<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">I hope this email finds you well. This email is to inform you about the upcoming IEEE </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="Times New Roman">BigDataSE-</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">2024 conference. As a valued member of the academic and research community, we invite you to participate and contribute to this prestigious event.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:24pt">The 18th IEEE Internat</span></b><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:24pt">ional Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BigDataSE-2024)</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:24pt">December 17-21, 2024, Sanya, Hainan, China</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0pt;text-align:center;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><a href="http://ieee-aiplus.org/2024/bigdatase/index.php"><b><u><span class="gmail-15" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">http://ieee-aiplus.org/2024/bigdatase/index.php</span></u></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:微软雅黑;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:14pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><b><u><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">INTRODUCTION</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud/stream computing platforms, and high performance/parallel computing platforms.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">The 18th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BigDataSE-2024) is going to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and broadly related areas. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion for identifying advanced applications, technologies and theories for big data. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">BigDataSE-2024 will be hosted in Sanya, China. Sanya, a picturesque coastal city, offers an ideal setting for the conference and provides opportunities for exploration, including visits to renowned sites such as Tianya Haijiao, Wuzhizhou Coral Island, and the beaches of Yalong Bay.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to BigDataSE-2024. Accepted papers will be submitted for possible inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore's scope and quality requirements. 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><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><b><u><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">SCOPE AND TOPICS</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Novel theories, computational models, and algorithms of Big Data</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big Data standards</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big Data search and mining</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big Data learning and analytics</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big Data infrastructure, high performance/parallel computing platforms</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big Data visualization</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big Data curation and management</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big Data semantics, scientific discovery and intelligence</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big Data performance analysis and large-scale deployment</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Security, privacy, trust, and legal issues about Big Data</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big Data vs Big Business and Big Industry</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Large data stream processing</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Large incremental datasets</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Distributed and federated datasets</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">NoSQL data stores and Big Data compression</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Distributed file systems for Big Data</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Simulation and debugging systems and tools for MapReduce and Big Data</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Multi-source Big Data processing and integration</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Storage and computation management of Big Data</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Large-scale Big Data workflow management</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big Data sensing and crowdsourcing</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Sensor network, social network and Big Data</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big Data ecosystem</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Foundation models and Big Data</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Big Data applications</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><b><u><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">IMPORTANT DATES</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Workshop Proposal: 1 July 2024</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Submission Deadline:</span></b><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt"> </span></b><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">1 September 2024</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Authors Notification: 15 October 2024</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Final Manuscript Due: 10 November 2024</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Registration Due: 10 November 2024</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Conference Date: 17-21 December 2024</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="justify" style="margin:0pt;text-align:justify;font-family:"Times Ne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></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Weizhan Zhang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Workshop Chair</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Wenxiu </span><span style="font-size:12pt">Ding, Xidian University, China</span><span style="font-family:等线;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Publicity Chair</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="font-size:12pt">Yijia Liu, </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Xidian </span><span style="font-size:12pt">University, China</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><b><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Steering Committee Chairs</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Laurence T. Yang, Zhengzhou University, China</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0pt 5pt 36pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:10pt">· </span><span style="letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Liang Zhao, Shenyang Aerospace University, China</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">--</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Best regards!</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0pt;text-indent:0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">Yijia</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt"> L</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:0pt;font-size:12pt">iu</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p></div>