2021 Workshop on Blockchain Security, Application, and Performance


Summary | Call for Papers | Submissions | Committees | Keynotes | Program

 Summary


Recently blockchain has become the buzzword for disruptive innovation with great potential to change our economy, culture, and society. As a specific distributed database technology, blockchains are inherently resistant to modification of the data - once recorded, the data in a block cannot be altered retroactively. This prominent feature of blockchain is well known after the success of its early digital cryptocurrency applications known as Bitcoin. From security perspective, Blockchain is a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to create trust in an untrusting ecosystem. All nodes or members can record, pass along and view any transactional data that is encrypted onto their blockchain. Using cybersecurity frameworks, assurance services and best practices, we can reduce risks against attacks and fraud.

Nowadays more and more innovative applications are using blockchain to explore many new innovative digital financial applications and various decentralized applications that eliminate the need for 3rd party intermediaries, such as identity management, credit management, distrusted/public/shared ledger, crowd-funding, P2P insurance, smart contracts, supply chain management, online voting, medical records etc.

So far, blockchain is still in its infancy and many research issues remain unsolved regarding blockchain security, its applications as well as their performance. This may pose it to suffer various issues. The goal of this workshop is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies on Fintech and blockchain systems.


 Call for Papers


Topics of interests

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

  • Theories of blockchain and its evolution
  • Smart contract and distributed ledger
  • Blockchain and Bitcoin security
  • Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
  • Blockchain schemes for decentralization
  • Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and decentralized schemes
  • Applications with blockchain techniques
  • Blockchain applications in IoT
  • Blockchain applications in healthcare
  • Blockchain applications in business
  • Blockchain enabled new business systems, models and applications
  • Blockchain-based trust and regulation mechanisms
  • Blockchain for decentralization and distributed systems
  • Management processes and methods based on blockchain
  • Blockchain for crowdsourcing
  • Blockchain based knowledge and innovation management
  • Financial systems and blockchain
  • New policies for blockchain

Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline: Wednesday 20 October 2021
  • Notification: Wednesday 1 November 2021
  • Camera Ready: Wednesday 5 November 2021

 Submissions


Author Instructions

All papers need to be submitted electronically through the EasyChair website with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 6 pages in IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format , including tables, figures, references and appendices. The limit length of accepted papers should be 8 pages at most. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review.

Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2021 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library.


Double-blind Submission

  • Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.
  • Remove acknowledgments.
  • Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search.
  • Carefully refer to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer incapable of grasping the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. For example, instead of "In prior work [1], we presented a scheme that ...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Clark et al. [1] presented a scheme that ..." should be used. With this method, the full citation of the referred paper can still be given, such as "[1] A. Clark ..., "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[1] Reference deleted for double-blind review."
  • The submitted manuscript or its title/abstract should not be posted on a public website, such as arxiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists.
  • The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without review.
  • Many of the editing tools automatically add metadata to the generated PDF file containing information that may violate the double blind policy. Please remove any possible metadata that can link your manuscript to you. This includes removing names, affiliation, license numbers etc. from the Metadata as well as from the paper. Failing to meet this requirement may also lead to a rejection without review.


 Committees


Program Co-Chairs

Ziyuan Wang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jiangshan Yu, Monash University, Australia



 Keynotes


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