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<div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">Call for Workshop Proposals</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="line-height: 22.4px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; line-height: 16pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">The IEEE Blockchain 2022 workshops and</span><span lang="EN-US"> symposia </span><span lang="EN-GB">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 IEEE Blockchain 2022 workshops and </span><span lang="EN-US">symposia </span><span lang="EN-GB">should be related to the scopes of the main conference, reflecting to advances in all aspects of blockchain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt; line-height: 16pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">The organizers of the workshops and </span><span lang="EN-US">symposia </span><span lang="EN-GB">shall have responsibility of soliciting call for papers, forming program committee to review and select papers as well as planning workshop/symposium program. The registration fees for workshops and </span><span lang="EN-US">symposia </span><span lang="EN-GB">will be determined by and paid to the main conference other than the workshops or </span><span lang="EN-US">symposia</span><span lang="EN-GB">. The main conference will provide workshop/</span><span lang="EN-US">symposium </span><span lang="EN-GB">facilities including the working notes printing, meeting rooms, proceedings, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px; margin-top: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">The papers of the IEEE Blockchain 2022 workshops and </span><span lang="EN-US">symposia </span><span lang="EN-GB">will be published in the proceedings of the main conference by IEEE CPS (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px; margin-top: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 6pt 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB">Prospective Workshop Organizers should send a proposal containing the following information to IEEE Blockchain 2022 Workshop Chairs via email by <b>March</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US"> 1</span><span lang="EN-GB">, 2022</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span lang="EN-GB"> - Title of the workshop/symposium (Full name and Abbreviation)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span lang="EN-GB"> - Objectives, scope, and contribution to the main conference (up to 1 page)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span lang="EN-GB"> - Short bio of the key organizers and their experience on conference/workshop organization<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span lang="EN-GB"> - 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="line-height: 22.4px;"><span lang="EN-GB"> - The expected number of participants<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span lang="EN-GB"> - A tentative list of program committee members<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span lang="EN-GB"> - The workshop website URL address if available<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px; margin-top: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px; margin-top: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">Approved workshops/symposia 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/symposium 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><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px; margin-top: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">In order to encourage the workshop/ symposium organizers, the main conference will also provide the following benefits to the workshop/symposium 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. (2) If a workshop/ symposium 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><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px; margin-top: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px; margin-top: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">Look forward to your stimulating proposals and contributions to IEEE Blockchain 2022!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px; margin-top: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px; margin-top: 6pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">IEEE Blockchain 2022 Workshop Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span lang="EN-GB">Workshop and Symposia Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span lang="EN-US">Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (weme@dtu.dk)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span lang="EN-US">Liang Xiao</span><span lang="EN-GB">, </span><span lang="EN-US">Xiamen </span><span lang="EN-GB">University, </span><span lang="EN-US">China</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">(lxiao@xmu.edu.cn)</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px; margin-left: 22.7pt; text-indent: -22.7pt;"><span lang="EN-GB">And also<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; text-align: center;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span lang="EN-US">Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland (zheng.yan@aalto.fi)</span></p></div><div>
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