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CFP: The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 06 May '20

06 May '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhode Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 News: Due to the concern on coronavirus outbreak in Europe, the Organizing Committee has decided to postpone the conference to November. The new conference date and deadlines have been updated on the website. Sorry for any inconvenience. Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability. Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics 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 more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2020 will be held in November 2020, Rhode Island, Greece. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the 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. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms * Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology * Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff * Performance analysis and optimization * Simulation and performance evaluation techniques * Smart contract and chain code * Applications and services based on blockchain * Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain * Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT) * Blockchain in cyber physical systems * Blockchain in social networking * Blockchain in supply chain management * Blockchain in agriculture * Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles * Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing * Blockchain in mobile cellular networks * Blockchain in edge and cloud computing * Blockchain in next generation communications and networks Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27350&track=101894) 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. 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 2020 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. Workshops and Special Sessions Special Session on Blockchain Network and Its Applications Workshop on Recent Advances of Blockchain Technologies for Cybersecurity Workshop on Blockchain Technology and its Potential Applications Journal Special Issues - MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) Special Issue "Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515) Special Issue: TBD Publisher: IEEE, SCI indexed - Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Security and Communication Networks (IF: 1.376) Special Issue: Trustworthy Networking for Beyond 5G Networks Publisher: SCI indexed (hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/<http://hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: September 02, 2020 Conference Date: November 02-06, 2020 Organization Committee General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Program Chairs Vojislav B. Mišić, Ryerson University, Canada Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Workshop and Symposia Co-chairs Bin Cao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Yu Chen, San Jose State University, USA Sokratis Katsikas, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus Publicity Co-Chairs Xueqin Liang, Aalto University, Finland Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

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IEEE ISCC PEDISWESA Workshop - Deadline EXTENDED: May 10th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Ons Bouachir 04 May '20

04 May '20

*Please note the following update:* 1) Deadline extended: *May 10th* 2) ISCC PEDISWESA workshop will be held online and the Accepted Papers will be published in IEEExplore if the authors provide a presentation and/or a video. The registration fees will be reduced as follows: - Workshop Author Member Fee: *100 Euros* - Workshop Authors Non-Member Fee: *125 Euros* *12th IEEE Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web-based Service Architectures PEDISWESA* http://www.xanalytics.ca/pediswesa2020/index.html *in conjunction with IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2020)* https://conferences.imt-atlantique.fr/iscc2020/ *JULY 7TH - 10TH, 2020 – RENNES, FRANCE* Performance evaluation is still a topic that attains a lot of attention in both distributed and mobile systems as well as Web based services architectures. Due to the recent advances in internet-based applications as well as distributed and mobile communication systems, we are witnessing a variety of new technologies. However, these systems are becoming very large and complex at the same time. Several challenges remain to be resolved before these systems become a commodity. Guaranteeing QoS and provisioning of web-based systems as well as distributed and mobile systems and evaluating their communication performance represent among the challenging problem in the design of these systems. Quantitative analysis can be very difficult and may be intractable because of the state space explosion. New methods and tools have recently emerged for these kinds of complex systems, such as Stochastic Automata Networks, Stochastic bounds, PEPA, etc. This workshop focuses on the performance evaluation of both distributed and mobile systems, as well as Web based services architectures using both analytical methods and simulation studies. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to QoS and communication performance evaluation of these systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. *Topics of interest include* (but are not limited to): - Routing optimization - Quantitative analysis - Stochastic comparisons - Bandwidth management - Web services composition - Measurement, analysis, modeling - QoS for Web services architectures - Simulation and measurements techniques - Tools and software for performance evaluation - Network Protocols design for Web service devices - Performance evaluation of distributed and web-based systems - Communication performance evaluation of distributed and mobile systems - Performance of Blockchain - Performance evaluation of Vehicular networks - Connected and Autonomous Vehicles *Committee* General Chair: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France Steering Committee: - Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France - Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris, France Technical Program Co-Chairs: - Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Ottawa, Canada - Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University, KSA *Important Dates* - Paper submission deadline: *May 10th, 2020* - Notification of paper acceptance: May 20th, 2020 - Submission of camera-ready papers: May 30th, 2020

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