Scope

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

As the world has been facing shortages of supplies, supply chains around the world are being stretched to their limit. While the situation unfolds, blockchain is one of the key technologies that keeps rising in importance, and it is being used in many supply chains besides many other similar purposes.

The number of people who understands the importance of blockchain technologies rise each day. However, so, far the security of blockchain technologies are overlooked. This field is open to new discoveries. and requires solid tools and methodologies to protect the system and data in this new distributed systems.

International Workshop on Blockchain Security which will be held in conjunction with the "14th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks" to look into in rising issues and open doors for security and protection in blockchain systems. Further, it tends to new methodologies and procedures to improve the abilities for ensuring better services.

Publication

All IWBCS-2023 accepted papers will be included in the EUSPN 2023 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in EUSPN 2023 Website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages.

The 1st  International Workshop on Blockchain Security

It was part of EUSPN2020. We gave a break to the workshop during Covid. You can see more info in EUSPN2020 link (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-20/index.html). Please check approved workshops. The proceedings link is also below.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-computer-science/vol/177/suppl/C

Important Dates

Papers Submission: August 30, 2023 (Extended Final)

Authors Notifications: September 15, 2023

Final Manuscript: October 6, 2023

EUSPN 2023 Almaty, Kazakistan on November 7 - November 9 2023

Submission Guidelines

Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results according to the below requirements:

• Papers should not exceed 6 pages.

• Paper should be prepared using one of these Elsevier templates. Latex Template, MS Word Template, or Generic Template. Use Save As to download.

• Elsevier author guidelines of Procedia are available at: (guidelines of Procedia Computer Science)

Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically in PDF format. The submission processes will be managed by Easychair system using this link https://easychair.org/cfp/IWBCS-2023. If you have problem on submission page, please send the manuscript via email. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date.

Committees

Program Committee

• Dr. Ferda Özdemir Sönmez - Imperial College of London- f.ozdemir-sonmez@imperial.ac.uk
• Salar Ahmadisheykhsarmast - Middle East Technical University- salar.ahmadisheykhsarmast@metu.edu.tr

Technical Committee

• Prof. Remo Pareschi- University of Molise- remo.pareschi@unimol.it
• Prof. Dwight Makaroff- University of Saskatchewan- makaroff@cs.usask.ca 
• Dr. Ferda Özdemir Sönmez- Imperial College of London- f.ozdemir-sonmez@imperial.ac.uk
• Dr. Amjad Gawanmeh- University of Dubai-agawanmeh@ud.ac.ae
• Emre Işıl- Middle East Technical University-emre.isil@metu.edu.tr
• Sina Golmohammadi- University of Tehran- golmohamadi@ut.ac.ir
• Salar Ahmadisheykhsarmast - Middle East Technical University- salar.ahmadisheykhsarmast@metu.edu.tr

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Ferda Özdemir Sönmez