[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] Blockchains and Smart Contracts workshop (BSC) 19-21 April 2021, Paris, France http://www.ntms-conf.org/ntms2021/call-for-workshops/bsc2020 Submission Deadline (extended): Febrruary 07, 2021. Technically co-sponsored by IEEE & IFIP TC6. The Location may be changed or switched to online as a result of the ongoing arrangements surrounding COVID-19. Following the success of the previous edition of the workshop on Blockchains and Smart Contracts (BSC2019), we are pleased to announce the 2nd International Workshop on Blockchains and Smart Contracts (BSC 2021), which will be held in conjunction with the 10th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 2021). Blockchain has recently emerged as a disruptive technology that may revolutionize the world economy and our societies, with applications in key industries including finance, insurance, energy, mobility, healthcare and logistics. A blockchain is typically a decentralized, trustless and continuously growing ledger that is used to record and keep track of every transactions across a peer-to- peer network of participants. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore, IFIP Digital Library as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. This technology is secure by design and leverages well known cryptographic protocols and distributed consensus algorithms to provide key characteristics, such as resilience, fault-tolerance, persistence, anonymity, auditability and data immutability. More recently, smart contracts, backed by the blockchain technology, have emerged as a promising means for automating the execution of business workflows and enforcing legal contracts, in a fully decentralized way and without the need for any trusted third parties. However, there are still major research challenges that need to be overcome to unlock the tremendous potential of blockchains, and before enabling a mass market penetration and adoption. The objective of this workshop is to bring together experts from various domains to explore the current state of the art of blockchains and its related challenges, and to discuss new ideas and innovations to design scalable and robust blockchain solutions that are technically, economically and legally viable. The workshop invites both academic researchers and industry practitioners to submit original and previously unpublished contributions covering the theoretical and practical aspects of the blockchain technology, smart contracts and their applications Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Cryptographic algorithms and protocols Distributed consensus algorithms Peer-to- peer communication protocols Architecture, scalability, governance and interoperability Smart contracts and workflow automation Validation of smart contracts using formal methods Decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) Data privacy, anonymity and confidentiality Data analytics and fraud detection Cryptocurrencies, markets and finance Crypto economics, incentives and gamification Applications, test-beds and platforms Regulatory and standards frameworks IMPORTANT DATES Papers Submission Deadline : February 7, 2021 Papers Acceptance Notification: March 8, 2021 Papers camera-ready: March 18, 2021 COMMITTEES Workshop Chair Kalpana Singh, IRT SystemX, France Khalifa Toumi, IRT SystemX, France Technical Program Committee Loic Lesavre, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States Rajeev Anand Sahu, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Veronika Kuchta, Monash University, Melbourne Ashok Prajapati, IEEE Computer Society South-East Michigan, United States Nicolas Heulot, IRT SystemX, France Ana Cavalli, Telecom Sud paris, France Zaynah Dargaye, Nomadic Labs, France Youyang Qu, Deakin University, Australia Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias, Inria, France Öznur Ozkasap, Koc University, Turkey Ahmed Soua, Vedecom, France Anis Laouiti, Télécom Sud Paris, France Fares Alharbi Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia Antoine Durand, IRT SystemX, France Hanen Idoudi, ENSI-University of Manouba, Tunisia Aymen Boudguiga, CEA LIST, France Suresh Veluru, Arclabs Research Center, Ireland Clément Huyart, Ercom, France Tesnim Abdellatif, EDF R&D, France Elyes Ben Hamida, Sagemcom, France Joaquin Garcia Alfaro, Télécom Sud Paris, France Nesrine Kaaniche, University of Sheffield, united kingdom Ridha Soua, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Steven Martin, University of Paris-Sud, France Wissam Mallouli, Montimage, France Yevhen Zolotavkin, Deakin University, Melbourne Gaurav Sharma, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Vishal Saraswat, Bosch, India Keshav Sood, Deakin University, Australia Önder Gurcan, CEA, France Bhagvan Kommadi, Quantica Computacao, India PAPER SUBMISSION Papers are to be submitted electronically on the EDAS web site of the conference in PDF format: https://edas.info/N27121 Submissions should be original and limited to 5 double-column pages, and should follow IEEE paper templates. Paper with more pages can be accepted however they need to be reduced to 5 pages for publication. Submission process Your paper must be printable in order to be accepted. The paper's cover page must include the following information: Title of paper. Authors' names and affiliations. Author contact and address (both postal and electronic). A short abstract. Keywords. In order to submit, you must first create an EDAS account. The EDAS system will e-mail you your password. Then you can login to EDAS using the password you have received by email. EDAS will provide you with a submissions homepage where you can register your paper submission and make appropriate changes. How to use EDAS to submit your paper: Create an account in the EDAS system at https://edas.info/N27121 Login to EDAS using your username and password (sent via email). Click on the "submit paper" image to submit a new paper, or select an existing submission to edit. Fill in the details of the paper. You will be required to provide information for co-authors not already registered with the system. Choose as many topics as apply to your paper. Choose the submit button to register your paper. Upload your paper using the provided form. You may choose not to upload a file immediately. You may upload a new version of your file at any time (prior to submission deadline) by returning to the EDAS system. Once you login, a list of submitted papers will be made available. Click on the upload image to upload a new version of your paper. After submission, reviews of your paper can be accessed from your submission list. If you have problems with the system, please e-mail contact@ntms-conf.org