2nd Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs
BRAIN 2021
in conjunction with ISCC 2021
5th September 2021
The organizers are monitoring the COVID-19 Pandemic situation and will adapt accordingly, possibly allowing remote presentations if needed
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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.
Authors of papers presented at this workshop will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a Special Issue of an International Journal. The details of this special issue will be published soon.
Topics 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
Cryptocurrencies
Paper Submission Deadline:
15thofJune20211st of July 2021Notification of Acceptance: 18th of July 2021
Registration and Camera Ready: 25th of July 2021
Workshop: 5 September 2021
Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, University of Cambridge, UK
Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
Nishanth Sastry, University of Surrey, UK
Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK
Antorweep Chakravorty, University of Stavanger, Norway
Mauro Conti, University of Padova, Italy
Andrea De Salve, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, CNR, Italy
Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, University of Cambridge, UK
Tooba Faisal, Kings College London, UK
Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy
Mohammad Hammoudeh, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKManchester Metropolitan University
Andrea Marino, University of Firenze, Italy
Paolo Mori, IIT, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Remo Pareschi, University of Molise, Italy
Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
Nishanth Sastry, University of Surrey, UK
Nishant Saurabh, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Claudio Schifanella, University of Turin, Italy
Luca Spalazzi, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
Frank Tietze, University of Cambridge, UK