Conference Track CfPs ‎ > ‎ Smart Contracts, Blockchain and Rules Smart Contracts have emerged as means to digitalize and (semi-)automatically enforce (legal) contracts, backed by blockchain technologies --- a set of recent technologies that appeared the first time in the context of the cryptocurrencies bitcoin, but are now being transitioned to different domains. Smart contracts are envisioned to essentially be user-defined programs that specify rules governing transactions, and that are enforced by a distributed network of peers. Traditional rule technologies have a high relevance in the context of Smart Contracts - they can be used for specification, reasoning, and enforcement of smart contracts, among others. At the same time, Smart Contracts represent a potential new application area of traditional rule technologies. The goal of this track is to identify opportunities and challenges for use of rule technologies in Smart Contracts, eventually shaping a better understanding of what Smart Contracts actually are and what they could be used for. During the last years the International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) has been a leading international conference on research, applications, languages and standards for rule technologies. Due to the relevance of rules in Smart Contracts, it is natural that the emerging area of Smart Contracts finds RuleML a relevant venue for dissemination and that RuleML uses this opportunity to expand the applicability of rule technologies. Topics (not limited to): Design of Smart Contracts Rule-based specification of Smart Contracts Declarative process specification in Smart Contracts Formalization of Smart Contracts Protocols for Smart Contracts Reasoning about Smart Contracts Distribution, sharing and publication of Smart Contracts Deployment and enforcement of Smart Contracts Programming models for Smart Contracts Smart Contracts and Blockchains Smart Contracts and legal rules and regulations Legal systems, Blockchains, and Smart Contracts Identity and reputation management in Smart Contracts Rules and blockchains Smart Contracts Applications and Use Cases Smart Contracts technologies (e.g. Ethereum, Eris, Codius, etc.) RuleML and Smart Contracts Submission Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2016 (please enter the track name as the first line in the keywords section) as: Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)

Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings) Please upload all submissions in LNCS format. To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The RuleML2016 special tracks will be published in the same book. Short papers may contain 1 extra page maximum for which there is a charge of US$200, while for long papers you are allowed 2 extra pages maximum for EACH of which there is a charge of US$200. A selection of the best papers from all tracks will be invited to be revised and extended for the post-conference publication in a Special Issue of TPLP (Theory and Practice of Logic Programming). RuleML main track and special tracks dates: • New Extended Deadline April 4, 2016 • Paper Submission: March 18, 2016 • Author Notification May 4, 2016 • Camera Ready May 18, 2016 • Conference: 6-9 July, 2016 Organizers Sudhir Agarwal, Stanford University, USA

Alex Oberhauser, Sigimera, USA

Dumitru Roman, SINTEF / University of Oslo, Norway Program Committee (confirmed): Sudhir Agarwal, Stanford University, USA

Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK

Primavera De'Filippi, Harvard Berkman Center & COALA, USA

Margaret Hagan, Stanford University, USA

Steffen Lamparter, Siemens, Germany

Andrew Miller, University of Maryland, USA

Sergey Nazarov, SmartContract, USA

Alex Norta, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Alex Oberhauser, Sigimera, USA

Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy

Gareth W. Peters, University College London, UK

Dumitru Roman, SINTEF / University of Oslo, Norway

Giovanni Sarto, European University Institute of Florence, CIRSFID - University of Bologna, Italy

Melanie Swan, Singularity University, USA

Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK