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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><b>Call
For Papers</b></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#ff0000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:13pt" size="4">The
First International Workshop on Blockchain Applications and Theory
(BAT)</font></font></font></p>
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<a href="http://emergingtechnet.org/BAT2019/index.php" style="color:rgb(0,0,255)" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">http://emergingtechnet.org/BAT2019/index.php</font></font></a></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><i>in
conjunction with</i></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">The
Sixth International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2019)</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Rome,
Italy. June 10-13, 2019</font></font></font></p>
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blockchain is a distributed ledger for recording transactions and/or
data in a meaningful order, maintained by many connected nodes
without a trusted central authority. Blockchain has a great potential
to create new foundations for most distributed systems by efficiently
establishing trust among nodes, especially in emerging networks. Such
a fundamental technology to enable decentralization play an important
role in a wide spectrum of topics such as Internet of Things (IoT),
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), edge computing, cloud computing, fog
computing, mobile computing, social networking, wireless
communication, vehicular network, and even more other fields. At the
same time, there is a lack of fundamental study on the limitation of
blockchain such as scalability, security, privacy, efficiency,
availability and dependability. Hence, the development and deployment
of blockchain-based systems and applications will likely exhibit new
requirements and complicated challenges, which brings more open
issues and exciting directions for research communities.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">The
aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners working in cloud computing, distributed systems,
cryptography, security, and networking, from academia and industry,
who are interested in the applications and theory of blockchains and
related protocols.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Researchers
are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major
areas, which include, but not limited to:</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Theories
of blockchain and distributed ledger technology</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Distributed
data store for blockchain</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Distributed
transaction for blockchain</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Distributed
consensus and fault-tolerance mechanism</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Deployment
and feasibility study in emerging networks such as VANET, connected
vehicles, edge/fog computing</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Blockchain
in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Blockchain
in cloud computing</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Blockchain
in mobile, fog, and edge computing</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Blockchain
in vehicular network</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Blockchain
in the Internet of things (IoT)</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Blockchain
in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Blockchain
in social networking</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Blockchain
and financial network</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Blockchain
in supply chain management</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Blockchain
in connected and autonomous vehicles</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Blockchain
in mobile cellular networks</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Blockchain
and governance/policy/regulation</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Game
theory and blockchain</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Real-world
blockchain-based system analysis and optimization</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Experience
papers with blockchain</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Security,
privacy and trust of blockchain</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Decentralization,
scalability, and security trade-off</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Simulation
and performance evaluation techniques</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Secure
smart contract</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#ff0000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><b>Keynote
Speaker: </b></font></font></font>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">If
any? If not remove it!</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><br>
</font></font></font><font color="#ff0000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><b>Paper
submission:</b></font></font></font><font color="#ff0000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><br>
</font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">We
are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to BAT
2019 via the official submission system at
</font></font></font><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bat2019" style="color:rgb(0,0,255)" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><b>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bat2019</b></font></font></a><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">.
This can include, technical and experimental, theoretical,
conceptual, or a survey. All submissions will be peer-reviewed on the
basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity.</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#ff0000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><b>IMPORTANT
DATES</b></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Submission
Date: February 20th, 2019 </font></font></font>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Notification
to Authors: April 5th, 2019</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Camera
Ready Submission: April 20th, 2019</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#ff0000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><b>General
Co-Chairs:</b></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Lewis
Tseng, Boston College, USA</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Kishori
M. Konwar, Broad Institute MIT, USA</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Moayad
Aloqaily, Gnowit Inc. Ottawa, Canada <br>
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