CALL FOR SPECIAL TRACK PROPOSALS & PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ITNG 2020 (PROCEEDINGS TO BE PUBLISHED BY THE SPRINGER) Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the 17th Annual International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2020) to be held on April 5th-8th, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This annual conference focuses on state of the art technologies in digital information and communications. For more information, visit our website at: http://www.itng.info/. The deadline for special session/track proposals is Se[tember 6, 2019, and the deadline for paper submissions is October 11th, 2019. Please view the Call for Papers at http://www.itng.info/docs/CFP.pdf. All papers will be peer-reviewed and published in the conference proceedings; selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to one of several international journals including The Journal of Information and The International Journal of Hyperconnectivity and the Internet of Things (IJHIoT). SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Authors should submit a 6-page version of their original and unpublished work including 5 keywords in the IEEE format to their respective track/session chair via the following site: https://www.itng.info Papers that do not fit the scope of any of the existing sessions, should be submitted to the ITNG General Track. Electronic submission in the PDF format or Word document is mandatory. Per ITNG policy, all papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. The criteria for paper acceptance include originality, technical soundness, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by the Springer in series named Advances in Intelligent Systems & Computing Series and the books of the series are submitted to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springer link library and online catalogs. Selected papers presented in the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of an international journal. PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/TRACKS/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA: Proposals are solicited to organize a technical forum at the ITNG 2018. You may take part by organizing a session (typically 5 to 6 papers), a track (20 to 30 papers), a workshop (the number of participants may vary), or a symposium (50 to 100 papers) within the ITNG 2019 targeting one of the IT topics. Benefits of such an involvement include: 1. Recognition as the PC member of the ITNG 2019 2. Recognition as the Associate Editor on the cover page of the ITNG proceedings 3. Possible Guest Editorship of a special issue of an international journal developed around a selective set of accepted papers in the ITNG. Organizers are expected to actively advertise their proposed activity via internet, email, and other means. They will solicit, review and select high quality papers related to their respective IT topic. Those interested may send an email to the conference chair Dr. Shahram Latifi (latifi@itng.info) and include the following: 1. Title and a brief description of the forum 2. A short biography of the proposer 3. Plan for publicity LOCATION: The conference will be held in the Tuscany Suites Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. GENERAL CHAIR: Shahram Latifi, PhD, PE, IEEE Fellow Professor of Electrical & Computer Eng. UNLV, USA latifi@itng.info GENERAL VICE CHAIR: Doina Bein, PhD Computer Science Dept. California State University, Fullerton dbein@fullerton.edu PUBLICITY COMMITTEE: Sarah Harris (Chair), PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Hossein Zare, PhD, Hossein Zare, Johns Hopkins, USA Noha Hazzazi, PhD, Howard University, USA SPONSOR: Premier Hall for Advancing Science & Engineering (PHASE) We look forward to your submission and to seeing you at the conference in April.