Call for Papers

Important dates (tentative)

Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth.

Topics of interest

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:

Submission

Papers published in proceedings

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

Extended abstracts for lightning talks

Alternatively you may also submit an extended abstract of up to 3 pages (including 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. Extended abstracts will not occur in the workshop proceedings.

Instructions for authors

Submission should be done via EasyChair using the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fmbc2024

Authors should prepare their submissions according to the instructions and styling guides for OASIcs provided by Dagstuhl: https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/OASIcs#author

At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the workshop as a registered participant.

Proceedings

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