The International Symposium on Fintech and Blockchain Systems (FBS)


Summary | Call for Papers | Submissions | Committees | Program

 Summary


Rapid advances are being made in blockchain technology, which is a foundational and platform technology considering its existing offerings and it is expected to be a key enabling technology and a new general purpose technology to revolutionize the business activities and interactions in the future considering its economic, political, humanitarian, and legal system benefits. Finance services (Fintech) have been one of the most active domains with increasingly bigger data, and faster innovations. Howerver, blockchain is still in its infancy and many research issues remain unsolved regarding blockchain itself and its applications. This may pose it to suffer various issues. The goal of this workshop is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies on Fintech and blockchain systems.


 Call for Papers


Topics of interests

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

  • Theories of blockchain and its evolution
  • Smart contract and distributed ledger
  • Blockchain and Bitcoin security
  • Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
  • Blockchain schemes for decentralization
  • Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and decentralized schemes
  • Applications with blockchain techniques
  • Blockchain applications in IoT
  • Blockchain applications in healthcare
  • Blockchain applications in business
  • Blockchain enabled new business systems, models and applications
  • Blockchain-based trust and regulation mechanisms
  • Blockchain for decentralization and distributed systems
  • Management processes and methods based on blockchain
  • Blockchain for crowdsourcing
  • Blockchain based knowledge and innovation management
  • Financial systems and blockchain
  • New policies for blockchain

Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline: Wednesday 1 September 2021
  • Notification: Wednesday 22 September 2021
  • Camera Ready: Wednesday 6 October 2021

 Submissions


Author Instructions

All papers need to be submitted electronically through the EasyChair website with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 6 pages in IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format , including tables, figures, references and appendices. The limit length of accepted papers should be 8 pages at most. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work, including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission policies will be rejected without review.

Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. IEEE Blockchain 2021 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE CPS proceedings (EI Indexed) and collected by IEEE Xplore Digital Library.


Double-blind Submission

  • Remove the names and affiliations of authors from the title page.
  • Remove acknowledgments.
  • Remove project titles or names that could be used to trace back to the authors via web search.
  • Carefully refer to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer incapable of grasping the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author. For example, instead of "In prior work [1], we presented a scheme that ...," sentences in the spirit of "In prior work, Clark et al. [1] presented a scheme that ..." should be used. With this method, the full citation of the referred paper can still be given, such as "[1] A. Clark ..., "Analysis of...", and it is not acceptable to say "[1] Reference deleted for double-blind review."
  • The submitted manuscript or its title/abstract should not be posted on a public website, such as arxiv.org, or transmitted via public mailing lists.
  • The submitted manuscript (PDF file) should be text-searchable. Any submission that does not meet this requirement may be returned without review.
  • Many of the editing tools automatically add metadata to the generated PDF file containing information that may violate the double blind policy. Please remove any possible metadata that can link your manuscript to you. This includes removing names, affiliation, license numbers etc. from the Metadata as well as from the paper. Failing to meet this requirement may also lead to a rejection without review.


 Committees


General Co-Chairs

Man Ho Au, The University of Hong Kong, China
Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark


Program Co-Chairs

Yang Shi, Tongji University, China
Xiapu Luo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China



 Program


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

Time: Wednesday, 8 December 2021, 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