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Call for Papers
13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing ATC'2016
Track on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain based Systems
http://www.deic.uab.cat/~jherrera/fitxers/CFP-CCBBS-2016.pdf

July 18-21, 2016, Toulouse, France
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Aims and Scope of the track:

Since the appearance of bitcoin in 2009, a plethora of new cryptocurrencies and other
blockchain based systems have been deployed with different success rates. While some of them
are slightly different copies of Bitcoin, other ones propose interesting improvements or new
usages of the underlying blockchain technology. However, the novelty of such technologies is
often tied with rapid developments and proof-of-concept software, and few rigorous scientific
analysis of the proposed systems can be found. To revert such intertia, this track aims to provide
a forum for researchers in this area to carefully analyze current systems or propose new ones in
order to create a scientific background for a solid development of new cryptocurrencies and
blockchain technology systems.

The main topics include (but are not limited to):
• Anonymity and privacy in cryptocurrencies
• Cryptocurrency based trust systems
• Security analysis of existing cryptocurrencies
• Formal threat models in cryptocurrency systems
• Improvement proposals for existing cryptocurrencies
• P2P network cryptocurrencies analysis
• Private transactions in blockchain based systems
• Problem based mining for cryptocurrencies, like PrimeCoin
• Mining mechanisms: proof-of-work, proof of stake, proof of burn, ...
• New usages of the blockchain technology
• Scalability solutions for blockchain systems
• Smart contracts
• Blockchain-based Business Models

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Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: March 25, 2016
Author Notification: May 6, 2016
Final Manuscript: May 20, 2016
Conference Dates: July 18-21, 2016

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PC Track members:

Elli Androulaki - Zurich IBM Research
Rainer Böehme - Universität Innsbruck
Dan Boneh - Stanford University
Ghassan Karame – NEC Research
Jeremy Clark - Concordia University
Christian Decker - ETH Zurich
Ittay Eyal – Cornell University
Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí - UAB
Stefan Katzenbeisser - TU Darmstadt
Andrew Miller - University of Maryland
Cristina Pérez-Solà – UAB
Markus Weinberger - Bosch IoT Lab – U. St. Gallen
Aviv Zohar - Hebrew University

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Submission:

Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited
to submit their manuscripts following the IEEE Conference Proceedings Manuscript style: two columns,
single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10pt fonts, and numbering each page.
The papers are limited to 8 pages (full papers), or 4 pages (short papers), following the IEEE CS format,
and are to be submitted as PDF via the ATC 2016 submission sites:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atc2016

Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE CPS (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). At least one author
of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference; otherwise the paper
will not be included in the proceedings.