<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">** First Call for Papers - please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks **</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">-- 15th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2023) --</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">SoCPaR 2023 Theme: </b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Soft Computing Approaches in Large Language Models and Generative Pre-trained Transformers</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">==============================</span><wbr style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">==============================</span><wbr style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">==============================</span><wbr style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">==</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar23" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://www.mirlabs.org/<wbr>socpar23</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar23" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://www.mirlabs.net/<wbr>socpar23</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Onsite and On the World Wide Web</b><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Onsite Venues:</b><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Olten, Switzerland :</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olten" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Olten</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Porto, Portugal :</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Porto</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Vilnius, Lithuania :</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Vilnius</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Kochi, India :</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Kochi</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">December 13-15, 2023</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">HIS 2023 will be a hybrid conference that will run fully in-person and fully virtually to take advantage of the best that the two modalities can offer. Besides regular paper presentations, the technical programme will include 8-10 plenary lectures and poster sessions. HIS 2023 Organising Committee also recognises the benefits of virtual conferences allowing participation at a cheaper rate. This allows a higher number of research scholars and students to attend. Selected authors will have the option to attend and present the papers virtually or present in one of the FOUR venues in Europe and Asia.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Like previous years, proceedings of SoCPaR'23 are expected to be published with Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. (</span><a href="https://www.springer.com/series/15179" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://www.springer.com/<wbr>series/15179</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">) </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Proceedings of SoCPaR'22: </span><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-27524-1" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://link.springer.com/<wbr>book/10.1007/978-3-031-27524-1</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Indexed by: SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago, DBLP, EI Compendex, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST), SpringerLink</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">History of SoCPaR series: </span><a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar23/previous.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://www.mirlabs.net/<wbr>socpar23/previous.php</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">**Important Dates**</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">---------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Paper submission due: September 30, 2023</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2023</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Registration and Final manuscript due: November 10, 2023</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Conference: December 13-15, 2023</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">**About SoCPaR 2023**</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">---------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">After the success of the 14th International Conference on</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2022),</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">SoCPaR 2023 is organized to bring together worldwide leading</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">researchers and practitioners interested in advancing the</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">state-of-the-art in Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition,</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">disciplines among various distinct communities. It is hoped</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">that researchers and practitioners will bring new prospects</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">for collaboration across disciplines and gain inspiration to</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">facilitate novel breakthroughs. The themes for this conference</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">are thus focused on "Innovating and Inspiring Soft Computing and</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Intelligent Pattern Recognition".</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">**Topics (not limited to)**</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">---------------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Soft Computing and Applications (but not limited to):</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Evolutionary computing</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Swarm intelligence</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Artificial immune systems</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Fuzzy Sets</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Uncertainty analysis</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Fractals</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Rough Sets</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Support vector machines</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Artificial neural networks</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Case Based Reasoning</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Wavelets</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Hybrid intelligent systems</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Nature inspired computing techniques</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Machine learning</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Ambient intelligence</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Hardware implementations</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Pattern Recognition and Applications (but not limited to):</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Information retrieval</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Data Mining</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Web Mining</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Image Processing</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Computer Vision</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Bio-informatics</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Information security</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Network security</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Steganography</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Biometry</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Remote sensing</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Medical Informatics</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">E-commerce</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Signal Processing</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Control systems</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">**Submission Guidelines**</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">-------------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Submission of paper should be made through the submission page</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Paper format templates:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636#c3324" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://www.springer.com/de/<wbr>authors-editors/book-authors-<wbr>editors/manuscript-<wbr>preparation/5636#c3324</a><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">SoCPaR’23 Submission Link:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar23/submission.php" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://www.mirlabs.org/<wbr>socpar23/submission.php</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> (under development)</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">** SoCPaR 2023 Organization **</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">------------------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">General Chairs</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Artūras Kaklauskas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Program Chairs</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Andries Engelbrecht, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Publication Chair</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Anu Bajaj, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Web Services Chair</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Kun Ma, University of Jinan, China</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Publicity Chair</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Pooja Manghirmalani Mishra, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, India</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">International Program Committee</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">TBA</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Note: If you would like to propose a special session, please email Ms. Mabrouka Salmi <</span><a href="mailto:salmimabrouka7@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">salmimabrouka7@gmail.com</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">> with a cc to Dr. Anu Bajaj <</span><a href="mailto:er.anubajaj@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">er.anubajaj@gmail.com</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">></span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">**Technical Contact**</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">------------------------------</span><wbr style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">---</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dr. Ajith Abraham</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Email: </span><a href="mailto:ajith.abraham@ieee.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">ajith.abraham@ieee.org</a></div><div><br></div>