IEEE DAPPS 2021

News

August 11, 2021:

We are getting ready for the conference! Here is the information about how to participate:
The Online platform consists of two parts: A Moodle website and Zoom rooms.
- Moodle Website: This is the virtual space of the congress, which contains all information (or links to the information) required to participate in the congress. For example, the schedule of all events of the conferences can be found on the virtual space of the Moodle website. It also contains the links to the Zoom rooms for the live presentations.
- Zoom rooms: The conference sessions will be on the Zoom platform. In particular, each conference will have a dedicated Zoom room for the sessions of that conference. There are also two additional dedicated Zoom room(s) for informal meet-ups with the conference participants. Please joint the Zoom room a few minutes earlier because the sessions will start on time. All the plenary sessions will be in a dedicated Zoom room, too.
NOTE:
- Access to Moodle Website: The access to the Moodle website will only be available to those registered to the conference. An invitation to join the Moodle website will be sent to all registered participants when it is ready. Once you receive the invitation, please react immediately following the instructions given in the invitation.
- Access to Zoom rooms: Links to the Zoom Rooms can be find in many different places on this virtual space (i.e., the Moodle website) as hyperlinks and you can access a room via a click on the hyperlink. Joining a Zoom room through these links will not require password and meeting IDs.

July 26, 2021:

The program is now online (see below).

June 16, 2021:

The author notification has been delayed until Friday, June 18th.

May 25, 2021:

Registration is now open. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2021-ieee-cisose-registration-143001857405

April 26, 2021:

The deadline for paper submission has been extended by one week, until May 4th, 2021, 23:59 AoE.

April 7, 2021:

The submission server is open! Please submit at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeedapps2021. Authors must submit their manuscripts by April 27th, 2021, 23:59 AoE.

January 26, 2021:

The third edition of the IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (IEEE DAPPS 2021) will take place as a virtual online conference from August 23-26, 2021.

Call for papers

Scope

The objective of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (IEEE DAPPS 2021) is to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the area of Decentralized Applications based on Distributed Ledger Technologies, Blockchains and related technologies. The conference will be co-located with IEEE SOSE, IEEE Mobile Cloud, IEEE BigDataService, IEEE AITest, and IEEE JCC.

It can be already seen today that Blockchain is making a huge impact on the way digital payments are made. However, the potential implications of Blockchain technologies go far beyond their application as the technological backbone for cryptocurrencies. In recent years, Decentralized Applications (dApps) have emerged as a new model for building a plethora of highly expressive applications.

dApps allow for various novel application scenarios, which are built upon distributed consensus and thus are hard to block or censor while providing public verifiability of peer-to-peer transactions without a trusted central party. For that, permissionless Blockchains such as Bitcoin or Ethereum rely on an unrestricted set of participants that run a (often time-consuming) consensus algorithm among them. In contrast, permissioned Blockchains, such as Hyperledger Fabric, distribute trust among a restricted set of consensus participants, a setup that can be well suited to model enterprise application scenarios in a more scalable fashion.

IEEE DAPPS 2021 will provide a high-quality forum for participants from research and industry. The conference will discuss key theories, algorithms, infrastructures, and significant applications for Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures, as well as emerging research topics.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT)
Smart contract theory
Languages and tools for (secure) dApps
Infrastructures for dApps
Communication protocols and standards for dApps
Decentralized identity
Identity management for dApps
Token Economy
Off-chain dApps
dApps/DLT/Blockchain analytics
dApps/DLT/Blockchain governance
dApps/DLT/Blockchain interoperability
dApps/DLT/Blockchain privacy
dApps/DLT/Blockchain security
dApps/DLT/Blockchain scalability, sharding, and performance
dApps/DLT/Blockchain policy/law
dApps/DLT/Blockchain applications in areas such as Internet of Things, logistics, supply chain, or health
dApps/DLT/Blockchain emerging research topics

Important Dates

Apr. 27, 2021: Paper submission deadline
May. 4, 2021: Paper submission deadline (extended)
Jun. 18, 2021: Author notification (delayed)
Jun. 28, 2021: Camera-ready submission and conference registration

Paper submission

IEEE DAPPS 2021 solicits research papers describing novel and previously unpublished scientific contributions to the field of Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures.

Two different types of papers can be submitted:

Regular papers (10 pages IEEE double column format)
Short papers (6 pages IEEE double column format)

Regular papers should describe novel and previously unpublished scientific contributions to the field of Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures. Each regular paper is limited to 10 pages, including tables, figures and references.

Short papers aim at presenting novel work in progress, novel applications, and novel industry perspectives in the field of Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures. Each short paper is limited to 6 pages, including tables, figures and references. Short papers will also be peer-reviewed, however, they will be evaluated with a focus on the potential for establishing new ideas and for sparking the interest of participants.

