IEEE Blockchain 2024 CFP

The 7th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2024) will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 19-22, 2024.

As a promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, blockchain has been successfully applied into digital currency, e.g., bitcoin, for serving as a public ledger for transactions. Its secure design for supporting a distributed computing system with high fault tolerance is attracting wide attention all over the world. Blockchain has a great potential to create new foundations for our socio-economic systems by efficiently establishing trust among people and machines, reducing cost, and increasing utilization of resources. On one hand, blockchain will play an important role for secure decentralization in such emerging fields as Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, edge computing, social networking, crowdsourcing and next generation wireless communications, and even more other fields. On the other hand, its advance should be further evolved in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, flexibility, availability, real decentralization and high dependability.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology
• New blockchain architecture
• Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
• Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger
• Cross-chain and off-chain technology
• Attacks and vulnerabilities of blockchain
• Blockchain scalability and performance optimization
• Simulation and performance evaluation techniques
• Smart contract and chain code
• Applications and services based on blockchain
• Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain
• Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)
• Blockchain in cyber physical systems
• Blockchain in social networking
• Blockchain in supply chain management
• Blockchain in agriculture
• Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles
• Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing
• Blockchain in edge and cloud computing
• Blockchain in next generation communications and networks
• Blockchain and cryptocurrency
• Blockchain and artificial intelligence
• Blockchain and game theory
• Blockchain and industry 4.0
• Redactable blockchain

Important Dates

• Workshop Proposal Due: 01 April, 2024
• Paper Submission Deadline: 15 April, 2024
• Author Notification: 20 May, 2024
• Camera-ready and Registration: 15 June, 2024
• Conference Dates: 19-22 August, 2024

Journal Special Issues

IEEE Blockchain-2024 will invite additional submissions (after significant extension) to the special issue in the following prestigious journals:

• IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 10.6)
• IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (IF: 4.5)
• ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (ACM DLT)
• IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (IF: 4.3)
• Connection Science (IF: 5.6)

Author Instructions

Blockchain-2024 regular papers should be submitted through the EDAS system (https://edas.info/N32142) with PDF format. Each paper is limited to 8 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for workshop papers in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (or up to 2 extra pages with page over length charge if it is accepted), including tables, figures, references and appendices. All papers need to be submitted electronically through the corresponding websites with PDF format. All submissions should be anonymous. No author name or affiliation (including acknowledgement) can be included in the paper. Submissions violating these rules will be rejected without being reviewed.

Workshops and Special Sessions

• The 4th International Symposium on Fintech and Blockchain Systems (FBS 2024) Submission Link: https://edas.info/N32291
• The 3rd International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Blockchain (SPB 2024) Submission Link: https://edas.info/N32290
• The 3rd International Workshop on Blockchain Security and Scalability (BSS 2024) Submission Link: https://edas.info/N32308
• The 2nd Workshop on Industrial Blockchain Technology and Applications (IBTA 2024) Submission Link: https://edas.info/N32285

Organizing Committees

General Co-Chairs

• Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• Zhe Liu, Zhejiang Lab, China
• Boris Düdder, Copenhagen University, Denmark

Program Co-Chairs

• Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia
• Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
• Man Ho Au, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Steering Committee Co-Chairs

• Laurence T. Yang, Hainan University, China
• Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China

https://ieee-cybermatics.org/2024/blockchain/index.php