Call for papers

Blockchain - the technology behind Bitcoin - is flourishing into an impressive spectrum of research projects and initiatives, corporate alliances, and startup companies. This multidisciplinary effort spans diverse disciplines ranging from Computer Science and Engineering to Communications, Social Sciences, Public Policy, Banking and Finance, Journalism, and Political Sciences to name a few. This one-day event strives to bring researchers and practitioners of blockchain together to share and exchange results. We are interested in papers and presentations on a broad range of topics including:

• Decentralized data management using blockchains
• Applications of blockchain in data management
• Distributed transaction processing
• Data privacy and confidentiality in blockchains
• Partitioned and replicated data stores for blockchain
• Blockchain for social networking
• Distributed systems for blockchain
• Machine learning for blockchains
• Blockchain consensus protocols
• Proof of * systems
• Governance and blockchain
• Software engineering practices and life cycle management of blockchain
• Social and econonomic aspects of blockchain
• Game theory and its applications to blockchain
• Blockchain protocol analysis and security
• Algorithm design, complexity analysis, implementation for blockchain
• Energy consumption of blockchains
• Smart contracts
• Custody and decentralized identity solutions

Research Papers Submission

All research papers must meet the following formatting rules and be submitted to CMT at: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FAB2024

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Research Papers describe research work in the broad area of blockchain. We solicit both regular papers (up to 8 pages in ACM format) and short papers (up to 4 pages in ACM format). The former will tend to be descriptions of complete technical work, while the latter will tend to be descriptions of interesting, innovative ideas, which nevertheless require more work to mature. For short papers, we also encourage submissions that put previously published work in a new light or describe extensions of previously published work by the authors. These limits exclude references and appendices.

All submissions will be held to a high-quality standard and evaluated based on their originality, technical merit, topical relevance, value to the community, and the likelihood of leading to insightful discussions. Submissions will be kept confidential. On rare occasions, regular paper submissions may be accepted as short papers (pending authors’ approval and significant shortening).

In order to be considered for publication. They should be submitted in PDF format and formatted using the ACM LaTeX template available at Link.

All accepted papers will be published open access. Authors will keep their copyright and papers will be published online under a Creative Commons CC BY license. Short papers have the option to opt out of the workshop proceedings in case the authors would like to save their work-in-progress for publication at conferences.

If you have any questions, please contact Mohammad Javad Amiri (amiri@cs.stonybrook.edu).