IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPCON 2019)

https://dappcon.net

The objective of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPCON 2019) is to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the area of Decentralized Applications based on Distributed Ledger Technologies, Blockchain, and related technologies.

It can be already seen today that Blockchain is making a huge impact on the way digital payments are made. However, the potential implications of Blockchain technologies go far beyond their application as the technological backbone for cryptocurrencies. In recent years, Decentralized Applications (dApps) have emerged as a new model for building massively scalable services.

dApps allow for various novel application scenarios, which are built upon distributed consensus and thus are hard to block or censor. While Blockchains such as Bitcoin or Ethereum are based on compute-intense consensus mechanisms, more recent approaches focus on voting- or staking-based algorithms that support higher transactions per second and are also better-suited to reflect proportions of majority ownership, which are required in many enterprise application scenarios. Also, the integration of Smart Contracts into Blockchains, for example, based on Ethereum or Hyperledger, leads to a plethora of possible use cases for dApps.

DAPPCON 2019 will provide a high-quality forum for participants from research and industry. The conference will discuss key theories, algorithms, infrastructures, and significant applications for Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures, as well as emerging research topics.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Blockchain theory - Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) - Decentralized Applications / Smart Contracts - Consensus protocols for Decentralized Applications - Infrastructures for Decentralized Applications - Communication protocols and standards for Decentralized Applications - Identity Management for Decentralized Applications - Token economy - dApps/DLT/Blockchain analytics - dApps/DLT/Blockchain governance - dApps/DLT/Blockchain interoperability - dApps/DLT/Blockchain privacy - dApps/DLT/Blockchain security - dApps/DLT/Blockchain scalability and performance - dApps/DLT/Blockchain policy/law - dApps/DLT/Blockchain applications in areas such as Internet of Things, Logistics, or Health - dApps/DLT/Blockchain emerging research topics

Important Dates

- Extended until Nov. 30, 2018: Abstract registration & paper submission deadline - Jan. 14, 2019: Author notification - Jan. 31, 2019: Camera-ready submission and conference registration - Apr. 5 - 8, 2019: Conference

Invitation letters for visa applications will be available on the day of the author notification.

Paper submission

DAPPCON 2019 solicits research papers describing significant and innovative research contributions to the field of Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures.

Both full and short papers can be submitted. All papers must be written in English. Manuscripts must include a title, an abstract with 200-250 words, and a list of 4-6 keywords. Each full paper is limited to 10 pages, including tables, figures, and references. Each short paper is limited to 6 pages, including tables, figures and references.

All papers must be prepared in the IEEE double-column proceedings format. Please see: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

DAPPCON 2019 uses a double-blind review policy. Authors are required to remove their names, affiliation and other identifying information from the header of the manuscript. This also includes meta-data in the submitted document as well as acknowledgment sections. Papers that do not meet these anonymization requirements may be rejected without further review.

Authors are encouraged, but not required, to cite their previous work in a neutral manner, for example, avoid “in our previous work [3]” and instead use “as shown in [3]”.

The name(s) of the author(s) will not be visible to the reviewer of a paper. The name(s) of the author(s) will be visible in the submission system to the General Chairs and the Program Chairs. Authors are free to indicate any conflict of interest with the list of Technical Program Committee (TPC) members during submission of the manuscript, in which case the Program Chairs will exclude the corresponding TPC member(s) from reviewing the paper.

Each paper will be reviewed by at least three TPC members.

Authors must submit their manuscripts using the EDAS conference system via the following link:

http://edas.info/N25365

Paper submission is open until Friday, 30 November 2018, 23:59 PST (UTC -8).

Paper publication

All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI-Index) and included in the IEEE Digital Library. For publication, each accepted paper is required to be registered by one of its authors, and at least one author is required to attend and present the paper at the conference for the paper to be included in the final technical program and the IEEE Digital Library.

Special issues

The authors of the best papers will be invited to also submit their work (with at least 30% novel contents) to the following special issues:

- IEEE Network: Special issue on Blockchains for Scalable IoT Management, Access and Accountability https://www.comsoc.org/netmag/cfp/blockchains-scalable-iot-management-access-and-accountability - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management: Special Issue on Blockchain Ecosystem: Technological and Management Challenges and Opportunities http://www.ieee-tems.org/call-for-papers-blockchain-ecosystem/