1st Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Infrastructures for Distributed Ledgers
SERIAL - ScalablE and Resilient InfrAstructures for distributed Ledgers

Colocated with Middleware 2017
Las Vegas, Nevada, 11th-15th December 2017

IMPORTANT DATES (GMT/UTC-12)

September 14, 2017 - Paper submission
October 15, 2017 - Notification of acceptance

With the rise of digital currencies and distributed ledger infrastructures, a multitude of novel application scenarios are currently discussed and evaluated. In essence, these technologies will crosscut and change a large variety of digital interactions. At the same time, the underlying infrastructures are rapidly developed and deployed. Thereby, their resilience and scalability is key for success.

The 1st Workshop for Scalable Resilient Infrastructures targets to investigate system support to foster resilience and scalability of decentralized infrastructures such as distributed ledger ecosystems but targets resilience support for more traditional Internet-based services.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
System support for blockchain
System support for resource-limited devices and blockchain
Resilient agreement protocols
Trusted execution for improved resilience of decentralized infrastructures
Blockchain consistency
Cryptocurrency attacks and incentives
Smart contract performance and security
Blockchain soft and hard forks
Anonymity and confidentiality in distributed ledgers
Governance of distributed ledgers
Scalability of distributed ledgers


The goal of the workshop is to foster collaboration and discussion among researchers and practitioners in this field. The workshop will be one full day. The program should primarily include presentations by authors of accepted papers (the workshop will have proceedings in the ACM digital library). The other elements will be 1-3 invited presentations and a panel ending the day with an open discussion with the workshop audience.

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Christof Fetzer (TU Dresden)
Franz J. Hauck (University of Ulm)
Marko Vukolic (IBM Zurich)
Ruediger Kapitza (TU Braunschweig)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari)
Alysson Bessani (Universidade de Lisboa)
Ethan Buchman (Tendermint)
Miguel Correia (Universidade de Lisboa)
Christian Decker (Blockstream)
Ittay Eyal (Technion)
Ghassan Karame (NEC Labs Europe)
Jae Kwon (Tendermint)
Dahlia Malkhi (VMware Research)
Hans P. Reiser (University of Passau)
Francois Taiani (INRIA Rennes)



SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

SERIAL welcomes submissions in two formats:

- Regular research papers of at most 6 pages including references. Research papers should be work that is not previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere and will be published in the proceedings.

- Short research statements of at most 1-2 pages. Research statements aim at fostering discussion and collaboration. Research statements may summarize research published elsewhere or outline new emerging ideas. Authors can *choose* if accepted research statements should be published in the proceedings.


All submissions should be in PDF and must follow the ACM SIGPLAN format (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template).
Reviewing is single-blind, and the names and affiliations of the authors must appear in the submitted papers. Each paper will receive at least three reviews from members of the program committee. Submissions that do not respect the formatting requirement may be rejected without review.

Submissions site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=serial2017