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Call for Workshop Papers - IEEE BCCA 2020
by Ons Bouachir 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call For Workshop Papers ============================================================= The Second International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (*BCCA 2020*) is a forum that aims to gather researchers from academia and industries to present their innovations and contributions in the field of the revolutionary technology, Blockchain. In addition to the papers, keynotes, tutorials and panels, the IEEE co-sponsored conference will host a list of workshops to present preliminary and cutting-edge work on new directions that advance the field of Blockchain. The workshop accepted papers are published in the conferences proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore digital library. Each workshop has its own website, submission instructions, and submission portals. *IEEE BCCA 2020 Workshops* *The International Workshop on Blockchain for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems <http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCACPS.html> (BACPS)* · Link: http: http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCACPS.html · Paper Submission Deadline: August 30, 2020 · Workshop Co-Chairs: o *Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE* o *Hajer Braham, Orange Labs, France* *The International Workshop on Fog Computing and Blockchain <http://workshop%20on%20fog%20computing%20and%20blockchain/> (BCFC)* · Link: http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCFC.html · Paper Submission Deadline: August 30, 2020 · Workshop Chair: o *Thar Baker, John Moors Liverpool University, UK* *The International Workshop on Blockchain for Critical Infrastructure <http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCI.html> (BCI)* · Link: http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCI.html · Paper Submission Deadline: August 30, 2020 · Workshop Co-Chairs: o *Safa Otoum, Zayed University, UAE* o *Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada* *The International Workshop on Blockchain for BigData <http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCBD.html> (BCBD)* · Link: http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCBD.html · Paper Submission Deadline: August 30, 2020 · Workshop Co-Chairs: o *Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait* o *Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada* *The International Workshop on Blockchain for Cyber Forensics and Threat <http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCFT.html> (BCFT)* · Link: http: http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/BCFT.html · Paper Submission Deadline: August 30, 2020 · Workshop Co-Chairs: o *Gregorio Martinez Perez University of Murcia, Spain* o *Yaser Jaraweh, Duquesne University, USA*

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CFP: Special Track AI-5GaaS: Artificial Intelligence based 5G as a Service along with ICSNC 2020, submission: August 24
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '20

