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<div><div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b><font style="font-size: 16px;">IEEE Blockchain-2021 Call for Papers</font></b></div><div><b><font style="font-size: 16px;">The 4th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2021)</font></b></div><div>December 06 - 08, 2021, Melbourne, Australia</div><div>http://nsclab.org/blockchain2021/</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">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. </div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">IEEE Blockchain-2021 will be held in December 2021, Melbourne, Australia. 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.</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b>* Important Dates</b></div><div style="text-align: start;">Paper Submission: July 21, 2021, Wednesday</div><div style="text-align: start;">Notification of Acceptance: September 18, 2021, Saturday</div><div style="text-align: start;">Registration and Camera-ready Due: October 06, 2021, Wednesday</div><div style="text-align: start;">Conference Dates: December 06 - 08, 2021, Monday-Wednesday</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b>* Topics</b></div><div style="text-align: start;">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Performance analysis and optimization</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Simulation and performance evaluation techniques</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Smart contract and chain code</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Applications and services based on blockchain</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Blockchain in cyber physical systems</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Blockchain in social networking</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Blockchain in supply chain management</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Blockchain in agriculture</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Blockchain in mobile cellular networks</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Blockchain in edge and cloud computing</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Blockchain in next generation communications and networks</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Blockchain and Cryptocurrency</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b>* Journal Special Issues</b></div><div style="text-align: start;">Selected papers presented at the IEEE Cybermatics Congress 2021 will be invited to consider submission (after significant extension) to the special issue in the following SCI-indexed journals:</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • IEEE Network Magazine</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • IEEE Internet of Things Journal</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • MDPI Electronics</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • MDPI Sensors</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • International Journal of Intelligent Systems</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Mobile Information Systems</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b>* Author Instructions</b></div><div style="text-align: start;">All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website 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. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. 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.</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">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 2021 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. </div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b>* Instruction for Double-blind Submission</b></div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Remove acknowledgments.</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search.</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Carefully name your files to anonymize author information.</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Carefully refer to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer incapable of grasping the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. For example, instead of "In prior work [1], we presented a scheme that ...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Clark et al. [1] presented a scheme that ..." should be used. With this method, the full citation of the referred paper can still be given, such as "[1] A. Clark …., "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[1] Reference deleted for double-blind review."</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • The submitted manuscript or its title/abstract should not be posted on a public website, such as arxiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists.</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without review.</div><div style="text-align: start;"> • Many of the editing tools automatically add metadata to the generated PDF file containing information that may violate the double blind policy. Please remove any possible metadata that can link your manuscript to you. This includes removing names, affiliation, license numbers etc. from the Metadata as well as from the paper. Failing to meet this requirement may also lead to a rejection without review.</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;"><b>* Organizing Committees</b></div><div style="text-align: start;">General Co-Chairs</div><div style="text-align: start;">Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore </div><div style="text-align: start;">Yong Xiang, Deakin University, Australia </div><div style="text-align: start;">Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">Program Co-Chairs</div><div style="text-align: start;">Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA </div><div style="text-align: start;">Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland </div><div style="text-align: start;">Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">Program Vice-Chairs</div><div style="text-align: start;">Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia </div><div style="text-align: start;">Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway </div><div style="text-align: start;">Ziyuan Wang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">Summit Chair</div><div style="text-align: start;">Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">Publicity Co-Chairs</div><div style="text-align: start;">Jiangshan Yu, Monash University, Australia </div><div style="text-align: start;">Qinghua Lu, CSIRO Data61, Australia </div><div style="text-align: start;">Longxiang Gao, Deakin University, Australia </div><div style="text-align: start;">Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">Workshop and Symposia Co-Chairs</div><div style="text-align: start;">Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia </div><div style="text-align: start;">Xiao Chen, Monash University, Australia</div><div style="text-align: start;"><br></div><div style="text-align: start;">Publication Co-Chairs</div><div style="text-align: start;">Xingliang Yuan, Monash University, Australia </div><div style="text-align: start;">Xiaochun Chen, Middlesex University, UK</div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div></div><div id="ntes-pcmac-signature" style="font-family: Helvetica, "Microsoft Yahei", 微软雅黑;"><div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"></div></div></div>
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