Message from the Program Chairs

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A high quality review process was done by the highly qualified program committee members, and each paper was reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (and about four review reports in average). We would like to appreciate the efforts of the Program Vice Chairs: Shi-Jinn Horng, National United University, Taiwan; Sigi Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria, Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA; Joao Pedro Sousa, George Mason University, USA; Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain; Rajeev Raje, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA; Horacio Gonzalez-Velez, the Robert Gordon University, UK; Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA; Sabri Pllana, University of Vienna, Austria; Heng Tao Shen, University of Queensland, Australia; Joanna Kolodziej, University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland; Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China; Bessam Abdulrazak, University of Sherbrooke, Canada; Eli Katsiri Birkbeck, University of London, UK; Bo Yang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China; Guojun Wang, Central South University, China. They all greatly assisted us during the conference organization, from setting up the program committees of their respective tracks to the reviewing process and paper selection for the program of the conference with reputed experts in their track fields. We would like to extend our thanks to the program committee members and to additional reviewers that contributed their valuable time and expertise to provide professional reviews and very interesting feedback to authors in a narrow time schedule.