All papers must be written in English. Manuscripts must include a title, an abstract, and a list of 4-6 keywords. All papers must be prepared in the IEEE double column proceedings format. Please see: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

IEEE DAPPS 2021 uses a double-blind review policy. Authors are required to remove their names, affiliation(s) and other identifying information from the header of the manuscript. This also includes meta-data in the submitted document as well as acknowledgement sections. Authors are required to cite their previous work in a neutral manner, for example, avoid “in our previous work [3]” and instead use “as shown in [3]”. Papers that do not meet these anonymization requirements may be desk-rejected without further review.

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. The name(s) of the author(s) will not be visible to the reviewers of a paper. The name(s) of the author(s) will be visible in the submission system to the General Chairs and the Program Committee Chairs. Authors should report any conflict of interest with the list of Program Committee members during submission of the manuscript, in which case the Program Committee Chairs will exclude the corresponding PC member(s) from reviewing the paper.

Authors must submit their manuscripts via the following link by May 4th, 2021, 23:59 AoE at the latest:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeedapps2021

Preprints

Authors who have submitted articles for publication by the IEEE may be interested in posting preprint versions of the same article. In order to find out more about the allowed forms of preprints and to understand what counts as a prior publication, please see IEEE's Sharing and Posting Policies as well as Section 8.1.9 on "Electronic Information Dissemination" in the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual.

Paper publication

All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI-Index) and included in the IEEE Digital Library. For publication, each accepted paper is required to be registered by one of its authors, and at least one author is required to attend and present the paper at the conference for the paper to be included in the final technical program and the IEEE Digital Library.

Contact

The organizing committee of IEEE DAPPS 2021 can be reached via email at:

general-chairs@ieeedapps.net
pc-chairs@ieeedapps.net

Program

IEEE DAPPS 2021 will be co-located with five other IEEE conferences:

All five conferences will follow a common daily schedule and share some events such as keynote talks and panel discussions.

The joint conferences program will take place from August 23 until August 26, 2021. See the news section for updates.

Detailed Program

Monday, August 23rd, 2021: 11:30-12:30 (British Summer Time, UTC+1)

Keynote: High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges

Presenter: Arthur Gervais
Abstract: Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) allow parties to participate in financial markets while retaining full custody of their funds. However, the transparency of blockchain-based DEX in combination with the latency for transactions to be processed, makes market-manipulation feasible. For instance, adversaries could perform front-running--the practice of exploiting (typically non-public) information that may change the price of an asset for financial gain. In this talk we formalize, analytically exposit and empirically evaluate an augmented variant of front-running: sandwich attacks, which involve front-and back-running victim transactions on a blockchain-based DEX. We quantify the probability of an adversarial trader being able to undertake the attack, based on the relative positioning of a transaction within a blockchain block. We find that a single adversarial trader can earn a daily revenue of over several thousand USD when performing sandwich attacks on one particular DEX--Uniswap, an exchange with over 5M USD daily trading volume by June 2020. In addition to a single-adversary game, we simulate the outcome of sandwich attacks under multiple competing adversaries, to account for the real-world trading environment.
This talk is based on a paper at IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P) 2021. The preprint is available: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.14021.pdf
Bio: Arthur Gervais is a Lecturer (equivalent Assistant Professor) at Imperial College London. He's passionate about information security and worked since 2012 on blockchain related topics, with a recent focus on Decentralized Finance (DeFi).

Monday, August 23, 2021: 14:00-15:30 (British Summer Time, UTC+1)

Session 1: Opening and invited talk

Opening remarks
Invited talk: Automated formal verification of Ethereum smart contracts: How far can we go?
- Presenter: Leo Alt
- Abstract: Fully automated formal verification of smart contracts is undecidable. Different contracts present different challenges for verification tools, in the form of loops, math, heavy data structures, complex control flow, or a mix of it all. In this talk we will discuss an experiment with real world contracts and several automated security tools; advantages and disadvantages of different approaches; and current as well as upcoming challenges in formal verification of smart contracts.
- Bio: Leo Alt is the Formal Verification R&D Lead at the Ethereum Foundation, where the team works on formal verification tools for Ethereum smart contracts.

