The third edition of BRAIN workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/brain-2022/), i.e. BRAIN 2022, took place during PerCom 2022 on the 21st of March 2022. The workshop was entirely on line and divided in Four sessions. The presentations where carried on via Whova.
The workshop hosted two keynote sessions:
"Payment Channels" by Matteo Maffei, Full professor, Technical University Wien, Austria
"Blockchain consensus protocol from Bitcoin to Ethereum 2.0" by Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, Head of Laboratory, Senior Research Engineer at CEA LIST, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Seven (7) papers of the fourteen (14) submitted were accepted for publication, for an acceptance rate of 50%, 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 and keynotes were:
Australia
Austria
China
France
Italy
Netherlands
Blockchain Applications
Flavio Corradini; Alessandro Marcelletti; Andrea Morichetta; Andrea Polini; Barbara Re; Francesco Tiezzi. A Choreography-Driven Approach for Blockchain-Based IoT Applications
Kathy Nguyen; Shantanu Pal; Zahra Jadidi; Ali Dorri; Raja Jurdak. A Blockchain-Enabled Incentivised Framework for Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing in ICS
Tianyu Li; Jelle Vos; Zeki Erkin. Decentralized Private Freight Declaration & Tracking with Data Validation
Francesco Bruschi; Vincenzo Rana; Tommaso Paulon; Donatella Sciuto. A protocol for on-chain tenders
Blockchain Theory and Analysis
Alessandro Brighente; Martina Camaioni; Mauro Conti; Emilio Olivastri. Should I Mine or Should I Break: On the Worthiness of Brute-Forcing Cryptocurrency Addresses
Xianning Meng; Hongda Li; Peifang Ni; Haixia Xu. A Conflict-Free Redactable Blockchain
Cheick Tidiane Ba; Matteo Zignani; Sabrina Gaito. The role of groups in a user migration across blockchain-based online social media
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
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
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
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
