CfP: ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI 2025)

[Raymond Choo]

*ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical
Infrastructure (BSCI 2025), in conjunction with ACM ASIACCS 2025 between
25th and 29th August, 2025, in Hanoi, Vietnam*



The series of highly successful International Symposium on Blockchain and
Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI) include BSCI-2024 (Singapore;
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3659463), BSCI-2023 (Melbourne,
Australia; https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3594556), BSCI-2022
(Nagasaki, Japan; https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3494106),
BSCI-2021 (Hongkong, China;
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3457337), BSCI-2020 (Taipei,
Taiwan, China; https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3384943) and
BSCI-2019 (Auckland, New Zealand;
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3327960).



Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

   - Blockchain-assisted Federated Learning
   - Blockchain-assisted Artificial Intelligence Large Model
   - Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Model Identity Ownership
   - Blockchain-based Data Trading Mechanism
   - Blockchain-based Data Elements Trustworthy Circulation
   - Blockchain Advances in 6G Network
   - Smart Contract Methods in Intelligent Control System
   - Technical issues of Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure
   (architecture, functionality, workflows, availability, scalability,
   challenges of implementation, etc.)
   - Security and Privacy in Blockchain and Critical Infrastructure
   - Attacks on Blockchain and Critical Infrastructure
   - Blockchain with Industry 4.0
   - Impact on business models (change of existing business models,
   emergence of new business models, disruptive business models, etc.)
   - Blockchain Advance in Secure Smart Grid
   - Future applications of Blockchain and Secure Critical
Infrastructure (e.g.,
   finance, insurance, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, energy sector,
   education, transportation, media production, and government sector)



In addition to the technical research achievements, all qualified
submissions in relevant subtopics (including novel industrial topics) not
mentioned here are also welcomed.



*Program Chairs*

   - Keke Gai, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
   - Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
   - Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia

*Important Dates*

   - Submission Deadline: March 14th, 2025 (new extension)


   - Paper Notification: May 1st, 2025
   - Camera Ready Version: May 25th, 2025
   - Workshop Date: August 25th, 2025



*Submission Instruction*

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference
with proceedings. *All submissions should be appropriately anonymized and a
DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEW policy will be applied during the review process.*
Submissions
must be in double-column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed
the following page limit.

   - Full-Length Paper = 12 Page Limit + up to 2 extra pages for appendices
   only
   - Short Paper = 6 Page Limit + up to 2 extra pages for appendices only
   - Poster/Late Breaking = 3 Page Limit (for all content, no extra pages)



Position papers describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf
files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that
their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the
paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted
papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. This symposium will
grant a few awards, including *ACM Best Paper Award* and *ACM Best Student
Award*.



*Prior year awards*

*Best Paper Awards*

   - 2024: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Validator Strategies in Ethereum
   2.0, by Chien-Chih Chen (University of Waterloo, Canada) and Wojciech Golab
   (University of Waterloo, Canada)
   - 2023: Trusted Sharing of Autonomous Vehicle Crash Data using
   Enterprise Blockchain and IPFS, by Akarsh Singh (Indian Institute of
   Technology Kharagpur, India), Shounak Sural (Carnegie Mellon University,
   USA), Tirthankar Sengupta (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
   and Shamik Sural (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
   - 2022: Economic Analysis of Decentralized Exchange Market with
   Transaction Fee Mining, by Hongbo Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong
   Kong, Shenzhen, China); Sizheng Fan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
   Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China); Zhixuan Fang (Tsinghua University, Shenzhen,
   China); Wei Cai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen,
   China)
   - 2021: Eth2Vec: Learning Contract-Wide Code Representations for
   Vulnerability Detection on Ethereum Smart Contracts, by Nami Ashizawa
   (Osaka University, Japan); Naoto Yanai (Osaka University, Japan); Jason
   Paul Cruz (Osaka University, Japan); Shingo Okamura (National Institute of
   Technology, Japan)
   - 2020: Mining the Characteristics of the Ethereum P2P Network, by
   Zhenzhen Li, Wei Xia, Mingxin Cui, Fu Peipei, Gaopeng Gou, Gang Xiong
   (China Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
   - 2019: Distributed Community Detection over Blockchain Networks Based
   on Structure Entropy, by Yang Chen, Jiamou Liu (University of Auckland)



*Best Student Paper Awards *

   - 2024: On the Impact of Network Transport Protocols on Leader-Based
   Consensus Communication, by Richard von Seck (Technical University of
   Munich, Germany), Filip Rezabek (Technical University of Munich, Germany),
   Sebastian Gallenmüller (Technical University of Munich, Germany), and Georg
   Carle (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
   - 2023: DCSS: A Smart Contract-based Data Continuous Storage Scheme, by
   Kun Wang (Beihang University, China), Qianhong Wu (Beihang University,
   China), Tianxu Han (Beihang University, China), Yujue Wang (Beihang
   University, China), Yingmiao Zhang (Beijing Jiaotong University, China) and
   Bo Qin (Renmin University of China, China)
   - 2022: ScaleSFL: A Sharding Solution for Blockchain-Based Federated
   Learning, by Evan Madill (University of Manitoba, Canada); Ben Nguyen
   (University of Manitoba, Canada); Sara Rouhani (University of Manitoba,
   Canada)
   - 2021: MultiCall: a Transaction-batching Interpreter for Ethereum, by
   William Hughes (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Gerardo
   Schneider (University of Gothenburg, Sweden); Alejandro Russo (Chalmers
   University of Technology, Sweden)
   - 2020: SmartWitness: A Proactive Software Transparency System using
   Smart Contracts, by Juan Guarnizo (Singapore University of Technology and
   Design), Bithin Alangot (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham), Pawel Szalachowski
   (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
   - 2019: Proof-of-Play: A Novel Consensus Model for Blockchain-based
   Peer-to-Peer Gaming System, by Ho Yin Yuen (Hong Kong Polytechnic
   University), Feijie Wu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Wei Cai (Chinese
   University of Hong Kong), Henry C.B. Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic
   University), Qiao Yan (Shenzhen University), Victor C.M. Leung (Shenzhen
   University)


Paper submission site:
https://easychair.org/account2/signin?l=3173067091268534640
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