Special Session on Blockchain Technology and Applications (BTA 2021)
In association with

PDPTA'21- The 27th Int'l Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
https://www.american-cse.org/csce2021/approved_sessions

July 26-29, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (Virtual and Physical)

Topics
This track aims to bring together academia and industry for discussing the latest advances on the following Topics of Interest


 Applications for smart cities
 Auditability and traceability
 Cyber Physical Systems
 Blockchain in AI, Machine Learning, cyber security, Identity and Access
 Blockchain tools, simulators, and test-nets
 Blockchain-based IoT, fog, cloud, and mobile devices
 Blockchain in cyber-physical systems (CPS)
 Building private blockchain systems
 Consensus mechanisms
 Cross-blockchain ecosystems
 Decentralized applications
 Decentralized financing and payments
 Decentralized storage and InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)
 Distributed storage in blockchain
 Trust and reputation management
 Underlying infrastructure for blockchain systems
 Interoperability of blockchains
 On-chain and off-chain applications
 Privacy and security of ledgers
 Performance and Scalability
 Secure contracts
 Side chains and channels
 Smart contracts
 Micropayment Systems
 Trusted Execution Environment
 Zero knowledge proof

Submission Instructions:
Submission page: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28437


Publisher: Springer Nature - Book Series: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence
https://www.springer.com/series/11769

Indexation: Subject to Springer science indexation which includes: online Springer Link,Scopus, SCI Compendex, EI Compendex, EMBASE, Web of Science, Inspec, ACM digital library, Google Scholar, EBSCO, and others.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28437

Submissions must be uploaded by the due date and must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (maximum of 10 pages for Regular Research Papers; maximum of 6 pages for Short Research Papers; and maximum of 3 pages for Extended Abstract/Poster Papers - the number of pages includes all figures, tables, and references). ALL REASONABLE TYPESETTING FORMATS ARE ACCEPTABLE (many authors use Springer's one-column style format for their submissions or IEEE style format: later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication). Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

Important Dated
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2021 (EXtended)
Acceptance Notification June 5, 2021
Camera ready and Registration June 15, 2021


Contact info: amjad(DOT)gawanmeh at ieee dot org