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>>> ONLINE: FC and WTSC will be held online
>>> Close to the LAST SUBMISSION DEADLINE
>>> Darren Tapp (Dash) invited speaker
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5th International Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts (WTSC’21)
- https://fc21.ifca.ai/wtsc/
March 5, 2021
- Online -
In Association with Financial Cryptography
- https://fc21.ifca.ai/
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Smart contracts, an highly transformational technology, are
self-enforcing agreements in the form of executable programs
that are deployed to and run on top of blockchains.
Several proposals have developed the idea of algorithmic validation
of decentralised trust, along Szabo's intuition. The first significant
example was the Ethereum blockchain. A myriad of possible further
directions have been proposed, many of them are in active development.
These technologies introduce a novel programming framework and
execution environment, which are not satisfactorily understood at the
moment. Multidisciplinary and multifactorial aspects affect correctness,
safety, privacy, authentication, efficiency, sustainability, resilience and
trust in smart contracts.
Existing frameworks, which are competing for their market share,
adopt different solutions to issues like the above ones. Merits of
proposed solutions are still to be fully evaluated and compared by
means of systematic scientific investigation, and further research is
needed towards laying the foundations of Trusted Smart Contracts.
A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest, open problems and future
directions includes:
- validation and definition of the programming abstractions and execution
model,
- verification of the properties expected to be enforced by smart contracts,
- incentives, governance, participatory models, and implications on smart
contracts,
- resilience of the consensus/validation/mining/execution model,
- fairness and decentralisation of contracts and their management,
- rewards, economics and sustainability/stability of the framework,
- on- and off-chain interaction modalities, protocols and context,
- (smart-contract supported) multi-chain interoperability
- (smart-contract supported) decentralised exchanges
- sharding, concurrency, and parallelism in smart contracts,
- effects of consensus mechanisms and proof-of mechanisms on smart contracts,
- game-theoretic approaches for security and validation,
- digital and ring signatures
- multiparty computation and homomorphic encryption for the privacy of smart
contract execution
- privacy and privacy-preserving contracts,
- authentication and anonymity management,
- oblivious transfer,
- data provenance,
- access rights,
- foundations of software engineering for smart contracts,
- blockchain data analysis,
- comparison of the permissioned and non-permissioned scenarios,
- use cases and killer applications of smart contracts,
- regulation and law enforcement,
- future outlook on smart contract technologies,
WTSC focuses on smart contracts as an application layer on top of blockchains,
however aspects of the underlying supporting blockchains clearly become
relevant in so much as they affect properties of the smart contracts, and are
of great interest for WTSC.
WTSC aims to gather together researchers from both academia and industry
interested in the many facets of Trusted Smart Contract engineering, and to
provide a multi-disciplinary forum for discussing open problems, proposed
solutions and the vision on future developments.
Associated to Financial Cryptography, a recognised premiere conference for the
blockchain world, WTSC aims to become a reference venue for the discussion
of cutting-edge smart contracts and associated blockchain technologies.
Experts in fields including (but not limited to):
- programming languages,
- verification,
- security,
- software engineering,
- decision and game theory,
- cryptography,
- finance and economics,
- monetary systems,
- finance and economics,
- regulation and law,
as well as, practitioners and companies interested in blockchain technologies,
are invited to submit their findings, case studies and reports on open problems
for presentation at the workshop, to take part in this third edition of WTSC
and
make it a lively forum.
INVITED SPEAKERS (TBC)
Continuing on WTSC tradition (slides on the web)
— Buterin (Ethereum) 2017,
- Breitman (Tezos) and Mishra (NYU) 2018,
— Artamonov (Splix - Ethereum Classic) and Ian Grigg (www.iang.org) 2019,
— Gutmann (University of Auckland, with Workshop on Coordination of
Decentralized Finance) 2020,
we are defining the 2021 list, including:
— Darren Tapp (Arizona State University)
- TBC
IMPORTANT DATES
WTSC adopts for the second year a submission schedule ** with double deadline
**.
A first deadline will allow authors to plan their participation well in
advance.
