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        <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">8 – 11 August 2024 | Hangzhou, China | </span><a href="https://www.cis-ram.org/2024/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">https://www.cis-ram.org/2024/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;"></span>
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        <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;font-size:10.5pt;text-align:justify;">We solicit proposals for tutorials and workshops to be held at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and the 11th IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM) (CIS-RAM 2024). The tutorials and workshops will take place on August 8 - 11 at the same venue as the main conference in Hangzhou, China.</span><br>
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        <b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:#215E99;">Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals</span></i></b>
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        <b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">Proposal Deadline: March 1, 2024</span></b>
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        <b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">Notification by: March 5, 2024</span></b>
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        <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">The purpose of the tutorials is to provide an opportunity for experts in the CIS and RAM domains to deliver rich learning experiences to attendees in areas that include longstanding research challenges, current topics of research and emerging areas. The purpose of the workshops is to provide a comprehensive forum on topics that will not be fully explored during the main conference and to encourage in-depth discussion of technical, application, and community issues. The potential audience for tutorials and workshops includes a broad spectrum of CIS-RAM attendees, ranging from experienced researchers with an established track record in sciences and technology, to early-stage researchers and researchers interested in learning about a new domain. In order to offer a high quality and diverse set of workshops and tutorials at CIS-RAM 2024, we invite proposals that address introductory and advanced topics in a workshop or tutorial style. Proposals that target early-stage researchers, as well as those aimed at experienced researchers who might want to delve deeper into a new CIS or RAM-related area are welcome.</span>
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        <b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">Tutorials will be 3 hours in duration, and can introduce an emerging or currently active area of CIS or RAM-related research, or present an overview of an established area of research, rather than focus on the presenter’s individual research area. Proposals of tutorials should be limited to 3 pages and include:</span></b>
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        <b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">We are looking for workshops which complement the main conference, reflect the CIS-RAM community’s interest in a topic, as well as those that generate new discussion and momentum. We strongly encourage workshops aimed at creating or improving community, workshops focusing on the social impact of interdisciplinary workshops, and workshops on niche topics not sufficiently represented at CIS-RAM. Proposals of workshops should be limited to 3 pages and include:</span></b>
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        <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">Proposals for the CIS-RAM 2024 tutorials and workshops must be no more than 3 pages long and must conform to the format stated above; please ensure that the headings listed above are identified clearly.</span>
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        <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">Proposals should be submitted by email to </span><a href="mailto:chenyaran2013@ia.ac.cn"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">chenyaran2013@ia.ac.cn</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;"> and </span><a href="mailto:cis-ram2024@outlook.com"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">cis-ram2024@outlook.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;"> by <b>March 1th, 2024</b>.</span>
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        <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">By submitting a proposal, the presenter(s) understand the ISCA policy of strongly encouraging video recording of the tutorial for educational purposes if the proposal is accepted.</span>
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        <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">For general conference information, please contact the General Chair and the Conference Secretary: </span><a href="mailto:cis-ram2024@outlook.com"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">cis-ram2024@outlook.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;"></span>
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        <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;">Han Wang, Rong Su, Bin Zhang, Ayse Kucukyilmaz & Yixing Gao</span>
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