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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** Last Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers ***</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>37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>(ISSRE 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>October 20-23, 2026,
</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>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://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/">https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/</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;">The ISSRE 2026 Doctoral Symposium is intended to bring together PhD students working</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">on innovative research for improving, monitoring, and assessing the reliability,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">dependability, and security of software systems, and give them the opportunity to present</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and discuss their research in a constructive, friendly, and international atmosphere. The
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">goals of the Doctoral Symposium are:</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Providing a setting for constructive feedback on participants' current research and
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">guidance on future research directions;</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Developing a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research;</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Providing an opportunity for PhD students to interact with established researchers and</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">practitioners in the software reliability engineering community.</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 selected papers will present their work and receive feedback both from</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">a panel of experts from academia and industry and from other Doctoral Symposium
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">students. The students will also have the opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">completing a PhD, such as how to perform research, how to design and execute empirical</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">research, etc.</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 papers accepted and presented at the Doctoral Symposium 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;">supplementary conference proceedings of ISSRE 2026 and participants in the Doctoral
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Symposium will be given the opportunity to present a poster about their dissertation
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">research at 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;"><b>Who should participate</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;">Students at all stages (at the beginning, at the middle, or near the end of their PhD) who</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">are working on a thesis topic relevant to ISSRE are encouraged to participate in the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Doctoral Symposium.</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>Submissions</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;">Each submission consists of two elements:</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Research proposal: a 4-page paper describing your dissertation research to be authored</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">by the student only. Your advisor should be included in the acknowledgments.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Letter of recommendation: ask your advisor to submit a letter of recommendation in
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">support of your application. This letter should include your name and a candid assessment</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">of the current status of your dissertation research. The letter should be emailed to both
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs (issre2026-ds AT stefan-winter.net) with the subject</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">"ISSRE 2026 Doctoral Symposium Recommendation".</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Your research proposal should contain at least the following items: 1) a title for your work;</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">2) an abstract (maximum 200 words); 3) a description of the technical problem to be
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">solved and the research questions to be answered; 4) the proposed approach; 5) a brief
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">description of the work accomplished to date; 6) the tentative date of your thesis defense.</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 must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">be under consideration for publication elsewhere.</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>Formatting guidelines</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;">Papers must be written in English, and be formatted according to the IEEE Computer
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Society Format Guidelines (</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;">).</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 must comply with IEEE\u2019s author guidelines for AI-generated texts</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">(</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><a href="https://open.ieee.org/author-guidelines-for-artificial-intelligence-ai-generated-text/">https://open.ieee.org/author-guidelines-for-artificial-intelligence-ai-generated-text/</a></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">).</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>Process</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;">All papers must be submitted electronically at the following link:</span></div>
<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=issre2026">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issre2026</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;">Please make sure to select the track on Doctoral Symposium at the beginning of the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">submission process.</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 will be reviewed by the Doctoral Symposium co-chairs. Authors of
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">submissions selected for acceptance will present their work during the Doctoral
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Symposium and have the camera-ready version of their paper published in the ISSRE 2026</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Supplementary Proceedings and the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. In addition, authors of
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">accepted submissions will be given the opportunity to present a poster about their
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">dissertation research at 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;"><b>Important Dates (AoE)</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;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Submission deadline: July 22, 2026</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2026</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Camera-ready copy submission: July 29, 2026</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Author registration deadline: August 19, 2026</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>Organisation</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>General Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 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>Program Coordinator</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Roberto Natella, GSSI, 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>Research Program Committee Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK</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>Industry Program Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, 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;"><u>Workshop Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, 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>Doctoral Symposium Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada</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>Fast Abstract Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore</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>JIC2 Chair</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, 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>Publicity Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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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;">\u2022 Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, 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>Artifact Evaluation Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan</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>Diversity and Inclusion Chair</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Eleni Constantinou, 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>Financial Chair</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Costas 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>Web Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, 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>Registration Chair</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Easy Conferences LTD</span></div>
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