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International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2021)</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.15pt">Nov. 15 – 17, 2021 – TARTU, ESTONIA</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt">IEEE co-sponsorship: <i>Pending</i></p><p style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(88,89,91);line-height:1.35em;font-size:14px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt">Blockchain is a revolutionary technology in decentralized systems that enables secure decentralized transaction processing while ensuring data privacy and authenticity. It is now playing a significant role in several areas such the Internet of Things, supply-chain management, manufacturing, cyber-physical systems, healthcare systems, and much more. Unlike centralized transaction processing solutions, blockchain uses a distributed ledger mechanism to record data transactions on multiple devices, this will prevent data breach, identity theft, and a plethora of cyber-related attacks, in essence, leading to a sustainability in data privacy and security. This conference aims at to attract work of both researchers and practitioners in the area of cyber-security to share and exchange their experiences and research studies in both academia and industry in the field of blockchain.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(88,89,91);line-height:1.35em;font-size:14px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt">Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to:</span></p><ul style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:14px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(88,89,91)"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Track 01: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning</span></span><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain based artificial Intelligent Systems applications in Computers and Communications</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain based AI and Robotics Technologies</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain based AI and cloud computing</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain based Economic paradigms and game theory</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain based Machine and Deep Learning of Knowledge</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain based Distributed Knowledge and Processing</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain based Humans-Agents Interactions / Human-Robot Interactions</span></li></ul></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Track 02: IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems</span></span><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain-based IoT Applications and Services</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain-based Internet of Things architectures and protocols</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain in Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain-based application in Intelligent Manufacturing: Industrial Internet of Things,</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure with Industry 4.0</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Intelligent manufacture and management</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Consensus and mining algorithms suited for resource-limited IoTs</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain-based Controlled mobility and QoS</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain-based energy optimization techniques in WSN</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain-based Software defined networks</span></li></ul></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Track 03: Big Data</span></span><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain in Data Fusion</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain Analytics and Data mining</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Distributed data store for blockchain</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Distributed transaction for blockchain</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain based Data Science and Data Engineering</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Protocols for management and access using blockchains</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain architectures tailored for domain-specific applications</span></li></ul></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Track 04: Security and Privacy on the Blockchain</span></span><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Authentication and authorization in Blockchain</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain-based open-source tools</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain Attacks on Existing Systems</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain Consensus Algorithms</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain-based Intrusion Detection/Prevention</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Security and Privacy in Blockchain and Critical Infrastructure</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Attacks on Blockchain and Critical Infrastructure</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure with Smart Grid</span></li></ul></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:12pt"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Track 05: Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services</span></span><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) and ITS)</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Blockchain in social networking</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Performance metric design, modeling and evaluation of blockchain systems</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Network and computing optimization in blockchains</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:11pt">Experimental prototyping and testbeds for blockchains</span></li></ul></li></ul>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(88,89,91);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">All
accepted papers in BCCA 2021 will be submitted to IEEEXplore, dblp and Scopus
for inclusion.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;color:red"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;color:red"> Submission Link: </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcca2021" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcca2021</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p>

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paper Important Dates:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%"></span></b></p>

<p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt">Submission deadline: <b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>July 1st, 2021</b></p>

<p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt">Notification of Acceptance: Sept 15th, 2021</p>

<p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt">Submission of camera-ready: Oct 8th, 2021</p><p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><br></p><p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><br></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><i style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Best Regards</i><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><i>Moayad Aloqaily, Ph.D., P.Eng.</i></font></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:small"><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><i><a href="http://icnetlab.org/MA/" target="_blank">http://icnetlab.org/MA/<br></a></i></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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