BSCI 2019: 2019 ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure Auckland, New Zealand, July 9-12, 2019 |
Conference website | http://www.cloud-conf.net/bsci/2019/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsci2019 |
Submission deadline | January 15, 2019 |
Blockchain is a decentralized transaction and data management technology that was voiced by its implementation in Bitcoin. In recent years, Blockchain has been achieving an ever-growing popularity. The reason for the interest in Blockchain is its central attributes that provide security, anonymity and data integrity without any third-party organization in control of the transactions, and therefore it is applied in numerous fields, including securing critical infrastructure.
As technology advanced, critical infrastructures increasingly come to rely on digital control systems and networking. Attacks on critical infrastructure sites are currently a fact of life rather than a potential threat. For example, power stations, chemical plants, telecommunication stations and nuclear facilities are tempting targets to cyber-attacks.
In this scene, the question remains on why and how we can utilize blockchain techniques to secure critical infrastructure. Prior methods of protecting critical infrastructure have been plagued by centralized weaknesses and single points of failure problems. Contemporarily, Blockchain can offer cryptography for transactions and data in trustless distributed networks to enhance the reliability and resilience of the critical infrastructure. In other words, increasingly open and security needs is forcing us to shore up defenses with developing blockchain technology to help secure distributed critical infrastructure.
The aim of this academic get-together, ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure, is to collect latest research results concerning Blockchain and secure critical infrastructure on relevant scenarios, such as the ones subsequently listed. Researchers, experts, and scholars from both industry and academia are encouraged to share their recent studies, investigations, and findings in this forum.
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
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Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized. Submissions must be in double-column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. This symposium will grant a few awards, including ACM Best Paper Award and ACM Best Student Award.
Committees
Program Chairs
- Keke Gai, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
- Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
- Debiao He, Wuhan University, China
- Sheng Wen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Technical Program Committee
- Yonghao Wang, Birmingham City University, UK
- Ding Wang, Peking University, China
- Tianwei Zhang, Amazon, USA
- John Grant, Nine Tiles Cambridge, UK
- Ralph Deters, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- Cheng Zhang, Waseda University, Japan
- Paul Kearney, Birmingham City University, UK
- Mak Sharma, Birmingham City University, UK
- Zengpeng Li, Lancaster University, UK
- Zijian Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
- Xiaoyang Liu, Columbia University, USA
- Shaojing Fu, National University of Defense Technology, China
- Jian Shen, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China
- Hao Wang, Shandong Normal University, China
- Junwei Zhang, Xidian University, China
- Xinghua Li, Xidian University, China
- Vitor Jesus, Birmingham City University, UK
- Shuo Wang, Birmingham City University, UK
- Hao Tang, City University of New York, USA
- Xiong Li, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
- Shishank Shishank, Birmingham City University, UK
- Yunxia Liu, Zhengzhou Normal University,China
- Qi Jiang, Xidian University, China
- Wenbo Shi, Northeastern University, China
- Ning Lu, Northeastern University, China
- Han Qiu, Telecom-ParisTech, France
- Hua Yin, Duke University, USA
- Ke Miao, Mitacs Inc., Canada
- Md Liakat Ali, Rider University, USA
- Ruoyu Chen, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, China
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to kekegai@smart-com.org