[Event at CIG] [CFP] The 7th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2024)

[Wayne Chiu]

──────────────────────────────
    The 7th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain
                     (Blockchain 2024)
          Copenhagen, Denmark. August 19-22, 2024
  Website: https:\/\/ieee-cybermatics.org/2024/blockchain
──────────────────────────────

 - * Overview * -

     As a promising technique to achieve decentralized cons-
ensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital
currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for
transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed
computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wi-
de attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great pot-
ential to create new foundations for our socio-economic sys-
tems by efficiently establishing trust among people and ma-
chines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resour-
ces. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for
secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet
of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social
networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless comm-
unications, and even more other fields. On the other hand,
its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalabili-
ty, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability
, real decentralization and high dependability.

     Following the great success of IEEE Blockchain 2023,
held in Ocean Flower Island, China, IEEE Blockchain 2022,
held in Espoo, Finland, IEEE Blockchain 2021, held in Melbo-
urne, Australia, IEEE Blockchain 2020, held in Rhodes Island
, Greece, IEEE Blockchain 2019, held in Atlanta, USA, IEEE
Blockchain 2018, held in Halifax, Canada, the 2024 IEEE Int-
ernational Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2024) will
provide a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers,
engineers, and practitioners to present latest advances and
innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and
significant applications for blockchain, as well as to iden-
tify emerging research topics and define the future.


 - * Important Dates * -

* Workshop Proposal Due: April 1, 2024 (Extended!)
* Paper Submission Due: May 1, 2024 (Firm!)
* Author Notification: June 1, 2024
* Camera-Ready and Registration: June 20, 2024
* Conference Date: August 19-22, 2024


 - * Topics * -

     The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques
will significantly change the way of digital and networking
systems' operation and management. In the meantime, the app-
lication of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated
problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues
and challenges for research communities.

     The goal of IEEE Blockchain-2024 is to promote communi-
ty-wide discussion for identifying advanced applications,
technologies and theories of blockchain. We seek submissions
of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new app-
lications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promis-
ing research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved
issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology
* New blockchain architecture
* Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
* Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed
  ledger
* Cross-chain and off-chain technology
* Attacks and vulnerabilities of blockchain
* Blockchain scalability and performance optimization
* Simulation and performance evaluation techniques
* Smart contract and chain code
* Applications and services based on blockchain
* Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain
* Blockchain in the Internet of Things (IoT)
* Blockchain in cyber physical systems
* Blockchain in social networking
* Blockchain in supply chain management
* Blockchain in agriculture
* Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles
* Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing
* Blockchain in edge and cloud computing
* Blockchain in next generation communications and networks
* Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
* Blockchain and artificial intelligence
* Blockchain and game theory
* Blockchain and industry 4.0
* Redactable blockchain


 - * Paper Submission Guidelines * -

     Each paper is limited to 8 pages for regular papers
and 6 pages for workshop papers in IEEE Computer Society
proceedings format (or up to 2 extra pages with page over
length charge if it is accepted), including tables, figures
, references and appendices. All papers need to be submitt-
ed electronically through the corresponding websites with
PDF format.

 * Blockchain-2024 regular papers: https:\/\/edas.info\/N32
142 with PDF format.

     All submissions should be anonymous. No author name or
affiliation (including acknowledgement) can be included in
the paper. Submissions violating these rules will be rejec-
ted without being reviewed.

     Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitm-
ent that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the
authors will register and attend the conference to present
the work in person. IEEE Blockchain 2024 reserves the right
to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (
e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing servic-
es), if the paper is not presented at the conference. Acce-
pted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplo-
re subject to meeting IEEE Xplore's scope and quality requ-
irements. Two outstanding papers will be selected to recei-
ve the Best Paper Awards.


 - * Organising Committee * -

 * General Co-Chairs *

* Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
* Zhe Liu, Zhejiang Lab, China
* Boris Duedder, Copenhagen University, Denmark

 * Program Co-Chairs *

* Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia
* Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
* Man Ho Au, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China