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</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">17th</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
<b>IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> (ICIS 2018) will be held in June 6-8, Singapore.
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">ICIS brings together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects
 (theory, applications and tools) of computer and information science, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The conference will cover a broad set of research topics including, but not limited to, the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Communication Systems & Networks</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Computer Architecture and VLSI</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Visual and Multimedia Computing</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Control Systems, Intelligent Systems</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Data Mining, Data Warehousing & Database
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Knowledge Discovery, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Speech and Signal Processing</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Image Processing & Pattern Recognition</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Intelligent Agent Technology, Agent Based Systems</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Internet Technology and Applications, e-Commerce</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Management Information Systems</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Internet of Things</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Applied Informatics</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Mobile/Wireless Computing</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Parallel and Distributed Computing & Systems</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Programming Languages, Compilers, & Operating Systems</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Software Architectures, Design Patterns, Frameworks</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">UML, OO Modeling & Simulation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Software Metrics & Project Management</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Software Specification Techniques</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Software Verification and Testing</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Middleware Architectures & Techniques</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Visual and Multimedia Computing
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Web Engineering & Applications</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Big Data and Analytics</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">High Performance and Small Computing</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and International Association for Computer and Information Science (ACIS)</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">In collaboration with Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association, Singapore, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">ICIS
 2018 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to be indexed by SCI, EI, INSPEC, DBLP and more.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Besides, s</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">elected
 papers will be recommended to publish in the following journals (</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.acisinternational.org/" id="LPlnk470261"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">www.acisinternational.org</span></a></span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
 ):</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing (IJNDC), Paris, France</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">International Journal of Software Innovation (IJSI), IGI Globe, U.S.A.</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt"><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/7092" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none">Studies in Computational Intelligence</span></a></span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
 (SCI), Springer, Germany</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#1F497D;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Other outstanding papers will be published in special issues of SCI-Indexed Journals.</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Important Dates</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">January 10, 2018</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Acceptance Notification:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Feb 10, 2018</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Camera-Ready Papers & Registration:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">March 10, 2018</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Thank you.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Yan Wu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Technical Track Area Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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