2018 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2018) <http://cse.stfx.ca/~blockchain2018/index.php> http://cse.stfx.ca/~blockchain2018/index.php
Halifax, Canada, July 30-August 03, 2018 Introduction As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency - bitcoin for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance> Byzantine fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential for event recording, identity management, fault provenance, behaviour tracking, and so on, especially in a distributed system without a trusted authority or central server. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency, flexibility and high dependability. The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2018) will provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant applications for the blockchain, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future. Topics The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital system operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. IEEE Blockchain-2018 will be held on July 30 – August 03, 2018 in Halifax, Canada. The goal of this conference is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Ÿ Theories of blockchain and its evolution Ÿ Smart contract and distributed ledger Ÿ Blockchain and Bitcoin security Ÿ Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms Ÿ Blockchain schemes for decentralization Ÿ Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and decentralized schemes Ÿ Performance optimization of blockchain and decentralized schemes Ÿ Applications with blockchain technique Ÿ Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain Ÿ Blockchain based lightweight data structures for IoT data Ÿ Blockchain based IoT security solutions Ÿ Blockchain in cyber physical systems Ÿ Blockchain in social networking Ÿ Bolckchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing Ÿ Blockchain in 5G Ÿ Blockchain in edge and cloud computing Ÿ Blockchain and trust management Ÿ Attacks on blockchain based systems Special Issues: Ÿ IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IF: 6.22), SI on Blockchain and Knowledge Automation https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/GU7u3E2kZ-S35xvQV-_Rhg Ÿ Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier (IF: 3.997), Special Issue on Blockchain and Decentralization for Internet of Things https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-blockchain-and-decentralization-for-interne Ÿ IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Special Issue on Blockchain and Big Data Fusion Ÿ Digital Communications and Networks, SI on Blockchain and Communication Networks http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/digital-communications-and-networks/call-for-papers/blockchain-and-communication-networks/ Ÿ Information Fusion, Elsevier (IF: 5.667), Special Issue on Data Fusion in Heterogeneous Networks Ÿ Information Sciences, Elsevier (IF: 4.832), Special Issue on Big Data Privacy Ÿ Information Sciences, Elsevier (IF: 4.832), Special Issue on Privacy Computing: Principles and Applications <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-privacy-computing-principles-and-applicatio> https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-privacy-computing-principles-and-applicatio Ÿ Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier (IF: 3.50) Special Sessions and Workshops Ÿ BOCE 2018: 1st IEEE International Workshop on Blockchain-Oriented Cybersecurity Engineering Ÿ <file://Users/yanz1/Work/NewPublications/Services/Blockchain/download/CFP-ICBC%20Special%20Track.pdf> Special Session: Design of Blockchain Applications Submissions All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website ( <http://edas.info/N24471> http://edas.info/N24471) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html> IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Blockchain 2018 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplorer Digital Library. One outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Important Dates Workshop Proposal Due: February 15, 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2018 Author Notification: April 15, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: May 15, 2018 Organization Committee General Chairs Vijay Varadharajan, The University of Newcastle, Australia Dinesh C. Verma, IBM, USA Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Program Chairs Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Special Session and Workshop Chairs Xin Huang, University of Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool, China Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Hongsheng Zhou, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Technical Program Committee Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK Giuseppe Ateniese, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Man Ho Au, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Natalia Beloff, University of Sussex, UK Yu Chen, University of California, Irvine, USA Fei Chen, Shenzhen University, China Alexander Chepurnoy, IOHK Research, Hong Kong Kostas Christidis, North Carolina State University, USA Tiziana Cimoli, University of Cagliari, Italy Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Zeki Erkin, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Wei Feng, Xidian University, China Christopher Frantz, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Antonio Faonio, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Rosario Gennaro, City University of New York, USA Vincent Gramoli, University of Sydney, Australia Feng Hao, Newcastle University, UK Debiao He, Wuhan University, China Xin Huang, University of Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool, China Praveen Jayachandran, IBM Research, India Raja Jurdak, CSIRO, Australia Salil S. Kanhere, University of New South Wales (Sydney), Australia Ghassan Karame, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Dilip Krishnaswamy, IBM Research, India Anthony Krzesinski, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Rami Khalil, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Mario Larangeira, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Wenjuan Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jian Liu, Aalto University, Finland Zhiqiang Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Erwu Liu, Tongji University, China Xueqin Liang, Xidian University, China Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia Guillermo Navarro, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Christopher Natoli, The University of Sydney, Australia Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Federico Maggi, Trend Micro, Inc., Italy Breno de Medeiros, Google Inc., USA Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Purdue University, USA Petr Novotny, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Zhonghong Ou, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Claudio Orlandi, Aarhus University, Denmark John Palfreyman, IBM&Palfreyman Ventures, UK Cristina Pérez-Solà, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy Na Ruan, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Rei Safavi-Naini, The University of Calgary, Canada Bjorn Scheuermann, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Claudio Schifanella, University of Turin, Italy Alessandro Sorniotti, IBM Research, Zurich Pawel Szalachowski, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Peter Taylor, University of Melbourne, Australia Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology University, USA Paolo Tasca, University College London, UK Stefan Tai, TU Berlin, Germany Shruti Tople, National University of Singapore, Singapore Hoang Tam Vo, IBM Research, Australia Qianhong Wu, Beihang University, China Danny Yang, BlockSeer, USA Anjia Yang, Jinan University, China Dengpan Ye, Wuhan University, China Kuo-Hui Yeh, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Qi Zhang, IBM Thomas J. Research Center, USA Yunhui Zhuang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jan Ziegeldorf, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Dionysis Zindros, University of Athens, Greece Steering Committee Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Pierangela Samarati, <http://www.unimi.it> Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy <https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/vijay-varadharajan> Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland (chair) Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (chair) Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Publicity chairs Entao Luo, Hunan university of science and engineering, China Wei Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiaokang Wang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
