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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please, note that the deadline for submitting proposals as special sessions
<a name="home">at the <span style="color:#C80000">2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making (IEEE MCDM'2016),
</span></a><a href="http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk/MCDM.htm">http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk/MCDM.htm</a>,<span style="color:#C80000"> is
</span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">April 18, 2016.
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">IEEE MCDM’2016 is a part of the 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (<a href="http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk/">http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk/</a>)
which will take place in Athens, Greece on December 6-8, 2016.</span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The proposal should contain the following information:<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C80000;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#666666"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Title of the special session</span><span style="color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C80000;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">That it is a special session in the IEEE MCDM’2016 symposium
</span><span style="color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Names of proposers with their affiliations and email addresses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C80000;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:#666666"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Description of the special session</span><span style="color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">List of 6-10 potential contributors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Proposals should be submitted to
<a href="mailto:hisaoi@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp">hisaoi@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp</a> by April 18, 2016.</span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C80000;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C80000;font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;mso-fareast-language:FI">For further information, see
<a href="http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk/Special%20Sessions.htm">http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk/Special%20Sessions.htm</a>
</span><span style="color:#666666;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;mso-fareast-language:FI">The deadline for submitting full papers is July 18,2015 and each special session should have 5 accepted papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;mso-fareast-language:FI">Please, forward this message to people who may be interested in this opportunity!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:FI">With best regards, Kaisa Miettinen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Professor Kaisa Miettinen, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Industrial Optimization Group: </span><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/</span></a>
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dept. of Mathematical Information Technology, P.O. Box 35 (Agora)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- - -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Vice-rector of the University of Jyvaskyla,
</span><a href="https://www.jyu.fi/hallinto/rehtorit/miettinen"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.jyu.fi/hallinto/rehtorit/miettinen</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- - -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">tel. +358 50 3732247 (mob.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">fax: +358 14 2602771<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">email: kaisa.miettinen at jyu.fi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">homepage: </span><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> and
</span><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Immediate-Past-President of the International Society on MCDM:
</span><a href="http://www.mcdmsociety.org/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mcdmsociety.org/</span></a><span lang="EN-US">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* My book: Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization, Kluwer:
</span><a href="http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/book/"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/book/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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