Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are a revolutionized form of digital assets. Digital assets are anything that are digitally unique items or objects such as digital arts, videos, in-game items, music, documents, and signatures. The public and media's attention to the NFTs has been exploding and the NFT marketplace has been expanding in both volume and value tremendously. Blockchain network provides an underlying technology to secure only one official ownership at a time and trading interface to prevent illegal copying and downloads through smart contracts on blockchain networks such as Ethereum. Any assets either digital or physical, theoretically, can be digitized in such a way not to be replicated as a proof of the uniqueness and for protection of the ownership. NFT technology ultimately provides a solution to the issues of internet of assets with respect to illegal copying and distribution of items or objects violating required security and privacy protocols. From the systems perspective, the standards for NFT such as ERC-721 and ERC-1155 have been developed and exercised in the market such that NFT for digital items and objects are minted through smart contracts in a unique way in terms of ownership, copyright, reproduction right and ownership transfer, to mention a few. Minting an NFT is conforming to the token standards ERC-721 and/or ERC-1155 interfacing through smart contracts that prove ownership transferring. As the NFT market is expanding, NFT technology is expected to be more extensively employed to prove the scarcity of creating an NFT, the transparency of trading an NFT, and the uniqueness of the ownership of an NFT. Also, NFT can be exercised to ensure ownerships of full or some sectors of the digitized and secure documents such as Intellectual Property, Patent, and License.
The workshop welcomes original research, related idea, and innovative solutions and focus on either fundamental quantitative studies on NFT platforms or use cases and application demonstrations. Authors are invited to submit original research contributions that fall into or are related topic areas but not limited to as listed below:
- Modeling and assurance of performance of NFT-based systems
- Ensurance of ownership in NFT systems
- Security and privacy in NFT systems
- Tracking and assurance of digital assets’ copyright and reproduction right in NFT systems
- NFT Internet Frameworks
- Intellectual Property (IP) in NFT systems
- NFT-based Patent and License
Organization Committee
Steering Committee:
- Cong Pu, Oklahoma State University
- Shital Joshi, Oklahoma State University
- N. Park, Oklahoma State University
Co-Chairs:
- Cong Pu, Oklahoma State University
- Shital Joshi, Oklahoma State University
- J.H. Seol, Middle Georgia State University
- Shital Joshi, Oklahoma State University
- J.H. Seol, Middle Georgia State University
Technical Program Committee
- M.J. Kwak, Middle Georgia State University
- Tao Feng, Duke Energy
- Eric Chain-Tin, Loyola University-Chicago
- Cong Pu, Oklahoma State University
- Shital Joshi, Oklahoma State University
- Bagavathi Arun, Oklahoma State University
- N. Park, Oklahoma State University
- Kiran Chilla, Object Computing
- Abhilash Kancharla, University of Tampa
- J.H. Seol, Middle Georgia State University
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
BCCA2023 Keynote at http://bcca-conference.org/keynote.php
Authors Submission Guidelines:
Submission Site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcca2023
Paper format
Submitted papers (.pdf format) must use the A4 IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. Please remember to add Keywords to your submission.
Length
Submitted papers may be 6 to 8 pages. Up to two additional pages may be added for references. The reference pages must only contain references. Overlength papers will be rejected without review.
Originality
Papers submitted to AISC must be the original work of the authors. The may not be simultaneously under review elsewhere. Publications that have been peer-reviewed and have appeared at other conferences or workshops may not be submitted to NFTBC. Authors should be aware that IEEE has a strict policy with regard to plagiarism https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism-faq.html The authors' prior work must be cited appropriately.
Author list
Please ensure that you submit your papers with the full and final list of authors in the correct order. The author list registered for each submission is not allowed to be changed in any way after the paper submission deadline.
Proofreading:
Please proofread your submission carefully. It is essential that the language use in the paper is clear and correct so that it is easily understandable. (Either US English or UK English spelling conventions are acceptable.)
Publication:
All accepted papers in NFTBC2023 and the workshops colocated with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore for possible publication.
Program
The program will be announced with the BCCA2023 program at https://bcca-conference.org/program.php
Venue
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Registration
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