The last years have witnessed an impressive and increasing interest around Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and blockchains. A huge number of application fields, including finance, health, industry, IoT, just to mention some of the most popular ones, are experiencing the advantages of reliable and unalterable information storage and exchange without any trusted third party. This large interest makes discussion on open problems more pressing, like, for example, regarding privacy, scalable and low-latency architectures, interoperability, off-chain solutions, legal aspects, etc. Intersections of blockchains with other technological trends, like, AI, big data, IoT, Industry 4.0, are further interesting discussion topics.
Workshop Scope
The DLT2022 workshop is an international forum for researchers, developers, and users to discuss achievements and issues related to Distributed Ledger Technologies and blockchains, their adoption in business scenarios, and novel ideas in the field. The primary goal is to foster discussion and cross-fertilisation of ideas among experts in different fields related to DLTs, and thus advance the international state-of-the-art. Research, applications, case studies, and experiences concerning DLTs and blockchains are all encouraged.
Topics
- Blockchain security
- Decentralization and governance of blockchains
- Blockchains architectures and their scalability
- Blockchain consensus algorithms
- Anonymity, privacy and GDPR-related issues in blockchains
- Smart Contracts design, analysis, and techniques
- Blockchains interoperability
- Layer-2 solutions (e.g., channels)
- Blockchain oracles
- Blockchains based Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) systems
- Fungible and non-fungible tokens and their applications
- Blockchain applications and case studies
- Attacks to blockchain based systems
- Performance and measurements of blockchain based systems
- Blockchain data analysis
- Blockchain in IoT ecosystems
- Systems based on blockchains and Artificial Intelligence techniques
- Blockchains for Industry 4.0
- Big Data systems and blockchains
- Formal verification of blockchain protocols and smart contracts
- Cryptographic techniques for blockchains (post-quantum, zk-SNARKS, etc.)
- Game theoretic analysis of blockchain protocols and applications
- Economics of blockchain and tokenomics
- Legal aspects of blockchains (e.g, regulation, law enforcement, etc.)
- Regulatory sandboxes and their applications
Submission of Contributions
The DLT2022 workshop accepts two kinds of contributions: “research papers” and “oral communications”. Both contributions entail an oral presentation at the workshop. Research papers expected length is at most 15 pages (EasyChair style), even though shorter contributions describing position papers or extended abstracts are welcome. All accepted research papers will be included in workshop proceedings published on CEUR. Selected research papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (Taylor&Francis). Oral communications will not be included in the proceedings. The authors shall indicate their choice to contribute with oral communication, writing it alongside the title in the EasyChair form, i.e., “Title (Oral Communication)” and providing only a 1-2 pages abstract outlining the structure of the talk. Oral communications are meant to stimulate the discussion of ongoing research activities or already published results that authors consider relevant for the community.
Submit your paper or oral communication to DLT 2022 by the EasyChair submission system
Important Dates
Research paper submission: 20 April 2022 (extended) 6 May 2022 at 18:00 CEST
Oral communication abstract submission: 6 May 2022 at 18:00 CEST
Acceptance Notification: 20 May 2022
Keynote speaker
Remote Keynote by Vanishree Rao on the MINA Blockchain Technology.
Mina - A Blockchain in its True Sense
The utopian idea of blockchain that started with Satoshi Nakomoto’s whitepaper focused on the goals of decentralization and user anonymity. While various blockchains approached this idea from different directions, they tend to fall back on these goals, as we will reason in the talk.
Using zkSNARKs, a powerful cryptographic tool, we are building the Mina Protocol that achieves decentralization and user anonymity. In this talk, we will see how the base layer works — the way in which zkSNARKs help create Mina. We will also discuss the special privacy-powered applications called zkApps and some examples.
