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Call for Papers (CFPs) of The 6th International Workshop on Blockchain and Security
(BlockchainSec 2023)

In Conjunction with
The Third International symposium on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2023)
https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/ubisec2023/

Exeter, UK, November 1-3, 2023

Organizer: Guangzhou University, China

http://ubisecurity.org/Blockchain/2023/
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Keynote Speeches Section

Please refer to the main conference website (https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/ubisec2023/) for detail.

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Invited Talks Section

Please refer to the main conference website (https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/ubisec2023/) for detail.

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Special Issues Section

Please refer to the main conference website (https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/ubisec2023/) for detail.

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Blockchain is emerging as a disruptive and transformational technology with great potential, benefits, and impact on organizations and government services. Blockchain offers an innovative approach to storing information, executing transactions, performing functions, and establishing trust in an open environment. The pervasiveness of blockchain technology in various fields is changing our lives. Industry, agriculture, health, and even personal life are experiencing a revolution in how personal data are collected, communicated, processed, and stored. In recent years, blockchain technology has begun to be used in full swing. Many consider blockchain a technology breakthrough for cryptography and cybersecurity, with use cases ranging from globally deployed cryptocurrency systems like Bitcoin, smart contracts, smart grids over the Internet of Things, etc. Although blockchain has received growing interest in academia and industry in recent years, the security and privacy of blockchains continue to be at the center of the debate when deploying blockchain in different applications. Therefore, the goal of this workshop is to provide a cutting-edge venue for the scientific community to explore the latest ideas, models, and innovative applications in the domain of security and privacy while deploying blockchain technologies and services to improve the efficiency and transparency of private and public service provisions in a variety of domains.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
– Novel Security Models and Architectures for Blockchain
– Blockchain Attacks on Existing Systems
– Blockchain Authentication and authorization
– Security of Consensus Protocols
– Generative adversarial networks (GAN) in Blockchain security
– Trusted Execution of Smart Contracts
– Fault Tolerance and Identity Management
– Blockchain-based solutions for IoT security
– GDPR strategy, compliance, and optimization using Blockchain
– Blockchain in digital forensic
– Intelligent systems for fraud detection and forensics in blockchain
– Innovative architectures and protocols for safe blockchain application
– Vulnerability analysis, threat modeling, and risk assessment in Blockchain
– Privacy preservation in Blockchain
– Evaluating user privacy in Blockchains
– Blockchain Privacy and trust management
– Crypto-privacy techniques
– Privacy and trust of distributed ledger technology
– Privacy-enhancing technologies, anonymity, and censorship
– Privacy metrics and policies
– Smart contract privacy protection
– On-chain privacy

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2023 (Firm Deadline)
Author Notification: September 30, 2023
Author Registration Due: October 30, 2023
Camera-Ready Paper Due: October 30, 2023
Conference Date: November 1 - 3, 2023


SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION INFORMATION
All presented papers at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Papers must be clearly presented in English and must not exceed 12 pages in Springer CCIS format (https://www.springer.com/cn/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines)(or up to 20 pages with the pages over the length charge), including tables, figures, references, and appendices. Accepted papers of less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Papers on the conference website should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=blockchainsec2023). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI-indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give two or three "Best Paper Awards" for the conference. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors ensure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper.

General Chairs
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
Yizhi Ren, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China

Program Chairs
Bebo White, SLAC Stanford University, USA
Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan

Publicity Chairs
Yang Xu, Hunan University, China
Hussain Al-Aqrabi, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Sohail Jabbar, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Mir Sajjad Hussain Talpur, Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam, Pakistan

Publication Chairs
Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China
Fang Qi, Central South University, China

Program Committee
Jianbing Ni, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jinguang Han, University of Surrey, UK
Tran Viet Xuan Phuong, University of Wollongong, Australia
Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Paula Prata, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Christian Esposito, University of Salerno, Italy
Liang Xue, University of Waterloo, Canada
Md Asri Ngadi, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Johari Abdullah, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
Mudassar Ahmad, National Textile University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Mohammed Arif Amin, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE
Yong Ding, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China
Xuejia Lai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Muhammad Murad Khan, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan
Cheng Guo, Dalian University of Technology, China
Hassaan Khaliq, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
Debiao He, Wuhan University, China
Ahsan Latif, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Ying Hu, Guangzhou University, China
Gordhan Das, Menghwar, Sindh Agriculture University, Pakistan
Alinani Karim, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
Mujahid Mohsin, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
Hongbo Li, South China Agricultural University, China
Samina Rajper, Shah Abdul Latif University, Pakistan
Charnsak Srisawatsakul, Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University, Thailand
Qian-Hong Wu, Beihang University, China
Qiuliang Xu, Shandong University, China
Fangguo Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Zijian Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Yanqi Zhao, Shaanxi Normal University, China
Yunlei Zhao, Fudan University, China

Steering Committee
Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair)
Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan (Chair)
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan (Chair)
Constantinos Kolias, University of Idaho, USA
Yannan Li, University of Wollongong, Australia
Yizhi Ren, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Chunhua Su, The University of Aizu, Japan
Bebo White, SLAC Stanford University, USA
Chung-Huang Yang, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Yong Yu, Shaanxi Normal University, China

Contact

Please email inquiries concerning BlockchainSec2023 to:
Prof. Dr. Guojun Wang: csgjwang@gzhu.edu.cn
Prof Dr. Kouichi Sakurai: sakurai@inf.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Prof. Bebo White: bebo@slac.stanford.edu
Saqib Ali: saqib@uaf.edu.pk and the conference organizers: BlockchainSec2023@googlegroups.com
Prof. Guojun Wang's Homepage: http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/

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Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor
Director of Institute of Computer Networks,
School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering,
Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province,
P. R. China, 510006
Email: csgjwang AT gzhu.edu.cn
http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/
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