[nmrg] BRAINS 2023, 5th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services, Paris, France

[Elif Bozkaya <[e-mail]>]

 CALL FOR PAPERS


         5th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications
          for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS 2023)

                       https://brains.dnac.org/2023


                        October 11 - 13, 2023
                            Paris, France
                         (In-person conference)


The 15 best technical papers presented at the conference will be invited to
submit an extended version for fast-track review in Annals of
Telecommunications (Springer)


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Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) have the potential to
disrupt any domain involving coordination among autonomous resources. This
includes finance and payments (e.g., fintech), but also networks (e.g.,
power grids or telecom networks), computing (e.g., brokering of edge
resources), IoT (e.g., supply chain, V2X or industry 4.0) or service
platforms (e.g., identity management).
BRAINS conference is dedicated to these new advances that could make the
world of networks and services more secure, while enabling new distributed
business models.


Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently
under review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously
published. All submissions should be written in English following
Two-Column IEEE Conference Format, with a maximum of eight (8) pages (Full
Papers), four (4) pages (Short Papers and work in progress) or two (2)
pages (Poster Papers), including text, figures, and references. Papers
should be submitted through EDAS at: https://edas.info/N30854


Topics of interest

Fundamentals of Blockchain and DLT:
• Theoretical contributions on Blockchain and DLT
• Distributed consensus and fault tolerance solutions, including
domain-specific consensus (e.g., for IoT)
• Protocols and algorithms
• Distributed Ledger Analytics
• Tradeoffs between decentralization, scalability, performance, and security
• Sharding and layer 2
• Combination between Blockchain and distributed databases (e.g., IPFS)


Fundamentals of Decentralized Apps, Smart contracts, and chain code:
• Development languages and tooling
• Security, Privacy, Attacks, Forensics
• Transaction Monitoring and Analysis
• Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code
• Token Economy and incentives
• NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) and protocols
• Distributed Trust
• Oracles
• Blockchain as a service
• Blockchain-defined networking


Application and service cases of DLT and Smart-Contracts:
• Identity management (e.g., Self-sovereign Identity and Decentralized
Identifiers, Open ID Connect)
• Finance and payments
• DeFi (Decentralized Finance)
• IoT and cyber physical systems
• Smart grids and Industry 4.0, including Dataspaces
• Supply chain management
• V2X, connected and autonomous vehicles
• Networking, Edge and Cloud Technologies
• Blockchain for Beyond 5G and 6G Technologies, Telecom Process and
Operation
• Blockchain and AI (e.g., for federated learning)
• Services or Resources Marketplaces
• Public sector Blockchain solutions and infrastructures (e.g., EBSI)
• Blockchain for education, public administration, health
• Results from large collaborative projects on these topics


Important Dates
- Paper Submission: May 29, 2023
- Paper Acceptance July 17, 2023
- Final Papers Due: July 31, 2023


TPC Chairs
Axel Küpper (TU Berlin, Germany)
Antonella Del Pozzo (CEA-List, France)
Yackolley Amoussou-Guenou (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France )


General Chairs
Emmanuelle Anceaume (IRISA, France)
Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Labs, France)


Looking forward for your submissions to BRAINS 2023!