IWBCS 2020 : The International Workshop on Blockchain Security

Important Note: All accepted papers in EUSPN/ICTH 2020 Workshops will be published without the in person authors’ participation requirement.

As the world has been facing shortages of supplies, supply chains around the world are being stretched to their limit. While the situation unfolds, blockchain is one of the key technologies that keeps rising in importance, and it is being used in many supply chains besides many other similar purposes.

The number of people who understands the importance of blockchain technologies rise each day. However, so, far the security of blockchain technologies are overlooked. This field is open to new discoveries. and requires solid tools and methodologies to protect the system and data in this new distributed systems.

International Workshop on Blockchain Security which will be held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH) look into in rising issues and open doors for security and protection in blockchain systems. Further, it tends to new methodologies and procedures to improve the abilities for ensuring better services.

Publication

All IWBCS-2020 accepted papers will be included in the EUSPN 2020 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in EUSPN 2020 Website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages.

Important Dates
Papers Submission: August 15, 20120

Authors Notifications: August 30, 2020

Final Manuscript: September 6, 2020

EUSPN 2020 Madeira, Portugal on November 2 - November 5, 2020
 

List of Topics (but not limited)
 

• Better understanding blockchain technology and its implication to security;
• Analyze and evaluate the current status of blockchain technology and its maturity;
• Discuss security and privacy aspects related to blockchain applications;
• Examine means for extending on-line trust using blockchain technologies;
• Provide a platform to share findings and for dialogue on policy and regulatory implications of blockchain between enterprises working on blockchain applications and regulators from various industrial-/economic sectors;
• d Data Analysis