CLOSED Call for Papers: Blockchain: From Technology to Marketplaces
Submission deadline: CLOSED
Publication: July 2020
Trust and trust management lie at the heart of today's increasingly decentralized economy. Blockchain, in all its variations, is emerging as a foundational technology that allows mutually untrusting parties to reach consensus on a shared digital history without a (central) trusted party. Although blockchain is best known as a way to manage so-called cryptocurrencies, it has many promising applications in other domains, such as identifying critical obstacles in a complex supply chain, detecting money-laundering and other financial crimes, identifying fake content, and better diagnosis of diseases. Realizing this potential, however, will require integrating blockchain with mainstream fields of computer science such as distributed computing and artificial intelligence (AI).
This special issue will highlight technical advances that can enable the transformation of blockchain from a niche technology for currencies into a general-purpose technology capable of achieving unprecedented levels of transparency, accountability, and analytics. We solicit original research articles that cover areas including but not limited to:
- Blockchain technologies
- Trustworthy infrastructure
- Blockchain and AI – analytics in encrypted domain
- Distributed consensus
- Blockchain applications
- Multimedia and blockchain
- Privacy, compliance, and GDPR
- Blockchain for computer vision/AI
- Cybersecurity using blockchain
- Decentralized identity management
- Blockchain marketplaces
- Dynamic enterprises
- Distributed credit assignment
- Co-creativity
- Emerging Landscape
- Run-time verification
- Cross-chain swaps and transactions
- Off-chain transactions
- Level 2 applications
Key Dates
Paper submission deadline: CLOSED
Camera-ready paper deadline: 10 April 2020
Publication: July 2020
Submission Guidelines
For manuscript submission guidelines and further information, please visit https://www.computer.org/publications/author-resources/peer-review/magazines. When you are ready to submit, please visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/com-cs.
Questions?
Please contact the guest editors at co3-20@computer.org.
Karthik Nandakumar, IBM Research AI
Nalini Ratha, IBM Research AI
Sharath Pankanti, IBM Research AI
Alex Pentland, MIT
Maurice Herlihy, Brown University
