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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Journal: </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cluster <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>Computing<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> - Springer</span></span><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:center"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">SI: </span>Recent Advances
in Blockchain for IoT: Architectures, Design, and Applications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:center"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxsZXdpc2N5dHNlbmd8Z3g6NTliODIxZTE2MmU1MjQwMQ" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxsZXdpc2N5dHNlbmd8Z3g6NTliODIxZTE2MmU1MjQwMQ</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Aims
and Scope:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Internet of Things (IoT) has seen a massive
adoption in recent years, with strong potential and applicability in many domains,
sectors, and industries. One major problem of today’s real-world IoT eco-systems
is centralization in terms of management, control, and access. Centralization
can be a source of failure, high cost, and more importantly, bureaucracy,
mistrust, and privacy evasion. Blockchain is a decentralized, distributed
ledger that promises to overcome<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span> almost all of the decentralization problems. A
blockchain is a technology for recording transactions in a timely-sequenced
manner, and with high integrity, resiliency, and reliability guaranteed by the
thousands of mining nodes. Blockchain has a great potential to create new
foundations for most distributed systems by efficiently establishing trust
among nodes. According to International Data Corporation’s report, many
businesses and governments have been moving aggressively in adopting
blockchain-based systems or related applications, with $2.1 billion spent
globally during 2018. However, today’s blockchain designs and implementations have
known limitations such as scalability, security, privacy, efficiency,
availability and dependability. All of these pressing challenges need to be
overcome for a sound integration of blockchain and IoT.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This special Issue focuses on
research and development of blockchain-enabled IoT. Researchers are invited to
contribute high quality articles on the latest advances related to improving
and solving key challenges within blockchain and IoT, including fundamental
understanding, infrastructure, architecture, applications, and algorithms to
improve the overall performance, scalability, privacy, and security. We also
encourage researchers to submit articles sharing experiences on the application
and use of blockchain to solve problems IoT deployment. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Topics: </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Both original practical work and review articles are welcome.
Topics of interest include but not limited to:</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain-based
IoT, fog, cloud, and mobile devices</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cross-blockchain
IoT ecosystems</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Performance
Evaluation of Blockchain in IoT</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain
marketplaces for IoT Computation, Analytics, and Storage</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Consensus
mechanisms</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Scalability and
performance</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Auditable
Blockchain IoT</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Identity and
reputation management</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Auditability
and traceability</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Distributed
storage in blockchain</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain PaaS</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Applications
for smart cities, governments, and manufacturing</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain for
industrial IoT</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain for
Internet of Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain for
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain in
supply chain management</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain for
Autuonoums Vehicles</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain for
auditable systems</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Simulation and
performance evaluation techniques</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Supporting
architecture for blockchain</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Experience
study of deployment of blockchain and IoT</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Consortium
governance and ownership models</span></p>
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</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Privacy and
security of blockchain</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission
Guidelines:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Papers must be tailored to the
emerging fields of IoT and Blockchain, and explicitly consider recent
advancements and novel tools and techniques for Blockchain IoT. The guest
editors maintain the right to reject papers they deem to be out of scope of
this special issue. Only originally unpublished contributions and invited
articles will be considered for this special issue. The papers should be
formatted according to the Cluster Computing guidelines (<b><a href="https://link.springer.com/journal/10586" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/journal/10586</a></b>).
Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript via Editorial
Manager submission site at (<b><a href="https://www.editorialmanager.com/clus/default.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.editorialmanager.com/clus/default.aspx</a></b>)
and choose “<b>S.I.: Blockchain for IoT</b>”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><u><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Important
Dates:</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Submission deadline: 01/Sept./2019</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Author Notification: 01/Nov./2019</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Final Manuscript: 01/Dec./2019</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">- Publication: Q4-2019</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guest Editors</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. <b>Moayad Aloqaily</b>,
Gnowit Inc., Ottawa, ON, Canada.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:Moayad@gnowit.com" target="_blank">Moayad@gnowit.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. <b>Lewis Tseng</b>, Boston
College, US.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. <a name="m_-1935462376641975005_m_8132578667062022961__Hlk1042336"><b>Khaled Salah</b></a>, Khalifa
University</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-1935462376641975005m_8132578667062022961gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><i>Best Regards</i></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><i>Moayad Aloqaily, PhD, P.Eng.</i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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