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GENERAL INFORMATION
The European Conferences on Queueing Theory (ECQT) is now a consolidated tradition for the members of the queueing theory community in europe and abroad. After the three past editions (Genth, Belgium in 2014, Toulouse, France in 2016, Jerusalem, Israel in 2018), the next one comes back in Madrid, where the parent MCQT conferences were first organized by Jesús Artalejo during the years 2002-2010.
ECQT conferences aim to be a meeting place where scientists and technicians in the field can find a discussion forum to promote research,encourage interaction and exchange ideas. The conference is open to all trends in queueing theory, including the development of the theory, methodology advances, computational aspects and applications. The spirit of the conference is to be a queueing event organized from within Europe, but attendees and submissions need not be restricted to Europe.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
We invite you to submit an abstract to ECQT'20 conference. Instructions for preparing the abstracts will be available soon on the conference website . Each abstract accepted for presentation will require a separate registration. The deadline for submission of an abstract is April 15, 2020.

SPECIAL ISSUES
Participants at the conference will be given the opportunity to submit a paper to special volumes of the journals Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications (QUESTA) and Performance Evaluation. The paper should be based on unpublished work presented at the conference. All submitted papers will be refereed according to the high standards of the journals. The deadline for submission to the special issues is September 30, 2020. More information on the special issues will be given in future announcements.

TAKACS THESIS AWARD
The Steering committee of the European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT) is pleased to announce the setting up of the third edition of the Takács award. The Takács Award is a bi-annual award presented to doctoral dissertations in recognition of outstanding contributions to queueing theory, including the development of theory, methodological advances, computational aspects and applications. The award will be presented during the ECQT'20 conference. Details will be published in the conference website soon.

ECQT'20 IMPORTANT DATES
Submission site opens: January 1, 2020
Deadline for abstract submission: April 15, 2020
Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2020
Early registration deadline: May 31, 2020
Conference dates: July 20-22, 2020

CONFERENCE WEBSITE
Further information is provided at the conference website ecqt20.sciencesconf.org, accessible also at ecqt20.uc3m.es.

ECQT'20 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs:
    Bernardo D'Auria, Madrid University Carlos III

TPC Chairs:
    Ivo Adan, Eindhoven University of Technology
    Bernardo D'Auria, Madrid University Carlos III
    Offer Kella, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

ECQT Steering Committee:
    Sem Borst, TU Eindhoven and Nokia
    Herwig Bruneel, Ghent University
    Douglas Down, McMaster University
    Antonis Economou, University of Athens
    Bara Kim, Korea University
    Michel Mandjes, University of Amsterdam
    Antonio Pacheco, IST-UTL
    Miklos Telek, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
    Sabine Wittevrongel, Ghent University

Local Organizing Committee:
    Sergio Santiago Benito, ADCOMM Century S.L., Madrid