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Workshop on Blockchain Technology and Theory
16 October 2017, Vienna
In connection with DISC 2017
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A blockchain is a distributed ledger for recording transactions,
maintained by many nodes without central authority through a distributed
cryptographic protocol. All nodes validate the information to be appended
to the blockchain, and a consensus protocol ensures that the nodes agree on
a unique order in which entries are appended. Consensus protocols for
tolerating Byzantine faults have received renewed attention because they
also address blockchain systems.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners working in distributed systems,
cryptography, and security, from academia and industry, who are interested
in the technology and theory of blockchains and their protocols.
The programme of this one-day event will consist of a few invited
speakers presenting recent results in the area of blockchains, which could
be of interest also to the audience of DISC. Attendance is open to anyone.
There will also be some space for discussing open problems and future
research directions.
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Ittai Abraham, VMWare Research, Israel
Gregory Chockler, Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), UK
Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Ittay Eyal, Cornell University, USA and Technion, Israel
Georg Fuchsbauer, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Juan Garay, Yahoo! Research, USA
Vincent Gramoli, University of Sydney, Australia
Philipp Jovanovic, EPFL, Switzerland
Aggelos Kyayias, University of Edinburgh, UK
Rafael Pass, Cornell University, USA
Fabio Pianese, Nokia - Bell Labs, France
Elaine Shi, Cornell University, USA
Sara Tuci-Piergiovanni, CEA, France
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Emmanuelle Anceaume, IRISA, Rennes, France
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Christian Cachin, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland
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Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, USA
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Maria Potop-Butucaru, UPMC - LIP6, Paris, France
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| Web page: |
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blockchain-workshop.net
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