Workshop on
Distributed Cryptocurrencies and Consensus Ledgers (DCCL 2016)
25th July 2016, Chicago (IL), USA
http://www.zurich.ibm.com/dccl/
Co-located with PODC 2016 (http://www.podc.org)
Description
This workshop aims at discussing questions of consistency, concurrency,
distributed knowledge, integrity, and reaching consensus in the context of
cryptocurrencies and consensus.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
* Distributed consensus among selfish nodes
* Scalability
* Mechanisms for consensus ledgers
* Proof-of-work and alternatives
* Byzantine fault tolerance
* Systems implementing distributed ledgers and blockchains
* Applications of blockchains to distributed computing
* Nakamoto consensus and protocols based on proof-of-work
* Smart contracts
* Anonymity and privacy
Program
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome
9:00 - 10:00 Session 1 - Invited talks
Aviv Zohar (Hebrew University)
Bitcoin's security revisited
Ittay Eyal (Cornell University)
Blockchains and Proof of Work
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00 Session 2 - Contributed talks
Enhancing Accountability and Trust in Distributed Ledgers
Maurice Herlihy and Mark Moir (Brown University and Oracle
Labs)
A Blockchain Based on Gossip? -- A Position Paper
Robbert van Renesse (Cornell University)
Hybrid Consensus: Scalable Permissionless Consensus
Rafael Pass and Elaine Shi (CornellTech, Cornell
University, and IC3)
Architecture of the Hyperledger Blockchain Fabric
Christian Cachin (IBM Research)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00 Session 3 - Invited talks
Sarah Meiklejohn (University College London)
Alternatives to Blockchains: Shared Ledgers and Beyond
Aniket Kate (Purdue University)
Distributed IOweYou Credit Networks
Emin Gün Sirer (Cornell University)
Hacking, Distributed
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00 Session 4 - Contributed talks
Efficient Asynchronous Atomic Broadcast
Andrew Miller, Yu Xia, Kyle Croman, Elaine Shi, Dawn Song
(University of Maryland, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Tsinghua University, Cornell University,
and University of California at Berkeley)
BVP: Byzantine Vertical Paxos
Ittai Abraham and Dahlia Malkhi (VMware Research)
Extending Existing Blockchains with Virtualchain
Jude Nelson, Muneeb Ali and Ryan Shea (Princeton University
and Blockstack Labs)
On the Danger of Private Blockchains
Vincent Gramoli (NICTA/Data61 and University of Sydney)
17:00 Closing
Program Committee
Elli Androulaki, IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland
Joseph Bonneau, Stanford University, USA
Christian Cachin, IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland, Chair
Christian Decker, ETH Zürich
Juan A. Garay, Yahoo Labs, USA
Seth Gilbert, National University of Singapore
Aggelos Kiayias, University of Athens
Marko Vukolić, IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland
Registration and Venue
The workshop takes place in connection with the PODC 2016 conference, see
http://www.podc.org/
For registration please use the PODC website and register for the workshop
day July 25 or for PODC+Workshops. Please note that the registration fees
increase as the event date approaches.
The workshop will be held in downtown Chicago at the Corboy Law Center of
Loyola University (Water Tower Campus). Detailed directions are here:
http://www.podc.org/podc2016/local-arrangements/
Website and Contact
http://www.zurich.ibm.com/dccl/
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