Second Call for Papers: 4th ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies #callforpapers #defi #blockchain #ElectronicCommerce #fintech Submission Deadline: 5 May 2022 https://aft.acm.org/aft22/index.html ====================================================== AFT 2022 Call for Papers ====================================================== 4th ACM conference on Advances in Financial Technologies 19-20 September 2022 MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA https://aft.acm.org ====================================================== The fourth ACM conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT¡¯22) is a premier venue for presenting the latest developments in technologies related to novel financial infrastructure such as cryptocurrencies and their applications, blockchains, and exchanges. Papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement of relevant systems. The AFT 2022 conference is currently scheduled to be held on September 19-21, 2022, and is planned as an in-person meeting (with the potential for a hybrid component) at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA. --------------------- Important Dates --------------------- May 5, 2022: Paper submission deadline June 20, 2022: Author notification September 19-21, 2022: AFT'22 Conference at MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA -------- Scope -------- We solicit previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions, including Systemization of Knowledge (SoK) papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Blockchains and blockchain technologies * Consensus protocols * Permissioned blockchains * High-performance transaction processing * Centralized and decentralized exchanges * Mechanism design for blockchains * Threat models and attacks * Game-theoretic analysis of blockchains * Cryptoassets * Client and network security * Security analysis of operational systems * Custody solutions * Anonymity and privacy * Metrics, measurements, and network forensics * Proof-of-work, -stake, -burn, and alternatives * Smart contracts and applications * Smart contract security: formal analysis, correct by design, security frameworks * Scalability issues and solutions * User studies * Technical repercussions of economic, legal, ethical, regulatory, and societal aspects * Transaction graph analysis * Financial markets * Relationship to traditional payment systems * Fraud detection and financial crime prevention * Case studies (e.g., of adoption, attacks, forks, scams, etc.) * Applications of blockchain and cryptocurrencies * Censorship resistance * Quantum-resistant cryptography, quantum algorithms and quantum cryptography in financial technologies * Hardware to aid financial technologies --------------- Submission --------------- All submissions must be original work, anonymized for review. Accepted contributions will be published with open-access by the ACM. Submission guidelines are in the full CFP: https://aft.acm.org/aft22/cfp.html ----------------- Committees ----------------- * Program Committee: Archita Agarwal, Brown University Daniel Aronoff, MIT Zeta Avarikioti, Institute of Science and Technology Austria Sarah Azouvi, Protocol Labs Rida Bazzi, Arizona State University Naama Ben-David, VMWare Eli Ben-sasson, Starkware Joseph Bonneau, New York University Maria Potop-Butucaru, Sorbonne University Christian Cachin, University of Bern Jing Chen, Algorand Tarun Chitra, Gauntlet Network Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira, Princeton University Rati Gelashvili, Aptos Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cypress Arthur Gervais, UCL Guy Goren, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Hannah Halaburda, NYU Stern School of Business Ethan Heilman, Boston University/BastionZero Maurice Herlihy, Brown University (co-chair) Aniket Kate, Purdue University Mohsen Lesani, UCR Andrew Edwin Marcus Lewis-Pye, London School of Economics Jiasun Li, GMU Yun Lu, University of Edinburgh and Sunday Group Victor Luchangco, Algorand Romaric Ludinard, IMT Atlantique Sarit Markovich, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management Patrick McCorry, Infura Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, TU Wien Neha Narula, MIT Media Lab (co-chain) Kartik Nayak, Duke University Peter Robinson, Protocol Labs Stefan Schmid, University of Vienna Clara Shikhelman, Chaincode Labs Yonatan Sompolinsky, Harvard University Alberto Sonnino, Meta Florian Tschorsch, Naval Research Laboratory Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni,Universit¨¦ de Paris-Saclay Nitin Vaidya, Georgetown Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich Anthony Lee Zhang, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Hong-Sheng Zhou, Virginia Commonwealth University Dionysis Zindros, University of Athens Aviv Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem * Steering Committee: Ittai Abraham (co-chair),VMware research Dan Boneh, Stanford University Christian Cachin, University of Bern Ittay Eyal (co-chair), Technion Maurice Herlihy, Brown University Satoshi Nakamoto (pending confirmation) Maureen O¡¯Hara, Cornell University Tim Roughgarden, Columbia University Eli Ben Sasson, Technion Emin Gun Sirer (co-chair), Cornell University ------------------- Contact Information ------------------- For any questions or comments please email [log in to unmask] ------------------- Maurice Herlihy and Neha Narula AFT'22 co-chairs ############################ Unsubscribe: [log in to unmask] If you don't already have a password for the LISTSERV.ACM.ORG server, we recommend that you create one now. 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