<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=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;" class="">Please accept our apologies if you have receive multiple copies of this message.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">*********************************************************************<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""> CALL FOR PAPERS - BRAINS 2020<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""> 2nd Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""> for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS 2020)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""> 28-30 September 2020 // Paris, France<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""> technically sponsored by IEEE ComSoc<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""> in-cooperation with ACM SIGAPP<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://brains.dnac.org/call-for-papers/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://brains.dnac.org/call-for-papers/</a><span style="color: black;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">*********************************************************************<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) have the potential to<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">disrupt any domain involving coordination among autonomous resources. This<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">include finance and payments (e.g., Facebook Libra), but also networks (e.g.,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">power grids or telecom networks), computing (e.g., brokering of edge resources),<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">IoT ( e.g., supply chain or industry 4.0) or service platforms (e.g., identity<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">management). BRAINS conference is dedicated to these new advances that could<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">make the world of networks and services more secure, while enabling new<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">distributed business models.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">Areas of interest include, but are not limited, the following:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">Fundamentals of Blockchain and DLT<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Theoretical contributions on Blockchain and DLT<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Distributed consensus and fault tolerance solutions, including<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""> domain-specific consensus (e.g., for networking)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Tradeoffs between decentralization, scalability, performance and security<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Protocols and algorithms<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">Decentralized Apps, Smart contracts and chain code<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Development languages and tooling<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Security, Privacy, Attacks, Forensics<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Transaction Monitoring and Analysis<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Token Economy<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Distributed Trust<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Oracle<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">Application and service cases of DLT and Smart-Contracts<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Finance and payments<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- IoT and cyber physical systems<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Smart grids and Industry 4.0<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Networking, Edge and Cloud Technologies<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- 5G Technologies, Telecom Process and Operation<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Supply chain management<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Connected and autonomous vehicles<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Services or Resources Marketplaces<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Blockchain as a service<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">- Blockchain-defined networking<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously published.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">All submissions should be written in English with maximum of eight (8) printed<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">pages (in Two-Column IEEE Conference Format), including text, figures and<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">references.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">Papers should be submitted through EDAS at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://edas.info/N26780" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://edas.info/N26780</a><span style="color: black;" class=""></span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">All accepted and presented papers will be published on IEEE Digital Library.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas; color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas; color: black;" class="">Best papers will be considered for fast-track publication in special issues of<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas; color: black;" class="">- MDPI Sensors (Impact Factor: 3.031),<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas; color: black;" class="">- Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management (Impact Factor: 1.676).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas; color: red;" class="">Paper Submission: 15 March 2020</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">Notification of Acceptance: 31 May 2020<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">Camera Ready: 30 June 2020<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">Abdelkader Lahmadi (University of Lorraine, France)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">Ruidong Li (NICT, Japan)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">Cyril Cassagnes (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">GENERAL CHAIR<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Consolas;" class="">Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Labs, France)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; 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