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              Technologies for Internet of Vehicles”</span></b><b
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              on Internet of Things - Technologies, Communications and
              Computing </span></b></p>
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              of Lisbon, Portugal</span></b></p>
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
              "Arial",sans-serif">George Mastorakis, Hellenic
              Mediterranean University, Greece</span></b></p>
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              Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus</span></b></p>
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
              "Arial",sans-serif">Evangelos Pallis, Hellenic
              Mediterranean University, Greece</span></b></p>
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              Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece</span></b></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Internet-of-things
            (IoT) has appeared as a novel and ground-breaking technology
            aiming to provide Internet connectivity to every device that
            have computation, communication and storage capability.
            Numerous applications such as smart health, smart cities,
            smart industries, and smart homes are a result of this
            phenomenon of connecting smart devices with the Internet. In
            order to provide secure and safe transportation, IoT has
            evolved into a novel concept, also known as the Internet of
            Vehicles (IoV) where smart vehicles equipped with computing,
            communicating and storing capabilities communicate with each
            other and with surrounding infrastructure via
            vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. The latter
            enabled the exchange of critical information among smart
            vehicles including sudden lane changes, steep-curves, black
            ice warnings, and traffic accidents avoidance, therefore
            assisting the drivers in extreme and difficult situations.
            IoV has an enormous potential to provide secure and safer
            transportation as it enables the vehicles to take correct
            decision in a timely manner. In addition, IoV will also have
            intelligence and learning capabilities to anticipate the
            vehicular users’ intentions. Cloud-based IoV mechanisms
            provide several essential services from routing to content
            search, spectrum sharing, dissemination, attack protection,
            etc. However, IoV-based objects produce a vast volume of
            information frequently called as Big Data, which cannot be
            easily processed by traditional algorithms and schemes.
            Future smart environments will enable efficient handling and
            processing of Big Data that is generated by the associated
            objects for an effective communication and co-operation
            among them.</span></p>
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          style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">In
            addition, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will play a crucial
            role in such environments, enabling for smarter services,
            applications, business processes and social interaction
            among the IoV objects. In this respect, a great potential
            exists for advanced technological solutions combined with AI
            and IoV-enabled capabilities. AI mechanisms applied in IoV
            environments can be exploited in smart cities to analyze
            drivers’ actions via data gathered and/or exchanged by
            enabled V2X vehicles’ Electronic Control Unit (ECU) and
            microcontrollers. AI will play a significant role in future
            IoV applications and infrastructures, by providing insights
            from collected data. This capability will enable the
            identification of patterns and will allow operational
            predictions with higher accuracy in small time periods. AI
            applications for smart vehicles will also enable businesses
            to develop new products, reduce possible risks and increase
            efficiency during the production time, by predicting
            failures that are usually non-detectable by humans.</span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
            future of the implementation of AI-powered IoV
            infrastructures depends on the effective solutions to a
            number of technical challenges that such paradigms
            introduce. These challenges include intelligent sensor
            capabilities improvement and integration, smart Big Data
            analytics, automated remote data management, as well as open
            and secure composition of processes, which may be
            implemented into emerging AI-enabled IoV scenarios. Some
            initiatives try to incorporate Artificial Intelligence
            schemes in IoV environments, but new frameworks have to be
            defined. In fact, the approach of IoV is to find the
            potential benefits of AI, in order to build extensive
            ecosystems, for increasing the number of automated services
            and their value. This Book aims to gather recent research
            works in emerging Artificial Intelligence methods for
            processing and storing the data generated from cloud-based
            Internet of Vehicles infrastructures. In this context, the
            major subjects of the proposed book will cover the analysis
            and the development of AI-powered mechanisms in future IoV
            applications and architectures.</span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Topics
            of interest include but are <i
              style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><u>not limited</u></i>
            to:</span></p>
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              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Emerging trends of
            AI and IoV</span></p>
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              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Architectures and
            systems for AI and IoV convergence</span></p>
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              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">IoV with Machine
            Learning technologies</span></p>
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              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">IoV with deep
            learning schemes</span></p>
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            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">AI-enabled IoV
            applications and systems</span></p>
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              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Performance
            evaluation of Deep Learning and IoV-related mechanisms</span></p>
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              </span></span></span><span
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            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Social computing
            and Intelligent IoV</span></p>
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            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Blockchain-oriented
            IoV schemes and related topics</span></p>
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            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Artificial immune
            systems and IoV</span></p>
