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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 chain, e-commerce, 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 of the system. 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 and retrieval management
• Blockchain and federated learning
• 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
• Cross-blockchain algorithms, architectures and systems
• Large-scale field studies of blockchain data management systems
• Benchmarking of blockchain data management systems
• Blockchain-based Web 3.0 decentralized infrastructure and application platforms

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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:

The submission site is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=blockdm2021

Workshop Chairs:

Yuzhe Tang (Syracuse University, USA)

Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University, HK)

Demetris Zeinalipour (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Program Committee:

Amr El Abbadi, University of California - Santa Barbara, USA

Mohammad Javad Amiri, University of California - Santa Barbara, USA

Manuel Bravo, IMDEA Software Institute Madrid, Spain

Yang Cao, Kyoto University, Japan

Jinchuan Chen, Renmin University of China, China

Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Yue Duan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Davide Frey, INRIA, France

Cheqing Jin, East China Normal University, China

Chao Li, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Kai Li, Syracuse University, USA

Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Zhe Peng, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Ravi Ramamurthy, Microsoft, USA

Mohammad Sadoghi, University of California - Davis, USA

Felix Martin Schuhknecht, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany

Xusheng Xiao, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Cheng Xu, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Mu Zhang, University of Utah, USA

Zhiwei Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China