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IEEE/IFIP Man2Block 2018 : International Workshop on Managing and Managed by Blockchain | |||||||||||||
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IEEE/IFIP Man2Block 2018 International Workshop on Managing and Managed by Blockchain Colocated with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2018, 27 April 2018, Taipei, Taiwan https://man2block.inria.fr Paper submission: January 5, 2018 Notification to authors: February 28, 2018 Camera ready: March 16, 2018 Workshop date: April 27, 2018 ====================================================================== The blockchain technologies and their ecosystem are growing at a high pace. Starting from bitcoin, there are now numerous blockchain technologies and applications, with new ones appearing every month. Although all these innovations reside in cryptographic research and developments, blockchain is firstly a distributed system. The underlying infrastructure is blindly leveraged by blockchain technologies whereas this arises serious concerns in terms of scalability, quality-of-service, security and fault tolerance. Indeed, monitoring and configuring such a distributed system without or with a loosely control is naturally difficult. Even fully understanding and predicting expected performance before a real deployment at large scale is vital from a technical and business operations perspective. Furthermore, blockchain is also a potential candidate to ease network and service management. Indeed, many services over Internet rely on pre-establish trust among entities which is hard to maintain at large scale and which are thus the sources of many malfunctioning or the targets of attacks. Among them, we can cite the naming services, the distributed cloud management, resource sharing, the PKI management, or even distributed policy management and accountability within a sofwtarized network architecture. Man2Block 2018 is a dedicated venue for bringing together students, researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who share common interests in the management and the use of the blockchain infrastructure and smart contracts in network, system, service operations and management. Theoretical approaches, practical experimentations and papers highlighting future trends and challenges are welcomed. Authors are invited to submit original contributions (full and short papers) that fall into the following list of topics of interest (not exhaustive): - Blockchain infrastructure management - Security - Monitoring and configuration - Anomaly detection - Resource provisioning - Blockchain QoS and QoE - Large-scale experimentation - Smart contract management - Auditing - Threat assessment - Privacy and anonymity - PKI for blockchains - Simulation and evaluation methodologies - Analytics - Attack design and mitigation - Blockchain architectures ====================================================================== Venue: Man2Block will be held in conjunction with IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan, 27 April 2018 Submission Instructions: Prospective authors are invited to submit original, unpublished works for publication in the IEEE NOMS 2018 proceedings and for presentation in the workshop. Papers under review elsewhere must not be submitted to the workshop. Submissions must be in IEEE 2-column style and have a maximum length of 6 pages (full paper) or 4 pages (short paper). The accepted papers will be submitted for publication in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Papers will be withdrawn from IEEE Xplore in case the authors do not present their paper at the workshop Submissions must be made in PDF format via: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=2939 ====================================================================== Man2Block Workshop co-chairs Jérôme François, Inria Nancy Grand Est, France Abdelkader Lahmadi, Université de Lorraine, France Radu State, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
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