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              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Algorithm
            optimization for intelligent IoV applications</span></p>
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              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Intelligent Big
            Data analytics</span></p>
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              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">AI-enabled
            computing</span></p>
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            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Deep-learning
            network approaches for IoV applications and services.</span></p>
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            for 5G-based IoV resource management</span></p>
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              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Intelligent
            edge/fog-based computing and analysis</span></p>
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auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-36.0pt;
          line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
            New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
            New Roman""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                 
              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Self-Organizing
            intelligent systems</span></p>
        <p class="ColorfulList-Accent11CxSpMiddle"
          style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-36.0pt;
          line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
            New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
            New Roman""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                 
              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Smart cities and
            AI applications</span></p>
        <p class="ColorfulList-Accent11CxSpMiddle"
          style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-36.0pt;
          line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
            New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
            New Roman""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                 
              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">AI in all sort of
            vehicular communications</span></p>
        <p class="ColorfulList-Accent11CxSpMiddle"
          style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-36.0pt;
          line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
            New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
            New Roman""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                 
              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Security, privacy
            and trust by design and performance evaluation</span></p>
        <p class="ColorfulList-Accent11CxSpMiddle"
          style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-36.0pt;
          line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
            New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
            New Roman""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                 
              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Multimedia QoS,
            and traffic management in IoV</span></p>
        <p class="ColorfulList-Accent11CxSpMiddle"
          style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-36.0pt;
          line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
            New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
            New Roman""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                 
              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Intelligent
            network estimation techniques</span></p>
        <p class="ColorfulList-Accent11CxSpMiddle"
          style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-36.0pt;
          line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
            New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
            New Roman""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                 
              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">AI-based schemes
            for IoV emergency communication networks</span></p>
        <p class="ColorfulList-Accent11CxSpMiddle"
          style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-36.0pt;
          line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times
            New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
            New Roman""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">                 
              </span></span></span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
            font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Applications of AI
            for 5G+ vehicular technologies</span></p>
        <p class="ColorfulList-Accent11CxSpLast"
          style="margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:
auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%"><em><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
              color:#3B3B3B;background:white">We strongly welcome <u>other
                topic suggestions,</u> dealing with AI and </span></em><span
            class="apple-converted-space"><i><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B;background:white">IoV
                and any converged approach.</span></i></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"></span></p>
        <h2
style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white"><u><span
              style="font-size:17.0pt;line-height:115%;
              font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">Schedule
              & Deadlines</span></u><span
style="font-size:17.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B"></span></h2>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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            style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#3B3B3B;
            mso-color-alt:windowtext"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        </span></span></span><span
            class="apple-converted-space"><b><u><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:
                  windowtext">15<sup>th</sup> April 2020</span></u></b></span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:
            windowtext"><br>
          </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">Chapter
            proposal (max. 2-pages)/Intention to submit a chapter</span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:31.5pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:16.5pt;mso-list:l1
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            style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#3B3B3B;
            mso-color-alt:windowtext"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        </span></span></span><span
            class="apple-converted-space"><b><u><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:
                  windowtext">31<sup>st</sup> July 2020</span></u></b></span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:
            windowtext"><br>
          </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">Full
            chapter submission via e-mail: </span><span
            style="color:black;mso-color-alt: windowtext"><a
              href="mailto:itiov@outlook.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                style="font-size:11.5pt;
                font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">itiov@outlook.com</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">
