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<div><a href="https://maas.mail.163.com/dashi-web-extend/html/proSignature.html?ftlId=1&name=Xueqin+Liang&uid=xueqin.leung%40gmail.com&iconUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fmail-online.nosdn.127.net%2Fqiyelogo%2FdefaultAvatar.png&items=%5B%22xueqin.leung%40gmail.com%22%5D" style="line-height: 14px; max-width: 400px; padding: 15px 0px 10px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; display: inline !important; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><a href="https://maas.mail.163.com/dashi-web-extend/html/proSignature.html?ftlId=1&name=Xueqin+Liang&uid=xueqin.leung%40gmail.com&iconUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fmail-online.nosdn.127.net%2Fqiyelogo%2FdefaultAvatar.png&items=%5B%22xueqin.leung%40gmail.com%22%5D" style="font-family: 微软雅黑; line-height: 14px; max-width: 400px; padding: 15px 0px 10px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; display: inline !important; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></a><a name="OLE_LINK2" style="word-break: break-word !important;"><b style="word-break: break-word !important;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">IEEE Blockchain-202</b></a><b style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">2</span></b> Call for Papers<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">The <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">5</span>th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 202<span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">2</span>)<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">August</span><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">22</span> - <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">25</span>, 202<span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">2</span>, <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">Espoo, Finland</span><o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><a href="http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/" style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word !important;">http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;"><o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">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 <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">new</span> open issues and challenges for research communities. <o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">IEEE Blockchain-202<span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">2</span> will be held in <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">August</span> 202<span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">2</span>, <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">Espoo</span>, <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">Finland</span>. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">for </span>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.<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><b style="word-break: break-word !important;">* Important Dates<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">Paper Submission Deadline: <s style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">April</span></s><s style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;"> </span></s><s style="word-break: break-word !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">1</span></s><s style="word-break: break-word !important;">, 2022</s><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;"> <span style="color: red; word-break: break-word !important;">extended to May 1, 2022</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; word-break: break-word !important;"><o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">Author Notification: 10th June, 2022<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2022<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">Conference Dates: 22-25 August, 2022<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><b style="word-break: break-word !important;">* Topics<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">New</span> blockchain <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">architecture</span><o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Performance analysis and optimization<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Simulation and performance evaluation techniques<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Smart contract and chain code<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Applications and services based on blockchain<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Blockchain in cyber physical systems<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Blockchain in social networking<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Blockchain in supply chain management<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Blockchain in agriculture<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Blockchain in edge and cloud computing<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Blockchain in next generation communications and networks<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Blockchain and <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">c</span>ryptocurrency<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Blockchain and <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">artificial intelligence<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Blockchain and <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">game theory<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Blockchain and <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">industry 4.0<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><b style="word-break: break-word !important;">* Journal Special Issues<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">IEEE Blockchain-202<span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;"> </span>will invite <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">additional </span>submission<span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">s</span> (after significant extension) to the special issue in the following <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">prestigious</span> journals:<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• IEEE Internet of Things Journal<span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;"> (IF: 9.471)<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• IEEE Network Magazine<span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;"> (IF: 10.693)<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (ACM DLT)<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">Information Sciences (Elsevier) (IF: 6.795)</span><o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• <span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">Information Fusion (Elsevier) (TBD) (IF: 12.975)<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">(More will be added)</span><o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><b style="word-break: break-word !important;">* Author Instructions<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website<span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;"> (<span style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192); word-break: break-word !important;">https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=29446&track=111133</span>)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 宋体; word-break: break-word !important;"> </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.<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">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 202<span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;">2</span> 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. <o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><b style="word-break: break-word !important;">* Instruction for Double-blind Submission<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Remove acknowledgments.<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search.<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Carefully name your files to anonymize author information.<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">• Carefully refer to related work, particularly your own. 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font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><span lang="FI" style="word-break: break-word !important;">Valtteri Niemi, </span>University<span lang="FI" style="word-break: break-word !important;"> of Helsinki, Finland<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;"><span lang="EN-US" style="word-break: break-word !important;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); font-family: Helvetica, Helvetica, 微软雅黑, 宋体; line-height: 22.4px; word-break: break-word !important;">Program Co-Chairs<o:p style="word-break: break-word !important;"></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(49, 53, 59); 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