International Congress on Blockchain and Applications

The 5th International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN'23) will be held in Guimarães from 12th to 14th of July, 2023. This annual congress will bring together researchers and practitioners of blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLT), who will share ideas, projects, lectures, and advances associated with those technologies and their application domains. This meeting will be co-located with the PAAMS’23 conference.

Among the scientific community, the advance in next-generation blockchain and distributed ledger technologies is seen as a promising combination that will transform the production and manufacturing industry, media, finance, insurance, e-government, agriculture, energy, or even medicine. Besides, the combination of DLT with other cutting-edge disruptive technologies (AI, metaverse, quantum computing...) will will open up a multitude of amazing opportunities that entail an interesting challenge of research at the same time.

The BLOCKCHAIN’23 congress is devoted to: promoting the investigation of next-generation blockchain and DLT technologies; exploring the latest ideas, innovations, guidelines, theories, models, technologies, applications and tools of blockchain/DLT combined with other cutting-edge technologies; and identifying critical issues and challenges that researchers and practitioners must deal with in future research. We want to offer researchers and practitioners the opportunity to work on promising lines of research and to publish their developments in this area.

As in previous editions, the best speaker and best student speaker will receive an award sponsored by the MDPI Smart Cities journal (500 CHF and 300 CHF respectively).

Proceedings of BLOCKCHAIN 2022 are available:

Blockchain and Applications

4th International Congress

Editors: Javier Prieto, Francisco Luis Benítez Martínez, Stefano Ferretti, David Arroyo Guardeño, Pedro Tomás Nevado-Batalla

More information

The proceedings of the previous edition are available:

https://link.springer.com/conference/blockchain

Accommodation grants

The University of Minho in collaboration with BISITE Research Group (bisite.usal.es) offers 20 grants/awards to doctoral and young doctors both to the event itself (including Workshops and Special Sessions) and to the parallel Co-located events.

More information: /open-calls/call-for-grants-awards

Special Issues

The Scientific Committee of the co-located conferences in collaboration with the guest editors will select the best papers from those presented in the conferences to be considered for publication in the following Special Issues:

SENSORS — Authors of selected papers from PAAMS and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue "Frontiers of Agents and Multiagent Systems" published in MDPI Sensors Journal (ISSN: 1424-8220, JCR (2021): 3.847 (Q2))

Authors of selected papers from PAAMS and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue "Advanced Architectures for Hybrid Edge Analytics Models on Adaptive Smart Areas" published in MDPI Electronics Journal (ISSN: 2079-9292, JCR (2021): 2.690 (Q3))

Authors of selected papers from PAAMS and Co-located Events will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in ADCAIJ (ISSN: 2255-2863, JCI (2021): 0,05(Q4)) indexed in DOAJ, ProQuest, Scholar, WorldCat, Dialnet, Sherpa ROMEO, Dulcinea, UlrichWeb, Emerging Sources Citation Index of Thomson Reuters, BASE y Academic Journals Database.

To Be Completed

BLOCKCHAIN'22 awards

BEST PAPER

"SmartTwin: A blockchain-based software framework for Digital Twins using IoT" by Miguel Pincheira, Massimo Vecchio and Fabio Antonelli

BEST PAPER APPLICATION

"Are you what you claim to be? Attribute Validation with IOTA for Multi Authority CP-ABE" by Aintzane Mosteiro-Sanchez, Marc Barcelo, Jasone Astorga and Aitor Urbieta

2022 Smart Cities MDPI Best papers

MDPI Smart Cities Best Speaker Award

Rim Abdallah for his presentation “Assessing Blockchain challenges in the maritime sector.”

MDPI Smart Cities Best Student Speaker Award

Karisma Karisma for his presentation “Blockchain Adoption in the Energy Sector: A Comprehensive Regulatory Readiness Assessment Framework to Assess the Regulatory Readiness Levels of Countries.”

2022 Electronics MDPI Best papers

"Nature-inspired algorithms and individual decision-making" by Juan Manuel Sánchez-Cartas and Inés Pérez-Sancristóbal

"Real-time algorithm recommendation using meta-learning" by Guilherme Palumbo, Miguel Guimarães, Davide Carneiro, Paulo Novais, and Victor Alves

"A Flexible Agent Architecture in SPADE" by Javier Palanca, Jaime A. Rincon, Carlos Carrascosa, Vicente Julian, and Andres Terrasa

"A Hybrid Model to Classify Physical Activity Profiles" by Vítor Crista, Diogo Martinho, Jorge Meira, João Carneiro, Juan Corchado and Goreti Marreiros

2022 Systems MDPI Best Papers

First Award: "The use of corporate architecture in planning and automation of production processes" by Zbigniew Juzoń, Jarosław Wikarek, and Paweł Sitek

Second Award: "Data Synchronization in Distributed Simulation of Multi-Agent Systems" by Paul Breugnot, Bénédicte Herrmann, Christophe Lang, and Laurent Philippe

Third Award: "The case for Somalia and Sudan debt relief. Insights from the evolution of HIPC countries using machine learning methods" by Tony Persico