5th Distributed Ledger Technology Workshop

DLT 2023


Computer Security & Cryptography



Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is having an ever growing popularity. The first applications of DLT concern cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero, etc.), but the DLT disruptive features enable several applications in many scenarios of interest both in research and business contexts. In particular, the possibility of executing Smart Contracts makes the DLT technology suitable to be adopted in a large number of application fields, being Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, Edge Computing, and Supply Chain Management, only some examples. At the same time, the adoption of DLT opens new challenges in terms of privacy, security, scalability, sustainability and decentralization.



Scope



This workshop is a forum for researchers, developers, and users to discuss issues related to Distributed Ledger Technology and its adoption in research and business scenarios. The primary goal is to foster discussion and cross-fertilisation of ideas among experts in different fields related to DLTs, and thus advance the national and international state-of-the-art. Research, applications, case studies, and experiences concerning DLT are all encouraged with a special focus on the privacy and security issues.





The topics of interest of the workshop includes (but are not limited to):



* Blockchain foundations

* Consensus protocols

* Cryptography for blockchains

* Privacy and anonymity on blockchains and their applications

* Attacks to/through smart contracts

* Formal verification of blockchain protocols and smart contracts

* Scalability of blockchains and their applications

* Lightweight protocols based on blockchains

* Smart contracts and their applications

* Decentralized finance

* Transactions analysis

* Energy consumption issues

* Applications of blockchain technology

* Decentralization and governance in DLT

* Non-fungible tokens

* Oracles, bridges and interoperability of blockchains

* Game theory and blockchains





Contributions





The workshop accepts three kinds of contributions: 1) “regular research papers”, 2) “short research papers” and “oral communications”. Submissions of all kinds of contributions, if accepted, entail an oral presentation at the workshop.



Regular and short research papers must include original results (i.e., results not published yet and not concurrently under submissions neither to a conference/workshop with proceedings, nor to a journal). Research results in the form of position papers or SoKs are also welcome. It is expected that regular and short research papers will be evaluated by 3 reviewers. All accepted (both regular and short) research papers will be included in the DLT 2023 proceedings published on CEUR-WS. Rejected (both regular and short) research papers will be then evaluated as oral communications unless the authors specify in the submission right after the title that "the paper should not be considered for oral communications".



Regular research papers should have a minimum length of 10 pages and a maximum length of 15 pages (LNCS style) followed by bibliography and an appendix. Reviewers are not required to read the appendix. Additionally, there is a plan to invite extended full versions of selected regular research papers for a special issue of a journal. More details will be announced in the next version of this call for papers.



Short research papers should have a minimum length of 4 and a maximum length of 8 pages (LNCS style) followed by a bibliography (no appendix is allowed).



Submissions of oral communications are expected to be short with a maximum of 2 pages and are not required to follow a specific format. The review process of submitted oral communications will be lighter and the notification will consist of just a short sentence motivating acceptance or rejection. Since oral communications will not appear in the proceedings, such submissions can also refer to already published results.



Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=dlt20230

 



 



Location



Bologna, Italy (In presence only)

 





Deadlines



Research paper submission: extended to March 5, 2023 AoE

Oral communication submission: March 31, 2023 AoE

Acceptance notification: April 7, 2023





Program Co-Chairs



Paolo Mori, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa

Ivan Visconti, Università degli Studi di Salerno





Workshop Co-chair



Cosimo Laneve, Università degli Studi di Bologna

Giovanni Sartor, Università degli Studi di Bologna





Sponsorship Chair



Monica Palmirani, Università degli Studi di Bologna





Steering Committee



Leonardo Aniello, University of Southampton

Massimo Bartoletti, Università degli Studi di Cagliari

Stefano Bistarelli, Università degli Studi Perugia

Maurizio Pizzonia, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Andrea Vitaletti, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza”





Technical Program Committee



Leonardo Aniello, University of Southampton

Massimo Bartoletti, Università degli Studi di Cagliari

Marco Benedetti, Banca d'Italia

Stefano Bistarelli, Università degli Studi Perugia

Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling

Francesco Bruschi, Politecnico di Milano

Francesco Buccafurri, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria

Matteo Campanelli, Protocol Labs

Marco Baldi, Università Politecnica delle Marche

Michele Ciampi, University of Edinburgh

Mauro Conti, Università degli Studi di Padova

Vanesa Daza, UPF Barcelona

Angelo De Caro, IBM Zurich

Stefano Ferretti, Università degli Studi di Urbino

Danilo Francati, Aarhus University / Concordium

Pierluigi Gallo, Università degli Studi di di Palermo

Juan Garay, Texas A&M University

Cosimo Laneve, Università degli Studi di Bologna

Alberto Leporati, Università degli Studi di Milan-Bicocca

Bernardo Magri, Manchester University

Giorgia Azzurra Marson, NEC Labs

Marino Miculan, Università degli Studi di Udine

Leonardo Mostarda, Università degli Studi di Camerino

Remo Pareschi, Università degli Studi del Molise

Maurizio Pizzonia, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Laura Ricci, Università degli Studi di Pisa

Domenico Sacca, Università degli Studi della Calabria

Antonio Sanso, Ethereum Foundation

Alessandra Scafuro, NCSU

Claudio Schifanella, Università degli Studi di Torino

Luisa Siniscalchi, Technical University of Denmark

Francesco Tiezzi, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni, Paris-Saclay University

Andrea Visconti, Università degli Studi di Milano

Andrea Vitaletti, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

Vassilis Zikas, Purdue University

Roberto Zunino, Università degli Studi di Trento