The First International Workshop on Blockchain and Data Management (BlockDM 2019)
In Conjunction with ICDE 2019, Apr 8, 2019, Macau SAR, China

About

Blockchain has been emerging as a potential technology to disrupt traditional database systems. Over the past decade, it has found numerous applications in finance, IoT, healthcare, supply chains, digital copyrights management, and so on, and is becoming a hot research area. In contrast to traditional database systems, blockchain is decentralized, immutable, and cryptographically secured, where no single entity has full control. This new technology has significantly changed the way of data access, storage, retrieval and information discovery. It presents many fundamental research challenges for management of data in blockchain.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on blockchain systems from different data management aspects, including storage management, fault tolerance, query processing, information discovery, transaction management, security and privacy. We encourage papers that apply ideas and techniques from different areas to understand the problems and challenges in blockchain systems and propose innovative solutions. We also welcome papers that report novel systems and applications built with blockchain technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Blockchain data management
  • Blockchain data provenance
  • Blockchain consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
  • Blockchain system design, performance and optimization
  • Blockchain storage management
  • Data security, privacy and trust in blockchain
  • Information retrieval on blockchain
  • Data mining and knowledge discovery on blockchain
  • Query processing on blockchain
  • Transaction management on blockchain
  • Smart contract and distributed ledger
  • Innovative applications driven by blockchain

Supported by


Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)

Blockchain and FinTech Lab, Department of Computer Science, HKBU

Syracuse University

Keynotes

Invited Industry Talks

Workshop Program

08:30-08:35

Welcome

08:35-09:25

Opening Keynote

C. Mohan (IBM Almaden Research Center & Tsinghua University)
09:25-10:05

Invited Industry Talk I

James Lei (Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute)
10:05-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-12:00

Session I: Security and Privacy

Towards Searchable and Verifiable Blockchain (Slides)
Cheng Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University), Ce Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University)

VQL: Providing Query Efficiency and Data Authenticity in Blockchain Systems (Slides)
Zhe Peng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Haotian Wu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Bin Xiao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Songtao Guo (Chongqing University)

Scalable and Privacy-preserving Design of On/Off-chain Smart Contracts (Slides)
Chao Li (University of Pittsburgh), Balaji Palanisamy (University of Pittsburgh), Runhua Xu (University of Pittsburgh)

Reducing Forks in the Blockchain via Probabilistic Verification (Slides)
Bing Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Yang Qin (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xiaowen Chu (Hong Kong Baptist University

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-15:00

Session II: Data and Application

Dynamic Data Quality for Static Blockchains (Slides)
Alan Labouseur (Marist College), Carolyn Matheus (Marist College)

Blockchain-based Bidirectional Updates on Fine-grained Medical Data (Slides)
Chunmiao Li (National Institute of Informatics, Japan & SOKENDAI), Yang Cao (Kyoto University), Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Informatics, Japan & SOKENDAI & University of Tokyo), Yoshikawa Masatoshi (Kyoto University)

Blockchain Enabled Distributed Data Management (Slides)
Furqan Baig (Stony Brook University), Fusheng Wang (Stony Brook University)

Technical Mechanics of a Trans-border Waste Flow Tracking Solution based on Blockchain Technology (Slides)
Dominik Schmelz (Vienna University of Technology), Karl Pinter (Vienna University of Technology), Stefan Strobl (Vienna University of Technology), Lei Zhu (Vienna University of Technology), Phillip Niemeier (Vienna University of Technology), Thomas Grechenig (Vienna University of Technology)

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-16:20

Closing Keynote

Blockchain in Action: Business Models and Application Examples other than Cryptocurrencies (Slides)
Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University & JD.com)

16:20-17:00

Invited Industry Talk II

Huawei Blockchain Service
Zhao Cao (Huawei Wiener Lab)

17:00-17:05

Closing

Submission Guidelines

We solicit submissions of original papers that are not being considered for publication elsewhere. Both regular papers and short papers (reporting work in progress, providing system experience, or suggesting possible research directions) are welcome.

All submissions need to follow IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. See templates here. The followings are the page limits:

Regular paper:6 pages
Short paper:3 pages


The submission site is: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?welcome=1;conf=blockdm2019

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Important Dates

Paper Submission:Jan 5, 2019
(Extended to Jan 12, 2019)
Result Notification:Feb 10, 2019
Camera Ready:Feb 22, 2019
Workshop Date:Apr 8, 2019

Organization

Workshop Chairs:

Yuzhe Tang (Syracuse University, USA)

Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK)



Program Committee:

Jinchuan Chen, Renmin University of China

Yue Cheng, George Mason University

Sara Cohen, Hebrew University

Anh Dinh, National University of Singapore

Danny Huang, Princeton University

Chitra Javali, National University of Singapore

Cheqing Jin, East China Normal University

Xiapu Luo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Girish Revadigar, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Sachin Shetty, Old Dominion University

Baohua Yang, Oracle

Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, University of Cyprus

Ning Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis

Qi Zhang, IBM T. J. Watson