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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** Call for Late Submissions ***</b></span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">First International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">Wellbeing (IHAW 2021)</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">November 8-10, 2021, Golden Bay Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><A HREF="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlGaXJzdCBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSUNUIGZvciBIZWFsdGgsIEFjY2Vzc2liaWxpdHkgYW5kIFdlbGxiZWluZyAoSUhBVyAyMDIxKTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgTGF0ZSBTdWJtaXNzaW9ucwk2NTQJTGlzdHMJMTI2CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fihaw2021%2F">http://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2021/</A></span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">(Proceedings to be published by Springer;</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">Special Session on AAL, see below;</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">Special Journal Issue with SN Computer Science)</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b><u>The call for late submissions has a firm deadline on July 30, 2021</u></b></span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2021) is the first of the</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">research at the interplay between Information and Communication</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research.</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">particular interest.</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><u>Conference Topics</u></span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: </span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• AI and Cognition, Cognitive Mechatronics, Human-Machine Interaction,</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Cobotics, Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">well-being, AI methods for medical device testing</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain,</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements,</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">games, electronic health record, self-management, patient-centered systems</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care)</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Precision medicine</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• ICT for in-silico trials</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Implantable medical devices</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Computational methods for medical device</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Models for human-device interaction for medicine</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Systems promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">environment</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Age-friendly systems for active and healthy aging (telepresence, robotics</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care,</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection)</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory,</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition)</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living;</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">personalized early risk detection and intervention)</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• New experimental validation methods with end-users</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Standardization, certification, labeling, privacy, security and communication</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">issues (related to aging well, to sensory impairment)</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome.</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Early works and works-</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">in-progress are invited to submit a short or demo paper.</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of-</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">technology readiness levels</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">(<A HREF="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlGaXJzdCBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSUNUIGZvciBIZWFsdGgsIEFjY2Vzc2liaWxpdHkgYW5kIFdlbGxiZWluZyAoSUhBVyAyMDIxKTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgTGF0ZSBTdWJtaXNzaW9ucwk2NTQJTGlzdHMJMTI2CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTechnology_readiness_level">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level</A>)</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">should be at least outlined.</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><u>Special Session on Active Assisted Living (AAL)</u></span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Do you do research or commercial work in the active and healthy ageing</b></span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>area and you want to participate in the discussion driving the future of</b></span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>healthy ageing? Do you have a funded project in the AAL programme and</b></span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>would like to present the results of the project?</b></span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Then the Special Session on AAL is the perfect opportunity for you to be</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">involved in an ecosystem that promotes active and healthy ageing. This</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">special session at the IHAW 2021 conference aims to bring together the</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">community of healthy ageing to present their results and to discuss the</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">existing opportunities in health technology and reflect on the future of</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">ageing well in the digital world. You will be presented with the opportunity</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">to meet and discuss with several stakeholders from universities, industry, </span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">regional and national authorities, private companies working with older</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">adults and many more. You can use the opportunity to showcase the best</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">practices and find solutions to challenges through presentations, discussions,</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">workshops and networking.</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The Special Session on AAL is the ideal meeting place for presenting the </span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">results from cutting-edge, funded AAL projects, as well as independent </span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">research or commercial work in the active and healthy ageing area,</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">performed from:</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Universities and research institutions</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• End-user organisations and companies working with older adults</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Industry professionals involved in the technology sector with an interest</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">in active and healthy ageing</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Health care and social care providers</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Individuals and organisations implicated in the AAL funded projects</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The goal of this Special Session is to engage researchers and all relevant </span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">stakeholders of the healthy ageing value chain into networking and </span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">discussions to present their experiences and provide answers and solutions</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">to problems and issues faced by older adults. This community is of great </span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">importance since it drives and aims to achieve better conditions and a </span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">healthier and improved society for the future of older adults. The proactive </span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">involvement of the community in conceptualising, designing and developing</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">cost-effective systems that offer services to serve our ageing society, as well </span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">as the presentation of the solutions and discussion and exchange of ideas in </span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">this special session aims to drive and cultivate innovative thinkers, creative</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">people and change makers in the area of active and healthy ageing.</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Please follow the submission guidelines and important dates as they are</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">stated below </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>and make sure that under the abstract of your submitted paper</u></span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>there is the statement: "Submitted to the Special Session on AAL"</u></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">. Accepted</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">papers will be published by Springer in the CCIS Series.</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><u>Submissions</u></span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">We invite three types of paper submissions:</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">1. </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Research </b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b> Technical papers</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">, up to 15 pages, describing original</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">2. </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Short papers</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">, up to 6 pages, describing original unpublished research,</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">making a small but solid contribution to the field</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">3. </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Demos</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">, up to 4 pages, describing innovative tools that address topics</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">relevant to the conference</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">contributions will appear in the archival proceedings of IHAW 2021,</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Science (CCIS) series (<A HREF="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlGaXJzdCBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSUNUIGZvciBIZWFsdGgsIEFjY2Vzc2liaWxpdHkgYW5kIFdlbGxiZWluZyAoSUhBVyAyMDIxKTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgTGF0ZSBTdWJtaXNzaW9ucwk2NTQJTGlzdHMJMTI2CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fseries%2F7899">https://www.springer.com/series/7899</A>),</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and will be presented in plenary sessions of the conference.</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The authors of the best papers accepted for IHAW2021 will be invited to</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">submit extended versions for a special issue with SN Computer Science</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">(<A HREF="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlGaXJzdCBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSUNUIGZvciBIZWFsdGgsIEFjY2Vzc2liaWxpdHkgYW5kIFdlbGxiZWluZyAoSUhBVyAyMDIxKTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgTGF0ZSBTdWJtaXNzaW9ucwk2NTQJTGlzdHMJMTI2CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fjournal%2F42979">https://www.springer.com/journal/42979</A>).</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Springer format for conference proceedings:</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><A HREF="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlGaXJzdCBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSUNUIGZvciBIZWFsdGgsIEFjY2Vzc2liaWxpdHkgYW5kIFdlbGxiZWluZyAoSUhBVyAyMDIxKTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgTGF0ZSBTdWJtaXNzaW9ucwk2NTQJTGlzdHMJMTI2CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</A></span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and should specify on the first page the type of submission ("R&T", "Short",</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">"Demo"). The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">submission link is: <A HREF="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQlGaXJzdCBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gSUNUIGZvciBIZWFsdGgsIEFjY2Vzc2liaWxpdHkgYW5kIFdlbGxiZWluZyAoSUhBVyAyMDIxKTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgTGF0ZSBTdWJtaXNzaW9ucwk2NTQJTGlzdHMJMTI2CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dicihaw2021">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icihaw2021</A> .</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><u>Important Dates</u></span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Submission Deadline: July 30, 2021 (AoE) (firm)</span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Notification: August 23, 2021 </span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: September 6, 2021 </span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Author Registration Deadline: September 6, 2021 </span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><u>Organizers</u></span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Honorary General Chair</u></span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>General Chair</u></span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Scientific Chair</u></span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Salim Bouhlel, University of Sfax, Tunisia</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Scientific Vice-Chair and Special Session Chair</u></span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Publicity Chair</u></span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico</span></div>

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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Finance Chair</u></span></div>

<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus</span></div>

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