DAPPS 2020 - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures

The objective of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (IEEE DAPPS 2020, formerly known as IEEE DAPPCON) is to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the area of Decentralized Applications based on Distributed Ledger Technologies, Blockchains and related technologies. The conference will be co-located with IEEE SOSE, IEEE Mobile Cloud, IEEE BigDataService, and IEEE AITest.
It can be already seen today that Blockchain is making a huge impact on the way digital payments are made. However, the potential implications of Blockchain technologies go far beyond their application as the technological backbone for cryptocurrencies. In recent years, Decentralized Applications (dApps) have emerged as a new model for building massively scalable services.
dApps allow for various novel application scenarios, which are built upon distributed consensus and thus are hard to block or censor. While Blockchains such as Bitcoin or Ethereum are currently based on compute-intense consensus mechanisms, more recent approaches focus on voting or staking-based algorithms that support higher transactions per second and are also better-suited to reflect proportions of majority ownership, which are required in many enterprise application scenarios.
IEEE DAPPS 2020 will provide a high-quality forum for participants from research and industry. The conference will discuss key theories, algorithms, infrastructures, and significant applications for Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures, as well as emerging research topics.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Blockchain Theory
Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT)
Smart Contract Theory
Consensus protocols for dApps
Infrastructures for dApps
Communication protocols and standards for dApps
Decentralized Identity
Identity Management for dApps
Token Economy
dApps/DLT/Blockchain Analytics
dApps/DLT/Blockchain Governance
dApps/DLT/Blockchain Interoperability
dApps/DLT/Blockchain Privacy
dApps/DLT/Blockchain Security
dApps/DLT/Blockchain Scalability and performance
dApps/DLT/Blockchain Policy/law
dApps/DLT/Blockchain Applications in areas such as Internet of Things, Logistics, or Health
dApps/DLT/Blockchain emerging research topics