<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" class="">Please accept our apologies if you have receive multiple copies of this message.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">*********************************************************************<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> CALL FOR PAPERS - BRAINS 2020<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> 2nd </span>Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS 2020)<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> 28-30 September 2020 // Paris, France<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> Technically sponsored by IEEE ComSoc<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> in-cooperation with ACM SIGAPP<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> <a href="https://brains.dnac.org/call-for-papers/" style="color: purple;" class="">https://brains.dnac.org/call-for-papers/</a> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">*********************************************************************<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) have the potential to<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">disrupt any domain involving coordination among autonomous resources. This<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">include finance and payments, but also networks, computing, IoT or service platforms. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">BRAINS conference is dedicated to these new advances that could<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">make the world of networks and services more secure, while enabling new<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">distributed business models.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Areas of interest include, but are not limited, the following:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Fundamentals of Blockchain and DLT<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Theoretical contributions on Blockchain and DLT<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Distributed consensus and fault tolerance solutions, including<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> domain-specific consensus (e.g., for networking)<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Tradeoffs between decentralization, scalability, performance and security<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Protocols and algorithms<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Decentralized Apps, Smart contracts and chain code<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Development languages and tooling<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Security, Privacy, Attacks, Forensics<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Transaction Monitoring and Analysis<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Token Economy<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Distributed Trust<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Oracle<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Application and service cases of DLT and Smart-Contracts<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Finance and payments<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- IoT and cyber physical systems<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Smart grids and Industry 4.0<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Networking, Edge and Cloud Technologies<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- 5G Technologies, Telecom Process and Operation<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Supply chain management<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Connected and autonomous vehicles<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Services or Resources Marketplaces<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Blockchain as a service<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">- Blockchain-defined networking<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously published.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">All submissions should be written in English with maximum of eight (8) printed<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">pages (in Two-Column IEEE Conference Format), including text, figures and<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">references. <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Papers should be submitted through EDAS at: </span><a href="https://edas.info/N26780" style="color: purple;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">https://edas.info/N26780</span></a> <span lang="EN-US" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">All accepted and presented papers will be published on IEEE Digital Library.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Best papers will be considered for fast-track publication in special issues of<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">- MDPI Sensors (Impact Factor: 3.031),<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">- Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management (Impact Factor: 1.676).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><font color="#ff2600" class="">Paper Submission: 15 March 2020</font><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Notification of Acceptance: 31 May 2020<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Camera Ready: 30 June 2020<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Abdelkader Lahmadi (University of Lorraine, France)<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Ruidong Li (NICT, Japan)<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Cyril Cassagnes (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">GENERAL CHAIR<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Labs, France)<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Contact Email: <a href="mailto:brains20-chairs@edas.info" style="color: purple;" class="">brains20-chairs@edas.info</a></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""></span></div></div></div></body></html>