Conference Program

All times listed are in Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) UTC+11 hours.

All presentations will be delievered on Zoom. Please check relavent Zoom rooms Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 as follows.

Day 1 (Monday, 6 December 2021) Zoom Room 1
09:00AM-09:20AM	Opening Remarks
09:20AM-09:30AM	Best Paper Award Ceremony
09:30AM-10:30AM Keynote (I)	Distributed trust architecture – the new foundation of everything (Dr Liming Zhu) Session chair: Prof Salil Kanhere
10:30AM-10:45AM	Break
10:45AM-11:45AM Keynote (II)	Federated Learning: Preserving Data privacy and integrity (Prof Francisco Herrera) Session chair: Prof Yang Xiang
11:45AM-12:45AM Industry Panel	Blockchain, AI, and CPS for the Future Panelist: Mark Staples, Sudhir Pai, Xinghuo Yu, Karen Cohen, Bill Angelidis, Tieyan Li Moderator: Prof Yang Xiang
12:45PM-02:00PM	Lunch Break
02:00PM-03:00PM Keynote (III)	Understanding the Trends in Blockchain Domain Through an Unsupervised Systematic Patent Analysis (Prof Raymond Choo) Session chair: Prof Joseph Liu
03:00PM-04:00PM Keynote (IV)	From Simple Attacks to AMpLe Attacks - When Artificial Intelligence meets the Internet of Things (Prof Wenyuan Xu) Session chair: Prof Valtteri Niemi
04:00PM-04:15PM	Break
04:15PM-06:00PM Session 1 Security and Attacks on Blockchain Session Chair: Gyu Myoung Lee	Scalable Blockchain Anomaly Detection With Sketches Danny Raz EtherProv: Provenance-Aware Detection, Analysis, and Mitigation of Ethereum Smart Contract Security Issues Shlomi Linoy Region-Based Neighbor Selection in Blockchain Networks Hiroshi Matsuura Secure Remote Maintenance via Workflow-Driven Security Framework Prabhakaran Kasinathan FairTrade: Efficient Atomic Exchange-Based Fair Exchange Protocol for Digital Data Trading Changhao Chenli
06:00PM-08:00PM	Dinner Break
08:00PM-09:20PM Session 2 (Short paper) Identity, Data and Access Control Session Chair: Maurantonio Caprolu	Self-Sovereign Identity for the Financial Sector: A Case Study of PayString Service Flaviene Scheidt de Cristo DWH-DIM: A Blockchain Based Decentralized Integrity Verification Model for Data Warehouses Jeroen Bergers Improving Security for Users of Decentralized Exchanges Through Multiparty Computation Robert Annessi BlockIoT-RETEL: Blockchain and IoT Based Read-Execute-Transact-Erase-Loop Environment for Integrating Personal Health Data Manan Shukla
Day 2 (Tuesday, 7 December 2021) Zoom Room 1
08:00AM-09:40AM Session 3 System Applications and Performance Session Chair: Gowri Sankar Ramachandran	TrustChain: A Novel Decentralized Trust Based Blockchain for Internet of Vehicles (IoV) Amritesh Kumar ClaimChain: Secure Blockchain Platform for Handling Insurance Claims Processing Naga Ramya Bhamidipati CySCPro - Cyber Supply Chain Provenance Framework for Risk Management of Energy Delivery Systems Eranga Bandara Irrationality, Extortion, or Trusted Third-Parties: Why It is Impossible to Buy and Sell Physical Goods Securely on the Blockchain Amir Kafshdar Goharshady Blockchain-Based Supply Chain System for Traceability, Regulation and Anti-Counterfeiting Wang Fat Lau
09:40AM-09:50AM	Break
09:50AM-11:30AM Session 4 (Short Paper) Smart Contracts and Optimization Session Chair: Wazen SHBAIR	DevOps for Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contracts Maximilian Wöhrer Evaluating Upgradable Smart Contract Van Cuong Bui A Blockchain-Enabled Anonymous-Yet-Traceable Distributed Key Generation Marina Dehez-Clementi DAGSec: A Hybrid Distributed Ledger Architecture for the Secure Management of the Internet of Things Igor Alvarenga Blockchain-Based Scalable Ubiquitous Code Allocation Method Resilient to Congestion Hirotsugu Seike
11:30AM-11:40AM	Break
11:40AM-01:00PM Session 5 Smart Contracts and Privacy Session Chair: Zhidu Li	SmartBuilder: A Block-Based Visual Programming Framework for Smart Contract Development Mpyana Merlec Full-Stack Hierarchical Fusion of Static Features for Smart Contracts Vulnerability Detection Wanqing Jie A Blockchain Enabled Privacy-Preserving Data Availability Protocol for Multi-Stakeholder Scenarios Ambrose Hill Local Model Update for Blockchain Enabled Federated Learning: Approach and Analysis Zhidu Li