In order to accommodate a large number of situations, we are offering the option for either physical presence or virtual participation. We would be delighted if all authors manage to attend in person, but are aware that special circumstances are best handled by having flexible options. Submission: 1. Inform the Chairs: with the Title of your Contribution 2. Submission URL: https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=IC… Please select Track Preference as AI-5GaaS Special track AI-5GaaS: Chairs and Coordinators Assist. Prof. Dr. Muge Erel-Ozcevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey erelmu(a)itu.edu.tr, muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr Assist. Prof. Dr. Gokhan Secinti, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey secinti(a)itu.edu.tr along with ICSNC 2020, The Fifteenth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications October 18, 2020 to October 22, 2020 - Porto, Portugal https://www.iaria.org/conferences2020/ICSNC20.html Unprecedented expansion of cloud services offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) paves the way for the virtualization of entire 5G-capable hardware and software stacks; thus, leading the emergence of 5G as a service (5GaaS). It enables on-demand service deployment, while mitigating the risks of physical installation, lowering operational and capital expenditures (OPEX/CAPEX), aggregating the service providers and customers' requirements on the same platform. On the other hand, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) play a key role in the management of 5GaaS subscribers and their contents, where the applications define unique 5G requirements raised by novel trafic types, such as: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra-Reliable Low Latency (URLLC), and massive Machine Transmission Communication (mMTC). Various bandwidth and latency requirements of these service types force CDN to benefit from the technologies such as Edge/Fog computation in order to sustain ever- complicating network management, revolutionizing the heterogeneous orchestration of the entire infrastructure spanning from server deployment, to network access. Under this expanding heterogeneity, the most feasible way to meet 5G requirements is to design an intelligent network management on 5G physical infrastructure. According to service providers, dynamic configuration and intelligent self-management for CDN can be only handled by Software Defined Networks (SDN). They believe that SDN proposes inexpensive network feature insertion thanks to a global view on the network and programming the network devices dynamically without any intervention on the physical plane. It enables flexible, scalable, and self-manageable virtual network slices to the customers according to Service Level Agreements (SLA). Both global management and network programmability features of SDN enable us to design and integrate novel techniques on 5G networks such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the recent years, AI is one of the most rapidly growing fields, finding new application domains with new and unique challenges everyday. This drastically changes the way the researchers/engineers used to approach to optimization processes. AI is broadly categorized into three main subsets such as Machine Learning (ML), Meta-Heuristics, and Fuzzy Inference Systems. Utilizing these tools, the following candidate applications for 5GaaS may only describe the tip of the iceberg. A technique executing ML uses the statistics collected from 5G physical plane periodically and performs supervised and/or unsupervised learning such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), Decision Trees (DT), K-means clustering, Hidden Markov Model (HMM), etc. A technique executing Meta-Heuristics algorithms solves hard optimization problems that cannot be executed within a reasonable time such as Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Simulated Annealing (SA), etc. A technique depending on Fuzzy logic has an advantage in representing customer experience and their explanation abilities. To this end, AI-5GaaS aims to improve the experience of customers and their service providers in 5G networks by serving AI-based techniques as a service to handle reduced OPEX/CAPEX. Therefore, this special issue aims to bring together talented researchers in the field and state-of-art designs and techniques to shape the future of 5G. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: -  Meta-heuristics for AI based 5G networks; -  Fuzzy inference systems for AI based 5G networks; -  Cloud-Fog-Edge computing mechanisms; -  AI based mobility management; -  SDN/NFV for autonomous network management; -  CDN solutions for next generation networks; -  Application areas for 5GaaS; -  Security and Privacy issues for 5GaaS; -  Testbeds, applications, case studies for 5GaaS; -  APIS, new protocols and programming languages for 5GaaS Important Datelines Inform the Chairs (see Contacts below): as soon as you decide to contribute *Submission: August 24 * Contribution Types - Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] - Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] - Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org] - Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org] Paper Format - See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html - *Notification: September 13 * - *Registration: September 23 * - *Camera-ready: September 23 * - Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html Publications - Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org - Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html - Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org Paper Submission https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=IC… Please select Track Preference as AI-5GaaS Registration - Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings. - Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html Contacts Chairs Muge Erel-Ozcevik: erelmu(a)itu.edu.tr, muge.ozcevik(a)cbu.edu.tr Gokhan Secinti: secinti(a)itu.edu.tr ICSNC Logistics: steve(a)iaria.org

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SNAMS-2020 CFP: The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security, Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020.
by Gizem Varkonyi 26 Jul '20

26 Jul '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Seventh International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2020/index.php Paris, France. December 14-16, 2020. (Pending Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE) *SNAMS 2020 CFP:* Social network analysis is concerned with the study of relationships between social entities. The recent advances in internet technologies and social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, have created outstanding opportunities for individuals to connect, communicate or comment on issues or events of their interests. Social networks are dynamic and evolving in nature; they also involve a huge number of users. Frequently, the information related to a certain concept is distributed among several servers. This brings numerous challenges to researchers, particularity in the data mining and machine learning fields. The purpose of International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security(SNAMS-2020) is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss their work which is related to social network analysis. The SNAMS 2020 is col-located with the The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS). SNAMS 2020 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Social Networks. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SNAMS challenges. That is, the objective of SNAMS 2020 is to provide the opportunity for students, scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Social Networks. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: *SYSTEMS & INFRASTRUCTURE* Systems and algorithms for social search Infrastructure support for social networks and systems Dynamics and evolution patterns of large and complex networks Social properties in systems design Learnings from operational social networks Data Collection Big Data and Social Paradigms *ALGORITHMS AND MODELS* Deep Learning and Knowledge Discovery. Measurement and analysis of social and crowdsourcing systems Benchmarking, modeling, performance and workload characterization Modeling Social Networks and behavior Management of social network data Streaming algorithms for social data Knowledge and innovation networks Methods for social and media analysis Models for network data Network analysis in human and social sciences Information propagation and assimilation in social networks Data mining and machine learning in social systems *APPLICATIONS* Novel social applications and systems Transient OSNs (e.g. Snapchat) Special purpose OSNs (e.g., Instagram, Vine) Communities in social networks Collaboration networks New models of advertising and monetization in social networks Mobile advertising on OSNs Network visualization Social networks and online education Sentiment analysis on OSNs Multilingual social networks Social networks as agents of societal change *PRIVACY & SECURITY* Privacy and security in social systems Trust and reputations in social systems Detection, analysis, prevention of spam, phishing, and misbehavior in social systems *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission Date: 20 August 2020 Notification to Authors: 10 October 2020 Camera Ready and Registration: 1 November 2020 *SUBMISSION* Papers selected for presentation will appear in the SNAMS Proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Papers can be up to 8 pages in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). The proceedings will be submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snams2020 Please send any inquiry to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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CFP: 2020 IEEE Int. Conferences (SWC, UIC, ScalCom, IoP, ATC, SCI), virtual online, 8-10 Dec. 2020
by Jesson Butt 26 Jul '20

