IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
2-6 May 2020 // Virtual Conference

Short Paper Sessions

Monday, May 4, 2020

Short Paper Session 1 - 8:30 AM
The Big Short: Security and Privacy
Chair: James Won-Ki Hong, Postech, South Korea

SS01-1

8:30 AM

Attribute-based Multi-Signature and Encryption for EHR Management: A Blockchain-based Solution
Hao Guo, Wanxin Li, Ehsan Meamari, Chien-Chung Shen, Mark Nejad
University of Delaware, USA

SS01-2

8:45 AM

Ransomware as a Service using Smart Contracts and IPFS
Christos Karapapas, Iakovos Pittaras, Nikos Fotiou, George Polyzos
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

SS01-3

9:00 AM

HushRelay: Privacy-Preserving Routing Algorithm for Off-Chain Payments
Subhra Mazumdar1, Sushmita Ruj2, Ram Govind Singh1, Arindam Pal2

1Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India
2Data61 CSIRO, Australia

SS01-4

9:15 AM

A Blockchain-based Decentralized Data Sharing Infrastructure for Off-grid Networking
Harris Niavis1, Nikolaos Papadis1, Venu Reddy2, Hanumantha Rao Morusupalli2, Leandros Tassiulas1
1Yale University, USA
2Tata Consultancy Services

SS01-5

9:30 AM

Shellproof: More Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Confidential Transactions in Blockchain
Xianfeng Li, Chongjian Xu, Qinglin Zhao
Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, China
Short Paper Session 2 - 4:15 PM
The Da Vinci Code: Smart Contracts and Applications
Chair: Raja Jurdak, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

SS02-1

4:15 PM

From Legal Agreements to Blockchain Smart Contracts
Ravi Rahman, Lalana Kagal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

SS02-2

4:30 PM

A Preliminary Study on Using Acceptance Tests for Representing Business Requirements of Smart Contracts
Patricia Vilain1, John Mylopoulos2
1Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2University of Toronto, Canada

SS02-3

4:45 PM

Building Hybrid DApps using Blockchain Tactics? The Meta-Transaction Example
Florian Blum, Benedikt Severin, Michael Hettmer, Philipp Hückinghaus, Volker Gruhn
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

SS02-4

5:00 PM

A Cost-efficient IoT Forensics Framework with Blockchain
Suat Mercan, Mumin Cebe, Ege Tekiner, Kemal Akkaya, Melissa Chang, Selcuk Uluagac
Florida International University, USA
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Short Paper Session 3 - 8:30 AM
Get Smart: Algorithms and Optimizations
Chair: Yacov Manevich, IBM Research, Israel

SS03-1

8:30 AM

Imbalance measure and proactive channel rebalancing algorithm for the Lightning Network
Rene Pickhardt, Mariusz Nowostawski
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

SS03-2

8:45 AM

Parallel Hash-Mark-Set on the Ethereum Blockchain
Zachary Painter, Pradeep Kumar Gayam, Victor Cook, Damian Dechev
University of Central Florida, USA

SS03-3

9:00 AM

Hardening Permissioned Blockchains with Verifiable Randomness
Hagar Meir, Artem Barger, Yacov Manevich
IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel

SS03-4

9:15 AM

Criticality Aware Orderer for Heterogeneous Transactions in Blockchain
Umang Goel, Rahul Sonanis, Ishan Rastogi, Siddharth Lal, Aloknath De
Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore, India

SS03-5

9:30 AM

Analysing the Success of Selfish Mining with Multiple Players
Shiquan Zhang1, Kaiwen Zhang2, Bettina Kemme1

1McGill University, Canada
2École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Canada

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