SERIAL 2017: 1st Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Infrastructures for Distributed Ledgers Student Union of University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV, United States, December 11-15, 2017 |
Conference website | https://serial17.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=serial2017 |
Submission deadline | September 14, 2017 |
Notification Date | October 15, 2017 |
With the rise of digital currencies and distributed ledger infrastructures, a multitude of novel application scenarios are currently discussed and evaluated. In essence, these technologies will crosscut and change a large variety of digital interactions. At the same time, the underlying infrastructures are rapidly developed and deployed. Thereby, their resilience and scalability is key for success.
The 1st Workshop for Scalable Resilient Infrastructures targets to investigate system support to foster resilience and scalability of decentralized infrastructures such as distributed ledger ecosystems but targets resilience support for more traditional Internet-based services.
The goal of the workshop is to foster collaboration and discussion among researchers and practitioners in this field. The workshop will be one full day. The program should primarily include presentations by authors of accepted papers (the workshop will have proceedings in the ACM digital library). The other elements will be 1-3 invited presentations and a panel ending the day with an open discussion with the workshop audience.
Submission Guidelines
SERIAL welcomes submissions in two formats:
- Regular research papers of at most 6 pages including references. Research papers should be work that is not previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere and will be published in the proceedings.
- Short research statements of at most 1-2 pages. Research statements aim at fostering discussion and collaboration. Research statements may summarize research published elsewhere or outline new emerging ideas. Authors can choose if accepted research statements should be published in the proceedings.
List of Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- System support for blockchain
- System support for resource-limited devices and blockchain
- Resilient agreement protocols
- Trusted execution for improved resilience of decentralized infrastructures
- Blockchain consistency
- Cryptocurrency attacks and incentives
- Smart contract performance and security
- Blockchain soft and hard forks
- Anonymity and confidentiality in distributed ledgers
- Governance of distributed ledgers
- Scalability of distributed ledgers
Committees
Program Committee
- Massimo Bartoletti - University of Cagliari, Italy
- Alysson Bessani - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
- Ethan Buchman - Tendermint, USA
- Miguel Correia - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
- Christian Decker - Blockstream, USA
- Ittay Eyal - Technion, Israel
- Ghassan Karame - NEC Labs Europe, Germany
- Jae Kwon - Tendermint, USA
- Dahlia Malkhi - VMware Research, USA
- Hans P. Reiser - University of Passau, Germany
- Francois Taiani - INRIA Rennes, France
Organizing committee
- Christof Fetzer - TU Dresden, Germany
- Franz J. Hauck - Ulm University, Germany
- Marko Vukolic - IBM Zurich, Switzerland
- Rüdiger Kapitza - TU Braunschweig, Germany
Publication
SERIAL 2017 proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
Venue
The conference will be held in conjunction with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference 2017 in Las Vegas, NV, USA.