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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-CH link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><img width=1309 height=445 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D14543.93B98770" alt="Description: Description: Description: cid:150423d5-2a14-49db-b03d-72fe39fa1604"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Dear Researcher,<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Wish you peace, joy, and fulfillment in 2016</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#993366'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>(</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this CFP<span style='color:#1F497D'>.</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Considering the request from researchers and authors, the deadline to submit the research paper to ICBDSC 2016 (International Conference on Big Data Smart City) has been extended to<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>January 9, 2016 (firm deadline).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>We take great pleasure in inviting you to the <b>‘International Conference on Big Data and Smart City (ICBDSC) - 2016’</b>,<b> </b>on <b>15 and 16</b></span><b><sup><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span></sup></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> March, 2016 </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>organized by <b>Middle East College</b>,<b> Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. </b>The conference is technically co-sponsored by<b><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>IEEE.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span></b>As you might be aware, our past conferences: International Conference on Applied Information and Communication Technology in 2011<i> </i>and 2014<i> </i> were well received. The next step forward is our third international conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>ICBDSC-2016 </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>will bring together researchers, designers, developers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of smart cities, green information and communication technologies, sustainability, energy aware systems and technologies to realize smart communities of the future. International experts have been invited to deliver keynote addresses and share their rich experiences. Papers reporting on new research and new products or concepts are encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The theme of the conference is <b>“Big Data and Smart City”.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Conference themes include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Creative use of technology for smart building and home<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Smart cities and key issues in well being<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Advanced communication systems and approaches for smart cities<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• New developments in smart cities and regions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Sensors, actuators and their networking in smart cities<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Management, configuration and deployment of smart city infrastructure<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Energy aware systems and technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Sustainable computing and communications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Computational intelligence and soft computing (genetic algorithm, neural networks, fuzzy logic)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Modeling of complex energy, mobility, health, society and e-government systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Technologies for utility business transformation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Next generation distribution systems, smart sensors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Impact of distributed energy resources, smart grid (Electric cars, demand response, distributed generations, storage)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Energy efficient hardware and software solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Creative use of technologies to analyze and measure/assess well-being<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Big data architecture, computer networks, network security<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Storage architectures, grid computing, service oriented architecture<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Data privacy and security issues in intelligent systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Cloud computing framework for big data processing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Data privacy and security issues in intelligent systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Big data acquisition, preprocessing, data storage and management, knowledge management<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Big data intelligent computing, machine learning, pattern recognition, signal processing, image processing, bio-informatics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Big data analysis, applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Modeling technology and systems for big data<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Big data mining, data warehousing, big data visualization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Smart data for business intelligence, business process integration and management<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Explore standardized smart data formats and privacy & protection, data convergence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Evaluate best practices in smart data handling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>• Smart data for social entrepreneurship and community engagement<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore.</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Please visit </span><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://mec.edu.om/conf2016/PaperSubmission.html"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>http://mec.edu.om/conf2016/PaperSubmission.html</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> for paper submission details. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Please visit conference homepage for further details: </span><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://mec.edu.om/conf2016/index.html"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>http://mec.edu.om/conf2016/index.html</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Conference email: </span><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:conf2016@mec.edu.om"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>conf2016@mec.edu.om</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#10253F'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Important dates:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Deadline for paper submission: <s>30 November 2015</s> <s>31 December 2015</s><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>9 January 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Notification of paper acceptance: 31 December, 2015 onwards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Camera ready paper submission: 14 January, 2016<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Registration: <span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>21 January, 2016 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Conference Date: 15<span style='color:#1F497D'>, </span>16 March, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>We look forward to your contribution and active participation in <b>ICBDSC 2016</b>.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Thanks for your attention and please share 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