The Second International Workshop on Blockchain and Data Management (BlockDM 2020)
In Conjunction with ICDE 2020, April 20, 2020, Dallas, Texas, USA

Due to the current situation of COVID-19, BlockDM 2020 will be held virtually as an online event using the Zoom platform. Register here to get the Zoom link.

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

Keynotes

      

Invited Talks

Online Workshop Program
(April 20, 2020)

Times are displayed in CDT. Look up your local times here.

08:30-08:40

Opening (Zoom Warmup and Welcome)

08:40-09:10

Invited Talk I

Murat Kantarcioglu (University of Texas at Dallas)
09:10-09:40

Invited Talk II

Latifur Khan (University of Texas at Dallas)
09:40-09:50

Break

09:50-10:40

Keynote

Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara)
10:40-10:50

Break

10:50-11:05 Block Interval Adjustment Toward Fair Proof-of-Work Blockchain
Reiki Kanda and Kazuyuki Shudo
11:05-11:20 Towards Eidetic Blockchain Systems with Enhanced Provenance
Shlomi Linoy, Suprio Ray, and Natalia Stakhanova
11:20-11:35 Blockchain Enabled Distributed Storage and Sharing of Personal Data Assets
Jānis Grabis, Vlado Stankovski, and Roberts Zariņš
11:35-11:50 Legal Smart Contracts in Ethereum Blockchain: Linking the Dots
Eleanna Kafeza, Syed Juned Ali, Irene Kafeza, and Haseena Alkatheeri
11:50-12:00

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:6-8 pages
Short paper:3-4 pages


The submission site is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=blockdm2020

Important Dates

Paper Submission:Jan 6, 2020
(Extended to Jan 17, 2020)
Result Notification:Feb 21, 2020
Camera Ready:Feb 28, 2020
Workshop Date:Apr 20, 2020

Organization

Workshop Chairs:

Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK)

Yuzhe Tang (Syracuse University, USA)

Cheqing Jin (East China Normal University, China)



Program Committee: (more to be added)

Yang Cao, Kyoto University

Jinchuan Chen, Renmin University of China

Anh Dinh, National University of Singapore

Yue Duan, Cornell University

Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas

Lanju Kong, Shandong University

Baoning Niu, Taiyuan University of Technology

Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh

Felix Martin Schuhknecht, Saarland University

Baohua Yang, Oracle

Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, University of Cyprus

Ning Zhang, Washington University at St Louis

Qi Zhang, IBM T. J. Watson

Zhiwei Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology

Zhao Zhang, East China Normal University