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          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">[Apologies
          if you got multiple copies of this invitation]</span></p>
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        align="center"><b><span
            style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(132,60,12)"
            lang="EN-US">International Workshop on Artificial
            Intelligence & Edge Computing (AIEC 2021)</span></b></p>
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        align="center"><span
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          lang="EN-US"><a
            href="https://sites.google.com/view/waiec2021/"
            target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/waiec2021/<br>
          </a></span></p>
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        12pt;text-align:center;line-height:14pt" align="center"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">in
          conjunction with</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;line-height:17pt"
        align="center"><b><span style="font-family:Times;color:black"
            lang="EN-US">The <font color="black">Sixth</font>
            International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing
            (FMEC 2021)</span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm
        12pt;text-align:center;line-height:14pt" align="center"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:rgb(46,117,182)" lang="EN-US">
          <font size="2" color="black">Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021
            (virtual event)</font><br>
        </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;text-align:justify"><b><span
            style="font-family:Times;color:rgb(132,60,12)" lang="EN-US">AIEC
            2021 CFP</span></b></p>
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        style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Artificial
          Intelligence (AI) became a popular wide area for the latest-
          generation of software-oriented solutions. Lately, AI has been
          considered as a hot topic due to its huge applications and it
          attracted attention from academia as well as industrial and
          end users while receiving positive media coverage. AI is
          advancing at considerable speed and lead to many widely
          beneficial applications, variant from Machine Translation to
          Medical Image Computing. From R&D perspectives, AI
          acquires incredible amounts of progress in terms funding
          investors devoted on AI applications. </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">According
          to AI efforts, Edge Computing (EC) has become an essential
          solution to overcome the strangulation of emerging technology
          development according to its benefits of minimizing data
          transmission, reducing service latency and easing cloud
          computing pressure. Also, the scope of EC is very diverse on
          large application area, such as smart grid and smart city,
          logistics and transportation, manufacturing and healthcare.
          Furthermore, the EC provide significant gains which include
          low-latency thus allowing close cooperation in sophisticated
          mobile applications and on the core network to reduce traffic
          volume as data streaming along the way to the distant data
          center is no longer necessary. The evolution of new
          technologies of communication such as 5G made communication so
          much easier where the latency is lower and memory bandwidth is
          higher, the border between edge infrastructure and mobile
          devices will be even imprecise and EC will become more
          attractive. </span></p>
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        style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">The
          Workshop on Artificial Intelligence & Edge Computing
          (AIEC) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners
          from both academia and industry who are working on Artificial
          Intelligence and Edge Computing as well as their integration,
          to exchange research ideas and identify new research
          challenges in this emerging field. </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm"><b><span
            style="font-family:Times;color:rgb(132,60,12)" lang="EN-US">Topics</span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">The
          Workshop on Artificial Intelligence & Edge Computing
          (AIEC) calls for contributions that address fundamental
          research and solutions issues in Artificial Intelligence and
          Edge Computing including but not limited to the following : </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>•<span
              style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Big Data
          mining at the Edge</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>•<span
              style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Machine
          Learning at the edge</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>•<span
              style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Architectures
          of Edge AI for IoT </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>•<span
              style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Security on
          the Edge</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>•<span
              style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Resource-friendly
          Edge AI Model Design</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>•<span
              style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Resource
          Management for Edge AI </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>•<span
              style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Applications/services
          for Edge AI</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>•<span
              style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Communication
          and Networking Protocols for Edge AI</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>•<span
              style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Software
          Platforms for Edge</span></p>
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style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(132,60,12)"
            lang="EN-US">Important Dates </span></b></p>
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        style="margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:red" lang="EN-US"><span>•<span
              style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><b><span
            style="font-family:Times;color:red" lang="EN-US">Submission
            Date: 15<sup>th</sup> November, 2021</span></b><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:red" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>•<span
              style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Notification
          to Authors: <b>22<sup>th </sup>November, 2021</b></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-left:36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US"><span>•<span
              style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">    </span></span></span><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Camera
          Ready Submission: <b>25<sup>th</sup> November, 2021</b></span></p>
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style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(132,60,12)"
            lang="EN-US">Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings </span></b></p>
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        style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Papers
          selected for presentation will appear in the FMEC Proceedings,
          which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and be
          submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Papers must be 6 pages
          in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column
          format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF
          format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link.
          A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all
          figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present
          original unpublished research that is not currently under
          review for any other conference or journal. Papers not
          following these guidelines may be rejected without review.
          Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length
          limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be
          considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further
          information or clarification. </span></p>
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            style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(132,60,12)"
            lang="EN-US">Submission System </span></b></p>
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            style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Times;color:black"
            lang="EN-US"><span
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              <a target="_blank"
                href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waiec2021">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waiec2021</a>
            </span><span
              style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,233);font-weight:normal"></span></span></b><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:17pt"><b><span
style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(132,60,12)"
            lang="EN-US">Journal Special Issues </span></b></p>
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        style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:14pt"><span
          style="font-family:Times;color:black" lang="EN-US">Selected
          papers from the will be invited to submit an extended version
          to the following journal. Papers will be selected based on
          their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s
          theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must
          represent original unpublished research work. Further details
          will be made available at a later stage. </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times">Please send
          any inquiry on AIEC 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team
          at: <u><span style="color:blue"><a
                href="mailto:emergingtechnetwork@gmail.com"
                target="_blank">emergingtechnetwork@gmail.com</a></span></u></span></p>
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      <small><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">_____________________________________________________</span><br
          style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Prof. Larbi Boubchir, <i>SMIEEE</i></span><br
          style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">LIASD - University of
          Paris 8</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">2 rue de la Liberté,
          93526 Saint-Denis, France</span><br style="color: rgb(102,
          102, 102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Tel. (+33) 1 49 40 67
          95</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Email. <a
            class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
            href="mailto:larbi.boubchir@univ-paris8.fr">larbi.boubchir@univ-paris8.fr</a></span><br
          style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><a
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
            href="http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/~boubchir/">http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/~boubchir/</a></span><br
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        <span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">_____________________________________________________</span></small></div>
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