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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Call for Workshop and Special Session Proposals</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The IEEE Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions provide vibrant opportunities for academic researchers and industry practitioners to share their research experiences, original research achievements
and practical development products on specific new challenges and emerging issues related to Blockchain. The themes of the Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions should be related to the scopes of the main conference, reflecting to advances in all
aspects of blockchain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The organizers of the workshops and special sessions shall have responsibility of soliciting call for papers, forming program committee to review and select papers as well as planning workshop/session program.
The registration fees for workshops and special sessions will be determined by and paid to the main conference other than the workshops or sessions. The main conference will provide workshop/session facilities including the working notes printing, meeting
rooms, coffee breaks, lunches, dinners, proceedings, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The proceedings of the IEEE Blockchain 2020 workshops and special sessions will be published by in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Prospective Workshop Organizers should send a proposal containing the following information to IEEE Blockchain 2020 Workshop Chairs via email by Feb. 1<span style="layout-grid-mode:line">5, 2020</span>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> - Title of the workshop/session (Full name and Abbreviation)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> - Objectives, scope, and contribution to the main conference (up to 1 page)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> - Short bio of the key organizers and their experience on conference/workshop organization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> - Procedures for selecting papers, plans for advertising call for papers, and intentions for organizing journal special issues
if possible <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> - The expected number of participants<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> - A tentative list of program committee members<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> - The workshop website URL address if available<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Approved workshops should strictly follow the Important Dates of the main conference, particularly the Author Notification Date and the Camera-ready Paper Due Date. The submission deadline could be later
than that of the main conference. But, a workshop should have sufficient time, say 5-7 weeks, for generating peer reviews. Generally, each paper should receive 2 or 3 peer reviews.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In order to encourage the workshop/session organizers, the main conference will also provide the following benefits to the workshop/session organizers: (1) If a workshop will have at least 10 full registrations
for accepted papers (excluding those borderline papers transferred from the main conference), then one of the main organizers can choose either to waive one of his or her papers for registrations or to get the travel grant to attend the conference. (2) If
a workshop/session will have at least 20 full registrations for accepted papers (excluding those borderline papers transferred from the main conference), then the main organizers can also invite one keynote speaker for the workshop and the conference will
provide free registration and travel grant for the keynote speaker.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Look forward to your stimulating proposals and contributions to IEEE Blockchain 2020!
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">IEEE Blockchain 2020 Workshop Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="mailto:yu.chen@sjsu.edu">yu.chen@sjsu.edu</a><span style="color:black">)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">And also<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland (zheng.yan@aalto.fi)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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