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IEEE S&B 2021 : IEEE SECURITY & PRIVACY ON THE BLOCKCHAIN | |||||||||||||
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Call For Papers | |||||||||||||
The emergence of Bitcoin and decentralized cryptocurrencies, and their fundamental innovation---blockchains---have allowed for entities to trade and interact without a central trusted third party. This has led to a captivating research activity in multiple domains and across different venues, such as top security and distributed systems conferences and journals, as well as a vibrant startup rush on this new technology.
The fifth IEEE Security and Privacy on the Blockchain (S&B) workshop aims to unite interested scholars as well as industrial members from all relevant disciplines who study and work in the space of blockchains. We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel contributions in both cryptocurrencies and wider blockchain research. Papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement of existing systems. Papers that shed new light on past or informally known results by means of sound formal theory or through empirical analysis are welcome. Suggested contribution topics include (but are not limited to) empirical and theoretical studies of: Adoption of blockchains in developing countries Anonymity and privacy-enhancing technologies Applications using or built on top of blockchains Atomic Swapping Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Zcash protocol, other coins and extensions (cryptography, scripting/smart contract language etc.) Business models for blockchains (both new and new integrations into existing) Case studies (e.g., of adoption, attacks, forks, scams etc.) Censorship Consensus protocols for blockchains Cryptocurrency adoption effects (eg economic impact, transition dynamics) Decentralized Applications (Exchanges, Mining Pools, Trading Platforms) Economic and monetary aspects Economics and game theory of mining Forensics and monitoring Formal verification of blockchain protocols and Smart Contracts Fraud detection and financial crime prevention Governance Identity, Identification and trust in blockchain systems Interfacing fiat and cryptocurrencies Intermediates in different industries and their future Internet of things (IoT) and blockchains Legal and policy implications of Smart Contracts Legal, ethical, and societal aspects of virtual currencies Legal status of crowdfunding for new blockchain projects (ICO/TGE) Novel applications of the blockchain Off-chain payment channels Peer-to-peer broadcast networks/topologies Permissioned (e.g. Hyperledger) and permissionless (e.g. Bitcoin) blockchains Proof-of-work, and its alternatives (e.g., proof-of-stake, proof-of-burn, and virtual mining) Real-world measurements and metrics Regulation and law enforcement Relation to other payment systems Scalability and scalable services for blockchain systems Security of blockchains Smart Contract Programming Languages and VM's Transaction graph analysis Usability and user studies This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive. S&B is interested in all aspects of the blockchain research relating to security and privacy. Papers that are considered out of scope may be rejected without full review. We encourage submissions that are "far-reaching" and "risky." |
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