Programme
| 13:55 | Introduction and Opening | |
| 14:00 | Remote Keynote by Vanishree Rao on the MINA Blockchain Technology: Mina - A Blockchain in its True Sense | |
| Session 1: Studies and Tools | ||
| 14:40 | Analysis of a blockchain protocol based on LDPC codes - Massimo Battaglioni, Paolo Santini, Giulia Rafaiani, Franco Chiaraluce and Marco Baldi | |
| 14:55 | Evaluating Blockchain Systems: A Comprehensive Study of Security and Dependability Attributes - Stefano De Angelis, Gilberto Zanfino, Leonardo Aniello, Federico Lombardi and Vladimiro Sassone | |
| 15:10 | A Study on Diem Distributed Ledger Technology - Giuseppe Antonio Pierro and Roberto Tonelli | |
| 15:25 | DELTA Distributed Elastic Log Text Analyser - Remo Pareschi, Pierluigi Di Pilla, Francesco Salzano and Federico Zappone | |
| Oral Communication - First Session | ||
| 15:40 | Self Sovereign Identity Access Control Systems - Verifying Private Attributes on the Blockchain - Andrea Lisi, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Paolo Mori and Laura Ricci | |
| 15:50 | StateRelay: Verify the State of a Blockchain Identity in a Cross-Chain Setting - Marco Zecchini, Stefan Schulte, Micheal Sober and Andrea Vitaletti | |
| 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| Session 2: Primitives | ||
| 16:30 | A Provably-Unforgeable Threshold Schnorr signature with an Offline Recovery Party - Michele Battagliola, Alessio Galli, Riccardo Longo and Alessio Meneghetti | |
| 16:45 | Cob: a consensus layer enabling sustainable sharding-based consensus protocols - Andrea Flamini, Riccardo Longo and Alessio Meneghetti | |
| Oral Communication - Second Session | ||
| 17:00 | When Blockchain Enables the IoT-Economy - Diego Pennino, Maurizio Pizzonia, Andrea Vitaletti and Marco Zecchini | |
| 17:10 | Implementation of Ethereum Accounts and Transactions on Embedded IoT Devices - Giulia Rafaiani, Paolo Santini, Franco Chiaraluce and Marco Baldi | |
| 17:20 | Flexible Choreography Execution on Blockchain - Flavio Corradini, Alessandro Marcelletti, Andrea Morichetta, Andrea Polini, Barbara Re and Francesco Tiezzi | |
| 17:30 | Discovering Algorand: The First Truly Decentralised Permissionless Blockchain - Stefano De Angelis | |
| Session 3: Applications | ||
| 17:40 | Olive oil as case study for the *-chain platform - Stefano Bistarelli, Francesco Faloci, Paolo Mori and Carlo Taticchi | |
| 17:55 | AgriChain: blockchain syntactic and semantic validation for reducing information asymmetry in agri-food - Pierluigi Gallo, Federico Daidone, Filippo Sgroi and Mirko Avantaggiato | |
| 18:10 | Global Maintenance Service On-chain - Andrea Vitaletti, Alessandro Bellini, Antonio Bonifacio, Salvatore Esposito De Falco, Simone Naldini, Francesco Pacileo, Diego Pennino, Maurizio Pizzonia, Domenico Sardanelli, Pietro Vito and Marco Zecchini | |
| 18:25 | Blockchain-Based Tracking of the Supply Chain of the Italian Craft Beer Sector - Lorenzo Ariemma, Niccolò De Carlo, Diego Pennino, Maurizio Pizzonia, Andrea Vitaletti and Marco Zecchini | |
| 18:40 | Closing |
The restricted meeting of the Italian DLT Working Group will take place at 11:00 (location TBA). Please, contact the organizers if you intend to participate in this meeting.
Proceedings
Final proceedings are available from the CEUR website: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3166/.
Committees
Chairs
- Maurizio Pizzonia,
Università degli Studi Roma Tre - Andrea Vitaletti,
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Steering Commitee
- Leonardo Aniello,
University of Southampton - Massimo Bartoletti,
Università degli Studi di Cagliari - Stefano Bistarelli,
Università degli Studi Perugia - Franco Chiaraluce,
Università Politecnica delle Marche - Leonardo Mostarda,
Università degli Studi di Camerino
Organizing Commitee
- Diego Pennino,
Università degli Studi Roma Tre - Marco Zecchini,
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Contact email of the organization: dlt2022@ing.uniroma3.it
Technical Program Committee
- Leonardo Aniello,
University of Southampton - Marco Baldi,
Università Politecnica delle Marche - Andrea Bracciali,
University of Stirling - Francesco Buccafurri,
Università degli Studi "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria - Jing Chen,
Stony Brook University - Franco Chiaraluce,
Università Politecnica delle Marche - Stelvio Cimato,
Università degli Studi di Milano - Gabriele D'Angelo,
Università di Bologna - Andrea De Salve,
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy - Damiano Di Francesco Maesa,
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy - Changyu Dong,
Newcastle University - Stefano Ferretti,
Università di Bologna - Letterio Galletta,
IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca - Alberto Leporati,
Università degli Studi di Milano - Michele Marchesi,
Università degli Studi di Cagliari - Giorgia Azzurra Marson,
NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH - Paolo Mori,
Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR - Andrea Morichetta,
Università degli Studi di Camerino - Leonardo Mostarda,
Università degli Studi di Camerino - Jose Luis Muñoz Tapia,
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Guillermo Navarro-Arribas,
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Remo Pareschi,
Universita' degli Studi del Molise - Laura Ricci,
Università di Pisa - Giovanni Sartor,
EUI/CIRSFID - Ivan Visconti,
Università di Salerno - Roberto Zunino,
Università degli Studi di Trento