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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">QUATIC 2024 - 17th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">AIMS AND SCOPE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">The International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC) is a leading scientific conference that gathers experts from industry
 and academia to exchange ideas and approaches regarding all quality aspects in ICT systems engineering and management. This forum seeks to foster lively discussion on how to further the state-of-the-art and define future directions, as well as to disseminate
 advanced new methods, techniques, and tools. QUATIC 2024, now in its 17th edition, will be hosted in Pisa, in the beautiful region of Tuscany in central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Tyrrhenian Sea. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">QUATIC 2024 invites practitioners and researchers to submit technical papers reporting original research and experience results in all topics and sub-fields of Quality
 in ICT process, product, and applications domains, as well as sharing practical studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">The conference is organized into thematic tracks that serve as dedicated discussion venues on focused topics of interest, mixing well-established traditional QUATIC
 topics and newly proposed tracks, covering breakthrough research challenges: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="PT">●<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">      </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="PT">Emerging
 Topics and Technologies in Requirements Engineering -  Alessio Ferrari (CNR) and Sallam Abualhaija (University of Luxembourg)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="PT">●<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">      </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="PT">Human
 Factors for Quality Software -  Rodrigo Santos (UNIRIO) and Xiaofeng Wang (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="PT">●<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">      </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="PT">ICT
 Process Improvement, Organisation, and Governance -  Gleison Santos (UNIRIO) and Edna Canedo (Universidade de Brasília (UnB))<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="PT">●<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">      </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="PT">Innovative
 Strategies for Total Quality in Business Processes and Software -  Mohamad Kassab (Pennsylvania State University) and Phillip Laplante (NIST)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="PT">●<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">      </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="PT">Quality
 Aspects of Empirical Studies -  Roberto Verdecchia (University of Florence) and Marcos Kalinowski (PUC-Rio)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="PT">●<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">      </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="PT">Quality
 Aspects of Services and Cloud Computing -  Vasilios Andrikopoulos (University of Groningen) and Elisabetta Di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="PT">●<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">  </span></span><span lang="PT">Quality
 in Adaptive Software -  Claudia Raibulet (Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) and Karthik Vaidhyanathan (International Institute of Information Technology)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="PT">●<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">      </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="PT">Quality
 in the Age of AI -  Grace Lewis (Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute) and Domenico Bianculli (University of Luxembourg)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="PT">●<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">      </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="PT">Sustainability
 as a Quality Concern -  Luis Cruz (Delft Technical University) and Maja Kirkeby (Roskilde University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="PT">●<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">      </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="PT">Verification,
 Validation, and Testing -  Mercedes Merayo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Filippo Ricca (University of Genova)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">The relevant topics specific to each track are available from the conference web site at <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F2024.quatic.org%2Fthematic-tracks&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cb0bbd3aed30d49a3be7908dc1cb1b988%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638416796851395456%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=lAfDuxPWalwCFBLS9L49qi%2F2W0LKeG4hpLSn8IZJ0SA%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://2024.quatic.org/thematic-tracks" shash="oqTYWRFO1F8l1cHLYXyY/0BtrhlzSxInsFGW//Uqi0rG8cLfgmyGrkUxYxGWEUxyqoY0BNB5AmX78mVNW8wuST5/NRxjxTWcaoWDLHUPZSIjs2pqqmsY17CGsmnOaVbvSIb9VJqP4oEvm3W95IAmdUNRyb3gRaCkA6fAKWlQXDI="><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://2024.quatic.org/thematic-tracks</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">SUBMISSIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">QUATIC 2024 accepts the following types of contributions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="PT">●<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">      </span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="PT">Research
 and experience papers </span></b><span lang="PT">(full papers, between 12 and 16 pages). Full papers should describe novel and scientifically rigorous contributions to any aspect related to the quality of ICT systems. Experience papers should present original
 reports on relevant industrial case studies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 and exploratory papers </span></b><span lang="PT">(short papers, between 6 and 8 pages). Short papers should describe new, unconventional approaches that fundamentally challenge established research directions and current state of practice, but which are at
 an early stage of investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">All papers must conform to the Springer <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cb0bbd3aed30d49a3be7908dc1cb1b988%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638416796851395456%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=MGCL2b711Dm08abruJtfWXI%2BSPYm4DFnjgadvBEq2C4%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines" shash="Y7j2gWkhtGSoGocNfE+TDKNf4ZTiZsUcIRgF+2Uq6XjeRjRUVACGFkS6dsjncaqDEazCrwjqmexIwA5rFxbkWVpcW0ksWpOtmNCkYyWCpxHanIZtoVrh1IPuKAkXSMbeuRGijS4q+8TWLUdxOqmomqLtGjvHq8UtKiYbJIRYKQA="><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">CCIS
