<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt">The first Workshop on</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" 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:0cm 0cm 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 lang="EN-US"><a href="http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2022/Workshops/ASDTM2022/"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none">http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2022/Workshops/ASDTM2022/</span></a></span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="text-decoration-line:none"> </span></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">In Conjunction with</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">The Fourth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2022)</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">5-7 September 2022 (San Antonio, Texas, USA)</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 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 lang="EN-US"><a href="http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2022/index.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none">http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2022/index.php</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:20pt;line-height:28.5333px"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:20pt;line-height:28.5333px"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" 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 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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Topics of interest include, but certainly not limited to:</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US">Blockchain in the metaverse</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US">Blockchain in the digital twin</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US">Edge computing for Internet of Metaverse</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US">Network security of the metaverse</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US">Digital twin and Metaverse privacy</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US">Consensus and mining algorithms suited for the metaverse</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US">Blockchain-based Controlled mobility and QoS in the metaverse</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US">Cybersecurity in the metaverse</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" 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 class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US">Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US">Müge Erel-Özçevik, Celal Bayar University, Turkey</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 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"><span lang="EN-US">  </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px;color:red">Important Dates:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;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 lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Workshop Papers Due: </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:red"> <s>15 July 2022</s>  25July 2022</span></b></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;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 lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Papers Acceptance Notification: <b>1 August 2022</b></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;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 lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: <b>15 August 2022</b></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p></div>