<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dear Colleagues, </span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The 14th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2024) is held in Kaifeng, Henan, China, October 30-November 02, 2024. lEEE SustainCom was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">lEEE SustainCom 2024 is the next event evolving from a series of highly successful international Conferences. Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to SustainCom 2024. The conference proceedings will be submitted to lEEE Xplore. The authors of selected best papers will be invited post conference to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals to be planned in conjunction with the conference.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">More information can be found: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><u><a href="https://www.ieee-ispa.org/2024/sustaincom/index.php" target="_blank">https://www.ieee-ispa.org/2024/sustaincom/index.php</a></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><u><br></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Important Dates</span></b></p><ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Paper Submission Deadline:  July 01, 2024</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Author Notification:  August 01, 2024</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Camera-ready and Registration:  September 01, 2024</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Registration Deadline:  October 01, 2024</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Conference Date:  October 30 - November 02, 2024</span></li></ul><p align="center" style="margin:0px 0px 5px;text-align:center"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 5px 21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><strong>Ÿ   Track 1: Sustainable Computing</strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy, and Heat</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">OoS and Green computing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Green Data centres and Enterprise computing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Power Leakage and Dissipation </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 5px 21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><strong>Ÿ   Track 2: Sustainable Systems</strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Smart Grid Security, Reliability</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Energy Management Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Renewable Energy Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Smart Control for Eco-friendly Buildings</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Greener Systems Planning and Design</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Reliability of Power-aware Computers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><strong>Ÿ   </strong><strong>Track 3: Sustainable Urban Mobility</strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Smart Resource Support and Demand Management</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">User-Centered Services and Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Case Studies and innovative Applications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">E-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:21pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><strong>Ÿ   </strong><strong>Track 4: Sustainable Methodologies</strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Smart City</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sustainable Energy Generation and Distribution</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sustainable Supply Chain Management</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Smart People, Smart Living</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Intelligent Transport Systems</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Configurable and Renewable Energy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;text-indent:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Smart Control for Eco-friendly Buildings</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:53.85pt"><span style="font-family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mal" style="color:black;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Yubin Zhao, Sun Yat-Sen University, China</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:36pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Web Chair</span></b></p><ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Jiawei Wang, University of Warwick, UK</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-left:18pt"><br style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:SimSun"></p></div></div>