Previous edition: BRAIN 2020

The first edition of BRAIN workshop, i.e. BRAIN 2020, took place during ISCC 2020 on the 7th of July. The workshop was entirely on line and divided in two presentations blocks. The presentations where carried on via zoom, with a backup pre-recorded video presentation and slides deck, in case of connectivity issues or time zones incompatibilities.

Eight (8) papers of the twenty-one (21) submitted were accepted for publication, for an acceptance rate of 38%, after 3 or 4 reviews each. The authors affiliation of submissions ranged from Australia to the United States of America while the affiliation countries of authors of accepted papers were:

Accepted Papers

• Bitcoin

  • Liam Hickey and Martin Harrigan. The Bisq DAO: On the Privacy Cost of Participation

  • Muntadher Sallal, Gareth Owenson and Mo Adda. Security and Performance Evaluation of Master Node Protocol in the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network

• Applications

  • Nikita Karandikar, Antorweep Chakravorty and Chunming Rong. RenewLedger : Renewable energy management powered by Hyperledger Fabric

  • Radu Prodan and Nishant Saurabh. Decentralized Social Media Applications as a Service: a Car-Sharing Perspective

  • Diego Pennino, Maurizio Pizzonia, Andrea Vitaletti and Marco Zecchini. Binding of Endpoints to Identifiers by On-Chain Proofs

• Technical proposals

  • Francesco Bruschi, Manuel Tumiati, Vincenzo Rana, Mattia Bianchi and Donatella Sciuto. A Decentralized System for Fair Token Distribution and Seamless Users Onboarding

  • Peter Robinson. Performance Overhead of Atomic Crosschain Transactions

• Analysis

  • Pierluigi Freni, Enrico Ferro and Roberto Moncada. Tokenization and Blockchain Tokens Classification: a morphological framework