FMBC 2020: 2nd International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains Omni Hotel (Governors Room, 20) Los Angeles, CA, United States, July 19, 2020 |
Conference website | http://fmbc.gitlab.io/2020 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmbc2020 |
Conference program | https://easychair.org/smart-program/FMBC2020/ |
Abstract registration deadline | April 21, 2020 |
Submission deadline | April 28, 2020 |
2nd Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) 2020
July 19, 2020, Los Angeles, USA
Co-located with the 32nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV 2020)
IMPORTANT DATES
- Abstract submission: April 21, 2020
- Full paper submission: April 28, 2020
- Notification: June 9, 2020
- Camera-ready: July 7, 2020
- Conference: July 19, 2020
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Blockchains are decentralized transactional ledgers that rely oncryptographic hash functions for guaranteeing the integrity of thestored data. Participants on the network reach agreement on what validtransactions are through consensus algorithms.
Blockchains may also provide support for Smart Contracts. SmartContracts are scripts of an ad-hoc programming language that arestored in the Blockchain and that run on the network. They caninteract with the ledger’s data and update its state. These scriptscan express the logic of possibly complex contracts between users ofthe Blockchain. Thus, Smart Contracts can facilitate the economicactivity of Blockchain participants.
With the emergence and increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies suchas Bitcoin and Ethereum, it is now of utmost importance to have strongguarantees of the behavior of Blockchain software.These guarantees can be brought by using Formal Methods. Indeed,Blockchain software encompasses many topics of computer science whereusing Formal Methods techniques and tools are relevant: consensusalgorithms to ensure the liveness and the security of the data on thechain, programming languages specifically designed to write SmartContracts, cryptographic protocols, such as zero-knowledge proofs,used to ensure privacy, etc.
This workshop is a forum to identify theoretical and practicalapproaches of formal methods for Blockchain technology. Topicsinclude, but are not limited to:* Formal models of Blockchain applications or concepts* Formal methods for consensus protocols* Formal methods for Blockchain-specific cryptographic primitives or protocols* Design and implementation of Smart Contract languages* Verification of Smart Contracts
SUBMISSION
Submit original manuscripts (not published or considered elsewhere)with a maximum of twelve pages (full papers), six pages (shortpapers), and two pages (extended abstract) describing new and emergingideas or summarizing existing work). Each paper should include a titleand the name and affiliation of each author. Authors of selectedextended-abstracts are invited to give a short lightning talk.
At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present thepaper at the workshop as a registered participant.
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmbc2020
PROCEEDINGS
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of theprogram committee for quality and relevance. Accepted regular papers(full and short papers) will be included in the workshop proceedings.
INVITED SPEAKER
Grigore Rosu, Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,USA and Founder of Runtime Verification
http://fsl.cs.illinois.edu/index.php/Grigore_Rosu
https://runtimeverification.com/
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
PC CO-CHAIRS
Bruno Bernardo (Nomadic Labs, France) (bruno@nomadic-labs.com)
Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK) (D.Marmsoler@exeter.ac.uk)
PC MEMBERS
- Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
- Lacramioara Astefanoei (Nomadic Labs, France)
- Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy)
- Bernhard Beckert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
- Achim Brucker (University of Exeter, UK)
- Silvia Crafa (Universita di Padova, Italy)
- Zaynah Dargaye (Nomadic Labs, France)
- Jérémie Decouchant (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
- Ansgar Fehnker (University of Twente, Netherlands)
- Georges Gonthier (Inria, France)
- Florian Kammueller (Middlesex University London, UK)
- Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, USA)
- Igor Konnov (Informal, Austria)
- Andreas Lochbihler (Digital Asset, Switzerland)
- Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames, USA)
- Simão Melo de Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
- Andrew Miller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
- Karl Palmskog (KTH, Sweden)
- Vincent Rahli (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Andreas Rossberg (Dfinity Foundation, Germany)
- Claudio Russo (Dfinity Foundation, USA)
- César Sanchez (Imdea, Spain)
- Clara Schneidewind (TU Wien, Austria)
- Ilya Sergey (Yale-NUS College/NUS, Singapore)
- Bas Spitters (Aarhus University/Concordium, Denmark)
- Mark Staples (CSIRO Data61, Australia)
- Meng Sun (Peking University, China)
- Simon Thompson (University of Kent, UK)
- Philip Wadler (University of Edinburgh / IOHK, UK)