Overview
A distributed ledger (also called a shared ledger, or referred to as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)) is a consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple sites, countries, or institutions. For this reason, there is no central administrator or centralised data storage, as in other former technologies.
To maintain the ledger updated, correct, and consistent, a peer-to-peer network is required as well as consensus algorithms to ensure replication across nodes is undertaken. In its simplest form, a distributed ledger is a database held and updated independently by each participant (or node) in a large network. Every single node processes every transaction, coming to its own conclusions and then voting on those conclusions to make certain the majority agree with the conclusions.
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One form of distributed ledger design is the blockchain system, which can be either public or private (or even permissioned). But not all distributed ledgers have to necessarily employ a chain of blocks to successfully provide secure and valid achievement of distributed consensus. At the same time, these networks make constantly available for examination a full audit trail of information history, which can be traced back to the moment when a piece of information was created for the first time. Furthermore, unauthorised changes to the information and its history are very difficult, if not impossible, to make.
The invention of distributed ledgers represents a revolution in how information is gathered and communicated. Possible applications concern the implementation of cryptocurrencies, but also, for instance, improve systems dedicated to crowd-funding, health-care, digital rights management, e-voting, block-chain oriented public services, financial contracts, and supply-chain services.
Interest in Blockchain and DLT exploded in recent years due to their application in the implementation of cryptocurrencies. Since its application in BitCoin, the first well-known cryptocurrency on which a long economic debate is still ongoing, Blockchain and DLT have been used in many other cryptocurrencies, but they may be applied in many other sectors with important economic and social impact. Among others, systems dedicated to crowd-funding, health-care, digital rights management, e-voting, block-chain oriented public services, financial contracts, and supply-chain services, are possible examples.
Scope
The success of DLT has led to fascinating research along multiple interesting lines from pure technology to economic and social science. This workshop aims to bring together interested scholars from all relevant disciplines who study DLTs and their surrounding ecosystems. The primary goal is to foster discussion and cross-fertilisation of ideas among experts in different fields related to DLTs, and thus advance the national and international state-of-the-art.
How to Participate
- Participation in scientific sessions is reserved for professionals in the academic world and companies and is subject the payment of a registration fee. Participation will be confirmed only for a limited number of people until exhaustion of available places. Please send pre-registration form that can be downloaded here:
- for Assintel members
- for non Assintel members
- for Assintel members
- Participation in the panel discussion is open to the public.
Programme
Scientific session subject to pre-registration
MORNING
| 08:45 | Registration | ||
| 09:00 | Introduction and opening of works (in italian)
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Session 1 (in english)
Chair: Prof. Andrea Vitaletti - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
| 09:15 | Blocks and Fees in Blockchains, Analytically Speaking - Dott. Marco Benedetti, Banca d’Italia | |
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| 09:35 | On the security of the Blockchain Bix Protocol and Certificates - Prof. Federico Pintore, Università degli Studi di Trento | |
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| 09:45 | Security proofs for some protocols based on blockchain technology - Prof. Massimiliano Sala, Università degli Studi di Trento | |
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| 09:55 | An analysis of the Bitcoin Users Graph: Detecting Artificial Behaviours - Prof. Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Università di Pisa | |
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| 10:15 | Building a trusted ledger over Twitter - Prof. Francesco Buccafurri, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria | |
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| 10:35 | Blockchain based access control - Dott. Paolo Mori, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR | |
