Overview
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is having an ever growing popularity. Nowadays, the most popular application of DLT concerns cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero, etc.), but the DLT features allow them to be applied in many scenarios, both in research and business contexts. In particular, the possibility of executing Smart Contracts makes the DLT technology suitable to be adopted in a large number of application fields, being Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, Edge Computing, and Supply Chain Management, only some examples.
Scope
This workshop is a forum for researchers, developers, and users to discuss issues related to Distributed Ledger Technology and its adoption in research and business scenarios. 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. Research, applications, case studies, and experiences concerning DLT are all encouraged.
The topics of interest of the workshop includes (but are not limited to):
- Blockchain foundations
- Privacy and anonymity on blockchain
- Smart Contracts
- Smart Contracts analysis
- Performance and scalability of blockchain based systems
- Lightweight protocols based on blockchain
- Attacks to blockchain based systems
- Transactions analysis
- Energy consumption issues
- Applications of blockchain technologies
- Legal aspects of blockchains
Contributions
The workshop accepts two kind of contributions: “research papers” and “oral communications”. Both contributions entail an oral presentation at the workshop. Research papers expected length is 15 pages (Easychair style), even though shorter contributions describing position papers or extended abstracts are welcome. All accepted research papers will be included in the ITASEC proceedings published on CEUR (to be confirmed). Selected contributions will be included in a special issue of Frontiers in Blockchain (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/blockchain).
Deadlines
Paper submission: December, 10 2018 December, 18 2018
Oral communication abstract submission: December, 10 2018 December, 18 2018
Acceptance Notification: January, 21 2019
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Programme
MORNING
| 09:00 |
Registration |
| 09:15 |
Introduction and opening of works
- Prof. Stefano Bistarelli, Coordinator Italian Distributed Ledger Technology Working Group - Università degli Studi Perugia
- Paolo Mori, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR
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Technical Session 1
Chair: Paolo Mori, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR
| 09:30 |
Verifying liquidity of Bitcoin contracts - Massimo Bartoletti and Roberto Zunino |
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| 09:45 |
Smart contracts on blockchain: some false myths
- Chantal Bomprezzi
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| 10:00 |
dApp Implementation using an Agile, yet Systematic Approach
- Lodovica Marchesi, Michele Marchesi and Roberto Tonelli
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| 10:15 |
Ethereum Transactions and Smart Contracts among Secure Identities - Francesco Buccafurri, Gianluca Lax, Lorenzo Musarella and Antonia Russo |
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| 10:30 |
Secure, Distributed Invoice Factoring: from business requirements to commitments - Ettore Battaiola, Fabio Massacci, Nam Ngo and Pierantonia Sterlini |
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| 10:45 |
Two-tier blockchain timestamped notarization with incremental security - Alessio Meneghetti, Armanda Ottaviano Quintavalle, Massimiliano Sala and Alessandro Tomasi |
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| 11:00 |
Coffee break |
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Technical Session 2
Chair: Prof. Andrea Vitaletti - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
| 11:30 |
Blockchains meet Distributed Hash Tables: Decoupling Validation from State Storage - Matteo Bernardini, Diego Pennino and Maurizio Pizzonia |
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| 11:45 |
Choreographies Enactment Via Smart Contracts - Andrea Morichetta, Andrea Polini, Barbara Re and Francesco Tiezzi |
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| 12:00 |
Analysis of Ethereum Smart Contracts and Opcodes - Stefano Bistarelli, Gianmarco Mazzante, Matteo Micheletti, Leonardo Mostarda and Francesco Tiezzi |
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| 12:15 |
Exploiting Blockchain Technology to Design an Attribute Based Access Control System - Paolo Mori, Damiano Di Francesco Maesa and Laura Ricci |
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| 12:30 |
On Deleting Data from a Blockchain - Luisa Siniscalchi and Ivan Visconti |
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| 12:45 |
Publicly Verifiable Argument Systems Through Generic Blockchains - Alessandra Scafuro, Luisa Siniscalchi and Ivan Visconti |
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| 13:15 |
Lunch |
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AFTERNOON
Technical session 3
Chair: Federico Lombardi - lecturer - University of Southampton
| 14:15 |
Analysing the structure of the Bitcoin users graph - Laura Ricci, Andrea Marino and Damiano Di Francesco Maesa |
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| 14:30 |
Transferable Anonymous Payments via TumbleBit in Permissioned Blockchains - Claudio Ferretti, Alberto Leporati, Luca Mariot and Luca Nizzardo |
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| 14:45 |
Genesy: a Blockchain-based Platform for DNA Sequencing
- Roberto Carlini, Federico Carlini, Stefano Dalla Palma and Remo Pareschi |
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External session
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Contracts and Smart Contracts
- Giovanni Sartor |
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Panel
| 15:00 |
Adozione della blockchain in azienda: aspetti tecnici e legali (in italian)
Moderator: Dott. Pierangelo Soldavini, Nòva24
Participants:
- Massimo Chiriatti, IBM
- Notaio Michele Manente
- Nicola Santoni, Token Engineering
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| 16:00 |
Coffee break |
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Tutorial
| 16:30 - 18:00 |
Blockchain for Public Administrations: Massimo Bartoletti and Andrea Vitaletti |
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Organization
Chairs
- Prof. Paolo Mori,
Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR
Steering Commitee
- Prof. Leonardo Aniello,
University of Southampton
- Prof. Massimo Bartoletti,
Università degli Studi di Cagliari
- Prof. Stefano Bistarelli,
Università degli Studi Perugia
- Prof. Maurizio Pizzonia,
Università degli Studi Roma Tre
- Prof. Andrea Vitaletti,
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Organizing Commitee
- Ivan Mercanti,
IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca
- Andrea De Salve,
Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR
Technical Program Committee
- Stelvio Cimato
Università degli Studi di Milano
- Andrea De Salve
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
- Letterio Galletta
IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca
- Alberto Leporati
Università degli Studi di Milano
- Stefano Ferretti
Università di Bologna
- Damiano Di Francesco Maesa
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
- Roberto Zunino
Università degli Studi di Trento
- Michele Marchesi
Università degli Studi di Cagliari
- Leonardo Aniello
University of Southampton
- Andrea Bracciali
University of Stirling
- Francesco Buccafurri
Università degli Studi "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria
- Giovanni Sartor
EUI/CIRSFID
- Maurizio Pizzonia
Università degli Studi Roma Tre
- Gabriele D'Angelo
Università di Bologna
- Laura Ricci
Università di Pisa
- Remo Pareschi
Universita' degli Studi del Molise
- Francesco Tiezzi
Università degli Studi di Camerino
