FPDAPP 2018 - 2018 International Workshop on Future Perspective of Decentralised Applications

Blockchain technologies (BCTs) make agreement amongst untrusted parties possible, without the need for certification authorities. Introduced in the context of financial transactions by the proposal of Bitcoin (2009), BCTs are a transformational innovation with strong impact in fields that go beyond far beyond the financial or banking sector. Proposed new frameworks have been put forward in sector as diverse as finance, health-care, notary, intellectual property management, identity, provenance, international cooperation, social good, and security to cite but a few. BCTs use a novel distributed computational model, a decentralised computer run by a network of independent peers. The new paradigm of decentralised applications is deemed to support novel ways of interaction amongst individuals, companies and institutions. Particularly, smart contracts, i.e. self-enforcing agreements in terms of executable software running on blockchains, have been developed in several contexts. Such an under-definition computational model introduces innovative aspects, such as the economics and trust of the decentralised computation relying on the shared contribution of peers and their decentralised consensus. As it often happens with the introduction of disruptive technologies, several proposals for their adoption and use have been put forward.
Almost 10 years down the stream of the introduction of BCTs, FPDAPP aims to evaluate the potentiality of the novel decentralised frameworks and applications. Of particular interest is the evaluation and comparison of killer applications that are showing evidence of how BTC can revolutionize their domains or developing new application areas. Evaluation and comparisons are broadly understood, form technical aspects regarding the novel decentralised computer to the possible impact on society, business and the public sector.
This workshop, first in its attempt to have a special look at breakthrough applications, is associated to Europar, a premier conference in the field of distributed computing, which will host an invited talk by Silvio Micali (TA) on Algorand, currently one of the most interesting research proposals in BCTs, and will take place in Torino, a city that is actively promoting the introduction of novel technologies and BCTs in the public sector and for social goods (http://torinoblockchain.eu/).
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Decentralized democracy
Smart voting
Blockchain for common goods
Decentralized governance
Healthcare
Smart home
Decentralized IoT management
Supply chain management
Blockchain in social networking
Decentralized privacy
Identities management
Token economy
Blockchain analysis and monitoring tool