Editorial: The Inaugural Issue of ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice
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1 Introduction
It is our great pleasure to be writing the editorial for the first issue of ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice.
Distributed ledger technologies (DLT; broadly defined to include blockchain, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts) have many applications in diverse domains, e.g., critical infrastructure sectors such as financial services, information technology, transportation systems, and healthcare and public health. The speed and range of DLT developments can, however, be challenging for business leaders, policy-makers, decision-makers, and many other stakeholders, for example in legislation and regulation formulation. This reinforces the importance of having in place a venue where the research and practitioner communities, as well as government agencies, can get together, discuss, and present DLT and related advances, challenges, and opportunities; hence, motivating us to establish this journal as a venue to publish high-quality, interdisciplinary research on the research, real-world deployment, and/or evaluation of DLT in a wide range of sectors, from Fintech and NFT marketplaces to secure data sharing and supply chain and logistics monitoring.
We started working on this journal’s proposal in April 2020, and throughout the process we were supported by many individuals in different capacities. Without their support, this journal would not have been a reality. First and foremost, we would like to thank the ACM New Publications Committee and the ACM Publications Board for their support and approving the establishment of this journal. We would also like to thank the many individuals from ACM and the DLT research and practitioner communities, who selflessly provided us with invaluable advice during the process. Many of these individuals also accepted our invitations to be part of the journal’s editorial board,1 as listed below.
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Senior Associate Editors
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Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia
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Carsten Maple, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
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Edgar Weippl, SBA Research and University of Vienna, Austria
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Associate Editors
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Mamoun Alazab, Charles Darwin University, Australia
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Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
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Stefan Beyer, Oak Security, Spain
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Dragan Boscovic, Arizona State University, United States
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Richard R. Brooks, Clemson University, United States
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Gavin Brown, Liverpool University, United Kingdom
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Ümit Cali, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
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Sherman Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Ali Dehghantanha, University of Guelph, Canada
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Gregory Epiphaniou, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
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Keke Gai, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
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Sri Nikhil Gupta Gourisetti, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States
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Debiao He, Wuhan University, China
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Murtuza Jadliwala, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
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Hyojung Lee, Samsung SDS R&D Center, South Korea
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Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada
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Matt Lucas, IBM, United Kingdom
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Catherine Mulligan, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Jianbing Ni, Queen’s University, Canada
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Terence Ow, Marquette University, United States
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Reza Parizi, Kennesaw State University, United States
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Omer Rana, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
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Ellie Rennie, RMIT University, Australia
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Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
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James Short, San Diego Supercomputer Center, United States
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Anna Shugol, IBM, France
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Chee-Wee Tan, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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Claudio J. Tessone, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
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Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni, University of Paris-Saclay, France
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Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland
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James Xi Zheng, Macquarie University, Australia
This journal’s charter and scope are designed to be broad and comprehensive, focusing on both original research work and innovative practice-driven advancements by internationally distinguished DLT experts and researchers from academia, and public and private sector organizations. Specifically, we welcome submissions in the following categories:2
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Original research papers (between 8 and 25 pages)
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Practitioner reports or case studies (up to 8 pages)
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Literature review/survey papers (up to 25 pages)
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Tutorial papers (up to 25 pages)
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Perspective, position paper, commentary (up to 5 pages)
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Book reviews (up to 2 pages)
Given the fast-paced nature of DLT research and development, we target a 12-week turnaround time from the point of initial submission to the day the review decision is sent to the author(s), although the review period may vary depending on reviewers’ availability and other factors. All submissions will be subject to at most three rounds of review, otherwise the submission becomes an article that is de-facto co-authored with the editor and reviewers.
To this end, we are pleased to introduce the five articles that are included in the first issue of ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, whose quality and diversity also excite us about the future of this journal.
In the article entitled “Byzantine Fault Tolerance For Distributed Ledgers Revisited,” Yongge Wang from University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States, presented a comparative analysis of several popular byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) protocols and proposed another BFT protocol. The author also proved the security of the proposed protocol, as well as evaluated its performance.
In the article entitled “Incentivizing Data Quality in Blockchain-Based Systems—The Case of the Digital Cardossier,” Florian Spychiger, Claudio J. Tessone, Liudmila Zavolokina, and Gerhard Schwabe from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, demonstrated the utility of action design research in formulating an incentive system with an in-built rating capability that also supports decentralized data correction and institutionalized data assessment. The authors then evaluated the proposed system using an agent-based model with strategy evolution.
Also focusing on incentive systems, the article entitled “A Hybrid Incentive Mechanism for Decentralized Federated Learning ” by Minfeng Qi, Ziyuan Wang, Shiping Chen, and Yang Xiang from Swinburne University of Technology and CSIRO Data61, Australia, took a different approach in designing such systems. Specifically, the authors proposed a blockchain-based hybrid incentive mechanism comprising a reputation module and a reverse auction module, in order to support federated learning activities.
In the article entitled “Reinshard: An Optimally Sharded Dual-Blockchain for Concurrency Resolution,” Vishal Sharma, Zengpeng Li, Pawel Szalachowski, Teik Guan Tan, and Jianying Zhou from Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom, Shandong University, Qingdao, China, and Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, presented Reinshard—a new blockchain that supports hybrid consensus in order to achieve optimal sharding.
In the article entitled “A Scalable Trustworthy Infrastructure for Collaborative Container Repositories” by Franklin Wei, Mahalingam Ramkumar, Stephen R. Tate, and Somya D. Mohanty from Duke University, Mississippi State University, and University of North Carolina–Greensboro, United States, proposed a trustworthy container repository system to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity assurances.
We are grateful for the support of these authors as well as the associate editors and reviewers who participated in the review process.
In addition, at the time of writing this editorial, there are five special issues that are soliciting quality submissions on different topics:3
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Special Issue on Recent Advances of Blockchain Evolution: Architecture and Performance. Submissions deadline: December 15, 2022.
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Special Issue on Thriving Amidst Disruptive Technologies. Submissions deadline: December 1, 2022.
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Special Issue on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) for Beyond 5G Systems. Submissions deadline: September 15, 2022.
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Special Issue on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy. Submissions deadline: December 1, 2022.
In closing, we thank the DLT research and practitioner communities for their support of this journal. We also posit that closer collaborations between researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government will help bridge the gap between academic research and real-world applications, and can therefore contribute to the advancement of next-generation DLT that is robust, resilient, and quantum resistant. Hence, we look forward to your continuing support as an author, a reviewer, a guest editor, and/or an editorial board member in the coming years.
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Author guidelines are available on https://dl.acm.org/journal/dlt/author-guidelines.
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September 2022
124 pages
EISSN:2769-6480
DOI:10.1145/3557023
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- Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo,
- Mohammad Hammoudeh
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Published: 20 September 2022
Published in DLT Volume 1, Issue 1
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