BlockSPAN2021: 1st International Workshop on Blockchain Security, Performance and Applications Birmingham, UK, December 15, 2021 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/blockspan2021 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=blockspan2021 |
Blockchain is one of the disruptive technologies of the current era, which enables trustworthy transaction processing through participation of distributed nodes. The widespread adoption of blockchain has been facilitated by research on blockchain beyond cryptocurrencies where significant efforts have been made to devise different business models, its applicability in various domains and to optimize its adaptability for different applications. Being the most notable blockchain-based application, the success of Bitcoin has introduced an innovative model of decentralised, trustworthy application development across diverse domains such as healthcare, e-voting logistics, and finance. structure among transactions as well as public availability of distributed ledger of transaction-records in a peer-to-peer network.
The increasing use of blockchain within diverse domains has also identified several challenges which have to be addressed for its widespread adoption. Among these, security and scalability are the most prominent challenges which require further research efforts to address them. For instance, attack vectors such as encryption scheme used in the transactions, methods for verifying transactions and the design of the transaction have been identified as sources of threats for blockchain-based applications. Furthermore, with growing applications and users for blockchain-based applications, scalability is a critical challenge and as such has been translated into parameters such as transactions per second, block generation rate, and block size.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The workshop invites full papers of maximum 6 pages (ACM format) describing innovative approaches and solutions.
List of Topics
We invite submissions from researchers and practitioners from government, industry, and academia in the following and related areas:
- Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies
- Proof-of-work and consensus algorithms for blockchains
- Decentralization, scalability, and security trade-off
- Simulation and performance evaluation techniques
- Secure smart contract and chain code
- Trust and reputation within blockchain-based systems
- Blockchain-based solutions to aid cutting-edge in AI and machine learning
- Analysis and evaluation of security, scalability, and other performance metrics of blockchains
- Authentication and authorization solutions within blockchains
- Blockchain-based solutions for emerging domains such as 5G, edge computing, and SDNs
- Applications of blockchains within e-government, logistics, healthcare, SmartX systems and other areas
Committees
Program Committee
- Jonathan Loo, University of West London, UK
- Omair Shafiq, Carleton University, Canada
- Muhammad Ajmal Azad, University of Derby, UK
- Sarwar Sayeed, University of West Scotland, UK
- Muhammad Mubashir Khan, NED University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
- Mohammed Alsadi, Birmingham City University, UK
- Nitin Naik, Aston University, UK
- Shahzaib Tahir, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
- Elagin Vasiliy, The Bonch-Bruevich St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, Russia
- Liang Chen, University of Hertfordshire, UK
- Imran Ali Jokhio, Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
- Andrii Shalaginov, Kristiania University College, Norway
- Zhigang Chen, Zhejiang Wanli University, China
- Yunxia Liu, Zhengzhou normal University, China
- Wei Hu, Wuhan university of science and technology, China
Organizing committee
- Dr Junaid Arshad, Birmingham City University, UK
- Dr Thanasis Papaioannou, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Publication
BlockSPAN2021 is organised in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Future Networks & Distributed Systems. The procedings wll be published in ACM ICPS. ACM ICPS are published in the ACM Digital Library and indexed in DBLP, Scopus and Thomson Reuters. The ISBN number assigned to ICFNDS 2021 is 978-1-4503-8734-7
Further, selected papers from the workshop will be pulished in
- ACM's journal on Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, and
- MDPI Electronics, Special Issue on the "Security and Privacy in Blockchain and IoT"
Venue
The conference will be held online.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to blockchain.icfnds@gmail.com