26 Jul '20

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ***2020 IEEE (SWC, UIC, ScalCom, IoP, ATC, SCI) International Conferences*** To be held virtual online due to COVID-19, Melbourne, Australia, 8-10 December 2020. 1. 2020 IEEE Smart World Congress (SWC 2020) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2020/swc/submission.htm 2. The 17th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2020) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2020/uic/submission.htm 3. The 20th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2020) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2020/scalcom/submission.htm 4. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Internet of People (IoP 2020) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2020/iop/submission.htm 5. The 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2020) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2020/atc/submission.htm 6. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart City Innovations (SCI 2020) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2020/sci/submission.htm Sponsored by IEEE and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper Submission Deadline: 31 August 2020 Authors Notification: 30 September 2020 Camera-Ready Paper Due: 15 October 2020 Early Registration Due: 15 October 2020 Conference Date: 8-10 December 2020 PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE ========================== All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference websites with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE CPS (indexed by EI). JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES ====================== Distinguished papers selected from the conferences and associated workshops, after further extensions, will be recommended for submission and publication in the Special Issues of the following prestigious journals: - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience - Future Generation Computer Systems - Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

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IEEE BCCA – Firm and Final Deadline- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Ons Bouachir 24 Jul '20

24 Jul '20

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html *Please note the following update:* BCCA 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: - IEEE Member Authors Fee: *200 USD* - IEEE Non-Member Authors Fee: *250 USD* As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: June 25th, 2020 July 25th, 2020 (Firm) Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) - Springer Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia *Tutorial: * Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

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UCC 2020 Leicester UK- Call for Papers
by Ashiq Anjum 24 Jul '20

