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<b><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019)</span></b></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline"><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont"><a href="http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Ctrl+Click to follow link
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<b><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Introduction</span></b></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g.,
bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations
for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet
of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency,
flexibility, availability and high dependability.</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in July 30 ¨C August 03, 2018, in Halifax, Canada, the 2019 IEEE International
Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2019) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the
blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future.</span></p>
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<b><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Topics</span></b></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems¡¯ operation
and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities.</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">IEEE Blockchain-2019 will be held on July 14 - July 17, 2019, in Atlanta, USA. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide
discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and
discuss approaches for unsolved issues.</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Performance analysis and optimization</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Simulation and performance evaluation techniques</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Smart contract and chain code</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Blockchain in cyber physical systems</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Blockchain in social networking</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Blockchain in supply chain management</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Blockchain in agriculture</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Blockchain in mobile cellular networks</span></li><li><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Blockchain in edge and cloud computing</span></li></ul>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline"><a href="https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25416" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="Ctrl+Click to follow link
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with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in
IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed
by at least three reviewers.<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; color: black">All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are
required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without
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the conference to present the work. Blockchain 2018 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers
will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards.</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Workshop Proposal Due:<span style="margin: 0px"> <span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span>January 05, 2019</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Paper Submission Deadline:<span style="margin: 0px"> <span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span>March 01, 2019</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Author Notification:<span style="margin: 0px"> <span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span>April 07, 2019</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont; color: black">Final Manuscript Due:<span style="margin: 0px"> <span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span>May 02, 2019</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Xiang Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan</span></p>
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<b><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Steering Committee</span></b></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Qinghua Zheng, Xi¡¯an Jiaotong University, China</span></p>
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<span lang="sv" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Pierangela Samarati, Universit¨¤ degli Studi di Milano, Italy</span></p>
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<b><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Workshop Chairs</span></b></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Luca Chiaraviglio</span><span lang="en-CA" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">, University
of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy</span><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont"></span></p>
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<b><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Publicity Co-Chairs</span></b></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Zhiguo Wan, Shandong University, China</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland</span></p>
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<b><span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Publication Co-Chairs</span></b></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA</span></p>
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<span lang="en-US" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, serif, EmojiFont">Meng Han, Kennesaw State University, USA</span></p>
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