Monday, August 23, 2021: 16:00-17:30 (British Summer Time, UTC+1)

Session 2: Blockchain Design & Cryptomining

Incentives Against Power Grabs or How to Engineer the Revolution in a Pooled Proof of Stake System
Aggelos Kiayias, Elias Koutsoupias and Aikaterini-Panagiota Stouka
Blockchain Service Operations – A Structured Approach to Operate a Blockchain Solution
Tim Hoiss, Karl Seidenfad and Ulrike Lechner
In-Browser Cryptomining for Good: An Untold Story
Ege Tekiner, Abbas Acar, A. Selcuk Uluagac, Engin Kirda and Ali Aydin Selcuk

Wednesday, August 25, 2021: 09:00-10:30 (British Summer Time, UTC+1)

Session 3: DeFi & Exchanges

Development of a Token Design Framework
Niels Schubert, Daniel Obermeier, Felix Kohlbrenner and Philipp Sandner
A First Look into DeFi Oracles
Bowen Liu, Pawel Szalachowski and Jianying Zhou
Practical Exchange for Unique Digital Goods
Oguzhan Ersoy, Ziya A. Genc, Zekeriya Erkin and Mauro Conti

Wednesday, August 25, 2021: 11:00-12:30 (British Summer Time, UTC+1)

Session 4: Payment Channels & Privacy

The Merchant: Avoiding Payment Channel Depletion through Incentives
Yuup van Engelshoven and Stefanie Roos
Blockchain is Watching You: Profiling and Deanonymizing Ethereum Users
Ferenc Béres, István András Seres and András A. Benczúr
Comparative Analysis of Lightning's Routing Clients
Satwik Prabhu Kumble and Stefanie Roos

Thursday, August 26, 2021: 11:00-12:30 (British Summer Time, UTC+1)

Session 5: Smart Contract Design & Applications

Towards Cross-Blockchain Smart Contracts
Markus Nissl, Emanuel Sallinger, Stefan Schulte and Michael Borkowski
TeSC: TLS/SSL-Certificate Endorsed Smart Contracts
Ulrich Gallersdörfer and Florian Matthes
A Tree-based Construction for Verifiable Diplomas with Issuer Transparency
Rodrigo Saramago, Leander Jehl, Hein Meling and Veronica Estrada-Galiñanes

Committee

General Chairs

Peter Ruppel, CODE University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Stefan Schulte, Technische Universität Wien, Austria

Program Committee Chairs

Pedro Moreno-Sánchez, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain

Clara Schneidewind, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Germany

Online Conference Chair

Lukas Aumayr, Technische Universität Wien, Austria

Publication Chair

Bedour Alshaigy

Program Committee

Svetlana Abramova, University of Innsbruck

Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers Univesity of Technology

Mustafa Al-Bassam, LazyLedger

Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groningen

Thomas H. Austin, San Jose State University

Zeta Avarikioti, ETH Zurich/IST Austria

Herath Mudiyanselage Nelanga Dilum Bandara, Data61, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia

Sebastian Banescu, Technical University of Munich and Quantstamp Inc.

Artem Barger, IBM Haifa Research

Bruno Bernardo, Nomadic Labs (based in France)

Sang-Yoon Chang, University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Chang-Wu Chen, imToken

Michele Ciampi, University of Edinburgh

Joshua Ellul, University of Malta

Oguzhan Ersoy, TU Delft

Arthur Gervais, Imperial College London

Thilo Konrad Johannes Gottschalk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Lewis Gudgeon, Imperial College London

Dominik Harz, Imperial College London, Interlay

Bernhard Haslhofer, Austrian Institute of Technology

Ethan Heilman, Boston University

Philipp Hoenisch, CoBloX Pty Ltd

Kristina Hostakova, ETH Zurich

Junbeom Hur, Korea University

Andreas Lochbihler, Digital Asset

Easwar Vivek Mangipudi, Purdue University

Diego Marmsoler, University of Exeter

Anastasia Mavridou, KBR / NASA Ames Research Center

Patrick McCorry, Infuria

Rebecca Montanari, DISI, University of Bologna

Leonardo Passos, Quantstamp

Christos Patsonakis, CERTH-ITI

Matej Pavlovic, IBM Research - Zurich

Paulina Pesch, Karlsruhe Institute of Techology

Matteo Romiti, Austrian Institute of Technology

Cesar Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute

Alessandra Scafuro, NCSU

Jonas Schiffl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Oshani Seneviratne, Rensselaer Polytechnic University

Alberto Sonnino, Facebook

Chrysoula Stathakopoulou, IBM Research & ETH Zürich

Chamseddine Talhi, École de technologie supérieure

David Vangulick, University of Liege

Friedhelm Victor, Technische Universität Berlin

Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo

Konstantinos Votis, CERTH/ITI

Edgar Weippl, University of Vienna, SBA Research

Martin Westerkamp, Technische Universität Berlin

Attila A. Yavuz, University of South Florida

Kaiwen Zhang, École de technologie supérieure

Jean-Yves Zie Diali, INSA Centre Val de Loire

Dionysis Zindros, University of Athens

Roberto Zunino, University of Trento, Italy