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FMBC 2024 - Preliminary Call for Papers
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5th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC) - Preliminary Call
April 07, 2024 (tentative), Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Co-located with the European joint conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2024)
IMPORTANT DATES (TENTATIVE)
Paper submission: January 31, 2024
Notification: February 29, 2024
Camera-ready: March 15, 2024
Pre-Proceedings: March 31, 2024
Workshop: April 07, 2024
Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Blockchain is a novel technology to store data in a decentralized way. Although the technology was originally invented to enable cryptocurrencies, it quickly found applications in several other domains.
Blockchains may also provide support for Smart Contracts. Smart Contracts are scripts of an ad-hoc programming language that are stored in the blockchain and that run on the network. They can interact with the ledger's data and update its state. These scripts can express the logic of possibly complex contracts between users of the blockchain. Thus, Smart Contracts can facilitate the economic activity of blockchain participants.
Since blockchains are often used to store financial transactions, bugs may result in huge economic losses and thus it is now of utmost importance to have strong guarantees of the behaviour of blockchain software. These guarantees can be brought by using Formal Methods. Indeed, Blockchain software encompasses many topics of computer science where using Formal Methods techniques and tools is relevant: consensus algorithms to ensure the liveness and the security of the data on the chain, programming languages specifically designed to write smart contracts, cryptographic protocols, such as zero-knowledge proofs, used to ensure privacy, etc.
This workshop is a forum to identify theoretical and practical approaches of formal methods for blockchain technology. Topics include, but are not limited to:
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