4th Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs
BRAIN 2023
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The submission deadline has been extended to the 28th of November 2022.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue ( https://dl.acm.org/journal/dlt/calls-for-papers ) of the international journal ACM 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, potentially hybrid, physical/virtual event. The boundary between the two modalities will be defined based on the pandemic conditions worldwide. Currently it is scheduled as a physical event, with a provision for remote participation.
Accepted workshop papers will be included in the IEEE Percom 2023 proceedings and will appear in the IEEE Explore Library.
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: 14th 28th of November 2022
Notification of Acceptance: 5th 13th of January 2023
Camera Ready: 30th of January 2023
Registration: same as main conference regular papers
Early registration deadline: 15th of January 2023
Workshop: 13th of March 2023
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
Alessandro Brighente, University of Padua, Italy
Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy
Angelo De Caro, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Andrea De Salve, ISASI Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems, Italy
Giuseppe Destefanis, Brunel University London, UK
Damiano Di Franceso Maesa, University of Pisa, Italy
Zekeriya Erkin, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Tooba Faisal, Kings College London, UK
Sabrina Gaito, University of Milan, Italy
Alessia Galdeman, University of Milan, Italy
Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy
Mohammad Hammoudeh, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Sidney, Australia
Andrea Marino, University of Florence, Italy
Andrea Michienzi, University of Pisa, Italy
Paolo Mori, IIT, CNR, Italy
Remo Pareschi, Universy of Molise, Italy
Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway
Sabina Rossi, University of Venice, Italy
Nishanth Sastry, University of Surrey, UK
Nishant Saurabh, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Claudio Schifanella, University of Turin, Italy
Luca Spalazzi, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
Frank Tietze, University of Cambridge, UK
Roberto Tonelli, University of Cagliari, Italy
Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni, CEA LIST, France
Andrea Vitaletti, University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy