<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt">The first Workshop on</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:28.5333px">Advanced Security of the Digital Twin and the Metaverse (ASDTM)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2022/Workshops/ASDTM2022/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2022/Workshops/ASDTM2022/</span></a></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"> </span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:12pt">In Conjunction with</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">The Fourth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2022)</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">5-7 September 2022 (San Antonio, Texas, USA)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2022/index.php" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line:none">http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2022/index.php</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:28.5333px"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:20pt;line-height:28.5333px"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The real world is surrounded by people, buildings, hospitals, factories, businesses, vehicles, entire cities, and the billions of devices that provide various services and connect us to each other and to this world.   The Digital Twin provides an advanced solution to replicate this physical world into a digital clone of it. It is bound to the physical world in real-time allowing it to run simulations on, and understand system patterns, and using AI it allows to learn, predict, and act to improve the provided services (i.e. to save time and money,  reduce carbon, to preserve natural resources, to improve safety, etc.). This wave of innovations trends to an interconnectedness that enables the metaverse. In other words, the metaverse provides an exciting immersive experience in a 3d world providing a flexible manner to interact and collaborate with the real-world digital clone. Everything modeled in the real-world Metaverse nears the status of its physical twin including interactions and relations between everything else. To this end, a huge amount of data has to be collected and managed to put heavy challenges on the networking and computing systems. On the other hand, these technologies have strict boundaries related to the security and the privacy of the collected data. By applying the power of the blockchain, new ways to secure, store and manipulate the data can be provided to eliminate boundaries of what can be provided. The potential is limitless to track, manage data and create patterns, and trends, and detect anomalies.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The purpose of this workshop is to </span>elaborate on and emphasize the key aspects to secure the metaverse. The workshop welcomes original research and innovative solutions on the above subjects as well as the case studies that explore the potential exploitation of blockchain in the Digital Twin and the Metaverse. Research may cover and focus on either the fundamental methodological studies or the use case and application demonstrations.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Topics of interest include, but certainly not limited to:</p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span>Blockchain in the metaverse</p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span>Blockchain in the digital twin</p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span>Edge computing for Internet of Metaverse</p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span>Network security of the metaverse</p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span>Digital twin and Metaverse privacy</p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span>Consensus and mining algorithms suited for the metaverse</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span>Blockchain-based Controlled mobility and QoS in the metaverse</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span>Cybersecurity in the metaverse</p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px;color:red;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Organization Committee:</span></b></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span>Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE</p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span>Müge Erel-Özçevik, Celal Bayar University, Turkey</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">  <b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px;color:red">Important Dates:</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol;color:red">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt">Workshop Papers Due: </span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:red"> 10 July 2022</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt">Papers Acceptance Notification: <b>1 August 2022</b></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt">Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: <b>15 August 2022</b></span></p></div></div>