IV Workshop in Blockchain: Theory, Technology, and Applications (WBLOCKCHAIN 2021)

Important Dates

Paper submission: July 05, 2021
Industry paper submission: July 14, 2021
Paper notification: July 28, 2021
Camera-ready: August 02, 2021
Workshop date: August 16-20, 2021

Best Paper Award
Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions to the Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA) or Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), by author's choice.

Presentation

The Workshop in Blockchain intends to integrate researchers and developers from academia and industry interested in researching and developing blockchain applications. There are many challenges related to this topic: security, privacy, storage, data availability and integrity, performance improvement, scalability, sustainability, economy, and others. Researchers and developers are invited to present their results in technical full papers or expanded abstracts with industry experience reports.

Topics of Interest

A non-extensive list of topics of interest includes:

Benchmarking
Blockchain security
Byzantine consensus for blockchain
Cloud, fog, and border computing using blockchain
Consensus-based on evidence for blockchain
Cooperative Platforms and BaaS
Crypto-derivatives and distributed payment applications
Distributed algorithms for blockchain
Distributed applications using blockchain
Distributed blockchain architectures
Distributed storage and distributed ledger
Encryption for blockchain
Experimental environments for blockchain
Experimental validation and simulation
Graph-based consensus for blockchain
Infrastructure for blockchains and network consortium
Integration of systems using blockchain
Internet of Things using Blockchain
Network security using blockchain
Network-level attacks and blockchain application
P2P protocols
Public and private blockchain networks
Public Platforms and DLT
Robust computer networks using blockchain
Scalability and performance in blockchain
Secure Virtualization using blockchain

Instructions to Authors

Submitted papers will be evaluated by peer reviewers from the Wblockchain Technical Program Committee. Selected papers will be organized for presentation and publication in the proceedings of the event. At least one of the authors of each selected paper must register in the SBRC 2021 and IV Wblockchain and attend the event to present the paper.

Papers submission will be exclusively electronic through JEMS. Papers can be written in Portuguese or English, only in PDF format. Each paper is limited to 14 pages, including the abstract (and an English abstract, for papers in Portuguese), figures, diagrams, and references. Papers must be formatted following the SBC template.

The Technical Program Committee will announce the best papers during the event, and the authors will be awarded a certificate and prize. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions to the Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA) or Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), by author's choice.

Instructions to Industry Paper Authors

Authors are invited to submit expanded abstracts presenting projects and applications of blockchain technology in Portuguese or English, containing up to 2 pages. Optionally, authors can include a link to a video demo of the proposal in the expanded abstract. The proposals accepted according to the recommendations of the Program Committee will be invited for presentation in the IV WBlockchain and the abstracts published in the Annals of the SBRC, in the volume of workshops.

The expanded abstracts format must follow the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) model, available in Templates for Articles and Book Chapters. Submissions will be electronic via the JEMS system on the SBRC portal. The file must be in PDF (Portable Document Format) format.