3rd Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs
BRAIN 2022
in conjunction with PERCOM 2022
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NEWS
Due to a restructuring of the workshop program into a full day online only format, the notification of accepted papers has been moved to the 19th of January
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Due to the high number of requests, the deadline for the workshop has been extended by two weeks. The new firm deadline for paper submissions is the 28th of November
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to
ACM's journal on Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice
https://dl.acm.org/journal/dlt
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A blockchain protocol is employed to implement a tamper-free distributed ledger that 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 many areas like IoT, social networking, health care, electronic voting, and so on. In particular, blockchain provides an innovative solution to address challenges in pervasive environments, e.g. distributed computing, smart devices, and device-to-device coordination, in terms of decentralization, data privacy, and network security, while pervasive environments offer elasticity and scalability characteristics to improve the efficiency of blockchain operations.
Even if many applications are already leveraging the disruptive potentials of this technology, further research and development are required for several challenging aspects like scalability, efficiency, privacy and support of complex queries, both from a theoretical and practical 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-Percom main conference guidelines.
All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process. As a result, authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions.
The workshop will follow the main conference indications in being a hybrid physical/virtual event. The boundary between the two modalities will be defined based on the pandemic conditions worldwide.
Accepted workshop papers will be included in the IEEE Percom 2022 proceedings and will appear in the IEEE Explore Library.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to ACM's journal on Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (https://dl.acm.org/journal/dlt).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Blockchain Fundamentals
Distributed consensus Algorithms
Permissioned vs permissionless paradigms
Scalability issues
P2P communication protocols
Inter-ledger protocols
Smart contracts automatic verification
layer-2 payment protocols, lightning networks
legal Aspect (smart contract, utility and security tokens, ICO, ...)
Blockchain for pervasive computing
System engineering with IoT and blockchain
Digital identity Management on blockchain
Distributed supply chains
Blockchain-based mobile edge computing systems
Blockchain for Medicine and Healthcare
Blockchain for trustworthiness in 5G and 6G Networks
Blockchain for peer-to-peer energy management
Blockchain-enabled distributed social platforms
Blockchain-based access control
Smart Contracts and dApp software engineering aspects
Cryptocurrencies
Paper Submission Deadline:
14thofNovember202128th of November 2021 (firm)Notification of Acceptance:
5thof January 202219th of January 2022Camera Ready: 5th of February 2022
Registration: same as main conference regular papers
Workshop: 21st of March 2022
Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, University of Pisa, Italy
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
Damiano Di Franceso Maesa, University of Pisa, Italy
Zekeriya Erkin, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Tooba Faisal, Kings College London, UK
Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy
Mohammad Hammoudeh, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, USA
Paolo Mori, IIT, CNR, Italy
Remo Pareschi, Universy of Molise, Italy
Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
Nishanth Sastry, University of Surrey, UK
Claudio Schifanella, University of Turin, Italy
Luca Spalazzi, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
Frank Tietze, University of Cambridge, UK
Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni, Paris-Saclay University, France