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style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"></span></p><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <span><i style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; color: black;">======================================================</span></i></span></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><span><i style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; color: black;"><br></span></i></span></span></div><p class="ydp827bb668yiv2673440929ydp897e2f78yiv6944408167MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><font style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;background-color:inherit;" color="#000000">Dear Colleagues,</font></span></p><p class="ydp827bb668yiv2673440929ydp897e2f78yiv6944408167MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><font style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" color="#000000">Due to several requests, the submission deadline for <a href="http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CloudTech'20</a> has been extended to </font><b style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;"><font color="#cc0000">January 20, 2020</font></b><font style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" color="#000000">.</font><br></p><p class="ydp827bb668yiv2673440929ydp897e2f78yiv6944408167MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"><br><font color="#000000" style="background-color:inherit;">Please find below the detailed CFP below.</font><br><br><font color="#000000" style="background-color:inherit;"></font></span></p><p class="ydp827bb668yiv2673440929ydp897e2f78yiv6944408167MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family:New serif;font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">Aims & Scope: </span></b><b style="font-family:New serif;font-size:12pt;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"> </span></b><br></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(52,52,52);" lang="EN-US"><span>CloudTech</span>’<span>20</span> is a high-level international forum to present state-of-the-art research results, address new challenges, and discuss trends and opportunities related with all aspects and applications of Cloud Technology; Artificial Intelligence; Big data; High Performance Computing, Internet of Things.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(52,52,52);" lang="EN-US">The target public of <span>CloudTech</span>’<span>20</span> includes all scientists, researchers, professionals, industry and government, particularly, researchers, policy-makers, engineers and students interested in all issues related to the topics above.</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(52,52,52);" lang="EN-US">Next to the regular tracks we have some special sessions related to innovative applications with Cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence, Deep and Machine Learning, Blockchain and a demo-session for innovations achieved through prototyping and simulation.</span><span style="color:rgb(52,52,52);font-size:16px;" lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" style="background-color:inherit;"> </font></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US">The scope of <span>CloudTech</span>’<span>20</span> covers a broad range of hot topics grouped into four main tracks: (1) </span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;"><a href="http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20/callforpapers.html#topic_1" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);text-decoration-line:none;" lang="EN-US"><span>Cloud Computing</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;" lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US"> (2) </span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;"><a href="http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20/callforpapers.html#topic_2" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);text-decoration-line:none;" lang="EN-US"><span>Artificial Intelligence</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;" lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US">(3) </span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;"><a href="http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20/callforpapers.html#topic_3" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);text-decoration-line:none;" lang="EN-US"><span>Big Data</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;" lang="EN-US">, (4) </span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;"><a href="http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20/callforpapers.html#topic_4" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);text-decoration-line:none;" lang="EN-US"><span>High Performance Computing</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;" lang="EN-US">, (5) </span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;"><a href="http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20/callforpapers.html#topic_5" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20/callforpapers.html#topic_5" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);text-decoration-line:none;" lang="EN-US"><span>IoT and Mobile Computing</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;" lang="EN-US">. </span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;" lang="EN-US">A detailed list with illustrative topics of interest and details about the submission procedure are available at: </span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20/callforpapers.html" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20/callforpapers.html</span></a></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">Submissions will be done via Easychair in </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudtech20" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line:none;" lang="EN-US"><span>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudtech20</span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="ydp827bb668yiv2673440929ydp897e2f78yiv6944408167MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><b style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"><br></span></b></span></p><p class="ydp827bb668yiv2673440929ydp897e2f78yiv6944408167MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><b style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">Publication:</span></b><br></span></p><p class="ydp827bb668yiv2673440929ydp897e2f78yiv6944408167MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(52,52,52);" lang="EN-US">All accepted and presented papers </span><span>will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted for inclusion in </span><span>IEEE Xplore Digital Library </span><span>and will be indexing by </span><span>Scopus</span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"> (pending approval).