01:00PM-02:00PM	Lunch Break
02:00PM-03:40PM Session 6 Technology Optimizations and Interoperability Session Chair: Suprio Ray	PUPoW: A Framework for Designing Blockchains With Practically-Useful-Proof-Of-Work & VanityCoin Yash Chaurasia Flux/DL: Building a Low-Latency Permissioned Blockchain for Enterprise Use-Cases Lucas Kuhring Securely Boosting Chain Growth and Confirmation Speed in PoW Blockchains Ovia Seshadri InterTrust: Towards an Efficient Blockchain Interoperability Architecture With Trusted Services Gang Wang A Voting-Based Blockchain Interoperability Oracle Michael Sober
03:40PM-03:50PM	Break
03:50PM-05:50PM Session 7 (Short paper) System Applications and Performance Session Chair: Gang Wang	Documenting the Execution of Semantically Modelled Inter-Organisational Workflows on a Distributed Ledger Christoph Braun Decentralized Blockchain Network Operation Workflow for Hyperledger Fabric Tatsuya Sato A Hybrid Blockchain Implementation to Ensure Data Integrity and Interoperability for Public Service Organisations Ali Shahaab Decentralised Trustworthy Collaborative Intrusion Detection System for IoT Guntur Putra Taming Propagation Delay and Fork Rate in Bitcoin Mining Network Suhan Jiang A Blockchain-Based Approach for Collaborative Formalization of Mathematics and Programs Jin Xing Lim
05:50PM-08:00PM	Dinner Break
08:00PM-09:40PM Session 8 Insights Into Bitcoin and Ethereum System Session Chair: Stefanos Leonardos	Analysis and Patterns of Unknown Transactions in Bitcoin Maurantonio Caprolu On the Shutdown Price of Blockchain Mining Machines Shange Fu Networks of Ethereum Non-Fungible Tokens: A Graph-Based Analysis of the ERC-721 Ecosystem Simone Casale Brunet Transaction Fees on a Honeymoon: Ethereum's EIP-1559 One Month Later Daniel Reijsbergen On the Legislation Prospective for Consumer Protection of Stablecoin Zhiqing Shi
Day 3 (Wednesday, 8 December 2021)
IEEE Workshop on Blockchain Security, Application, and Performance (BSAP) Zoom Room 1
08:20AM-09:40AM Session 9 System Applications (1) Session Chair: John Palfreyman	Identifying User Behavior Profiles in Ethereum Using Machine Learning Techniques Júlia Almeida Valadares BATS: A Blockchain-Based Authentication and Trust Management System in Vehicular Networks Mehrdad Salimitari Joint Crypto-Blockchain Scheme for Trust-Enabled CCTV Videos Sharing Mehwish Tahir Block-VC: A Blockchain-Based Global Vaccination Certification Alkhansaa Abuhashim
09:40AM-09:50AM	Break
09:50AM-11:30AM Session 10 Security and Attacks Session Chair: Yacov Manevich	A Scalable and Secure e-Voting Framework Based on Blockchains and Linkable Ring Signatures Antonio Russo Towards Malicious Address Identification in Bitcoin Deepesh Chaudhari Knocking on Tangle's Doors: Security Analysis of IOTA Ports Alessandro Brighente Analysis of Attack Activities for Honeypots Installation in Ethereum Network Kota Chin SECAUCTEE: Securing Auction Smart Contracts Using Trusted Execution Environments Harsh Desai
11:30AM-11:40AM	Break
11:40AM-01:00PM Session 11 Transactions and DeFi Session Chair: Shigang Liu	Diffusion: Analysis of Many-To-Many Transactions in Bitcoin Dylan Eck A Peer-To-Peer Ownership-Preserving Data Marketplace Nicolas Serrano A Multi-Class Blockchain Services Framework for Communication Networks Gholamreza Ramezan On Creation of a Stablecoin Based on the Morini's Scheme of Inv&Sav Wallets and Antimoney Henri T Heinonen
01:00PM-02:00PM	Lunch Break
02:00PM-03:40PM Session 12 Performance Analysis and Improvement Session Chair: Jiangshan Yu	Performance Analysis of a Hyperledger Iroha Blockchain Framework Used in the UK Livestock Industry Kostas Ntolkeras Improving the Performance of Blockchain Sharding Protocols With Collaborative Transaction Verification Liuyang Ren Rational Agreement in the Presence of Crash Faults Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa High-Performance Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance Consensus Protocol Henrik Knudsen Containerchain: A Blockchain System Emulator Based on Mininet and Containers Saul Gill
