2020 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Block Chain (BChain 20)
Qingdao, Shandong, China Jul 1-2, 2020
2020 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Block Chain (BChain 20)
Qingdao, Shandong, China Jul 1-2, 2020
BenchCouncil International Symposium on Block Chain (BChain 20) will be held in Qingdao, a beautiful seaside city in China from July 1 to July 2. The main theme of BChain 20 is block chain algorithms, systems, and applications. BChain 20 is a part of 2020 BenchCouncil Federated Intelligent Computing and Block Chain Conferences (FICC 2020), joint with Symposium on Intelligent Computers (IC 20), Symposium on Intelligent Medical Technology (MedTech 20), Symposium on Financial Technology (BChain 20), and Symposium on Education Technology (EduTech 20). This conference organization retains the advantages of a smaller conference, while at the same time, facilitates communication, collaboration, and interplay among different disciplines. Hereby, BChain 20 is for the communication, collaboration, and interplay among the communities of Block Chain, Finance, Medicine, and Education.
Since its founding, BenchCouncil has two fundamental responsibilities. On one hand, it encourages data-driven, intelligence-inspired, and benchmark-based quantitative approaches to tackle multi-disciplinary challenges. On the other hand, BenchCouncil incubates benchmark projects and hosts the BenchCouncil projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the BenchCouncil benchmark projects or incubator benchmark projects. To that end, we present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers related with those projects (each paper $100 prize, maximally up to 15 papers for BChain 20). We welcome the industry leaders as sponsors to provide the testbed and the honorariums for the above awards.
In addition, we will invite influential speakers from around the world.
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following.
Innovative and emerging decentralized applications (dApps)
Practical use of block chain, and/or distributed ledger technologies (DLT)
Benchmarks, performance evaluation, and optimization of block chain, and/or distributed ledger technologies (DLT)
dApps integrated development environments (IDE)
dApps, blockchain, and/or DLT software engineering
Attack-resistant decentralized trust systems
Decentralized consensus algorithms and protocols
Performance of dApps, block chain, and/or DLT
Interoperability between different block chains/DLT
Standardization of block chain, and/or DLT
Security and formal verification of dApps, block chain, and/or DLT
Hardware security modules use in dApps, block chain, and/or DLT
Legal aspects in dApps, block chain, and/or DLT
Business models and economics of dApps, block chain, and/or DLT
Tokenomics and other incentive and sustainability mechanisms
Usability and user studies of dApps, block chain, and/or DLT
Privacy and other legal aspects of dApps, block chain, and/or DLT
Data management of dApps, block chain, and/or DLT
Architecture of dApps, block chain, and/or DLT
Regulation, auditing and forensics of dApps, block chain, and/or DLT
Block chain encryption of dApps, block chain, and/or DLT
Smart contracts
Customized hardware design for dApps, block chain, and/or DLT
Scalability, reliability, and energy efficiency of dApps, block chain, and/or DLT
Infrastructures for dApps, block chain, and/or DLT