-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [BRAIN@PerCom 2025 - CfP] 6th Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs Datum: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:13:51 +0000 Von: Laura Emilia Maria Ricci laura.ricci@unipi.it An: tccc-announce@COMPUTER.ORG tccc-announce@COMPUTER.ORG

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CFP 6th Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs - BRAIN 2025 @ IEEE PerCom 2025.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

******************************************************************************************************************** 6th Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs - BRAIN 2025 https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/brain-2025

held in conjunction with PerCom 2025 (23rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications)

*********** Paper Submission Deadline 17 November 2024*************

Tentative workshop date: Washington DC (USA), 17th-21st of March 2025

The presented papers will be invited to a spcial issue of a journal (under approvation)

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This workshop aims to provide a venue for researchers from both academy and industry to present and discuss important topics on blockchain technology. The workshop's goal is to present results on both theoretical and more applicative open challenges, as well as to provide a venue to showcase the current state of existing proposals.

All workshop papers are limited to no more than 6 pages in IEEE format aligned with the IEEE-Percom main conference guidelines.

All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process. As a result, authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions.

The workshop will follow the main conference indications in being a fully physical event, with no remote participation allowed. Accepted papers registartion fees will follow the main conference with no discounted rates offered for workshop papers.

Accepted workshop papers will be included in the IEEE Percom 2025 proceedings and will appear in the IEEE Explore Library.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to an accepted special issue of an international journal whose details will be disclosed shortly.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Blockchain Fundamentals Distributed consensus Algorithms Permissioned vs permissionless paradigms Scalability issues P2P communication protocols Inter-ledger protocols Smart contracts automatic verification layer-2 payment protocols, lightning networks legal Aspect (smart contract, utility and security tokens, ICO, ...) Blockchain for pervasive computing System engineering with IoT and blockchain Digital identity Management on blockchain Distributed supply chains Blockchain-based mobile edge computing systems Blockchain for Medicine and Healthcare Blockchain for trustworthiness in 5G and 6G Networks Blockchain for peer-to-peer energy management Blockchain-enabled distributed social platforms Blockchain-based access control Smart Contracts and dApp software engineering aspects Cryptocurrencies

************************************************************************************************ Workshop Co-Chairs:

Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, University of Pisa, Italy

Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy

Nishanth Sastry, University of Surrey, UK

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Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: 17th of November 2024

Notification of Acceptance: 8th of January 2025

Camera Ready: 2nd of February 2025

Registration: same as main conference regular papers

Workshop: 17th-21st of March 2025

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******************************************************* Laura Ricci Full Professor, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Pisa web: http://pages.di.unipi.it/ricci/ e-mail:laura.ricci@unipi.it skype: lauraemiliaricci ******************************************************

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