Scope

The objective of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (IEEE DAPPS 2022) 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, IEEE AITest, and IEEE JCC.

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 a plethora of highly expressive applications.

dApps allow for various novel application scenarios, which are built upon distributed consensus and thus are hard to block or censor while providing public verifiability of peer-to-peer transactions without a trusted central party. For that, permissionless Blockchains such as Bitcoin or Ethereum rely on an unrestricted set of participants that run a (often time-consuming) consensus algorithm among them. In contrast, permissioned Blockchains, such as Hyperledger Fabric, distribute trust among a restricted set of consensus participants, a setup that can be well suited to model enterprise application scenarios in a more scalable fashion.

IEEE DAPPS 2022 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

    Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT)
    Smart contract theory
    Languages and tools for (secure) dApps
    Infrastructures for dApps
    Communication protocols and standards for dApps
    Decentralized identity
    Identity management for dApps
    Token Economy
    Off-chain dApps
    dApps/DLT/Blockchain analytics
    dApps/DLT/Blockchain governance
    dApps/DLT/Blockchain interoperability
    dApps/DLT/Blockchain privacy
    dApps/DLT/Blockchain security
    dApps/DLT/Blockchain scalability, sharding, and performance
    dApps/DLT/Blockchain policy/law
    dApps/DLT/Blockchain applications in areas such as Internet of Things, logistics, supply chain, or health
    dApps/DLT/Blockchain emerging research topics