The University of South California (USC) organizes a Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Blockchain. Following in the call for paper.
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Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Blockchain
9 March 2018, Los Angeles, California
Blockchain – the technology behind Bitcoin and Ethereum – is flourishing into an impressive spectrum of research projects and initiatives, corporate alliances, and startup companies. This multidisciplinary effort spans diverse disciplines ranging from Computer Science and Engineering to Communications, Social Sciences, Public Policy, Banking and Finance, Journalism, and Political Sciences to name a few. This one day event strives to bring researchers and practitioners of blockchain together to share and exchange results. We are interested in papers and presentations on a broad range of topics including:
- Application use cases of blockchain
- Secure smart contracts
- Bitcoin and cryptocurrency
- Blockchain for social networking
- Distributed systems for blockchain
- Blockchain consensus protocols
- Blockchain and Governance
- Blockchains and network systems
- Partitioned and replicated data stores for blockchain
- Transactions and blockchain
- Software engineering practices and life cycle management of blockchain
- Societal impact and social aspects of blockchain
- Game theory and its applications to blockchain
- Blockchain protocol analysis and security
- Algorithm design, complexity analysis, implementation of efficient blockchains
- Experience with blockchain
Important Dates:
Dec 15, 2017: Paper submission Deadline
Feb 5, 2018: Author notification
March 9, 2018: One day symposium
Paper submission:
Authors are invited to submit papers through the CMT3 conference submission system by December 15, 2018. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. FAB’18 welcomes long and short papers in four categories: Research, Industrial, Vision, and Poster. See the online call for paper for additional details.
General Chair: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC
Program Chair: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, USC
Program Committee:
Sumita Barahmand, Microsoft
Yu Chen, State University of New York – Binghamton
Bhagwan Chowdhry, UCLA
Eric Chung, DApperNetwork
Ming-Deh Huang, USC
Eric Diehl, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Abdelkader Hameurlain, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France
Zhiyuan Jiang, Tsinghua University
Lou Kerner, Flight VC
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC
Genevieve Leveille, Otentic8
Chen Li, UC Irvine
David MacFadyen, UCLA
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore
Avinash Sridharan, Mesosphere
Vassilis Tsotras, UC Riverside
Nick Vyas, USC
Li Xiong, Emory University
Kiran Yedavalli, Cisco
Contact Us
In case of questions, please contact us at bkrishna@usc.edu and shahram@usc.edu