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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:115%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><b>Call
for Papers</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:14pt" size="4"><i><b>Future
Generation Computer Systems</b></i></font></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><i>The
International Journal of eScience</i></font></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="3"><i><b>Special
Issue on “Advanced Technologies and Systems for collaboration</b></i></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>”</b></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>Abstract Submission Deadline:
</b></font><font color="#ff0000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><u><b>March
15, 2017</b></u></font></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>Full Manuscript Submission
Deadline: </b></font><font color="#ff0000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><u><b>April
24, 2017</b></u></font></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><u><b>SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES</b></u></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">The high development of Web
technologies, pervasive and ubiquitous systems and networks, highly
distributed computing systems, and the availability of massive
amounts of data have been changing the field of computer supported
collaboration, particularly with the emergence of new capabilities
and forms of collaboration, as well as new challenges and issues.</font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif">The organizers of the
International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems
(CTS) are pleased to announce a special journal issue that will be
published in </font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><i>Future
Generation Computer Systems
(</i></font><font color="#0563c1"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/</font></a></u></span></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><i>)</i></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif">.
This special issue seeks contributions from academia, industry and
governmental research labs on a broad spectrum of methodologies and
technologies, including ethnographically-based or field-based
experiences, that relate to cooperation, coordination, communication,
and collaboration at both the client and backend (cloud) levels. It
invites contributions aimed at a wide range of topics such as
sensors, people, clouds, robots and social networks, e-learning,
e-business, e-health, emergency response, knowledge management,
decision making and support, global grids, multi-agent systems, trust
and cyber security, mobile clients, Web 2.0, virtual environments,
visualization, ubiquitous collaboration, user interfaces and related
human and socio-technical collaboration issues that will provide a
big picture of present and future trends in collaboration in the
“internet era.”</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><i><b>Topics
of interest include but are not limited to:</b></i></font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Frameworks
and Methodologies for Collaboration</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Collaboration
Enabling Technologies</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Architectures
& Design of Collaboration Systems</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Platforms,
Artifacts and Tools for Collaboration</font></font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Coordination
and Cooperation Mechanisms</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Interfaces
for Collaborative Work</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Intelligent,
Autonomous and Multi Agents in Collaboration</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Collaborative
Enterprise Security & Access Control</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Role-based
Models and Solutions</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Simulation
of Collaboration Systems</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Cognitive
and Psychological Issues in Collaboration</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Virtual
Communities and Communities of Practice</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Group Characteristics
and Social Factors</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Distributed
Team Management and Issues</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Distributed
Shared Design and Development</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Ontologies
and Ethnographic Approaches</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Human-machine
Collaboration and Interaction</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Awareness
in Collaboration Systems</font></font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Contextual
and Situation-based Collaboration</font></font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Visualization
of Collaborative Processes & </font></font><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">
</font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Applications</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Privacy-preserving
Collaboration</font></font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Grid
and Cloud-based Collaboration Environments</font></font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Web
Infrastructure for Collaborative Applications</font></font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Service
Oriented Architectures for Collaboration</font></font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Social Multimedia
and Social Networks</font></font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Mobile
and Wireless Collaboration Systems</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Collaborative
& Trustworthy Sensor Systems</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Socio-Technical
Information Spaces</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Information
Sharing, Exchange and Fusion in </font></font><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Collaborative
Environments</font></font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Collaborative
Knowledge Management</font></font><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Collaborative
Decision Making and Support</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Security
in Untrusted & Adversarial Collaborative</font></font><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Environments
and Systems</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Business
Networking</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Workflows
in Collaborative Operations & Systems</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Shared
Virtual Reality and Applications</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Collaborative Machines
and Robots</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Collaborative Learning
and e-Science, Crowd Science</font></font><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
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• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Collaborative
Open Innovation</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Collaboration
and Shared Planning and Logistics</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Tele- and
Collaborative Medicine and Healthcare</font></font></p>
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<font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
• <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Collaboration
in Emergency Management and Response</font></font></p>
<p class="gmail-western" align="justify"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"> </font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><u><b>PAPER
SUBMISSIONS</b></u></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Interested authors should send a
</font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>one- to two-page
abstract</b></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> with title,
authors, affiliations, emails and contact information, and a
statement of their intent to submit a new manuscript or an extended
version of their CTS paper to this special issue by the due date. In
case of an extended version, please indicate clearly where the
original work was published or presented. The abstract should be sent
as an email attachment to the Special Issue Guest Editors using the
email </font><font color="#0563c1"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="mailto:cts16si@gmail.com"><font color="#0000ff"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">cts16si@gmail.com</font></font></a></u></span></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif">,
by </font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><u><b>March 15, 2017</b></u></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif">.
