutorials, workshops and special sessions.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">*Plenary Speakers</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">========================</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">+ Holger H. Hoos, Leiden University, The Netherlands</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">+ Christian Blum, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">More Plenary Speakers will be announced soon.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">*Relevant Research Areas</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">========================</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">MIC 2022 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of metaheuristics. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">   + Metaheuristic techniques such as tabu search, simulated annealing, iterated local search, variable neighborhood search, memory-based optimization, dynamic local search, evolutionary algorithms, memetic algorithms, ant colony optimization, variable neighborhood search, particle swarm optimization, scatter search, path relinking, etc.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">   + Techniques that enhance the usability and increase the potential of metaheuristic algorithms such as reactive search mechanisms for self-tuning, offline metaheuristic algorithm configuration techniques, algorithm portfolios, parallelization of metaheuristic algorithms, etc. </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">   + Empirical and theoretical research in metaheuristics including large-scale experimental analyses, algorithm comparisons, new experimental methodologies, engineering methodologies for metaheuristic algorithms, search space analysis, theoretical insights into properties of metaheuristic algorithms, etc. </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">   + High-impact applications of metaheuristics in fields such as bioinformatics, electrical and mechanical engineering, telecommunications, sustainability, business, scheduling and timetabling. Particularly welcome are innovative applications of metaheuristic algorithms that have a potential of pushing research frontiers.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">   + Contributions on the combination of metaheuristic techniques with those from other areas, such as integer programming, constraint programming, machine learning, etc.    </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">   + Contributions on the use of metaheuristic techniques in machine learning and deep learning for finetuning and neural architecture search, etc. </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">   + Challenging applications areas such as continuous, mixed discrete-continuous, multi-objective, stochastic, or dynamic problems.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Important Dates</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">================</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Submission deadline           March 30th, 2022</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Notification of acceptance    May 10th, 2022</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Camera ready copy             May 25th, 2022</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Early registration            May 25th , 2022</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Submission Details</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">===================</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">We will accept submissions in three different formats. </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">S1) Original research contributions for publication in the conference proceedings of a maximum of 10 pages </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">S2) Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers on an important research aspect of a maximum of 3 pages</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">S3) High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last year, been submitted or accepted for journal publication</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Accepted contributions of categories S1 and S2 will be published in the MIC 2022 conference proceedings. Accepted contributions of category S3 will be orally presented at the conference, but not be included into the conference proceedings.</span><br><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Menlo,Consolas,"Lucida Console","DejaVu Sans Mono",monospace;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br></span></div></div>