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BCK24: Blockchain Kaigi 2024
Zurich, Switzerland, September 12-13, 2024
Submission linkhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bck24
Abstract registration deadlineAugust 14, 2024
Submission deadlineAugust 14, 2024
Topics: blockchain technology cryptography digital asset data analytics

Blockchain Kaigi 2024

Zurich, September 12-13, 2024

The International Workshop 'Blockchain Kaigi' (BCK) (会議, kaigi: Meeting, Conference) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse scientific and technological disciplines. BCK has established itself as a dynamic academic venue where forward-thinking researchers can share innovative ideas in the field of blockchain research. For this year's iteration, BCK will be held by University of Zurich.

Official website for BCK24: Website

 

Previous BCKs:

Submission Guidelines

BCK 2024 aims to be an agile venue.

All submissions are expected to be extended abstracts.

  • Submission Deadline: August 4, 2024 --> August 14, 2024 (extended, reviews will be performed on a rolling basis.)
  • Acceptance Notification: August  18, 2024

Submission requirements 

  • All submissions must use the Ledger templates; a LaTex and a Word template are available. 
  • Please limit extended abstracts to no more than 2 pages; the abstracts should include at least one figure. 
  • Author names and affiliations should not appear in the submission. Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines will be desk-rejected. 
  • All submissions should be original contributions and should not be under consideration elsewhere. 
  • Authors are required to indicate any possible conflict of interest. Potential conflicts of interest include: 
    • Advisor-advisee relationships, at any time; 
    • Professional collaborations, employer/employee relationships, or co-authorship within the past 5 years; 
    • Current institutional conflicts; 
    • or close personal relationships. 

List of Topics

Authors are invited to submit theoretical and/or practical works that make contributions to the field of blockchains. Below, we have outlined several topics of interest to help guide potential contributions.

Proposed topics for BCK 2024:

  • Blockchain technology, cryptography/mathematics
  • Anomaly detection, cyber security
  • Digital Asset Market, Central Bank Digital Currency CBDC
  • Smart Contract
  • Application to energy and environmental problems
  • Application to financial inclusion, remittance and digital identity
  • Innovation policy
  • Legal and regulatory issues
  • Network Science, Graph Theory, Mathematics of Hypergraphs
  • Agent-based modelling of on-chain activity
  • DAOs
  • Blockchain integration
  • ML application to blockchains
  • Blockchain data analytics

Invited Speakers

  • Prof. Tomaso Aste (Keynote): University College London, Complex systems and financial mathematics 
  • Prof. Kristijan Lenac: University of Rijeka, Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security  
  • Prof. Junghee Lee: Korea University, Cyber Security 
  • Prof. Kenichi Ueda: University of Tokyo, Central Bank Digital Currency 
  • Prof. John Augustine: IIT Madras, Distributed trust/computing 
  • Prof. Kotaro Kataoka: IIT Hyderabad, Internet architecture/network applications  

* The above list was updated on 24.06.2024 and is subject to change. Stay tuned for future updates.

Committees

Steering Committee

  • Prof. Claudio J. Tessone (University of Zurich)
  • Prof. Yuichi Ikeda (Kyoto University) 
  • Prof. Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN iTHEMS)
  • Prof. Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich) 
  • Prof. Thorsten Hens (University of Zurich) 
  • Prof. Akihiro Fujihara (Chiba Institute of Technology)
  • Prof. Tomoyuki Shirai (Kyushu University)

Program Committee

  • Dr Taehoon Kim, University of Zurich
  • Benjamin Kraner, University of Zurich 
  • Dr Nicolò Vallarano, University of Zurich  
  • Dr Sheng-Nan Li, University of Zurich 
  • Dr Jian Hong Lin, University of Zurich 
  • Dr Sina Rafati Niya, University of Zurich 
  • Dr Matija Piskorec, Rudjer Bošković Institute 

Publication

Selected works of BCK 2024 may be invited for submission to a special issue of the Ledger Journal.

Venue

The conference will be an in-person event. All speakers and participants are cordially invited to the University of Zurich Campus (Oerlikon Campus).

Registration

All participants must register to participate in person. (*Registration is not necessary for the invited speakers)

Please register through the following website: https://www.blockchain.uzh.ch/blockchainkaigi2024/  

([05.08.24]: The registration link is not yet online. We expect it to be open by next week.)

Contact

Please contact the Programme Committee Chair, Taehoon Kim (taehoon.kim@uzh.ch), for further inquiry. 

 

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