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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>********************************************************</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>CFP - Apologies for multiple posting</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>********************************************************</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dear Colleague, </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>we would like to invite you to submit a paper to the<b> Special Section on “Emerging Trends and Advances in Graph-based Methods and Applications”</b> to be published in<b> </b></span><a href="https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/ec/2021/04"><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing</span></b></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> (ISSN 21686750, IF </span><a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplorehelp/Help_pub_journals.html#impact_factor"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>7.691</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>********************************************************</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>TOPICS OF INTEREST</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>********************************************************</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Advances in computing and learning on graphs</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-indent:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <span class=apple-tab-span> </span>- Graph data fusion methods and graph embedding techniques</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-indent:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Efficient, parallel, and distributed processing frameworks for big graphs</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-indent:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Novel dynamic, spatial, and temporal graphs for recognition and learning</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-indent:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Emerging graph-based methods in computer vision</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-indent:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Interactivity, explainability, and trust in graph-based learning methods</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Applications of GNNs</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-indent:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Human behavior and scene understanding using graphs</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-indent:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Benchmarks for GNNs</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-indent:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Graph signal processing</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-indent:36.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Application of graph data processing in biology, healthcare, transportation, natural language processing, social networks, etc.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>For further details please visit the special issue website:</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><a href="https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/ec/graph-based-methods"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/ec/graph-based-methods</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>********************************************************</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>IMPORTANT DATES</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>********************************************************</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Submission deadline: 30 June 2022 </span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>First review notification: 30 November 2022</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Revision submission: 15 February 2023</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Second review notification: 30 April 2023 </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Journal publication: first half of 2023</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Should you have any further enquiry please do not hesitate to contact us.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Donatello Conte, Université de Tours, Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale et Appliquée de Tours, France</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Alessandro D’Amelio, Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Informatica, Italy</span><span lang=IT><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Raffaella Lanzarotti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Informatica, Italy</span><span lang=IT><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify'><span lang=IT style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Jianyi Lin, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Italy</span><span lang=IT><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Jean-Yves Ramel, Université de Tours, Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale et Appliquée de Tours, France</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>(Guest Editors)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>