The 6th International Workshop on Blockchain and Security

Event Dates

Nov 01, 2023 - Nov 03, 2023

Location

Exeter, UK

Submission Deadline

Aug 31, 2023

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this UbiSec 2023 Call for Papers (CFPs) with Firm Deadline (August 31, 2023).

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Call for Papers (CFPs) of The 6th International Workshop on Blockchain and Security

(BlockchainSec 2023)

In Conjunction with

The Third International symposium on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2023)

https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/ubisec2023/

Exeter, UK, November 1-3, 2023

Organizer: Guangzhou University, China

http://ubisecurity.org/Blockchain/2023/

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Keynote Speeches Section

Please refer to the main conference website (https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/ubisec2023/) for detail.

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Invited Talks Section

Please refer to the main conference website (https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/ubisec2023/) for detail.

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Special Issues Section

Please refer to the main conference website (https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/ubisec2023/) for detail.

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Blockchain is emerging as a disruptive and transformational technology with great potential, benefits, and impact on organizations and government services. Blockchain offers an innovative approach to storing information, executing transactions, performing functions, and establishing trust in an open environment. The pervasiveness of blockchain technology in various fields is changing our lives. Industry, agriculture, health, and even personal life are experiencing a revolution in how personal data are collected, communicated, processed, and stored. In recent years, blockchain technology has begun to be used in full swing. Many consider blockchain a technology breakthrough for cryptography and cybersecurity, with use cases ranging from globally deployed cryptocurrency systems like Bitcoin, smart contracts, smart grids over the Internet of Things, etc. Although blockchain has received growing interest in academia and industry in recent years, the security and privacy of blockchains continue to be at the center of the debate when deploying blockchain in different applications. Therefore, the goal of this workshop is to provide a cutting-edge venue for the scientific community to explore the latest ideas, models, and innovative applications in the domain of security and privacy while deploying blockchain technologies and services to improve the efficiency and transparency of private and public service provisions in a variety of domains.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

– Novel Security Models and Architectures for Blockchain

– Blockchain Attacks on Existing Systems

– Blockchain Authentication and authorization

– Security of Consensus Protocols

– Generative adversarial networks (GAN) in Blockchain security

– Trusted Execution of Smart Contracts

– Fault Tolerance and Identity Management

– Blockchain-based solutions for IoT security

– GDPR strategy, compliance, and optimization using Blockchain

– Blockchain in digital forensic

– Intelligent systems for fraud detection and forensics in blockchain

– Innovative architectures and protocols for safe blockchain application

– Vulnerability analysis, threat modeling, and risk assessment in Blockchain

– Privacy preservation in Blockchain

– Evaluating user privacy in Blockchains

– Blockchain Privacy and trust management

– Crypto-privacy techniques

– Privacy and trust of distributed ledger technology

– Privacy-enhancing technologies, anonymity, and censorship

– Privacy metrics and policies

– Smart contract privacy protection

– On-chain privacy

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: August 31, 2023 (Firm Deadline)

Author Notification: September 30, 2023

Author Registration Due: October 30, 2023

Camera-Ready Paper Due: October 30, 2023

Conference Date: November 1 – 3, 2023

SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION INFORMATION

All presented papers at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Papers must be clearly presented in English and must not exceed 12 pages in Springer CCIS format (https://www.springer.com/cn/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines)(or up to 20 pages with the pages over the length charge), including tables, figures, references, and appendices. Accepted papers of less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Papers on the conference website should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=blockchainsec2023). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI-indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give two or three “Best Paper Awards” for the conference. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors ensure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper.

General Chairs

Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan

Yizhi Ren, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China

Program Chairs

Bebo White, SLAC Stanford University, USA

Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan

Publicity Chairs

Yang Xu, Hunan University, China

Hussain Al-Aqrabi, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Sohail Jabbar, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

Mir Sajjad Hussain Talpur, Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam, Pakistan

Publication Chairs

Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China

Fang Qi, Central South University, China

Program Committee

Jianbing Ni, University of Waterloo, Canada

Jinguang Han, University of Surrey, UK

Tran Viet Xuan Phuong, University of Wollongong, Australia

Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Paula Prata, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Christian Esposito, University of Salerno, Italy

Liang Xue, University of Waterloo, Canada

Md Asri Ngadi, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Johari Abdullah, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia

Mudassar Ahmad, National Textile University, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Mohammed Arif Amin, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE

Yong Ding, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China

Xuejia Lai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Muhammad Murad Khan, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan

Cheng Guo, Dalian University of Technology, China

Hassaan Khaliq, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan

Debiao He, Wuhan University, China

Ahsan Latif, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

Ying Hu, Guangzhou University, China

Gordhan Das, Menghwar, Sindh Agriculture University, Pakistan

Alinani Karim, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China

Mujahid Mohsin, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan

Hongbo Li, South China Agricultural University, China

Samina Rajper, Shah Abdul Latif University, Pakistan

Charnsak Srisawatsakul, Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University, Thailand

Qian-Hong Wu, Beihang University, China

Qiuliang Xu, Shandong University, China

Fangguo Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Zijian Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Yanqi Zhao, Shaanxi Normal University, China

Yunlei Zhao, Fudan University, China

Steering Committee

Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair)

Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan (Chair)

Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan (Chair)

Constantinos Kolias, University of Idaho, USA

Yannan Li, University of Wollongong, Australia

Yizhi Ren, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

Chunhua Su, The University of Aizu, Japan

Bebo White, SLAC Stanford University, USA

Chung-Huang Yang, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan

Yong Yu, Shaanxi Normal University, China

Contact

Please email inquiries concerning BlockchainSec2023 to:

Prof. Dr. Guojun Wang: csgjwang@gzhu.edu.cn

Prof Dr. Kouichi Sakurai: sakurai@inf.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Prof. Bebo White: bebo@slac.stanford.edu

Saqib Ali: saqib@uaf.edu.pk and the conference organizers: BlockchainSec2023@googlegroups.com

Prof. Guojun Wang’s Homepage: http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/

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Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor

Director of Institute of Computer Networks,

School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering,

Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province,

P. R. China, 510006

Email: csgjwang AT gzhu.edu.cn

http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/

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