Technical Program of the 4th Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services BRAINS-2022 September 27-30, 2022 – Paris, France (Fully In-person Conference)
Program at a Glance
Day 1 – Tuesday September 27, 2022
Time
Event
1:30 – 2:00 pm
Registration
2:00 – 3:00 Pm
Tutorial: DeFi Building Blocks (Part I) Lewis Gudgeon & Sam Werner (Imperial College, UK)
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Coffee break
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Tutorial: DeFi Building Blocks (Part II) Lewis Gudgeon & Sam Werner (Imperial College, UK)
Day 2 – Wednesday September 28, 2022
Time
Event
9:45 – 10:00 am
Welcome & Opening Ceremony William Knottenbelt & Marta Beltrán Pardo (General Chairs)
10:00 – 11:00 am
Keynote Speaker 1: Manuel M T Chakravarty Title: Do Contracts Need Accounts? Chair: Katinka Wolter
11:00 am – 11:30 pm
Coffee Break
11:30 am – 12:15 pm
Technical Session #1: Data analysis Chair:Katinka Wolter
1. Performance and cost evaluation of public blockchain: NFT Marketplace Case Study Mohammadreza Rasolroveicy and Marios-Eleftherios Fokaefs (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
2. To Fork or Not To Fork? Bitcoin Forks’ Success Analysis Using Twitter Data: Preliminary Results Sarah Bouraga (University of Namur, Belgium)
1. Simulation study of Sycomore++, a self-adapting graph-based permissionless distributed ledger Aimen Djari (Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, LIST, Palaiseau, France); Emmanuelle Anceaume (IRISA, France); Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni (CEA LIST, France) 2. A Rational Mining Strategy for Proof-of-Work Consensus Algorithms Mariano Basile, Gianluca Dini, Giovanni Nardini and Pericle Perazzo (University of Pisa, Italy) 3. Optimizing multi-party agreement protocols Ivan Fedotov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia); Artem Barger (Idea Blockchain Research Lab, Israel); Anton Khritankov (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia)
2:45 – 3:15 pm
Coffee break
3:15 – 4:15 pm
Technical Session #3:Access control and industrial applications Chair: Artem Barger 1. Collaborative Administration of Role-Based Access Control in Smart Contracts Stefan Craß, Andreas Lackner, Nedim Begic and Seyed Amid Moeinzadeh Mirhosseini (ABC Research GmbH, Austria); Nicolas Kirchmayr (Hae. sh, Austria)
2. Enhancing Trust in Industry 4.0 Traceability Data using Confidentiality-Preserving Digital Ledger Valentin Mullet, Patrick Sondi and Eric Ramat (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, France)
3. A Distributed Calibration Certificate Infrastructure Jakob Schaerer and Torsten Ingo Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland)
8:15 pm
Gala Dinner Cruise at “Le Capitaine Fracasse”
Day 3 – Thursday September 29, 2022
Time
Event
10:00 – 11:00 am
Keynote Speaker 2: Marko Vukolić Title: A vision for decentralized computing Chair: Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
11:00 – 11:30 am
Coffee break
11:30 am – 12:45 pm
Technical Session #4: Fundamentals Chair: Stefan Crass
1. MeritRank: Sybil Tolerant Reputation for Merit-based Tokenomics Bulat Nasrulin, Georgy Ishmaev and Johan Pouwelse (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
2. Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Time in Hyperledger Fabric Aleksandr Filippov (Sber Blockchain Lab, Israel); Artem Barger (Idea Blockchain Research Lab, Israel); Vladimir Popov and Oleg Abdrashitov (Sber Blockchain Lab, Israel)
3.Algorithmic balancing of hashrate in a Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus protocol (Short Paper) Alexander P Hobbs (Zenotta AG, Switzerland)
12:45 – 2:00 pm
Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:15 pm
Technical Session #5: Decentralized Finance and tokenomics Chair: Sarah Bouraga
1. DePhi: Decentralizing Philanthropy via Blockchain for Traceable Micro-transactions Vikas Jaiman and Visara Urovi (Maastricht University, The Netherlands); Alfa Yohannis (University of York, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Pietro Piccini, Enrique Mikelarena and Bogdan Covrig (Maastricht University, The Netherlands); Catalina Goanta (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
2. Debt-Financed Collateral and Stability Risks in the DeFi Ecosystem Michael Darlin and Georgios Palaiokrassas (Yale University & Yale Institute for Network Science, USA); Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA)
3. Depolymerization Project: Tokenization of Blockchains (Short Paper) Antoine d’Aligny (EFREI Paris, France); Emmanuel Benoist and Christian Grothoff (Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
3:15 – 3:45 pm
Coffee break
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm
Technical Session #6: Games, sharing and learning Chair: Alfa Yohannis
1. Decentralized NFT-based Evolvable Games Christos Karapapas, Georgios Syros, Iakovos Pittaras and George C. Polyzos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
2. BeSharing: A Copyright-aware Blockchain-enabled Knowledge Sharing Platform (Demo Paper) Chenxiao Guo (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Zihan Zhou (Univesrity of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hao Xu (University of Glasgow & Huawei Technologies, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yixuan Fan, Xiaoshuai Zhang and Lei Zhang (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Day 4 – Friday September 30, 2022
Time
Event
10:00 – 11:00 am
Keynote Speaker 3: Emmanuelle Anceaume Title: Abstractions for permissionless fault tolerant distributed systems Chair: Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
11:00 – 11:30 am
Coffee break
11:30 am – 12:15 pm
Technical Session #7: Mobile Communication Chair: Fariba Ghaffar
1. Distributed Ledger Technologies for Cellular Networks and Beyond 5G: a survey Meroua Moussaoui (Orange Labs, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, IMT, Telecom SudParis, France); Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Labs, France); Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis, France); Nischal Aryal (Orange Telecom, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, IMT, Telecom SudParis, France)
2. Blockchain-based User Profile and Mobile Number Portability for Beyond 5G Mobile Communication Networks Fariba Ghaffari and Emmanuel Bertin (Orange Labs, France); Noel Crespi (Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis, France)
12:15 – 12:30 pm
Closing Conference
Sponsors
Conference Deadlines
Full & Short Papers:
Paper submission date:
May 20th, 2022 June 6th, 2022 (firm deadline)
Notification date:
July 4th, 2022
Camera ready:
July 11th, 2022
Demo Papers:
Demo Submission:
June 10, 2022
Demo Acceptance Notification:
July 1, 2022
Accepted Demo Submission:
September 2, 2022
Tutorials Deadline:
Tutorial Submission:
June 10, 2022
Tutorial Acceptance Notification:
July 10, 2022
Presentation Material Submission:
September 2, 2022