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 a technology is going to be exploited in many 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 is 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