- From: Guillermo Navarro-Arribas <guillermo.navarro@uab.cat>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 11:09:24 +0200
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********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************* 5th International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - CBT 2021 In conjunction with ESORICS 2021 http://www.cbtworkshop.org/ October 4-8, 2021 ********************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES ================ Deadlines: -- August 2, 2021 (Firm) Notifications: -- August 30, 2021 Camera Ready: -- September 20, 2021 ********************************************************************* =============== EVENT FORMAT =============== As a satellite event of the ESORICS symposium, CBT will be organised as a hybrid workshop: digitally with remote participation and talks and physically with presence in Darmstadt. The health and safety of the symposium participants is our number one priority hence the digital part may be increased depending on the development of COVID-19. This new format will not affect our proceedings, which will be published as Springer LNCS proceedings. ================= WORKSHOP HISTORY ================= Since the appearance of Bitcoin in 2009, a plethora of new cryptocurrencies and other blockchain based systems have been deployed with different success. While some of them are slightly different copies of Bitcoin, other ones propose interesting improvements or new usages of the underlying blockchain technology. However, the novelty of such technologies is often tied with rapid developments and proof-of-concept software, and rigorous scientific analyses of the proposed systems are often skipped. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers in this area to carefully analyze current systems and propose new ones in order to create a scientific background for a solid development of new cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology systems. The main topics include (but are not limited to): * Anonymity and privacy in cryptocurrencies. * Privacy-preserving technologies. * Cryptocurrency based trust systems. * Security analysis of existing cryptocurrencies. * Formal threat models in cryptocurrency systems. * Improvement proposals for existing cryptocurrencies. * P2P network cryptocurrencies analysis. * Private transactions in blockchain based systems. * Consensus mechanisms: proof-of-work, proof of stake, proof of burn, proof-of-useful-work. * New usages of the blockchain technology. * Scalability solutions for blockchain systems. * Smart contracts. =================== SUBMISSION DETAILS =================== Regular and short papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts following the LNCS Proceedings Manuscript style. Papers are limited to 16 pages (full papers), or 8 pages (short papers) including references and appendices, and can be submitted as PDF via the CBT 2021 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbt2021 *Double blind review*: CBT requires anonymized submissions -- please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Accepted regular papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS collection. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the workshop; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. ================== PROGRAM COMMITEE ================== PC Chairs: * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Institut Polytechnique de Paris * Jose Luis Munoz-Tapia, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya * Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona PC Members: * Shashank Agrawal - Western Digital Research (US) * Daniel Augot - INRIA Saclay (France) * Georgia Avarikioti - ETH Zurich (Switzerland) * Spiridon Bakiras - Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar) * Iddo Bentov - Cornell Tech (USA) * Alex Biryukov - University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) * George Bissias - University of Massachusetts at Amherst (US) * Joseph Bonneau - NYU (USA) * Karima Boudaoud - University of Nice (France) * Jeremy Clark - Concordia University (Canada) * Mauro Conti - University of Padua (Italy) * Sanchari Das - University of Denver (US) * Vanesa Daza - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) * Matteo Dell'Amico - EURECOM (France) * Sven Dietrich - City University of New York (US) * Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui - EURECOM (France) * Antonio Faonio - EURECOM (France) * Esha Ghosh - Microsoft Research (US) * Hannes Hartenstein - KIT (Germany) * Ethan Heilman - Boston University (US) * Ryan Henry - University of Calgary (Canada) * Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Catalonia) * Ghassan Karame - NEC Research (Germany) * Jiasun Li - George Mason University (USA) * Daniel Xiapu Luo - Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong) * Giorgia Marson - University of Bern (Switzerland) * Shin'ichiro Matsuo - Georgetown University (USA) * Pedro Moreno-Sanchez - IMDEA (Spain) * Cristina Perez-Sola - UOC (Spain) * Simon Oya - University of Waterloo (Canada) * Elizabeth Quaglia - Royal Holloway, University of London (UK) * Alfredo Rial - University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) * Alessandra Scafuro - North Carolina State University (US) * Edgar Weippl - SBA Research (Austria) It is expected that extended and revised version of the best papers will be considered for international journal special issues. Further details at http://www.cbtworkshop.org/
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