          </span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:31.5pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:16.5pt;mso-list:l1
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            style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#3B3B3B;
            mso-color-alt:windowtext"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        </span></span></span><span
            class="apple-converted-space"><b><u><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:
                  windowtext">30<sup>th</sup> September 2020</span></u></b></span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:
            windowtext"><br>
          </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">Review
            comments </span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:31.5pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:16.5pt;mso-list:l1
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            style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#3B3B3B;
            mso-color-alt:windowtext"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        </span></span></span><span
            class="apple-converted-space"><b><u><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:
                  windowtext">31<sup>st</sup> October 2020</span></u></b></span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:
            windowtext"><br>
          </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">Submission
            of the revised version<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:31.5pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:16.5pt;mso-list:l1
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            style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#3B3B3B;
            mso-color-alt:windowtext"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        </span></span></span><span
            class="apple-converted-space"><b><u><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:
                  windowtext">30<sup>th</sup> November 2020 </span></u></b></span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:
            windowtext"><br>
          </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">Final
            acceptance notification</span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:31.5pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:16.5pt;mso-list:l1
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            style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Symbol;
mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:#3B3B3B;
            mso-color-alt:windowtext"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        </span></span></span><strong><u><span
                style="font-size:11.5pt;
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">31<sup>st</sup>
                December 2020</span></u></strong><span
            class="apple-converted-space"><b><u><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext">
                </span></u></b></span><span
            style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><br>
          </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">Final
            manuscript</span></p>
        <h2
style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white"><u><span
              style="font-size:17.0pt;line-height:115%;
              font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">Manuscript
              Preparation</span></u><span
style="font-size:17.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B"></span></h2>
        <ul type="disc">
          <li class="MsoNormal"
            style="color:#3B3B3B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
            auto;line-height:16.5pt;mso-list:l2 level1
            lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt; background:white"><span
              style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please
              follow the manuscript formatting guidelines below and
              submit the original version (in <b
                style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
                  style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Microsoft word</i></b>)
              and or <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i
                  style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">LaTex</i></b>
              format as per the guidelines (URL: </span><span
              style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a
                href="http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~nmagaia/it_iov/T1-book_IT-IoV.zip"
                moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                  style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~nmagaia/it_iov/T1-book_IT-IoV.zip</span></a></span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">).</span></li>
          <li class="MsoNormal"
            style="color:#3B3B3B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
            auto;line-height:16.5pt;mso-list:l2 level1
            lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt; background:white"><span
              style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Each
              final manuscript should be about 25-35 pages long
              (formatted). Depending on the number of submissions,
              longer manuscripts will also be accepted.</span></li>
          <li class="MsoNormal"
            style="color:#3B3B3B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
            auto;line-height:16.5pt;mso-list:l2 level1
            lfo3;tab-stops:list 36.0pt; background:white"><span
              style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please
              prepare your manuscript according to the following
              guidelines:</span></li>
        </ul>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
          margin-left:36.0pt;line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><span
            style="color: black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636#c3324"
              moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript-preparation/5636#c3324</span></a></span><span
            class="MsoHyperlink"></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
          margin-left:36.0pt;line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><span
            style="color: black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a
href="http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~nmagaia/it_iov/PermissionReqForm_Springer_2020.doc"
              moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~nmagaia/it_iov/PermissionReqForm_Springer_2020.doc</span></a></span><span
            class="MsoHyperlink"><span
              style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
            </span></span></p>
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          <li class="MsoNormal"
            style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
            line-height:16.5pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;tab-stops:list
            36.0pt; background:white"><span
              style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
              color:#3B3B3B">Submit the proposal of your chapter(s) via
              e-mail: </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span
                style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a
                  class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
                  href="mailto:itiov@outlook.com" moz-do-not-send="true">itiov@outlook.com</a></span></span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">
            </span><span
              style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></li>
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