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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><a name="OLE_LINK12"></a><a name="OLE_LINK13"></a><a name="OLE_LINK16"></a><a name="OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The
2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/</span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Rhode
Island, Greece, August 2-6, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><a name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a name="OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;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, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Following
the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) 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></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Topics<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">IEEE
Blockchain-2020 will be held in August 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. 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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><a name="OLE_LINK3"></a><a name="OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Theories
of blockchain and distributed ledger technology<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Distributed
consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Security,
privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Decentralization,
scalability, and security tradeoff <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Performance
analysis and optimization<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Simulation
and performance evaluation techniques<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Smart
contract and chain code<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Applications
and services based on blockchain <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Protocols
and algorithms based on blockchain<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain
in the Internet of things (IoT)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain
in cyber physical systems<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain
in social networking<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain
in supply chain management<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain
in agriculture<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain
in connected and autonomous vehicles<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain
in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain
in mobile cellular networks<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain
in edge and cloud computing<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain
in next generation communications and networks</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All
papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (TBD) 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="color:black">All submitted papers will be judged through <b>double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers</b>. 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 review.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission
of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2020 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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Journal
Special Issues<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-
Digital Communications and Networks<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Special
Issue: TBD<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publisher:
Elsevier, SCI indexed <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Important
Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Workshop Proposal
Due: January 05, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Paper Submission
Deadline: March 01, 2020 <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Author Notification:
April 07, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Final Manuscript
Due: May 02, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Organization
Committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">General
Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Elisa
Bertino, Purdue University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kouichi
Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Qinghua
Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Program
Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Vojislav
B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chunhua
Su, University of Aizu, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Yulei
Wu, University of Exeter, UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop
and Symposia Co-chairs<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bin
Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Organizer of Symposium on Blockchain and its Applications)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Steering
Committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Elisa
Bertino, Purdue University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jinjun
Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Robert
H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Victor
C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fenghua
Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wenjing
Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Vijay
Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chonggang
Wang, InterDigital, USA<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Yang
Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Zheng
Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Laurence
T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Qinghua
Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="SV" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Pierangela
Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="SV" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publicity
Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK16"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK13"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK12"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Xueqin
Liang, Aalto University, Finland</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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