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<div><div style="line-height: 22.4px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>IEEE Blockchain-202</b><b>2</b> Call for Papers</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">The 5th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2022)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">August 22 - 25, 2022, Espoo, Finland</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><a href="http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><span style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">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 new open issues and challenges for research communities.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">IEEE Blockchain-2022 will be held in August 2022, Espoo, Finland. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion for identifying 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>* Important Dates</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Workshop proposal: March 1, 2022</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Paper Submission Deadline: </span><s><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">April</span></s><s><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></s><s><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">1</span></s><s><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">, 2022</span></s><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> <span style="color: red;">extended to May 1, 2022</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Author Notification: 10th June, 2022</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2022</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Conference Dates: 22-25 August, 2022</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>* Topics</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• New blockchain architecture</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Performance analysis and optimization</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Simulation and performance evaluation techniques</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Smart contract and chain code</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Applications and services based on blockchain</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Blockchain in cyber physical systems</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Blockchain in social networking</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Blockchain in supply chain management</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Blockchain in agriculture</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Blockchain in edge and cloud computing</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Blockchain in next generation communications and networks</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Blockchain and cryptocurrency</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Blockchain and artificial intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Blockchain and game theory<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Blockchain and industry 4.0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>* Journal Special Issues</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">IEEE Blockchain-2022 will invite additional submissions (after significant extension) to the special issue in the following prestigious journals:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.471)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• IEEE Network Magazine (IF: 10.693)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (ACM DLT)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Information Sciences (Elsevier) (IF: 6.795)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Information Fusion (Elsevier) (TBD) (IF: 12.975)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">(More will be added)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>* Author Instructions</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website(<span style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=29446&track=111133</span>)<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 宋体;"> </span>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">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 2022 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>* Instruction for Double-blind Submission</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Remove acknowledgments.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• Carefully name your files to anonymize author information.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• 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."</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without review.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">• 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>* Organizing Committees</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">General Co-Chairs</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Valtteri Niemi, University of Helsinki, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Program Co-Chairs</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Zheng Yan, Aalto University, Finland & Xidian University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; 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line-height: 22.4px;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Publication Co-Chairs</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Xueqin Liang, Xidian University, China</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: 微软雅黑, Verdana, 'Microsoft Yahei', SimSun, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Local Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); 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