The First Workshop on Security and Privacy on Blockchain for Big Data Applications (SPB 2019)

In conjunction with 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Dec 9-12, Los Angeles, CA

Introduction to Workshop

Blockchain has recently attracted intensive attention from both academia and industry, and served as the foundation for various data-driven applications and services. It is a distributed, decentralized, public ledger, and offers a novel solution to storing information, enabling collaborations, establishing trust in a decentralized environment. However, the security and privacy of blockchain have raised many concerns when we deploy blockchain in different big data applications such as cyber-physical systems, healthcare, Internet of Things, communications, distributed networks.

Particularly, in the big data era, huge amounts of data need to be stored and analyzed. Most often such big data is geographically distributed. How to collect and mine data in a distributed, effective, secure, and privacy-preserving fashion is really a challenging problem. Blockchain emerges as a promising technology to provide a decentralized platform to facilitate distributed data storage, mining, and learning, and in the meantime raises serious concerns about security and privacy.

This workshop aims to provide an exciting platform for researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academia and industry to present the latest advances, exchange ideas, and spur further innovations on the security and privacy on blockchain.

Research Topics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Anonymity and data privacy
  • Cryptography for blockchain
  • Distributed consensus mechanisms
  • Fault tolerance mechanisms
  • Reliability and resilience of blockchain
  • Smart contract security
  • Secure data storage and search on blockchain
  • Secure distributed computing on blockchain
  • Secure distributed learning on blockchain
  • Secure and privacy-preserving applications on blockchain
  • Simulations and implementations of applications and services on blockchain

Important Dates

Nov 5, 2019 (23:59:59 PM EST): Due date for full workshop papers submission

Nov 12, 2019: Notification of paper acceptance to authors

Nov 20, 2019 (23:59:59 PM EST): Camera-ready of accepted papers

Dec 9-12, 2019: Workshops

Program Chairs

Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Pan Li, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Xiaodong Lin, University of Guelph, Canada

Program Committee Members

Erman Ayday, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Sultan Basudan, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia

Xuhui Chen, Kent State University, USA

Linke Guo, Binghamton University, USA

Ming Li, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Yao Liu, University of South Florida, USA

Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Changqing Luo, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Miao Pan, University of Houston, USA

Sergio Salinas, Wichita State University, USA

Jinyuan Sun, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

Jin Wei-Kocsis, Purdue University, USA

Xusheng Xiao, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China