24 Jul '20

UCC 2020 Call for Papers 13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC2020) December 7-10, 2020 – Leicester, United Kingdom https://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/UCC2020/index.htm CONTEXT & SCOPE Cloud computing has firmly established itself as an indispensable utility for the digital age. Cloud services consumers expect and rely on sufficient computing power, the availability of data and media, and that these will be accessible across a range of devices. The expectation now is that Cloud services providers are capable of maintaining streamed services that are always available. Also, social and technological challenges are met with the development and adoption of new technologies that provide a safer, more secure, and richer digital experience for users and customers. Therefore, it is essential that sound scientific principles underpinning cloud technology and its economic value to both service providers and consumers are expressed and understood. UCC2020 is the premier IEEE/ACM conference for areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC2020 will be hosted at the University of Leicester, UK. The city of Leicester is a major city in the middle of country and is well connected to the rest of the world with road, rail and air networks. This will be the 13th UCC in a successful conference series of community-driven events. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC2013), London, UK (UCC 2014), Limassol, Cyprus (UCC 2015), Shanghai, China (UCC 2016), Austin, Texas, USA (UCC 2017), Zürich, Switzerland (UCC 2018) and Aucland, New Zealand(UCC 2019). UCC2020 is co-located with BDCAT 2020 and offers a technical programme, workshops, tutorials, doctoral symposium, and cloud challenge. Call for Papers Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research manuscripts in all areas of Cloud and Utility Computing. Topic of interest include (but not limited to): * Formal aspects of cloud technology * Integration of Cloud systems with edge and IoT devices * Cloud, Fog and edge/mobile devices management, hierarchy models, and business models * High Performance Computing and the Cloud * Networking for clouds and data centres * Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchains * Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds * Cloud business and legal implications beyond technology * Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) * Cloud large-scale foundations for Big Data, IoT, and real-time analytics * Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, and monitoring * Cloud-native application design and engineering * Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated * Economic and business models of Clouds and services * Innovative cloud applications and experiences * AI and machine learning models for Cloud Computing * Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds * Performance analysis and modelling of cloud systems and applications * Policy languages and programming models * Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing * Resource management and scalability: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, and elasticity * Security, trust and privacy in Clouds * Utility-driven platforms for Clouds * Utility-driven models and mechanisms for interclouds / federations * Virtualization, containerization, composition, orchestration and other enablers Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Submitted manuscripts must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Manuscripts are submitted in PDF format and may not exceed ten single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures, tables, and references. Please refer to http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for templates and complete formatting instructions. Manuscripts are submitted via the Easychair Conference Management System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2020 All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. The conference proceedings will be published by the ACM and made available online via the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Digital Library. Awards and Special Issues A selection commission chaired by the UCC2020 technical programme committee will select and acknowledge the best paper and the best student paper to receive an award during the conference. Authors of highly rated papers from UCC2020 will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of prestigious journals. Details will be announced soon. Important Dates * Paper Submissions Due: July 30, 2020 * Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2020 * Camera-ready papers due: October 1, 2020 * Early+author registration Deadline: October 1, 2020 * Conference: December 7-10, 2020

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IEEE BCCA - Deadline EXTENDED: July 25th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html *COVID-19 Update:* The organizing team is closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 situation. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. Considering the current circumstances, *BCCA 2020* *will run as a virtual conference* *and the registration fees will be reduced.* As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: June 25th, 2020 July 25th, 2020 (Firm) Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) - Springer Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia *Tutorial: * Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

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IEEE BCCA - Deadline EXTENDED: July 25th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations
by Safa Otoum 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)* *Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY* http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html *COVID-19 Update:* *The organizing team is closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19 situation. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our priority. Considering the current circumstances, BCCA 2020 will run as a virtual conference and the registration fees will be reduced.* As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that has a huge plethora of exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc. Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions. This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry in the Blockchain field. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity · Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies · Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy · New models, practical solutions and technological advances related to Blockchain · Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity · Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems · Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures · Authentication and authorization in Blockchain · Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic · Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies · Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware security · Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies · Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques · Blockchain-based open-source tools · Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies · Vulnerabilities of smart contracts · Open issues and trends in Blockchains *Full paper Important Dates:* Submission deadline: June 25th, 2020 July 25th, 2020 (Firm) Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020 *Journal Special Issues:* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues: - Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397) - Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85) - Springer Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676) Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Committee:* *General Co-Chair* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey *Program Co-Chairs* Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia *Keynotes:* Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia *Tutorial: * Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

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CFP: [Extended Deadline 15 July 2020] The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhodes Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 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, Rhodes 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 and Cryptocurrency * 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 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Blockchain Journal Special Issues - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - 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://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Special Issue: Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges Publisher: IEEE - Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 5.768) Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 ---> July 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 ---> Aug 15, 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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CFP: [Extended Deadline 15 July 2020] The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020)
by Blockchain IEEE 07 Jul '20

07 Jul '20

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2020) http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/ Rhodes Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020 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, Rhodes 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 and Cryptocurrency * 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 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Blockchain Journal Special Issues - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) Special Issue: Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed - 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://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/908361/>) - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Special Issue: Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges Publisher: IEEE - Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 5.768) Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: May 15, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020 ---> July 15, 2020 Author Notification: July 31, 2020 ---> Aug 15, 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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