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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** First Call for Contributions ***</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;"><b>39th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>(CBMS 2026)</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;"><b>June 3-5 2026,
</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus</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;"><b><a href="https://2026.cbms-conference.org">https://2026.cbms-conference.org</a></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;">Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">medical systems, and one of the main conferences in the fields of medical informatics and</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">biomedical informatics. CBMS allows the exchange of ideas and technologies between
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">academic and industrial scientists. The scientific program of IEEE CBMS 2026 will consist</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">of regular and special track sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">an international program committee, as well as, keynote talks and tutorials given by
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">leading experts in their fields. The CBMS 2026 edition also aims to host high-quality
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">papers about industry and real case applications as well as allow researchers leading
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">international projects to show to the scientific community the main aims, goals, and</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">results of their projects. We solicit submissions on previously unpublished research work.</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>CALL FOR PAPERS</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;">Example areas include but are not limited to:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Active and Healthy Ageing System</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Analytics and solutions in Public Health</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Artificial intelligence in healthcare</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Big Data Analytics in Healthcare</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Bioinformatics</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Biomarker Discovery and Drug Design</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Biomedical Signal and Image Processing and Machine Vision</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Cognitive Computing in Healthcare</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Healthcare (CSCW)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Databases and blockchain in Medicine or Healthcare</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery in Medicine or Healthcare</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Decision Support and Recommendation Systems in Medicine or Healthcare</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Digital Twins / Personalized AI Models</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• e-Health</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Ethics in the application of ICT to biomedicine</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Explainable AI for Decision Support</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Generative AI and Foundational Models for Biomedicine</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in Healthcare</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Knowledge Representation in Medicine or Healthcare</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• m-Health</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Medical education using ICT</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Medical Robotics, Intelligent Medical Devices, and Smart Technologies</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Metaverse, Augmented and Intelligent Reality</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Multimodality Data Analysis</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Network and Telemedicine Systems</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Pervasive Computing for Wearables</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Privacy and Security in Healthcare</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Radiomics and Radiogenomics</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Serious Games for Healthcare</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Software Systems in Medicine</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Technology in Clinical and Healthcare Services Research</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Web-Based Delivery of Medical Information</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Prospective authors are expected to submit their contributions to the general track or one</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">of the special tracks if relevant. Please see the submission guidelines for further details.</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>Submission Guidelines</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Committee members. All accepted papers (Regular, Short, and Posters) will be included in</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">proceedings is conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">conference by one of the authors.</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>Type of Submissions</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format, whose</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">template is available at
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates">https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates</a></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The authors may choose LaTeX or Microsoft Word templates. CBMS 2026 accepts three</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">types of submissions:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Regular papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 6 pages, but it is possible</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">to extend the paper length up to 8 pages by paying for each extra page. Check fees for</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">more information.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Short papers: The length of the contribution is limited to 4 pages and no less than 3</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">pages, not being possible to extend the paper length. The duration of the oral</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">presentation of short posters will be less than regular ones.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Posters: The length of the contribution is limited to 2 pages. Poster papers will be
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">included in the proceedings but won’t include oral presentations during the conference.
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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 a poster also need to prepare a real poster to be shown during the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">conference. For presentation purposes at the conference, the authors must prepare the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">poster in portrait format. The accepted dimensions are 60 (width) x 80 (length).</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>CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACKS</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;">IEEE CBMS 2026 invites proposals for organization of special tracks that will be held in</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">parallel with the general conference track. The themes of the special tracks should not
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">overlap with the general conference topics and should focus on emerging research fields.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">All tracks are expected to enable stimulating discussions of state-of-the-art, emerging,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">visionary, and perhaps controversial topics. Their papers should report on significant
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">unpublished work and must meet the same standards as main conference papers. All
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. We expect all accepted
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">tracks to adhere to the conference paper submission and reviewing schedule, as outlined</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">in the dates indicated below.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Special Tracks chair(s) will be interacting with organisers of accepted workshops to ensure</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">a high-quality workshop program. In the case of detecting several similar submissions, the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">CBMS 2026 organization can propose the fusion of those proposals.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Special Track Requirements</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The organizers of a special track must comply with a set of principles and obligations,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">listed below:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• A specific webpage with information about the special track will be created by CBMS</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">after the acceptance notification. The organizers must provide the following information to</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">be added to such webpage: special track description, list of topics, call for papers,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">submission information (must be the same as CBMS 2026 regular track), special track
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">organizers, special track program committee members, any other relevant information.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• The organizers of the special track are responsible for the peer-review process within</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">their track. They must add their own Program Committee members/reviewers to the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">submission platform, ensure that receive all the reviews on time, check the quality of the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">reviews, and establish the acceptance/rejection decision. The final decision will be sent by</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">CBMS 2026 PC Chairs. They also must pay special attention to potential conflicts of</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">interest and ensure that all the general ethical rules of research are followed.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• At least one of the organizers of the special track must register and attend CBMS 2026</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">in Limassol, Cyprus. The organizer(s) who attend CBMS will also chair the specific session
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">that will be assigned in the agenda to their track.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• The organizers of the special track are responsible for the publicity of their track to try</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">to win as many submissions as possible. Please bear in mind that a special track with less</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">than 4 accepted papers could be canceled. In this case, the accepted papers will be moved
