EXTENDED DEADLINE 27 MAY 2018!


The 6th International Workshop on Large-scale Distributed environments, LSDVE 2018

SPECIAL FOCUS ON BLOCKCHAIN!

To be held in conjunction with EUROPAR 2018
August 2018, Torino, Italy
URL: http://pages.di.unipi.it/ricci/LSDVE18/LSDVE18.html

Call for Papers

The recent advances in networking have determined an increasing use of information technology to support distributed networked cooperative applications. Several novel applications have emerged in this area: social networks, distributed cryptocurrencies, collaborative work and many other ones. In particular, an interesting technology recently adopted to handle cryptocurrencies (such as bitcoin) is the block-chain technology, that has now taken the more general role to handle several distributedapplications. Furthermore, peer to peer, Internet of Things, Smart-cities, distributed sensing are examples of modern ICT paradigms that aim to describe globally cooperative infrastructures built upon objects' intelligence and self-configuring capabilities.
This workshop aims to provide a venue for researchers to present and discuss important aspects of large scale networked collaborative applications and of the platforms supporting them. The definition of these applications requires to afford several challenges, like the design of user interfaces, coordination protocols, and proper middle-ware and architectures. The track's aim is to investigate open challenges for such applications, related to both the applications design and to the definition of proper supports. Some important challenges are, for instance,adaptation of the classical block-chain technology to support collaborative applications, protocols design, distributed consensus algorithms, privacy and security issues.
The workshop will both present assessment of current state and introduce further directions.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Distributed Large Scale Collaborative Environments(LSCE)and applications
- Distributed cryptocurrencies
- Distributed online social networks
- Internet of Things (IoT) applications
- Distributed sensing
- Distributed gaming
- Block-chain applications: IoT, e-health, supply chain
- Platforms for LSCE: peer to peer, cloud, hybrid
- Block-chain technology to support LSCE
- LSCE as complex networks
- Complex Network analysis
- Big Data processing for LSCE
- Security and Privacy in LSCE

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WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Laura Ricci, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa
Radu Prodan, Institute of Computer Science, Innsbruck, Austria
Barbara Guidi, Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa

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TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMETTEE

Michele Amoretti, University of Parma, Italy
Massimo Bartoletti, University of Cagliari, Italy
Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy
Emanuele Carlini, IIT, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Jose Antonio Fernandes de Macedo, Federal University of Cearà, Brasil
Marco Furini, UNIMORE, Italy,
Ombretta Gaggi, University of Padova, Italy
Kalman Graffi, University of Dusseldorf, Germany
Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy
Dragi Kimovski, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy
Paolo Mori, IIT, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Symeon Papadopoulos, CERTH, Greece
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania,
Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

IMPORTANT DATES

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Paper submission deadline:27/5/2018
Notification of Acceptance: 25/6/2018
Workshop Date: August 2018
Submission of Camera Ready papers: 2/10/2018

PAPER SUBMISSION
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Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the LNCS Series.

Manuscripts should be limited to 12 pages in Springer LNCS stylesheet.
Paper submission will be through EasyChair


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