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5th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains - Fourth Call (deadline extension)

https://fmbc.gitlab.io/2024

April 07, 2024, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Co-located with the european joint conferences on theory and practice of software (ETAPS 2024)

https://www.etaps.org/2024/

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission (extended): January 31, 2024 Paper submission (extended): February 07, 2024 Notification: February 29, 2024 Camera-ready: March 15, 2024 Pre-Proceedings: March 31, 2024 Workshop: April 07, 2024

Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth

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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

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Submit original manuscripts (not published or considered elsewhere) with a page limit of 12 pages for full papers and 6 pages for short papers (excluding bibliography and short appendix of up to 5 additional pages).

Alternatively you may also submit an extended abstract of up to 2 pages (excluding 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.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmbc2024

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.

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All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee for quality and relevance. Accepted regular papers (full and short papers) will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published as a volume of the OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs) by Dagstuhl.

-------------------------------- -------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKER --------------------------------

We are pleased to have

Franck Cassez, Head of Research, Mantle ( https://www.mantle.xyz ) https://franck44.github.io/

as a keynote speaker which will talk about verification of smart contracts.

-------------------------------- -------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------------

PC CO-CHAIRS * Bruno Bernardo (Nomadic Labs, France) (bruno@nomadic-labs.commailto:bruno@nomadic-labs.com) * Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK) (D.Marmsoler@exeter.ac.ukmailto:D.Marmsoler@exeter.ac.uk)

PC MEMBERS * Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) * Maria Potop-Butucaru (Sorbonne University, France) * Bas Spitters (Aarhus University, Denmark) * Sophie Rain (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * Gordon J. Pace (University of Malta, Malta) * Ron Van Der Meyden (University of New South Wales, Australia) * Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, US) * Vincent Rahli (University of Birmingham, UK) * Meng Sun (eking University, China) * Martin Ceresa (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy) * Denisa Diaconescu (University of Bucharest) * Manuel Chakravarty (Tweag, France) * Bernhard Beckert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) * Florian Kammueller (Middlesex University London, UK) * Baoluo Meng (GE Research, US) * Albert Rubio (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) * Sylvain Conchon (Paris-Saclay University, France) * Fritz Henglein (University of Copenhagen)