BSCT 2020: 3rd Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies |
Website | https://bisconf.org/2020/bsct/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsct2020 |
Submission deadline | March 30, 2020 |
Blockchain and smart contracts became a hot topic, especially in recent years. News around the world covers the matters of cryptocurrencies with the bitcoin bubble on the forefront. The number of published studies is rapidly growing. Even notable financial institutions turn their attention to potential blockchain revolutionary outcomes despite that the technology was initially to overthrow their position. That is why profound and comprehensive reflection on the concerned issues is needed. And it is needed urgently as the technology progresses and regulation bodies must act in order to define some common ground and rules of conduct for all the involved parties.
When in 2008 bitcoin has been invented it seemed that numerous problems have been overcome and that it will pave a certain path for a new era of digital currencies. In fact, after a decade it becomes more and more evident that it also introduces further challenges perhaps even more fundamental than it initially solved. As a digital society we are currently in a state of various uncertainties. We have a vast and thriving ecosystem of over 2000 cryptocurrencies. Some of them are in fact merely clones (or rather "forks") but some differ from others immensely. The bitcoin itself turned into a major speculative instrument. And the pseudo-anonymous nature made it a financial asset of choice for gray markets. In the meantime, the ICO emerged as a cheap yet risky replacement for business financing and fund-raising opportunities. The various consequences and perturbations of the abovementioned and other effects are far from being predictable in the long run.
The Third International Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contracts Technologies (BSCT), co-located with 23rd International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2020) being held in Colorado Springs, USA is a continuation of previous year successful event. It should be perceived as a forum that brings together practitioners and researchers for sharing knowledge, introducing original insights as well as advancing innovational ideas. The aim of the workshop is to closely explore emerging challenges and opportunities in the field of blockchain technologies. Moreover, this time the audience's attention shall be especially turned toward issues related to blockchain architectures, new business models as well as innovative applications, use-cases based on distributed ledger environments and standardization initiatives.
The workshop is open to any research or position papers describing current work relating to blockchain and smart contracts technologies with respect to applications, analysis, simulation results, proof-of-concept or innovative solution approaches.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Long papers: max. 12 pages
- Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages
List of Topics
- Anomaly detection on blockchain
- Assessment of consensus protocols
- Asset digitization
- Blockchain and Big Data
- Blockchain economic implications
- Blockchain performance
- Blockchain vulnerabilities and attacks schemes
- Consensus protocols
- Cryptocurrencies
- DAO & Governance
- Data protection issues and blockchain
- Development and runtime environments
- Distributed ledger & IoT solutions
- Distributed ledger analytics
- Distributed ledger impact on economy and society
- Financial aspects of ICO
- General use of blockchain technologies
- ICO
- Identity management in anonymous environments
- Industry applications (fintech, healthcare, insurances, fraud detection, supply chain, etc)
- Innovative approaches and paradigms
- Ledger legal regulations
- Legal and organizational issues of blockchain
- Macro and microeconomic models for cryptocurrencies
- Performance measures of blockchain
- Programming techniques for smart contracts
- Security and privacy concerns
- Smart contracts
- Smart contracts deployment and maintenance
- Smart contracts testing
- System consistency
Committees
Program Committee
- Emmanuelle Anceaume, IRISA, France
- Nicolas T. Courtois, University College London, United Kingdom
- Sergi Delgado-Segura, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Aquinas Hobor, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Raja Jurdak, Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organization, Australia
- Salil S. Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia
- Romaric Ludinard, IMT Atlantique, France
- Saulius Masteika, Vilnius University, Lithuania (chair)
- Bill Maurer, University of California, USA
- Cristina Pérez-Solà, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
- Sushmita Ruj, Indian Statistical Institute, India
- Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
- Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria (chair)
- Piotr Stolarski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland (chair)
- Davor Svetinovic, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates
- [to be extended...]
Publication
BSCT 2020 proceedings will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.
Venue
The conference will be held at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Piotr Stolarski (piotr.stolarski @ ue.poznan.pl).