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The 5th International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN'23) will be held in Guimarães from 12th to 14th of July, 2023. This annual congress will bring together researchers and practitioners of blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLT), who will share ideas, projects, lectures, and advances associated with those technologies and their application domains. This meeting will be co-located with the PAAMS’23 conference.

Among the scientific community, the advance in next-generation blockchain and distributed ledger technologies is seen as a promising combination that will transform the production and manufacturing industry, media, finance, insurance, e-government, agriculture, energy, or even medicine. Besides, the combination of DLT with other cutting-edge disruptive technologies (AI, metaverse, quantum computing...) will will open up a multitude of amazing opportunities that entail an interesting challenge of research at the same time.

The BLOCKCHAIN’23 congress is devoted to: promoting the investigation of next-generation blockchain and DLT technologies; exploring the latest ideas, innovations, guidelines, theories, models, technologies, applications and tools of blockchain/DLT combined with other cutting-edge technologies; and identifying critical issues and challenges that researchers and practitioners must deal with in future research. We want to offer researchers and practitioners the opportunity to work on promising lines of research and to publish their developments in this area.

As in previous editions, the best speaker and best student speaker will receive an award sponsored by the MDPI Smart Cities journal (500 CHF and 300 CHF respectively).



info@blockchain-congress.net



TOPICS
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Technologies and techniques

- Key and innovative theories, methodologies, schemes and technologies of blockchain and AI
- Architectures and platforms for blockchain and AI
- Blockchain and AI for Big Data
- Blockchain and AI for Multi-Agent systems
- Blockchain and AI for the Internet of Things
- Blockchain and AI in 5G
- Sensors and devices for blockchain
- Distributed consensus mechanisms (PoW, PoS, PoE…)
- Encryption algorithms
- Fault tolerance mechanisms
- Other distributed ledger technologies
- Cloud, fog, and edge computing approaches for blockchain
- Blockchain standardization issues
- Platforms for smart contracts
- Side-chain and cross-chain systems
- Anonymity and privacy in blockchain
- Malicious transactions detection
- 4th and 5th generation blockchain

Applications

- Blockchain and AI enabled new business models and applications
- Blockchain and AI for e-commerce
- Blockchain and AI for logistics and transportation
- Blockchain and AI for supply chain management
- Blockchain and AI for product life cycle
- Blockchain and AI for knowledge and innovation management
- Blockchain and AI for agriculture
- Blockchain and AI in eHealth
- Applications of cryptocurrencies
- Blockchain as a Tamper-Proof Technology
- Application of smart contracts
- Blockchain Governance and Human Rights
- Applications of blockchain and AI in other domains.
- Use-cases of blockchain and AI in Industry 4.0, banking, etc.
- Blockchain and AI for fintech
- Blockchain and AI for insurtech




INVITED SPEAKERS
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Julien Bourgeois, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS (France)

Tuomo Kujala, University of Jyväskylä (Finland)

Ana Paiva, University of Lisbon (Portugal)





SPECIAL ISSUES
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Authors of selected papers from PAAMS will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to special issue in different journals.


∎ Special issue "Frontiers of Agents and Multiagent Systems" MDPI Sensors JCR (2021): 3.847 (Q2)
∎ Special issue "Edge Computing in IoT Networks Based on Artificial Intelligence" MDPI Sensors JCR (2021): 3.847 (Q2)
∎ Special issue "Advanced Architectures for Hybrid Edge Analytics Models on Adaptive Smart Areas" MDPI Electronics JCR (2021): 2.690 (Q3)
∎ Special issue "Trends in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Simulating Cognitive Mimetics" MDPI Systems JCR (2021): 2.895 (Q2)
∎ Special issue ADCAIJJCI (2021): 0,05 (Q4)


To Be Updated





AWARDS
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MDPI Smart Cities Best Speaker Award (500CHF)

MDPI Smart Cities Best Student Speaker Award (300CHF)

MDPI Electronics Best Paper Awards





LIST OF WORKSHOPS IN BLOCKCHAIN 2023
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WEB3-TRUST - Workshop on Beyond the promises of web3.0: foundations and challenges of trust decentralization

BL-NT-IoT - Workshop on Blockchain for next-generation Internet of Things Applications

BL-Meta - Workshop on Blockchain and Metaverse: challenges and barriers for the Blockchain technology in the Metaverse

DAG-DLT: Beyond the Chain: Workshop on DAG-based Distributed Ledger Technologies

iBC: Workshop on Intelligence into Blockchain




COMMITTEE
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General Chairs


Javier Prieto - Chair of the IEEE Blockchain Spain Initiative - University of Salamanca (Spain)
José Manuel Machado - University of Minho (Portugal)


Local Chairs


Hugo Peixoto - University of Minho (Portugal)
António Abelha - University of Minho (Portugal)


TPC Chair


Paulo Vieira - Guarda Polytechnic Institute (Portugal)




DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
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The aim of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a framework as part of which students can present their ongoing research work and meet other students and researchers and obtain feedback on lines of research for the future.

The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who are still far from completing their dissertation.

All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with the aim of providing detailed and constructive feedback. The accepted submissions will be presented at the Doctoral Consortium and published in the conference proceedings.




PUBLICATION
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Accepted papers will be included in Blockchain Proceedings, published by Springer.At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include the paper in the congress proceedings. All accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag.


** Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to DBLP, INSPEC, Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, SCImago, SCOPUS, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, Google Scholar, Springerlink. **




IMPORTANT DATES
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Main Track and Worshops Deadline: ̶2̶4̶t̶h̶ ̶M̶a̶r̶c̶h̶,̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶3̶ ̶1̶4̶t̶h̶ ̶A̶p̶r̶i̶l̶,̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶3̶ 24th April, 2023 (last extension)
Doctoral Consortium Deadline: ̶1̶4̶t̶h̶ ̶A̶p̶r̶i̶l̶,̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶3̶ ̶2̶1̶s̶t̶ ̶A̶p̶r̶i̶l̶,̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶3̶ 28th April, 2023 (last extension)
Notification of acceptance: ̶3̶r̶d̶ ̶M̶a̶y̶,̶ ̶2̶0̶2̶3̶ 11th May, 2023
Camera-Ready papers due: 19th May, 2023
Conference Celebration: 12th-14th July, 2023




ORGANIZERS
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University of Minho (Portugal)

LASI - Intelligent Systems Associate Laboratory (Portugal)

University of Salamanca (Spain)

Guarda Polytechnic Institute (Portugal)

Université de Montréal (Canada)

IIIT Hyderabad (India)

Instituto Politécnico do Porto (Portugal)

Technical Institute of Bragança (Portugal)

Fidesol (Spain)





SPONSORS
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AIR INSTITUTE
INDRA



SUPPORT FROM NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
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AEPIA
APPIA