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15, Aug, 2018, Call For Paper Online.

1, July, 2018, Website Online.

Overview

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers conducting studies on blockchain systems and exploring its wide scale applications. Blockchain has attracted growing attentions in both academy and industry and is being considered with great potential to facilitate industries like FinTech, supply chain, logistics, food safety, healthcare, manufacturing and etc. Despite these large number of application domains that the blockchain technology is impacting, its widespread adoption is still facing a series of technical challenges from the perspective of complexity, scalability, efficiency, throughput, privacy and security among other implementation challenges in terms of cost, governance, and regulation etc.

This workshop welcomes original researches on the subject of blockchain taxonomy and methodology, the innovative solutions to the key issues and challenges, the latest advances and future of blockchain as well as the case studies for exploring the potential of blockchain technologies in emerging landscapes and industrial applications. Research may cover and focus on either the fundamental methodological studies or the use case and application demonstrations.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Blockchain network and architecture design
• Distributed consensus algorithms and protocols
• Blockchain performance and scalability
• Distributed database and ledger design and performance enhancement
• Peer-to-Peer communication protocols
• Smart contract design, programming, testing and workflow automation
• Validation of smart contracts
• DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)
• Privacy and security of blockchain
• Blockchain Proof of Concept (PoC), test-beds and applications (FinTech, Healthcare, Logistics, Manufacturing and etc.)
• Blockchain meets industry 4.0 & IoT
• Blockchain in 5G
• Blockchain standards frameworks
• Future innovation in blockchain
• Legal and Regulatory Issues
• Blockchain as a Service (BaaS)
• Blockchain interoperability

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: September 15, 2018
Paper Notification: September 26, 2018
Camera Ready: October 1, 2018

Workshop Organizers

General Chairs

• Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
• Hong Wan, Purdue University, USA
• Rick Goh Siow Mong, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*Star, Singapore

Program Co-Chairs

• Jiang Xiao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
• Zengxiang Li, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*Star, Singapore
• Siyuan Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Program Committee

• Kun Chen, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
• Qian Chen, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
• Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
• Weiqi Dai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
• Debiao He, Wuhan University, China
• Ian Ho, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Daning Hu, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
• Qiangsheng Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
• Kai Lei, Peking University, China
• Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Qinghua Lu, Data61, CSIRO, Australia
• Dusit (Tao) Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Le Su, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*Star, Singapore
• Bianxia Sun, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
• Carlos Toro, Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre, Singapore
• Lei Wang, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Qian Wang, Wuhan University, China
• Qianhong Wu, Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China
• Xiaokui Xiao, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Fangguo Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, China
• Yang Zhang, Wuhan University of Technology, China
• Yunlei Zhao, Fudan University, China
• Zibin Zheng, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Submission Guideline

Each submission must not exceed 8 pages in the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format with 10-point font, including tables, figures and references. Template formatting is located at IEEE website. The final version will be limited to 6 pages in IEEE proceeding format for conference papers. Up to 2 extra pages may be purchased.

All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee members. At least one author of all the accepted paper should register and give a presentation in the conference in order for the accepted paper to be included into the IEEE digital library. All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Submission site is at EasyChair.