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<p style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The official Call for Papers can be found at: </span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><a href="https://easychair.org/cfp/AIOPS2021"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://easychair.org/cfp/AIOPS2021</span></a></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission deadline: September 30, 2021</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scope</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.68; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Large-scale IT systems, such as data centres, cloud computing environments, edge clouds, IoT and embedded environments, are the key enablers of digital transformation. Managing such systems puts an enormous burden on the operators in dealing with the abundance of data, oftentimes leading to severe economic implications. To mitigate this issue IT operators increasingly rely on tools from artificial intelligence for assistance in the operation of IT systems. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.68; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) is an emerging field arising in the intersection between the research areas of machine learning, big data, streaming analytics, and the management of IT operations. The main goal is the analysis of system information of heterogeneous type (metrics, logs, customer input, etc) to support administrators by optimizing various objectives like prevention of SLA violation, early anomaly detection and auto-remediation, energy-efficient system operation, providing optimal QoE for customers, predictive maintenance and many more. In this field, a constantly growing interest can be observed, and thus, practical tools are developed from both the academy and industry sector. We envision that, with the advance of AIOps technologies, the IT industry will achieve significant progress and sustained and exponential growth. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.68; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 9pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The main focus of this workshop is to bring together researchers from both academia and industry to present their experiences, results, and work in progress in this field. A major part of the workshop is to strengthen the community and unite it towards the efforts for solving the main challenges.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.68; margin-left: 10pt; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 9pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Topics of interest are the following:</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 18pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 2.25pt 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Early anomaly, fault and failure (AFF) detection and analysis</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publication: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Post-workshop proceedings in Springer’s LNCS series. </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Venue:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> collocated with ICSOC 2021 conference in Dubai 22 November 2021.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More information:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://www.icsoc.org/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.icsoc.org/</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://aiops2021.github.io/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AIOPS2021</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (aiops2021.github.io)</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.68; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 9pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paper </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">submission deadline: September 30, 2021</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Acceptance notification: October 30, 2021</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All deadlines are in Samoa Standard Time (SST = GMT – 11). Check the time in the SST Zone here: </span><a href="https://time.is/SST"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://time.is/SST</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Questions about submissions: </span><a href="mailto:aiops2021@googlegroups.com"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">aiops2021@googlegroups.com</span></a></p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roberto Natella, University of Naples Federico II, Italy</span></p>
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