{"id":16,"date":"2025-01-11T16:57:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brains.dnac.org\/2025\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T13:25:28","slug":"call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brains.dnac.org\/2025\/call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Call For Papers <\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Decentralized technologies (Web3<strong>, <\/strong>Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technologies, IPFS) have started to disrupt multiple domains, including finance and payments but also networks, computing, supply chain, identity management or Artificial Intelligence with decentralized learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRAINS conference is dedicated to these advances that could make the world of networks and services more secure while enabling new distributed business models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BRAINS 2025 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE and IEEE ComSoc, all accepted and presented papers will be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The best technical papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version for fast-track review in the ACM DLT journal (Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papers should be submitted through EDAS at: <a href=\"https:\/\/edas.info\/N33559\">https:\/\/edas.info\/N33559<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Effective challenges for decentralized systems<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Theoretical contributions to Blockchain, DLT and decentralized storage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Distributed consensus and fault tolerance solutions, including domain-specific consensus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Protocols and algorithms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Distributed ledger analytics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trade-offs between decentralization, scalability, performance, and security<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zero-Knowledge proofs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Layer 2 solutions for scalability and privacy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blockchain interoperability and cross-chain mechanisms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Storage solutions and data availability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Obstacles to achieve effective decentralization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adversarial attacks and participant\u2019s strategic behaviour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Fundamentals of Decentralized Apps, Smart contracts, and chain code:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Languages and tooling for dApp development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Security, privacy, and forensics&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Transaction monitoring and analysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Collaboration between on-chain and off-chain code<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Token Economy, incentives, and protocols<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tokenization of Intangible, Real-world Assets<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blockchain-defined networking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web3 and distributed storage and computation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Application and service cases of DLT and Smart contracts:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Blockchain and AI, federated and decentralized learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identity management<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finance, payments, and fraud detection and prevention<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and payments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IoT and cyber-physical systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Smart grids and Industry 4.0, including dataspaces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>V2X, connected and autonomous vehicles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Networking, Edge, and Cloud technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blockchain for Beyond 5G and 6G technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Service or resource marketplaces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Public sector Blockchain solutions and infrastructures<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blockchain for education, public administration, health<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Results from large collaborative projects on these topics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blockchain for education, public administration, health<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blockchain for Business Process and Supply Chain Management<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Regulations and policies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call For Papers Decentralized technologies (Web3, &hellip; 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