BlockDM 2021 : The Third International Workshop on Blockchain and Data Management

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C A L L – F O R – P A P E R S

The Third International Workshop on Blockchain and Data Management (BlockDM 2021)

In Conjunction with ICDE 2021, April 19, 2021, Chania, Crete, Greece

https://blockchain.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/blockdm2021/

Overview

Blockchain has been emerging as a potential technology to disrupt traditional database systems. Over the past decade, it has found numerous applications in finance, IoT, healthcare, supply chains, digital copyrights management, and so on, and is becoming a hot research area. In contrast to traditional database systems, blockchain is decentralized, immutable, and cryptographically secured, where no single entity has full control. This new technology has significantly changed data access, storage, retrieval, and information discovery. It presents many fundamental research challenges for the management of data in the blockchain.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on blockchain systems from different data management aspects, including storage management, fault tolerance, query processing, information discovery, transaction management, security, and privacy. We encourage papers that apply ideas and techniques from different areas to understand the problems and challenges in blockchain systems and propose innovative solutions. We also welcome papers that report novel systems and applications built with blockchain technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Blockchain data management

Blockchain data provenance

Blockchain consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms

Blockchain system design and performance optimization

Blockchain storage management

Data security, privacy, and trust in blockchain

Information retrieval on blockchain

Data mining and knowledge discovery on blockchain

Query processing on blockchain

Transaction management on blockchains

Smart contract and distributed ledger

Domain applications of blockchain in finance infosec

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We solicit submissions of original papers that are not being considered for publication elsewhere. Both regular papers and short papers (reporting work in progress, providing system experience, or suggesting possible research directions) are welcome.

All submissions need to follow IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. See templates here. The followings are the page limits:

Regular paper: 6-8 pages

Short paper: 3-4 pages

ORGANIZATION

Workshop Chairs:

Yuzhe Tang

Syracuse University, USA

Jianliang Xu

Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti

University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Committee:

Amr El Abbadi, University of California – Santa Barbara, USA

Mohammad Javad Amiri, University of California – Santa Barbara, USA

Manuel Bravo, IMDEA Software Institute Madrid, Spain

Yang Cao, Kyoto University, Japan

Jinchuan Chen, Renmin University of China, China

Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Yue Duan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Davide Frey, INRIA, France

Cheqing Jin, East China Normal University, China

Chao Li, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Kai Li, Syracuse University, USA

Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Zhe Peng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Ravi Ramamurthy, Microsoft, USA

Mohammad Sadoghi, University of California – Davis, USA

Felix Martin Schuhknecht, Saarland University, Germany

Xusheng Xiao, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Cheng Xu, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Mu Zhang, University of Utah, YSA

Zhiwei Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: Jan 12, 2021

Result Notification: Feb 22, 2021

Camera Ready: March 1, 2021

Workshop Date: April 19, 2021

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