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">to the regular track.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Submission Guidelines</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Each proposal must include:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Special track title</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Rough estimate of the expected ST size as number of sessions (with 4-5 papers per</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">session)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• A brief biography of ST organizer(s)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• List of Special Track Program Committee members</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• A draft of Special Track “Call for Papers” (important dates must be the same of the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">main conference)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• One or two appropriate journals or follow up publications: tracks are expected to
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">organize a special issue, if planned.</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 proposal must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">management system (see link below).</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>CALL FOR SHOWCASE / RESEARCH PROJECTS</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;">CBMS 2026 will have a special showcase/research projects track session, where we invite</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">(a) scientific papers, (b) demonstrations/posters and (c) research-projects descriptions.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Scientific papers: We invite papers (not exceeding 6 pages in length), describing innovative</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">computer-based medical devices or software applications, including practical experiences</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">with such innovations. The papers should be scholarly articles presenting scientific
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">methods, measurements, and experiments. Marketing and sales materials will not be
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">accepted. These papers will be evaluated based on practicality, innovation, scientific rigor,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">value of the device or application to users, and novelty. They will be published in the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">proceedings of the conference along with the other papers under this track.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Examples of such papers could include but are not limited to:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Computer-based medical devices that have technical/scientific novelty</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Computer-based medical applications intended for or recently introduced in the field</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Novel uses of traditional equipment in practice</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Experience papers based on use and data from the field</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Insightful measurement-based analysis of computer-based medical systems from the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">field</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Novel analysis providing new insights from data collected from the field</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• New and practical data analytics useful in practice</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Real deployments of AI solutions in 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;">Demonstrations: A demonstration is more appropriate if the value can be better expressed</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">with a demonstration rather than in a full-length paper. The topics for the demonstration
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">papers are the same as the scientific for this track. Please submit a proposal of your
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">demonstration with a limit of two pages.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Research projects/initiatives: CBMS aims in this edition to receive submissions about
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">research or innovation projects funded by, mainly, competitive calls to present their
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">project. We foresee to receive submissions which include details about the project goals,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">consortium and results (expected and any tentative result obtained so far). Only projects
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">considered. International projects organized in a consortium of several countries will have</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 in this context should be a one/two-pages document with at least the</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Project/initiative title</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Description</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Participant entities</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Project goals</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Funding agency (when applies) or agencies</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Results obtained so far (publications, patents, ...)</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 contribution must be prepared following the regular paper. The length of the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">contribution must be between 4 and 6 pages.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Submission Guidelines</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">system (see link below). All submissions will be peer-reviewed at least by two Program</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Committee members. All accepted contributions will be included in the conference
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">proceedings and will be published by IEEE Xplore. Publication in proceedings is</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">conditioned to the registration and presentation of the paper at the conference by one of
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">the authors.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM</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;">The Doctoral Consortium for CBMS 2026 will provide an opportunity for PhD students to</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">present their research plans or their preliminary work in an informal and supportive
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">atmosphere. The PhD students will be able to discuss the problems that their PhDs are
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">addressing, any preliminary results, and their future plans. The DC will offer them an
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">opportunity to discuss any problems that they have come up against, and gain valuable
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">advice and constructive feedback from experienced researchers in the field.The Doctoral
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Consortium will involve presentations by participating PhD students (selected by the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Doctoral Consortium chairs) as well as a number of invited talks / tutorials on different
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">related topics in the field.</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>Submissions</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Doctoral Consortium submissions should focus specifically on a PhD thesis or subsection</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">of a thesis. To apply for participation at CBMS 2026 Doctoral Consortium, please submit a</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">research plan on a topic related to the areas covered in the general call for papers for the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">conference. Each submission should be in the same format as the main conference papers</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">except it should consist of approximately 3-5 pages describing your research work.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">In particular:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Title and author</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• The research problem that your PhD addresses</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Your planned approach and methods for solving the problem</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• How your approach compares to other known approaches</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Any preliminary results or expected results</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Future plans and directions with specific questions</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair conference management
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">system (see link below).</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Doctoral Consortium papers/contributions will be included in the proceedings in a specific</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">“Doctoral Consortium” section.</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>SUBMISSION LINK FOR ALL TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS</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;"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecbms2026">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecbms2026</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;">For more information, please contact ieeecbms2026 AT easychair.org .</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>Papers / ShowCases / Research Projects/ DC</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Submission Deadline: February 20, 2026 (AoE)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2026</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Camera-Ready Due: April 24, 2026 (AoE)</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>Special Tracks</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Proposals Deadline: October 24, 2025 (AoE)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2025</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>ORGANIZATION</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;"><u>CBMS SC Chair</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Rosa Sicilia, University Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Italy</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 Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Constantinos S. Pattichis, 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>Program Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Efthyvoulos Kyriacou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Andreas S. Panayides, CYENS Centre of Excellence, 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>Publication Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Sameer K. Antani, National Library of Medicine & National Institutes Of Health, USA</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Bridget Kana, Karlstad University, Sweden</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Pietro Cinaglia, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Christos Loizou, Cyprus University of Technology, 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>Showcase / Research Projects Chair</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy</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>Doctoral Consortium Chair</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Marios Pattichis, University of New Mexico, USA</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>Local Organizing and Finance 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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