** Please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks! Many thanks in advance **

------ Call for Special Sessions and Workshops proposals: submission deadline: August 31, 2023 ------

Publisher: Springer Verlag, LNNS Series
Indexed by: SCOPUS, DBLP, INSPEC, SCImago etc.

Hybrid Event: Online and onsite in 4 venues (Olten, Switzerland; Porto, Portugal; Vilnius, Lithuania and Kochi, India)

-- 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’23)
http://www.mirlabs.net/isda23
-- 23rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'23)
http://www.mirlabs.net/his23
-- 19th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS'23)
http://www.mirlabs.org/ias23
-- 15th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR'23)
http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar23
-- 15th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC'23)
http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic23
-- 14th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA'23)
http://www.mirlabs.net/ibica23
-- 13th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT'23)
http://www.mirlabs.org/wict23
**Important Dates**
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Paper submission due: September 30, 2023
Notification of paper acceptance : October 31, 2023
Registration and Final manuscript due : November 10, 2023
Conferences: December 11-15, 2023

The special session should cover a topic that is contemporary, novel, hot, and complementary to the regular sessions. The special session should be able to generate enthusiasm among the conference participants.

Researchers interested in organizing Special Sessions/Workshops are invited to submit a formal proposal to the Publication Chair Dr. Anu Bajaj <er.anubajaj@gmail.com> with CC to Ms. Mabrouka Salmi <salmimabrouka7@gmail.com> or submit the following google form: https://forms.gle/qZnnqSnG7L651FfWA

Required information:
====================Conference name (Refer list above)
Special Session/Workshop Title
Objectives and Scope of the Special Session/Workshop (~half a page)
A list of main topics of the Special Session/Workshop
Special Session/Workshop Lead Organizer email address, affiliation, country, and mini-bio.
Co-Organizer(s) details (email address, affiliation, country) (max 3 organizers)
Please note that in case of acceptance of the Special Session proposal, you will be asked to disseminate your call for paper in order to attract submissions. A minimum number of 6 accepted and registered papers is needed for the Session (10 for the Workshops). Special session organizers will be required to review the papers belonging to their session (to this aim sub-reviewers are allowed). These two requirements are mandatory for a Special Session/Workshop to be active.

Proposals must be submitted before the deadline of August 31, 2023. Special Sessions/Workshops calls will be on the conference's websites as soon as accepted.

For other general information about the events and venues, please write to:
ajith.abraham@ieee.org