BCK24: Blockchain Kaigi 2024 Zurich, Switzerland, September 13-14, 2024 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bck24 |
Abstract registration deadline | August 4, 2024 |
Submission deadline | August 4, 2024 |
Blockchain Kaigi 2024
Zurich, September 13-14, 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
Submission Guidelines
BCK 2024 aims to be an agile venue.
All submissions are expected to be extended abstracts.
- Submission Deadline: August 4, 2024
- 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
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)
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.
Registration
All participants must register to participate in person. (*Registration is not necessary for the speakers)
Please register through the following website: https://www.blockchain.uzh.ch/blockchainkaigi2024/
([07.05.24]: The registration link is not yet online. Please stay tuned.)
Contact
Please contact the Programme Committee Chair, Taehoon Kim (taehoon.kim@uzh.ch), for further inquiry.