2nd Edition - BRAIN 2021

The second edition of BRAIN workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/brain-2021/), i.e. BRAIN 2021, took place during ISCC 2021 on the 5th of September. The workshop was entirely on line and divided in three sessions. The presentations where carried on via zoom.

Five (5) papers of the thirteen (13) submitted were accepted for publication, for an acceptance rate of 38%, after 3 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:

Canada

Italy

United States of America

Accepted Papers


  • Blockchain Applications

    • Ahmed Khoumsi (University of Sherbrooke, Canada). An Efficient Blockchain-Based Electric Vehicle Charging Management System

  • Principles behind blockchain

    • Matthew C Ding (MIT PRIMES & Westford Academy, USA). An Analysis of Multi-Hop Iterative Approximate Byzantine Consensus with Local Communication

    • Francesco Mogavero (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Ivan Visconti (Universita' di Salerno, Italy); Andrea Vitaletti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Marco Zecchini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy). The Blockchain Quadrilemma: When Also Computational Effectiveness Matters

  • Unlocking smart contracts potential

    • Francesco Bruschi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Tommaso Paulon (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Vincenzo Rana (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Donatella Sciuto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy). A Privacy Preserving Identification Protocol for Smart Contracts

    • Paolo Bottoni (Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy); Remo Pareschi (University of Molise, Italy); Domenico Tortola (University of Molise, Italy); Nicola Gessa (ENEA, Italy); Gilda Massa (ENEA, Italy). Distributed Ledgers to Support Revenue-Sharing Business Consortia: A Hyperledger-Based Implementation


1st Edition - BRAIN 2020

The first edition of BRAIN workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/brain-2020/), 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:

Australia

Austria

Ireland

Italy

Netherlands

North Macedonia

Norway

Spain

United Kingdom

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