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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Firm Deadline: August 11, 2024 (AoE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The 8th Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> (SDLT-2024)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> November 28-29, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Brisbane, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://symposium-dlt.org/">https://symposium-dlt.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">SDLT-2024 solicits research contributions in all areas pertinent to DLT.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Please consider submitting your security research to SDLT 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">+ Double-blind review, proceedings as CCIS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">+ Hands-on tutorial: BFT Consensus and ZK Proofs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">+ Industry talk on the Hyperledger Cacti platform<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">## KEYNOTES by ##<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Jiangshan Yu, The University of Sydney<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Mohi Ahmed, Edith Cowan University
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The 8th SDLT will be held at the Australian Catholic University
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(ACU) Brisbane on the 28th and 29th of November, 2024. Distributed
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Ledger Technology is an emerging technology, which provides the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">way to store and manage information in a distributed fashion. It
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">enables the creation of decentralized crypto-currencies, smart
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">contracts, eGovernance, supply chain management, eVoting etc over
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">a network of computer systems without any human intervention.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Unprecedented reliability and security over other cryptographic
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">schemes has expanded the application domains of blockchain including
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">financial services, real estate, stock exchange, identity management,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">supply chain, and Internet of Things.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The goal of this symposium is to provide a forum for researchers,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">business leaders and policy makers in this area to carefully analyse
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">background for a solid development of innovative Distributed Ledger
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Technology (DLT) applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Blockchain architectures, paradigms, & platforms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Consensus mechanisms, scalability and interoperability
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> solutions in Blockchain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Deployment of DLT and Smart Contracts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Anonymity, privacy and security analysis of DLT solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Malicious transactions detection and recovery techniques
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> in Blockchain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> detection, crypto currencies etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Blockchain based business models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Blockchain based IoT security, identity, provenance and
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> trust management solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Big data, AI and Blockchain technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Blockchain based virtual economies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Blockchain based identity management in metaverse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Paper submission and all associated events must be done via EquinOCS. Authors
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">are advised to prepare their manuscripts in line with the Springer conference
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">format guidelines available here. SDLT 2024 will follow a double-blind
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">review process, therefore, authors must make a good-faith effort to anonymise
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> For the Academic Track submit a single-column paper within 15 pages
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> 12 pages or a short paper of up to 6 pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> For the Industry Presentation, submit an abstract and a brief
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">All accepted papers (except Industry Presentations) will be published in the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Detailed Guidelines:
<a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">conference-proceedings-guidelines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Past Proceedings:
<a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-0006-6">https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-0006-6</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Salil Kanhere, UNSW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Joy Parkinson, ACU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Bhavani Sridharan, ACU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Raja Jurdak, QUT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Kamanashis Biswas, ACU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Shantanu Pal, Deakin University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Stefano Ferretti, University of Urbino<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Kewen Liao, ACU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Guangdong Bai, UQ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Walayat Hussain, ACU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Naipeng Dong, UQ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Babu Pillai, SCU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Zaidul Alam, CSIRO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Submission deadline: August 11, 2024 (firm deadline, AoE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Acceptance notification: September 13, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Camera-ready deadline: September 22, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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