FOCODILE 2020 - 1st International Workshop on Foundations of Consensus and Distributed Ledgers
FOCODILE 2020 is one of the workshops at DisCoTec 2020, the 15th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques. It will be held on June 19, 2020.
COVID-19 update
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, FOCODILE 2020 will be held online, as the rest of DisCoTec. No physical meeting/presentations will take place. Instead, the authors of accepted papers will give their talks remotely (or record their talks if they prefer), and discuss with the conference participants online. More details will follow.
Scope
FOCODILE is a forum to exchange ideas and recent research findings on theoretical foundations of consensus and blockchain technology. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Formal models of distributed consensus
- Blockchain-specific cryptographic primitives and protocols
- Formal verification of blockchain protocols and smart contracts
- Byzantine fault tolerance and consensus
- Design and analysis of distributed ledgers
- Blockchain consensus mechanisms
- Privacy and anonymity in cryptocurrencies
- Game-theoretic approaches to blockchains
- Post-quantum blockchain protocols
- Performance and scalability of blockchain systems
Contributions from doctoral students and young researchers are particularly encouraged.
Programme
Go to the workshop programme page
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must be in English and in the form of an extended abstract of up to 6 pages (+ 2 pages references). All abstracts should be submitted through Easychair (submission link).
A submission should contain original, unpublished work, reporting results of new, recent, or ongoing research. We also welcome submissions of abstracts based on work submitted or published elsewhere, provided that all relevant information is disclosed at submission time. Abstracts may be published on the workshop’s webpage (subject to author’s approval).
Important dates (updated)
May 15, 2020: abstract submission- New Deadline May 24, 2020: abstract submission (AoE)
May 31, 2020: author notification- New Deadline June 5, 2020: author notification
- June 19, 2020: FOCODILE workshop
Keynote Speaker
- Vassilis Zikas (University of Edinburgh)
Program committee
- Moayad Aloqaily (Carleton University)
- Neville Grech (University of Athens and University of Malta)
- Aggelos Kiayias (University of Edinburgh)
- Nikos Leonardos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
- Aris Pagourtzis, co-chair (National Technical University of Athens)
- Petros Potikas, co-chair (National Technical University of Athens)
- Dimitris Sakavalas (Boston College)
- Lewis Tseng (Boston College)
More Information
For additional information, please contact the Program Committee chairs.