 Format</span></a> and be submitted through the EasyChair link <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dquatic2024&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cb0bbd3aed30d49a3be7908dc1cb1b988%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638416796851395456%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=1%2FmN%2FDH%2FB7kxpw9LN580wn3C1hm%2FB9TWJwyjFgvgEFA%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quatic2024" shash="Do8XfXVOXFaoftoePM190fUCzdOLw6H5aWJdwtEOl2shxi9bNxYKHgGuIgfjTgtbrWI1+s9sN2JgCbpQHVDpKHaUUoyijT6b5dTLv8NIIi+7+aBVU3jnjRCT3GOj6FnC9ZmMtvd2u/4sl4dt053ZK8bRy+VYNyP84MuDmqHCkRE="><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quatic2024</span></a>, selecting the track that best suits
 their field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">QUATIC 2024 will employ a double-blind review process. Authors of full and short papers should submit a PDF version of their paper without names and affiliations, or
 other elements that allow the authors' identification, to guarantee a double-blind review process. <s><o:p></o:p></s></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the track's Program Committee. Work without substantial new material or failing to follow length and formatting
 guidelines will be desk rejected and therefore will not be reviewed. The <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ithenticate.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cb0bbd3aed30d49a3be7908dc1cb1b988%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638416796851395456%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gmhasxnO0ecUduaTYJJGXagadpIwA3RdhQAxOiGi0WQ%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://www.ithenticate.com/" shash="RtQ4yIbIDcnGm7xFEhZQb1sQr0/s+BPnk2Xx8ra03KhpF5TSH20TkyrlRMvV6RDAl5A9G4e1Ahrjk+XKygsE3CnUskCj/twXfNQ7OSeyrg0umLFenN63pBqjczEZbahFI+dkEihFjaiWCTA6IcipxxccOpAaES7TtS1v42MXBPs="><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">iThenticate plagiarism checker</span></a> will be used to verify submissions' originality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">Authors need to comply with <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springernature.com%2Fgp%2Fauthors%2Fbook-authors-code-of-conduct&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cb0bbd3aed30d49a3be7908dc1cb1b988%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638416796851395456%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2BazSF7WXxBVGX74ClIMHewYOuiPPrY7xROOpj1SbuHY%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/book-authors-code-of-conduct" shash="b3YfiuqvEEY4eAwfMOU3Kvrj8+IPoBk06Uvm3UArv7KqY6SH/yh2W4KpTgH40AzVIGAhxGL1knY3MKJrZyIDK4rwupV/0mxZrErbRyWHcY0tVRsa6pt3qkbcYcTj83N7mJz67twQhAI58DwBa30fm/zoDagAh7pdHXfauz7ypss="><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Springer Nature Code
 of Conduct</span></a> and <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quatic.org%2Fethics&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cb0bbd3aed30d49a3be7908dc1cb1b988%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638416796851395456%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Y6zfIg%2FsIhY6LXrW5hroePpVqy3j2G1TdDg6NokWY4M%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://www.quatic.org/ethics" shash="EjTPBQGcRzZWQfflRmfL572TVoMCJCl5qZ67zZEkcAelLxBk34CfmQ0aZHyPgbDn1OyRSwYRqUji6bYBdp9nQ2sypavpScZVTTmaN1Y3dGjh22kBKME12k3/WbRm1BczVn6rfPRczZsdAedw81+NEMRPXP7KmHWQwD+2MQ7mFa0="><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">QUATIC's Code of Ethical Conduct</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">PROCEEDINGS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">Accepted full and short papers will be included in the proceedings of QUATIC 2024, subject to one of the authors registering for the conference.<s><o:p></o:p></s></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">As with <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Fconference%2Fquatic&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cb0bbd3aed30d49a3be7908dc1cb1b988%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638416796851395456%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Zd4uTx6vvxQzMaxqARtTJaOsr7u%2FqkB%2FG1vEBfJYzAY%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://link.springer.com/conference/quatic" shash="Zh0u1qF+CP1l50pFuDD0F3B+EsDCU7+JeJls1+A4w2vMcvm+YbTgWbmhF9GNrQk6Jr7IEpLmswHHDO3jJ7vM5HOzyizwlQeDI6gWMJjTV8QBI5Uj8Xr1W/MG8EqlnG2L793J31XrNZwasPoKVPERFBldeyzCJKc3iV7X4KrmDUw="><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">previous QUATIC editions</span></a>, QUATIC 2024 proceedings will
 be included in a volume of the <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Fbookseries%2F7899&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cb0bbd3aed30d49a3be7908dc1cb1b988%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638416796851395456%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=j0JMT8p2w0ogvCrz7PONWV0yb0CgN%2BQa%2BjTB3f4w9oQ%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://link.springer.com/bookseries/7899" shash="AMH5wf0vuW4mShRD05QxMeSEu0ZMhQqrKppRazHTupE3buk3jYf/24sQZ6UdilCvg8VUq39ZQ38TxVSUH1IYIRRojmA+o90SZxBpR3xPlpCscPOawchOs6Q4PgCv2El79JftX5k73WENKMcejtZ0fNtWKQN7TOtg/RKWhRxQBzw="><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Springer CCIS Series</span></a> (Communications in Computer and Information Science). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar,
 EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for inclusion in ISI Proceedings. </span><span lang="PT" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">- Paper submission: Friday, April 12, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">- Authors notification: Monday, May 20, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">- Camera-ready: Friday, June 7, 2024 (to be confirmed)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">- Antonia Bertolino, Organizing Co-chair (ISTI-CNR, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">- Laura Semini, Organizing Co-chair (University of Pisa, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">- Patricia Lago, Program Co-chair (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">- João Pascoal Faria, Program Co-chair (University of Porto, Portugal)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">- Alexandra Mendes, Proceedings Chair (University of Porto, Portugal)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">- Cristian Augusto, Web Chair (University of Oviedo, Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">- Stefano Forti, Publicity Co-chair (University of Pisa, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.866667px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="PT">- Giovanna Broccia, Publicity Co-chair (ISTI-CNR, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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