BRAIN 2021: 2nd Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs September 5, 2021 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/brain-2021 |
Submission deadline | June 15, 2021 |
NEW! Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of Elsevier Blockchain Theory and Applications
A blockchain protocol is employed to implement a tamper-free distributed ledger which stores transactions created by the nodes of a P2P network and agreed upon through a distributed consensus algorithm, avoiding the need for a central authority.Blockchain technology has a great potential to radically change our socio-economical systems by guaranteeing secure transactions between untrusted entities, reducing their cost, and simplifying many processes. Such technology is going to be exploited in different areas like IoT, social networking, health care, electronic voting, and so on. Even if several applications are already leveraging its disruptive potentials, further research and development are required for several challenging aspects like scalability, efficiency, privacy and support of complex queries, both from a theoretical and applicative point of view.This workshop aims to provide a venue for researchers from both academy and industry to present and discuss important topics on blockchain technology. The workshop’s goal is to present results on both theoretical and more applicative open challenges, as well as to provide a venue to showcase the current state of existing proposals.
All workshop papers are limited to no more than 6 pages in IEEE format aligned with the IEEE-ISCC main conference guidelines
Accepted workshop papers will be included in the IEEE ISCC 2021 proceedings and will appear in the IEEE Explore Library.
Topic of interest include but are not limited to:
- Blockchain Protocols
- Distributed consensus Algorithms
- Permissioned vs permissionless paradigms
- Scalability issues
- P2P communication protocols
- Inter-ledger protocols
- Smart contracts automatic verification
- dApp software engineering aspects
- layer-2 payment protocols, lightning networks
- legal Aspect (smart contract, utility and security tokens, ICO,...)
- Blockchain data analysis
- Analysis of transaction graphs
- Social media analysis correlation studies
- Cryptocurrencies exchange rate analysis
- Smart contract classification
- Illicit activity tracking and analysis
- Blockchain data visualization
- Blockchain applications
- Blockchain for IoT
- Blockchain based social media
- Distributed supply chains
- Blockchain based access control
- Distributed notaries
- Blockchain in health care
- Blockchain for telecommunications
- Smart Contracts and dApp software engineering aspects
- Cryptocurrencie
Submission Guidelines
Important Dates
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Paper Submission Deadline: 1st of July 2021
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Notification of Acceptance: 18th of July 2021
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Registration and Camera Ready: 25th of July 2021
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Workshop: 5 September 2021
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Committees
Program Committee
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Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK
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Antorweep Chakravorty, University of Stavanger, Norway
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Mauro Conti, University of Padova, Italy
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Andrea De Salve, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, CNR, Italy
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Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, University of Cambridge, UK
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Tooba Faisal, Kings College London, UK
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Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy
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Mohammad Hammoudeh, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKManchester Metropolitan University
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Andrea Marino, University of Firenze, Italy
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Paolo Mori, IIT, CNR, Pisa, Italy
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Remo Pareschi, University of Molise, Italy
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Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
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Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
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Nishanth Sastry, University of Surrey, UK
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Nishant Saurabh, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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Claudio Schifanella, University of Turin, Italy
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Luca Spalazzi, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
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Frank Tietze, University of Cambridge, UKOrganizing committee
Workshop co-chairs
- Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, University of Cambridge, U
- Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Ital
- Nishanth Sastry, University of Surrey, UK
All questions about submissions should be emailed to laura.ricci@unipi.it