<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.6933px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dearest Colleagues<span class="" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.6933px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">I am contacting you in my capacity as Guest Editor for a <span class="gmail-m_5185318724306771506gmail-il">Special</span> <span class="gmail-m_5185318724306771506gmail-il">Issue</span> titled:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.6933px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>"<span class="gmail-m_5185318724306771506gmail-il">Granular</span> <span class="gmail-m_5185318724306771506gmail-il">Computing</span>: From Foundations to Applications"</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.6933px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">to appear in “Algorithms” MDPI journal:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.6933px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="line-height: 15.6933px;"><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Granular_Computing" target="_blank" class="" style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Granular_Computing</span></a></span> <br class=""><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.6933px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">With this call for papers, I invite you and/or your co-authors to submit an original research paper, or a focused review, for our <span class="gmail-m_5185318724306771506gmail-il">special</span> <span class="gmail-m_5185318724306771506gmail-il">issue</span>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.6933px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class=""><u class="">Deadline for manuscript submissions has been extended</u>: <b class="">31 March 2020</b>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.6933px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class="">Submitted papers will be peer reviewed and, upon acceptance, the paper will be published in open access form soon after professional editing.<br class=""><br class="">Thank you in advance for your consideration and I sincerely hope that you will accept this invitation to contribute to this <span class="gmail-m_5185318724306771506gmail-il">Special </span><span class="gmail-m_5185318724306771506gmail-il">Issue</span>. If you believe that you will be able to submit a manuscript, I would also greatly appreciate <b class="">if you could respond to this invitation at your earliest convenience.</b><br class=""><br class="">“Algorithms” (ISSN 1999-4893) is an EI, Scopus and ESCI indexed, Open Access journal of computer science, theory, methods and interdisciplinary applications, data and information systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence, automation and control systems, and is published online monthly by MDPI.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 15.6933px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class="">Best Regards</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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