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13<sup>th</sup> IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things</span></p>

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Island, Greece</span></p>

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02-06, 2020</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hope you are well and healthy. The
submission deadline of IEEE iThings 2020 has been extended till 15th July 2020
as we understand many are facing unexpected challenges at this time.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">INTRODUCTION</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-----------------------</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As an emerged promising networking
model, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a novel paradigm to interconnect a
multitude of heterogeneous physical objects and devices. The IoT significantly
provides an umbrella for a series of critical building technologies including
wireless sensor networks (WSNs), fifth generation (5G) networks, and RFID. The
philosophy of the IoT is to develop an intelligent, dynamic, large-scale, and
coherent network framework for a wide range of applications and industries. Due
to its potential advantages and merits such as high reliability, good
scalability and intelligent capacity, the IoT has attracted great attentions
and interests from both academia and industry.<br>
<br>
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As the earliest IEEE international
conference on Internet of Things, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on
Internet of Things (iThings-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge
forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners from both academic and
industrial communities to present state-of-the-art advances and innovations in
theories, systems, infrastructure, tools, testbeds, technologies and
applications for the IoT, as well as to identify emerging research topics and
define the future of everything interconnect via cyberspace.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">----------------------------</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">----------------------------</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Paper Submission Deadline:  July 15, 2020</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Authors Notification:  August 15, 2020</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Camera-Ready Paper Due:  September 02, 2020</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference Date:  November 02 - 06, 2020</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</span></p>

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</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">General Chairs</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Jelena
Misic, Ryerson University, Canada</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Shiwen
Mao, Auburn University, USA</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Symeon
Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Program Chairs</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">  
Abderrahim Benslimane, Avignon University, France</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Lucia Lo
Bello, University of Catania, Italy</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">  Xianjun
Deng, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada & University of South China,
China</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop Chairs</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Salimur
Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Haipeng
Dai, Nanjing University, China</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Gaojie
Chen, University of Leicester, UK</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Steering Chairs</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Jianhua
Ma (Chair), Hosei University, Japan</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Laurence
T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Schahram
Dustdar, Technische Universität Wien, Austria</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Antonio
Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Huadong
Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publicity Chairs</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Lingzhi
Yi, University of South China, China</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Zhenchao
Ma, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">  Yinxue Yi,
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Web Publication Chairs</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="ZH-CN" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Microsoft YaHei",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   Zihao
Jiang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-------------------------------------</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Conference papers are limited to 8
pages (regular), 6 pages (short), 2-4 pages (poster), following the IEEE
proceedings format. Papers are to be submitted as PDF via the site:</span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"> </span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://edas.info/N27352">https://edas.info/N27352</a></span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All accepted papers in the main
tracks, workshops, special sessions and</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">poster sessions will be published in
an IEEE Computer Society proceedings (EI indexed).<br>
<br>
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Extended versions of selected
excellent papers will be considered<br>
for publication in several special issues of a number of excellent journals.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">List of </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special Issues:</span></p>



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Informatics </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special Issue: Digital Twinning:
Integration AI-ML and Big Data Analytics for Virtual Representation</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed, IF=9.112</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IEEE Transactions on Network Science
and Engineering</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special Issue: Computing and
Networking for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed, IF=5.213</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Information Fusion</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special Issue: Data Fusion for Trust
Evaluation</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed,
IF=13.669</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">4.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Information Fusion</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special Issue: Fusion from Big Data
to Smart Data</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed,
IF=13.669</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Future Generation Computer Systems </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special Issue: Artificial
Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed,
IF=6.125</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">6.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Computer Networks</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special Issue: Deep Reinforcement
Learning for Next-Generation IoT Networks</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed,
IF=3.111</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">7.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica
Sinica </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special Issue: Blockchain for
Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and
Challenges</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed,
IF=5.129</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">8.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Journal of Cloud Computing </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special Issue:  Security and Privacy Issues for AI in
edge-Cloud Computing</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-indent:21pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publisher:
Springer, SCI indexed, IF=2.788</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">9.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Electronics</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:14pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special Issue: Blockchain-based
Technology for Mobile Application</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-indent:14pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publisher:
MDPI, SCI indexed, IF=2.412</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">10.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sensors</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 21pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special
Issue: Smart Cities of the Future: A Cyber Physical System Perspective</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-indent:21pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publisher:
MDPI, SCI indexed, IF=3.275</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">11.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Software: Practice and Experience </span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special Issue:  Software and Hardware Co-Design for
Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">12.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Future Internet</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-indent:28pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special
Issue: Network Economics and Utility Maximization</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-indent:28pt;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publisher:
MDPI</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p></div>