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            Papers</span></b></div> 
      <div class="yiv1644119865MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="
" lang="EN-US">31st Meeting
          of Wireless World Research Forum </span></div> 
      <div class="yiv1644119865MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="
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          October 2013, Vancouver, BC, Canada</span></div> 
      <div class="yiv1644119865MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><font color="#ff0000"><span style="
" lang="EN-US">Wireless
            Enabled Smart Societies in the 2020s</span></font></div>
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        Hosted by: The Institute for Computing, Information and
        Cognitive Systems (ICICS) at The University of British Columbia<br>
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color:#E36C0A;" lang="EN-US"></span></div> 
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      <div class="yiv1644119865MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="
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          researchers to share information and present results on
          Wireless Enabled Smart Societies in the next decade and
          beyond, with the intention of identifying open issues and
          providing examples of how to resolve those issues. Technical
          papers describing recent research results and controversial
          but substantiated opinions that may influence the direction of
          future R&amp;D work are solicited. Contributions focusing on
          the theme above are particularly welcome. A selection of the
          contributions will be presented at the meeting, along with
          invited and keynote presentations. Contributions that are
          accepted for the meeting will appear in the meeting
          proceedings and may be published in WWRF Outlook (a series of
          white papers) or be incorporated into new volumes in the
          Wiley-WWRF book series. <b>The best papers from</b> <b>the
            meeting will be included in a special issue of IEEE
            Vehicular Technology Magazine.</b></span></div> 
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color:red;" lang="EN-US">Important







          Dates:</span></div> 
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          • Submission of extended abstracts: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 14<sup>th</sup>
          August, 2013</span></div> 
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          • Notification of acceptance:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 6<sup>th</sup>
          September, 2013</span></div> 
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        </span><span style="
color:red;" lang="DE">•
          Final papers:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
          2<sup>nd</sup> October, 2013</span></div> 
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      <div class="yiv1644119865MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><u><span style="
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      <div class="yiv1644119865MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="
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          should submit an extended abstract to the relevant Working
          Group (WG) for review. Extended abstracts should be at least
          two pages (A4 or Letter) in length, either in plain ASCII
          text, MS Word or Adobe PDF. A template for abstracts or papers
          is available at </span><span lang="DE"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wwrf29.com/"><span style="
" lang="EN-US">www.wwrf31.ch</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">. </span><span style="
" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;Full papers
          must be prepared using the WWRF template, available at the
          same page and may be submitted for publication in the meeting
          proceedings in either Adobe PDF or MS Word format. </span><span style="
" lang="DE">The list below
          shows the different working groups (WGs). </span></div> 
      <h2 style="margin-left:36.0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US">WG A - User Needs &amp; Requirements in a Secure
          Environment in different Socio-Economic settings</span></h2> 
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        </span> <span lang="DE"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:WGA_contrib@wireless-world-research.org"><span style="
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      <h2 style="margin-left:36.0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US">WG B - Services, devices and service
          architectures<br>
        </span><span lang="EN-US"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:WGB_contrib@wireless-world-research.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-weight:normal;">WGB_contrib@wireless-world-research.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></h2> 
      <h2 style="margin-left:36.0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US">WG C - Communication architectures and
          technologies<br>
        </span><span lang="EN-US"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:WGC_contrib@wireless-world-research.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-weight:normal;">WGC_contrib@wireless-world-research.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></h2> 
      <h2 style="margin-left:36.0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;" lang="EN-US">WG D - Radio Communication Technologies</span></h2> 
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          the Email contributions to the closest relevant working group.</span></div> 
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">Funding is available to
          support a number of students presenting papers at the meeting.
          Application for student funding must be provided with paper
          submission. The level of grant will depend on available funds,
          the quality of the paper and the student's country of
          residence.</span></div> 
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