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| 10:55 | Blockchain-oriented software engineering - Prof. Michele Marchesi, Università degli Studi di Cagliari | |
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| 11:15 | Coffee break |
Session 2 (in english)
Chair: Prof. Maurizio Pizzonia - Università degli Studi Roma Tre
| 11:35 | Models for decentralised computing - Prof. Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK | |
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| 11:55 | Limits and potentialities of DLT technology on trading and post trading - Prof. Emilio Barucci, Politecnico di Milano | |
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| 12:15 | Instabilities of the Bitcoin protocol - Prof. Ricardo Perez-Marco, CNRS, France | |
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| 12:35 | On the three practical and prominent blockchain cases: digicash, stamping and ICOs - Dott. Paolo Gianturco, Head of Deloitte FinTech Group, Italy | |
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| 12:55 | On Double spend races - Prof. Cyril Grunspan, Ecole Superieure Ingenierie Leonard Vinci, Paris, France | |
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| 13:15 | Lunch |
AFTERNOON
Session 3 (in italian)
Chair: --
| 14:30 | The Bitcoin Heartbeat: Automatic vs. Manual Activity in the Blockchain - Prof. Maurizio Pizzonia, Università degli Studi Roma Tre | |
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| 14:40 | BitConeView: Visualization of Flows in the Bitcoin Transaction Graph - Prof. Maurizio Pizzonia, Università degli Studi Roma Tre | |
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| 14:50 | A formal model of Bitcoin transactions - Prof. Massimo Bartoletti, Università degli Studi di Cagliari | |
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| 15:00 | A calculus for Bitcoin smart contracts - Prof. Roberto Zunino, Università degli Studi di Trento | |
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| 15:10 | Profili giuridici degli Smart Contracts - Prof. Giovanni Sartor, Università di Bologna | |
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| 15:30 | Blockchain in the e-health era - Prof. Andrea Vitaletti, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" | |
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| 15:50 | Blockchain-based Database for Multi-party Systems - Prof. Leonardo Aniello, University of Southampton | |
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| 16:10 | BlockChainVis Suite - Prof. Stefano Bistarelli | Prof. Francesco Santini, in collaboration with Dott. Ivan Mercanti | Dott. Francesco Moca | Dott. Eugenio Paluello | Dott. Matteo Parroccini | Dott. Emanuele Procacci | Dott. Dan Rusnac | Dott. Alessio Santoru, Università degli Studi di Perugia | |
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| 16:40 | Coffee break |
Session open to the public (in italian)
| 17:00 | Tavola rotonda - Sfide e prospettive per DLT Moderator: Dott. Pierangelo Soldavini, Nòva24 Participants:
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Organization
Chairs
- Prof. Stefano Bistarelli
Direttore Nodo UniPG CINI Cyber Security National Lab - Università degli Studi Perugia - Prof. Gianna Figà Talamanca
Università degli Studi di Perugia
Programme Commitee
- Prof. Leonardo Aniello
University of Southampton - Prof. Massimo Bartoletti
Università degli Studi di Cagliari - Prof. Stefano Bistarelli
Direttore Nodo UniPG CINI Cyber Security National Lab - Università degli Studi Perugia - Prof. Gianna Figà Talamanca
Università degli Studi di Perugia - Prof. Maurizio Pizzonia
Università degli Studi Roma Tre - Prof. Andrea Vitaletti
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Steering Commitee
- Prof. Leonardo Aniello
University of Southampton - Prof. Massimo Bartoletti
Università degli Studi di Cagliari - Prof. Stefano Bistarelli
Direttore Nodo UniPG CINI Cyber Security National Lab - Università degli Studi Perugia - Prof. Maurizio Pizzonia
Università degli Studi Roma Tre - Prof. Andrea Vitaletti
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Organizing Commitee
- Dott. Ryuta Arisaka
Università degli Studi di Perugia - Prof. Stefano Bistarelli
Direttore Nodo UniPG CINI Cyber Security National Lab - Università degli Studi Perugia - Prof. Gianna Figà Talamanca
Università degli Studi di Perugia - Dott. Theofrastos Mantadelis
Università degli Studi di Perugia - Dott. Laura Marozzi
Università degli Studi di Perugia - Dott. Ivan Mercanti
Università degli Studi di Perugia - Dott. Claudia Migliorati
Confcommercio Perugia - Dott. Roberto Palazzetti
President of ASSINTEL Umbria - Prof. Francesco Santini
Università degli Studi di Perugia - Dott. Carlo Taticchi
Gran Sasso Science Institute - Dott. Simone Topini
Università degli Studi di Perugia
