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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FI link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>2018 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2018)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><a href="http://cse.stfx.ca/~blockchain2018/index.php"><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>http://cse.stfx.ca/~blockchain2018/index.php</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Halifax, Canada, July 30-August 03, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency - bitcoin for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance" title="Byzantine fault tolerance"><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Byzantine fault tolerance</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential for event recording, identity management, fault provenance, behaviour tracking, and so on, especially in a distributed system without a trusted authority or central server. 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, privacy, efficiency, flexibility and high dependability.<span style='background:#EEFFFF'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;background:#EEFFFF'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2018) 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Topics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital system 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.<br><br>IEEE Blockchain-2018 will be held on July 30 – August 03, 2018 in Halifax, Canada. 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.<br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br></span><span style='color:black'>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ÿ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Theories of blockchain and its evolution</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ÿ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:black'>Smart contract and distributed ledger</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ÿ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:black'>Blockchain and Bitcoin security<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle 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style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ÿ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:black'>Blockchain in cyber </span><span style='color:black'>physical systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ÿ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:black'>Blockchain in social networking<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ÿ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:black'>Bolckchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ÿ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:black'>Blockchain in 5G<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if 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Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:black'>Attacks on blockchain based systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Keynote Speakers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA (to be confirmed)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Workshops and Special Sessions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ÿ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>International Workshop on Blockchain-Oriented Cybersecurity Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ÿ<span 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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>International Workshop on Blockchain for the Internet of Things<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ÿ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><a href="file://Users/yanz1/Work/NewPublications/Services/Blockchain/download/CFP-ICBC%20Special%20Track.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Special Session: Design of Blockchain Applications</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span style='color:black'>Special Issues:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ÿ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IF: 6.22), SI on Blockchain and Knowledge Automation https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/GU7u3E2kZ-S35xvQV-_Rhg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ÿ<span style='font:7.0pt "Times 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style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-privacy-computing-principles-and-applicatio</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Submissions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'>All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (</span><a href="http://edas.info/N24471"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black;text-decoration:none'>http://edas.info/N24471</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'>) 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 </span><a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black;text-decoration:none'>IEEE Computer Society proceedings</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;color:black'> 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. 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. Blockchain 2018 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 Xplorer Digital Library. One outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards.</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Workshop Proposal Due: February 15, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Paper Submission Deadline: </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>March</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> 15, 20</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>18 -> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>Extended to April 15, 2018</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Author Notification: May</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>15, 201</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>8</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Final Manuscript Due: May 30, 201</span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>8<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Organization Committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>General Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Vijay Varadharajan, The University of Newcastle, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Dinesh C. Verma, IBM, USA <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Program Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Special Session and Workshop Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Xin Huang, University of Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Hongsheng Zhou, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Technical Program Committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Giuseppe Ateniese, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Man Ho Au, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Natalia Beloff, University of Sussex, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Yu Chen, University of California, Irvine, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Fei Chen, Shenzhen University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Alexander Chepurnoy, IOHK Research, Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Kostas Christidis, North Carolina State University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Tiziana Cimoli, University of Cagliari, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=SV style='color:black'>Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Zeki Erkin, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Wei Feng, Xidian University, China <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Christopher Frantz, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Antonio Faonio, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Rosario Gennaro, City University of New York, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Vincent Gramoli, University of Sydney, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Debiao He, Wuhan University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Xin Huang, University of Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Praveen Jayachandran, IBM Research, India<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Raja Jurdak, CSIRO, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Salil S. Kanhere, University of New South Wales (Sydney), Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Ghassan Karame, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Dilip Krishnaswamy, IBM Research, India<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Anthony Krzesinski, Stellenbosch University, South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Rami Khalil, ETH Zurich, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Mario Larangeira, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Wenjuan Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Jian Liu, Aalto University, Finland <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Zhiqiang Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Erwu Liu, Tongji University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Xueqin Liang, Xidian University, China <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Guillermo Navarro, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Christopher Natoli, The University of Sydney, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Federico Maggi, Trend Micro, Inc., Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=SV style='color:black'>Breno de Medeiros, Google Inc., USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Purdue University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Petr Novotny, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Zhonghong Ou, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Claudio Orlandi, Aarhus University, Denmark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>John Palfreyman, IBM&Palfreyman Ventures, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=SV style='color:black'>Cristina Pérez-Solà, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Na Ruan, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Rei Safavi-Naini, The University of Calgary, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Bjorn Scheuermann, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Claudio Schifanella, University of Turin, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Alessandro Sorniotti, IBM Research, Zurich<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Pawel Szalachowski, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Peter Taylor, University of Melbourne, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Paolo Tasca, University College London, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Stefan Tai, TU Berlin, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Shruti Tople, National University of Singapore, Singapore<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Andreas Veneris, University of Toronto, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Hoang Tam Vo, IBM Research, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Qianhong Wu, Beihang University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Danny Yang, BlockSeer, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Anjia Yang, Jinan University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Dengpan Ye, Wuhan University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Kuo-Hui Yeh, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Qi Zhang, IBM Thomas J. Research Center, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Yunhui Zhuang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Jan Ziegeldorf, RWTH Aachen University, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Dionysis Zindros, University of Athens, Greece<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Steering Committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=SV style='color:black'>Pierangela Samarati, </span><a href="http://www.unimi.it"><span lang=SV style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Università degli Studi di Milano</span></a><span lang=SV style='color:black'>, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><a href="https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/vijay-varadharajan" target="http://www.spaccs.org/ispa2017/_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Vijay Varadharajan</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>, University of Newcastle, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland (chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Publicity chairs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Entao Luo, Hunan University of science and engineering, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Wei Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:22.7pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:-22.7pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Xiaokang Wang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>