<br>Distinguished papers (extended version), will be considered for publication in special issues of the indexed journals below:</span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(52,52,52);"><a href="https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijcc" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line:none;" lang="EN-US"><br><span>- International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC)</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(52,52,52);" lang="EN-US">,</span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(52,52,52);" lang="EN-US">Published by Inder Science and Indexed by: Scopus (Elsevier), DBLP, cnpLINKer (CNPIEC), Google Scholar, ...</span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"><br>- </span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;color:blue;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.tmrfindia.org/ijcsa/" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line:none;">IJCSA International Journal of Computational Science & Applications (IJCSA)</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">, </span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(52,52,52);" lang="EN-US">Indexed by: Scopus (Elsevier), DBLP, cnpLINKer (CNPIEC), Google Scholar, ...</span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"><br></span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(52,52,52);"><a href="https://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijac" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line:none;" lang="EN-US"><span>- International Journal of Autonomic Computing (IJAC)</span></span></a></span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(52,52,52);" lang="EN-US">, Published by Inder Science and Indexed by: ACM Digital Library, cnpLINKer (CNPIEC), DBLP, Google Scholar, ...</span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(52,52,52);" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.springer.com/series/15179" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line:none;">- <span>Springer book with</span> Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS)</span></a> <span>(in pending)</span>, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(52,52,52);" lang="EN-US">Indexing by SCOPUS, ISI Proceedings, Google Scholar and Springerlink</span>.<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="ydp827bb668yiv2673440929ydp897e2f78yiv6944408167MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(192,0,0);" lang="EN-US">Other Journals are under confirmation.</span><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"><br><br></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">Keynote Speakers:<br></span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US">- Maria Fasli</span>, Institute for Analytics and Data Science at the University of ESSEX, UK</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US">- </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US">Tarek El Ghazawi</span>, George Washington University, USA</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US">- Panda Dhabaleswar</span>, The Ohio State University, USA</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US">- Helen Karatza</span>, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US">- Qiang Tang</span>, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US">- Othmane Bouhali</span>, TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, QATAR</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US">- Abdelmounaam Rezgui</span>, New Mexico Tech, USA</p><p class="ydp827bb668yiv2673440929ydp897e2f78yiv6944408167MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:18.5467px;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">Important Dates<br></span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">- Paper Submission Deadline: </span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"><font color="#cc0000" style="background-color:inherit;">January <span>20</span>, 2020</font></span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:rgb(54,95,145);" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"><br>- Paper Acceptance Notification: </span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:blue;" lang="EN-US">February 28, 2020<br></span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">- Camera-Ready: </span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:blue;" lang="EN-US">April 10, 2020</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"><br>- Registration: </span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:blue;" lang="EN-US">April <span>20</span>, 2020<br></span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US"><br></span><b><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:18.5467px;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">Special Sessions:</span></b> <b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"><br></span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"><span>CloudTech</span>’<span>20</span> will include three special sessions as follows:<br>- Special Session 1: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:blue;" lang="EN-US">Smart Farming</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"><br>- Special Session 2: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;"><a href="http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20/workshopsandissues.html#session_2" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line:none;" lang="EN-US"><span> Artificial Intelligence and applications</span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">- Special Session 3: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;"><a href="http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20/workshopsandissues.html#session_2" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line:none;"><span> <span lang="EN-US">Advances in Blockchain and IoT Technologies</span></span></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;color:black;" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:New serif;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">For more details about the two special sessions please consult the page: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;"><a href="http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20/workshopsandissues.html" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20/workshopsandissues.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="ydp827bb668yiv2673440929ydp897e2f78yiv6944408167MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp827bb668yiv2673440929ydp897e2f78yiv6944408167MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">Best Regards<br><span>CloudTech</span>’<span>20</span> Chairs</span><span lang="EN-US"><br></span><u><span style="font-family:Cambria, serif;color:blue;" lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:cloudtech20@macc.ma" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CloudTech20@<span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">macc.ma</span><br></a><a href="http://www.macc.ma/cloudtech20/" style="color:blue;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.<span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">macc.ma/cloudtech20</span></a></span></u></p></div></div>
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