03:40PM-03:50PM	Break
03:50PM-05:30PM Session 13 System Applications (2) Session Chair: Anthony Skjellum	SEVA: A Smart Electronic Voting Application Using Blockchain Technology Jacob Abegunde An Examination Protocol for Handling Programmable Answers Using a Public Blockchain Shu Takayama CARM: A Blockchain Based Content Quality Assessment and Rewarding Mechanism Ricardo Giuliano Arcifa VAULT: A Scalable Blockchain-Based Protocol for Secure Data Access and Collaboration Justin Gazsi A Blockchain-Based Contactless Delivery System for Addressing COVID-19 and Other Pandemics Pratiksha Mittal
05:30PM-08:00PM	Dinner Break
08:00PM-09:00PM Session 14 Survey and Taxonomy Session Chair: Maurantonio Caprolu	Blockchain-Based Software Systems: Taxonomy Development Lamia Abdulaziz Alashaikh Blockchain Domain-Specific Languages: Survey, Classification, and Comparison Md Tauseef Alam Blockchain: The Paradox of Consumer Trust in a Trustless System - a Systematic Review Irma F. J. Dupuis
Day 3 (Wednesday, 8 December 2021)
Workshop on Blockchain & the Circular Supply Chain Zoom Room 2
09:00AM-02:30PM	Regulatory Opportunities and Challenges for Blockchain Adoption for Circular Economies Katrien Steenmans Blockchain’s role in supporting circular supply chains in the built environment Qian Li TRABAC: A Tokenized Role-Attribute Based Access Control Using Smart Contract for Supply Chain Applications Aisyah Ismail
Day 3 (Wednesday, 8 December 2021)
The International Symposium on Fintech and Blockchain Systems Workshop Zoom Room 2
05:00PM-08:00PM	Block Auction: A General Blockchain Protocol for Privacy-Preserving and Verifiable Periodic Double Auctions Theodoros Constantinides Effect of Miner Incentive on the Confirmation Time of Bitcoin Transactions Befekadu Gezaheng Gebraselase SAID: ECC-Based Secure Authentication and Incentive Distribution Mechanism for Blockchain-Enabled Data Sharing System Muhammad Rizwan NFTCert: NFT-Based Certificates With Online Payment Gateway Xiongfei Zhao The Future of Cryptocurrency Blockchains in the Quantum Era Sarah Alghamdi IB2P: An Image-Based Privacy-Preserving Blockchain Model for Financial Services Zhiyu XU Decentralized IoT Platform for Flexibility Service Providers in Power Systems Alen Hrga The Blockchain-Based Edge Computing Framework for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Shili Hu
Day 3 (Wednesday, 8 December 2021)
IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Blockchain Zoom Room 3
08:00AM-12:00PM	Photrace: A Blockchain-Based Traceability System for Photographs on the Internet Tatsuya Igarashi Blockchain-Based Mechanism for Robotic Cooperation With Scalable Incentives: Prototype Application in Warehouse Automation Jonathan Grey

Author Video Upload Instructions

Author Video Instructions – Deadline for Pre-recorded talks: 18 November 2021 (FIRM Deadline)

In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, all presentations will be conducted online/virtual. All authors of accepted and registered papers are required to upload a pre-recorded video of their paper presentation.

The presentation can be recorded by any of the co-authors and will be available during the original dates of the conference and on-demand after the conference concludes. We will follow up with more information about opportunities to interact with attendees for questions and answers.

We request you to prepare and upload a video of your presentation, comprised of a brief introduction with webcam followed by voice over slides for your presentation. This is a requirement for your paper to appear in the conference proceedings. Please note that the file must be a video file in MP4 format (more details below). Please do not try to upload PowerPoint or PDF files.

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