FPDAPP 2018 - Call for Papers
International Workshop on Future Perspective
of Decentralized APPlications

Held in conjunction with the 24th International European
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing

August 27 or 28, 2018, Turin, Italy
http://fpdapp.di.unito.it/



Blockchain technologies (BCTs) make agreement amongst untrusted parties possible, without the need for certification authorities. Proposed frameworks have been put forward in sector as diverse as finance, health-care, notary, intellectual property management, identity, provenance, international cooperation, social good, and security to cite but a few. Smart contracts, i.e. self-enforcing agreements in terms of executable software running on blockchains, have been developed in several contexts. Such an under-definition computational model introduces innovative aspects, such as the economics and trust of the decentralised computation relying on the shared contribution of peers and their decentralised consensus.

FPDAPP aims to rigorously explore and evaluate the potentiality of such novel decentralised frameworks and applications. Of particular interest is the evaluation and comparison of killer applications that are showing evidence of how BTC can revolutionize their domains or developing new application areas. Evaluation and comparisons are broadly understood, form technical aspects regarding the novel decentralised computer to the possible impact on society, business and the public sector.

FPDAPP is associated to Europar, a premier conference in the field of distributed computing, focuses on matching theory with practice and applications. Importantly, FPDAPP aims to foster the cross-fertilisation between the blockchain and the distributed/parallel computing communities, which can strongly contribute to each other development. In this regard, Europar will host an invited talk by Silvio Micali (TA) on Algorand, one of the most innovative frameworks currently being proposed in BCTs. Europar will take place in Torino, a city that is actively promoting the introduction of novel technologies and BCTs in the public sector and for social goods.

TOPICS OF INTEREST includes (but are not limited by)

* Decentralized democracy
* Smart voting
* Blockchain for common goods
* Decentralized governance
* Healthcare
* Smart home
* Decentralized IoT management
* Supply chain management
* Blockchain in social networking
* Decentralized privacy
* Identities management
* Token economy
* Blockchain analysis and monitoring tools


PUBLICATION
All submitted research papers will be peer-reviewed. Only contributions that are not submitted elsewhere or currently under review will be considered. Accepted papers will be included in the final workshops’ proceedings, published by Springer in the ARCoSS/LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will have to sign a Springer copyright form. One author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the paper at the workshop.

NB: International journal special issue including selected papers is under negotiation


SUBMISSIONS
Submissions must be in PDF format and should not exceed 12 pages (including references) in the Springer LNCS style. Complete LaTeX sources must be provided for accepted papers.

Papers should be submitted electronically via the following submission page (select the FPDAPP track):

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2018ws


IMPORTANT DATES:
* Paper submission: 27 May, 2018 (EXTENDED, strict)
* Author notification: 25 June, 2018 (EXTENDED)
* Camera-ready version: 6 July, 2018
* Workshop date: 27 or 28 August, 2018


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Marcella Atzori - University College of London / Ifin Sistemi
Stefano Bistarelli - University of Perugia
Guido Boella - University of Turin
Maple Carsten - University of Warkwick
Boris Düdder - University of Copenhagen
Fritz Henglein - University of Copenhagen
Stefano Leone - Deloitte
Patrick McCorry - University College of London
Carlos Molina - University of Cambridge
Immaculate Motsi - University of Warkwick
Jack Jackson - Everledger
Petr Novotny - IBM
Federico Pintore - University of Trento
Henrique Rocha - INRIA
Massimiliano Sala - University of Trento
Thomas Sibut Pinote - INRIA
Andrea Vitaletti - Sapienza University of Rome
Aleš Zamuda - University of Maribor
Santiago Zanella-Beguelin - Microsoft Research