A second deadline will allow authors who need extra time to develop their
contributions,
to have a further opportunity to participate. Selected borderline papers from
the first
deadline will be considered for and also allowed to resubmit to the second
deadline.
Abstract registration is kindly requested in advance.
Abstract Registration: 16 December 2020
Paper Submission Deadline: 23 December
Early Author Notification: 12 January 2021
>>> Late Submission Deadline: 5 February <<<
Late Author Notification: 21 February
Early registration deadline: TBA
Final Papers: TBA
WTSC: 5 March 2021
Financial Cryptography: 1-5 March 2021
Final Papers TBA
(Springer post-proceeding)
SUBMISSION
WTSC solicits submissions of manuscripts that represent significant and novel
research
contributions. Submissions must not substantially overlap with works that have
been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference
with proceedings.
Submissions should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format
and
should be no more than 15 pages including references and appendices. Papers may
also
be in a short format, no more than 8 pages including references and appendices.
In-progress work and developing ideas can be submitted as a poster.
Also "Systemisation of Knowledge" papers will be accepted and have a page limit
of 20 pages
but *excluding* references. These should be marked "SoK: … ”.
Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer Lecture
Notes in
Computer Science. Authors who seek to submit their works to journals may
opt-out by
publishing an extended abstract only.
All submissions will be reviewed double-blind, and as such, must be anonymous,
with no
author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references.
SUBMISSION PAGE
Contributions can be submitted at this link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wtsc2021
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Andrea Bracciali University of Stirling, UK
Massimiliano Sala University of Trento, IT
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBC)
Monika di Angelo Vienna University of Technology, AT
Igor Artamonov Ethereum Classic Dev, UK
Daniel Augot INRIA, FR
Surya Bakshi University of Illinois, USA
Fadi Barbara University of Turin, IT
Massimo Bartoletti University of Cagliari, IT
Devraj Basu Strathclyde University, UK
Stefano Bistarelli University of Perugia, IT
Christina Boura Versailles SQT Univ., FR
Andrea Bracciali University of Stirling, UK
Daniel Broby Strathclyde University, UK
James Chapman IOHK, UK
Martin Chapman King’s College London, UK
Nicola Dimitri University of Siena, IT
Nadia Fabrizio Cefriel, IT
Murdoch Gabbay Heriot-Watt University, UK
Oliver Giudice Banca d'Italia, IT
Davide Grossi University of Groningen, NL
Yoichi Hirai BedRock Systems, Inc. US
Lars R. Knudsen Technical University of Denmark, DK
Ioannis Kounelis Joint Research Centre, European Commission, IT
Pascal Lafourcade University Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
Andrew Lewis-Pye London School of Economics, UK
Carsten Maple Warwick University, UK
Michele Marchesi University of Cagliari, IT
Fabio Martinelli IIT-CNR, IT
Akaki Mamageishvili ETHZ, CH
Luca Mazzola Lucerne University, CH
Sihem Mesnager University of Paris VIII, FR
Philippe Meyer Avaloq, CH
Bud Mishra NYU, USA
Carlos Molina-Jimenez University of Cambridge, UK
Massimo Morini Algorand Foundation, SP
Immaculate Motsi-Omoijiade University of Warwick, UK
Alex Norta Tallin University of Technology, EE
Akira Otsuka Institute of Information Security, JP
Federico Pintore University of Oxford, UK
Massimiliano Sala University of Trento, IT
Darren Tapp Arizona State University, US
Jason Teutsch Truebit, USA
Roberto Tonelli University of Cagliari, IT
Philip Wadler University of Edinburgh, UK
Yilei Wang Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Tim Weingärtner Lucerne University, CH
Ales Zamuda University of Maribor, SLO
Santiago Zanella-Beguelin Microsoft, UK
Dionysis Zindros University of Athens, GR