Guest Editors replies to authors will be sent by </font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><u><b>March
23, 2017</b></u></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>. </b></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Only
manuscripts of approved abstracts will be considered.</font></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">The submitted papers must be
original and must not be under consideration in any other venue. This
Special Issue is open to all potential contributors on the topics
listed above. We additionally invite contributors of the 2016
International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems to
submit an extended version of their work. In this case, there must be
sufficient difference between work previously reported in conference
paper and the version submitted to the Journal for the two works to
be seen as separate works. As a rule of thumb, the journal version
must be updated by 30% or more (e.g., extended methodology, more
research results, new figures and or tables, etc.) and, hence, have a
new title.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Papers must be submitted via
</font><font color="#0563c1"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">https://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/</font></a></u></span></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif">.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" class="gmail-western" align="justify"><a name="__DdeLink__433_1693562470"></a><a name="_GoBack"></a>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Manuscripts should not exceed 20
pages in length (12 point single space, single-column, inclusive of
figures and tables) and must be prepared for publication according to
the journal’s i</font><font face="Times, serif">nstructions
</font><font color="#0563c1"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://www.elsevier.com/journals/future-generation-computer-systems/0167-739X/guide-for-authors"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">https://www.elsevier.com/journals/future-generation-computer-systems/0167-739X/guide-for-authors</font></a></u></span></font><font face="Times, serif">.</font><font face="Times New Roman, serif">
Authors are recommended to use the Elsevier LaTeX class
(<a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle</a>) to
prepare the manuscript. The number of pages of the submitted paper
should be related to the content of the paper: superfluous material
is to be avoided. </font>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" class="gmail-western" align="justify">
<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Submitted papers will receive
thorough reviews and evaluation. Papers will be selected based on
their originality, contributions, technical clarity and presentation,
language, significance to the readership of the Journal, relevance to
the special issue, and quality and significance of research
hypothesis, assertions, and conclusions.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><b>Important
Dates:</b></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:115%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Abstract
Submission deadline: ------------------------------- March 15, 2017</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:115%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Guest
Editors Reply: ------------------------------------------ March 23,
2017</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Paper
submission due ------------------------------------------April 24,
2017</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:115%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Completion
of first round of reviews: ----------------------- July 23, 2017</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:115%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Revised
first round manuscript due: ------------------------ August 23, 2017</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:115%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Completion
of second round of reviews: ------------------- October 22, 2017</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:115%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Revised
second round manuscript: -------------------------- November 21, 2017</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Final
decision notification: ----------------------------------- December
15, 2017</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:115%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Final
version of the manuscript due: ------------------------ December 30,
2017</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Expected
publication date ----------------------------------- Spring 2018
(tentative)</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%" class="gmail-western"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span lang="it-IT"><b>Guest
Editors:</b></span></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span lang="it-IT">Domenico
Potena, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy,
<a href="mailto:d.potena@univpm.it">d.potena@univpm.it</a></span></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Konstantinos Papangelis, Xi'an
Jiaotong-Liverpool University, PRC, <a href="mailto:k.papangelis@xjtlu.edu.cn">k.papangelis@xjtlu.edu.cn</a> and
<a href="mailto:k.papangelis@liverpool.ac.uk">k.papangelis@liverpool.ac.uk</a></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span lang="it-IT">Waleed W.
Smari, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Ohio, USA,
<a href="mailto:smari@arys.org">smari@arys.org</a></span></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span lang="it-IT">Emanuele
Storti, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy,
<a href="mailto:e.storti@univpm.it">e.storti@univpm.it</a></span></font></p>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif">Keqin Wu, IMSG group at NOAA,
Maryland, USA, <a href="mailto:Keqin.Wu@noaa.gov">Keqin.Wu@noaa.gov</a></font></p>
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