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    <div class="">Seoul<span class="" style="text-align: justify;
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        Korea, May 15-17, 2019. ICBC 2019 is the first IEEE
        Communications </span></div>
    <div class=""><span class="" style="text-align: justify; font-size:
        10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">Society
        (ComSoc) sponsored conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. </span></div>
    <div class=""><span class="" style="text-align: justify; font-size:
        10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">It will
        feature keynotes, tutorials, technical paper presentations,
        posters, </span></div>
    <div class=""><span class="" style="text-align: justify; font-size:
        10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">demos, and
        exhibitions from world-leading service providers, solution
        vendors, </span></div>
    <div class=""><span class="" style="text-align: justify; font-size:
        10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">research
        institutes, open source projects, and academia. ICBC 2019 will
        be </span></div>
    <div class=""><span class="" style="text-align: justify; font-size:
        10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">the primary
        forum for technical exchange of</span><span class=""
        style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,
        sans-serif;" lang="EN-US"> the</span><span class=""
        style="text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,
        sans-serif;" lang="EN-US"> latest research and innovation, </span></div>
    <div class=""><span class="" style="text-align: justify; font-size:
        10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">regulations,
        policies, standards, and applications in this exciting and
        challenging </span></div>
    <div class=""><span class="" style="text-align: justify; font-size:
        10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">area.</span></div>
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    <div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
        font-size: 10pt;">ICBC 2019 is seeking submissions of technical
        papers (both full and short) </span></div>
    <div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
        Arial, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">and tutorial proposals in the
        following areas related to Blockchains and </span></div>
    <div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
        Arial, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">Cryptocurrencies</span><span
        class="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,
        sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">: </span></div>
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      <ul class="">
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Distributed
            Consensus & Fault Tolerance Algorithms</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Performance,
            Scalability Issues</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Distributed
            Database Technologies for Blockchain</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Blockchain
            Platforms</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Blockchain-based
            Applications & Services</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Decentralized
            App Development</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Smart
            Contracts</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Security,
            Privacy, Attacks, Forensics</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Transaction
            Monitoring and Analysis</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Token
            Economy</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Regulations
            & Policies in Cryptocurrency</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Digital
            Wallets, Coin Exchange, Initial Coin Offering</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Anonymity
            and Criminal Activities of the Cryptocurrency</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Managing the
            Risks of Cryptocurrency</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Distributed
            Trust</span></li>
        <li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">Decentralized
            Internet Infrastructure</span></li>
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      <div class="">SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS</div>
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        Authors are invited to submit 8 pages for full papers, 4 pages
        for short papers, or 2 pages for poster papers (all excluding
        references). </div>
      <div class="">The paper submission templates are available on <a
          href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html"
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          for Conference Proceedings</a>. All submitted papers will </div>
      <div class="">be peer-reviewed. Accepted and presented papers will
        be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE
        Xplore. </div>
      <div class="">All papers should be submitted through the <a
          href="https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3163" class=""
          moz-do-not-send="true">JEMS conference submission system</a>.<br
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        IMPORTANT DATES</div>
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          <li class="">Paper submission deadline: Dec. 21, 2018
            (extended)</li>
          <li class="">Acceptance Notification: Feb. 11, 2019</li>
          <li class="">Camera-Ready due: Mar. 18, 2019</li>
          <li class="">Conference Dates: May 15-17, 2019</li>
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      <div class=""> <br class="">
         GENERAL CHAIR<br class="">
        JamesWon-Ki Hong, POSTECH, Korea<br class="">
         <br class="">
        TPC CO-CHAIRS<br class="">
        Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada<br class="">
        Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br class="">
        Hongtaek Ju, KMU, Korea</div>
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