6th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains - First Call for Papers https://fmbc.gitlab.io/2025 May 04, 2025, Hamilton, ON, Canada Co-located with the European joint conferences on theory and practice of software (ETAPS 2025) https://www.etaps.org/2025/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: February 3rd, 2025 Full paper submission: February 10th, 2025 Notification: March 14th, 2025 Camera-ready: March 31st, 2025 Workshop: May 4th, 2025 Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blockchain is a novel technology to store data in a decentralized way. Although the technology was originally invented to enable cryptocurrencies, it quickly found applications in several other domains. Blockchains may also provide support for Smart Contracts. Smart Contracts are scripts of an ad-hoc programming language that are stored in the blockchain and that run on the network. They can interact with the ledger's data and update its state. These scripts can express the logic of possibly complex contracts between users of the blockchain. Thus, Smart Contracts can facilitate the economic activity of blockchain participants. Since blockchains are often used to store financial transactions, bugs may result in huge economic losses and thus it is now of utmost importance to have strong guarantees of the behaviour of blockchain software. These guarantees can be brought by using Formal Methods. Indeed, Blockchain software encompasses many topics of computer science where using Formal Methods techniques and tools is relevant: consensus algorithms to ensure the liveness and the security of the data on the chain, programming languages specifically designed to write smart contracts, cryptographic protocols, such as zero-knowledge proofs, used to ensure privacy, etc. This workshop is a forum to identify theoretical and practical approaches of formal methods for Blockchain technology. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Formal models of Blockchain applications or concepts * Formal methods for consensus protocols * Formal methods for Blockchain-specific cryptographic primitives or protocols * Design and implementation of Smart Contract languages * Verification of Smart Contracts * Zero-knowledge proof and its applications in a blockchain setting -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit original manuscripts (not published or considered elsewhere) with a page limit of 12 pages for full papers and 6 pages for short and tool papers (excluding bibliography and short appendix of up to 5 additional pages). Alternatively you may also submit an extended abstract of up to 3 pages (including bibliography) summarizing your ongoing work in the area of formal methods and blockchain. Authors of selected extended-abstracts are invited to give a short lightning talk. Extended abstracts will not occur in the workshop proceedings. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmbc2025 Authors are encouraged to use LaTeX and prepare their submissions according to the instructions and styling guides for OASIcs provided by Dagstuhl. Instructions for authors: https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors#oasics At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the workshop as a registered participant. -------------------------------- -------------------------------- PROCEEDINGS -------------------------------- All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee for quality and relevance. Accepted regular papers (full, short, and tool papers) will be included in the workshop proceeding, which will be published as a volume of the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs) by Dagstuhl. -------------------------------- -------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------------------- PC CO-CHAIRS * Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK) (D.Marmsoler@exeter.ac.uk<mailto:D.Marmsoler@exeter.ac.uk>) * Meng Xu (University of Waterloo, Canada) (meng.xu.cs@uwaterloo.ca<mailto:meng.xu.cs@uwaterloo.ca>) PC MEMBERS * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari) * Bernhard Beckert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) * Franck Cassez (Mantle) * Denisa Diaconescu (University of Bucharest) * Maurice Herlihy (Brown University) * Sebastian Holler (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy) * Enrico Lipparini (University of Genoa) * Fan Long (University of Toronto) * Orestis Melkonian (Input Output (IOG)) * Baoluo Meng (GE Aerospace Research) * Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan (Delft University of Technology) * Gordon Pace (University of Malta) * Vincent Rahli (University of Birmingham) * Sophie Rain (TU Wien) * Augusto Sampaio (Federal university of Pernambuco) * Derek Sorensen (Certora) * Bas Spitters (Aarhus University) * Meng Sun (Peking University) * Mark Utting (The University of Queensland) * Adele Veschetti (TU Darmstadt) * Christoph Weidenbach (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) * Teng Zhang (Aptos Labs) Diego Marmsoler Lecturer (Education and Research), Computer Science University of Exeter, Innovation 1, Room 10 www: marmsoler.com<http://www.marmsoler.com> Twitter: @DiegoMarmsoler<https://twitter.com/DiegoMarmsoler>