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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">****CALL FOR PAPERS****</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">The </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;background:white">8<span style="color:#212121">th International
Platform on Integrating Arab e-Infrastructure in a Global Environment (e-AGE18) is a premier forum to present and discuss advances in e-Infrastructure technology and research. e-AGE18 (</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#212121"><a href="http://asrenorg.net/eage18/">http://asrenorg.net/eage18/</a>) will
be held in Amman - Jordan during 2-3 December 2018 under the patronage of HE Dr. Adel Tweissi, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">This year, e-AGE18 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE, and the proceedings are indexed in IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be published
in a special issue of the International Journal of Advanced Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAPUC): </span></u><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#212121"><a href="https://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-advanced-pervasive-ubiquitous/1106">https://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-advanced-pervasive-ubiquitous/1106</a> </span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">e-AGE18 brings together leading innovators in Research and Education Networks from around the world. The latest development and advances
in e-Infrastructures and research and education network technologies and applications are explored in specialized tracks of e-AGE18. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background:white">We look forward to your involvement and participation in this year's event.</span><br>
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<b><span style="background:white">CONFERENCE TRACKS</span><br>
</b><span style="background:white">* Track 1: </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;background:white">Scientific computing and data-intensive e-Science in areas related to energy, environment, health, climate, water,
agriculture, biology, economy, medicine, as well as in social sciences and humanities.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="background:white">* Track 2: </span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;background:white">Perspectives on NRENs, including challenges, operation, sustainability, funding, governance, business models, security
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* Track 3: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;background:white">Problem-solving environments, Virtual Research Environments, Science Gateways and collaborative tools, applications and services.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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access to educational resources, repositories, libraries and contents, clouds, grids, parallel and distributed computing, and high performance computing.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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technologies and trends, Internet of Things, Security, SDN and AAIs.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">SUBMISSION</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#212121"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">e-AGE18 seeks original manuscripts that have not been previously published. Each submitted manuscript (six pages maximum, including figures and
references) will be peer reviewed, and acceptance will be based on quality, relevance, and originality. Submission will be through</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> <span style="color:#212121;background:white">EasyChair
at <a href="http://asrenorg.net/eage18/?q=content/submission"><span style="color:#954F72">http://asrenorg.net/eage18/?q=content/submission</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#212121"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#212121;background:white">Paper submission for All Tracks: 1 October, 2018 <br>
Notification of Paper Acceptance: 1 November, 2018 <br>
Final Camera-Ready Paper: 20 November, 2018 <br>
Conference Days: 2 - 3 December, 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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