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IEEE International Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contracts (IEEE BSC 2021)

Hainan Island, China, December 6-10, 2021

https://qrs21.techconf.org/track/workshops/bsc

Paper Submission Deadline: September 20, 2021 -- Extended to October 10, 2021

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In conjunction with IEEE QRS 2021 - The 21st IEEE International Conference on
Software Quality, Reliability, and Security

** The workshop adopts a hybrid model allowing either in-person or online remote
presentations.

Description:
A blockchain is a distributed ledger for recording transactions, maintained
by many nodes without central authority through a distributed cryptographic
protocol. Smart contracts on top of a blockchain render transactions traceable,
transparent, and irreversible. It is expected that blockchain and smart contracts
will play an important role in emerging fields such as the Internet of things
(IoT), cyber-physical systems (CPS), social networking, crowdsourcing and next
generation wireless communications. On the other hand, their advances should be
further evolved in terms of scalability, privacy, efficiency, flexibility and
high dependability. The IEEE International Workshop on Blockchain and Smart
Contracts (IEEE BSC 2021) at QRS intends to provide a high-profile, leading-
edge forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present the latest
advances and innovations in key theories, infrastructure, schemes, and significant
applications for the blockchain software, as well as to identify emerging research
topics and define the future.

Topic of Interest:
The Workshop welcomes technical papers, which are related to (but not limited to)
the following topics:
- Theoretical study on blockchain and smart contacts
- Blockchain consensus protocols
- Executable law, context-awareness, consistency, monitoring
- Solution to scalability of blockchain
- Benchmarking and performance study
- Algorithm design, complexity analysis, implementation for blockchain
- Security, privacy, and reliability of blockchain and smart Contracts
- Novel applications based on blockchain and smart contracts

Important Dates:
- Paper submission due: October 10, 2021
- Notification of acceptance: November 1, 2021
- Camera-ready Papers: November 10, 2021
- Workshop Dates: December 6-10, 2021

Submit Your Contributions:
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research papers as well as
industrial practice papers. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences are
not permitted. The length of a camera ready paper will be limited to eight
pages. Each paper should include a title, the name and affiliation of each
author, a 150-word abstract, and up to 6 keywords. Shorter version papers
(up to four pages) are also allowed. All papers must conform to the QRS
conference proceedings format and Submission Guideline set in advance by
QRS 2021 co-located workshops. At least one of the authors of each accepted
paper is required to pay full registration fee and present the paper at the
workshop. Arrangements are being made to publish selected accepted papers
in reputable journals. Submissions must be in PDF format and uploaded to
the conference submission site at:

https://banana.utdallas.edu/start/qrs2021-Workshop-BSC/

More details can be found at https://qrs21.techconf.org/track/workshops/bsc

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