[AISWorld] Call for Papers: IEEE Blockchain 2022

[Raymond Choo]

Call for Papers: IEEE Blockchain 2022
August 22 - 25, 2022
Espoo, Finland
http://www.blockchain-ieee.org/



*Topics of interest* include, but are not limited to:



• Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology

• New blockchain architecture

• 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 edge and cloud computing

• Blockchain in next generation communications and networks

• Blockchain and cryptocurrency

• Blockchain and artificial intelligence

• Blockchain and game theory

• Blockchain and industry 4.0



** Important Dates*

Workshop proposal: February 1, 2022

Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2022

Author Notification: 10th June, 2022

Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2022

Conference Dates: 22-25 August, 2022



** Author Instructions*

All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference
website 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 2022 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. *



** Instruction for Double-blind Submission*

• Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.

• Remove acknowledgments.

• Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the
authors via web search.

• Carefully name your files to anonymize author information.

• Carefully refer to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit
references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer incapable of
grasping the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third
person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another
author. For example, instead of "In prior work [1], we presented a scheme
that ...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Clark et al. [1]
presented a scheme that ..." should be used. With this method, the full
citation of the referred paper can still be given, such as "[1] A. Clark
…., "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[1] Reference
deleted for double-blind review."

• The submitted manuscript or its title/abstract should not be posted on a
public website, such as arxiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists.

• The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any
submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without
review.

• Many of the editing tools automatically add metadata to the generated PDF
file containing information that may violate the double blind policy.
Please remove any possible metadata that can link your manuscript to you.
This includes removing names, affiliation, license numbers etc. from the
Metadata as well as from the paper. Failing to meet this requirement may
also lead to a rejection without review.



** Journal Special Issues*

IEEE Blockchain-2022 will invite additional submissions (after significant
extension) to the special issue in the following prestigious journals:

• IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.471)

• IEEE Network Magazine (IF: 10.693)

• ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (ACM DLT)

• Information Sciences (Elsevier) (IF: 6.795)

• Information Fusion (Elsevier) (TBD) (IF: 12.975)

(More will be added)



** Organizing Committees*

General Co-Chairs

Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar



Program Co-Chairs

Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia

Zheng Yan, Aalto University, Finland & Xidian University, China



Workshop and Symposia Co-Chairs

Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Liang Xiao, Xiamen University, China



Publication Co-Chairs

Xueqin Liang, Xidian University, China



Local Co-Chairs

Lagutin Dmitrij, Aalto University, Finland

Kortesniemi Yki, Aalto University, Finland



Publicity Co-Chairs

Wei Feng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Sarada Prasad Gochhayat, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center,
USA



Web Chair

Jiawei Wang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada