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This Workshop is held in conjunction with the 2021
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain.
Registration details coming soon.
The AIChain workshop is free to attend and can be accessed virtually.
The workshop will be a composed of a combination of talks for the accepted
papers, invited talks from academia and industry, as well as short 5-minute
lightning talks.
Let us know at aichain2021@easychair.org if
you're interested in giving a short lightning talk, and/or interested in participating in the workshop.
The workshop will be held in IEEE Blockchain Conference's Zoom Room 3.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88670567313?pwd=TWM2amUrSXFsZDVwZ3BUaGVYZDhaUT09
Webinar ID: 812 5493 0398
Passcode: 123904
AIChain 2021 Workshop Program
The workshop will be held on
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 8am-12pm AEDT (Melbourne, Australia time)
(December 7, 2021 4pm-8pm Eastern Time (New York)).
All times are in Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT).
Here is a page that converts the workshop start time to your
local time.
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08:00 AM
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Welcome & Opening Remarks
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Workshop Chairs
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Invited Talk: Technological Convergence driving Global Economic Transformation (30
min presentation + 10 min Q&A)
The development of a single technology is barely important for our technological future. Instead, it is the combined power that emerging technologies (like blockchain, AI, cloud, IoT, quantum, AR/VR) can unleash that will transform the global economy. From the 4th Industrial Revolution (the so-called "smart factory") to Facebook's Metaverse, convergence dynamics are defining the trajectory of our socioeconomic systems, with data as its fuel and exhaust. Blockchain technologies can serve as the trust layer for the responsible, secure and privacy-preserving use of data towards a human-centered global economy.
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Navroop Sahdev
(The Digital Economist)
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Break
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Paper: Blockchain-Based Mechanism for Robotic Cooperation
With Scalable Incentives: Prototype Application in Warehouse
Automation
(20 mins presentation + 10 mins Q&A)
The use of blockchain in cyber-physical systems, such as
robotics, is an area with immense potential to address many
shortcomings in robotic coordination and control.
In traditional swarm robotic applications, where homogeneous
robots are utilized, it is possible to replace a robot if it
malfunctions, and it can be assumed that all robots are
interchangeable.
However, in many real-world applications spanning from search
and rescue missions to future household robotic appliances,
heterogeneous robots will need to work
together with the other robots and human agents to achieve
specific tasks. Nevertheless, no such system exists. Therefore,
we propose a system that utilizes a token economy for robotic
agents that makes agents responsive to token acquisition as an
incentive for collaboration in achieving a given task. The
economy enables the system to self-govern, even under Byzantine
and adversarial settings.
We further incorporate a novel subcontracting framework within a
blockchain environment to allow the robotic agents to
efficiently and cost-effectively
perform complex jobs requiring multiple agents with various
capabilities.
We conducted a thorough evaluation of the system in a prototype
warehouse application scenario, and the results
are promising.
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Jonathan Grey
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Paper: Photrace: A Blockchain-Based Traceability System for
Photographs on the Internet
(20 mins presentation + 10 mins Q&A)
This paper proposes a blockchain-based
traceability system of photos.
Thanks to a novel scheme that securely chains certificates of
image data originating from a trusted origin certificate, the
system authenticates the provenance of original and converted
images, e.g., which digital camera created it.
The system requires a Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI) of digital cameras to authenticate the
trusted origin certificate signed by the certified digital
camera.
It does not require a PKI of image conversion software.
The proposed solution is suitable for the traceability system of
photos on the Internet as the scheme of chaining certificates
applies to any image conversion software, including open
source-based photo editing applications and cloud server
software that converts image data of photos.
We have implemented a prototype of the traceability system using
Ethereum as a permissioned blockchain and evaluated the
system's feasibility.
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Tatsuya Igarashi (Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, Japan)
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Lightning Talks (3 talks each with 5 mins presentation,
followed by 15 mins of combined Q&A)
1. Learning Optimal Health Decisions in Trust-less Environments
2. Future work in Sharing Updatable Models on Blockchain
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1. Manan Shukla (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
2. Justin D. Harris (Microsoft - Turing, Canada)
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Break
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Invited Talk: Blockchain-orchestrated machine learning in a
federated research consortium (30
min presentation + 10 min Q&A)
The consortia model for blockchain application in healthcare & life sciences has become more prominent. Combined
with the application of federated machine learning, this model has exceptional promise for advancing life sciences
research and overcoming some of the challenges that have beleaguered AI in healthcare (i.e. lack of clinical
relevance). We have begun exploring a combination of blockchain (auditability; incentivization), decentralized
AI/federated machine learning (better data; less bias), and confidential computing (privacy; regulatory
facilitation) to overcome the challenges of AI in healthcare and life sciences. We see significant promise in
aligning these technologies across 5 layers of trust to accelerate clinical decision support. In this talk, we
expose both the healthcare and technical challenges that blockchain and privacy enhancing technologies can solve.
With the creation of decentralised marketplaces in mind, we detail the necessary component that could enable data
and model owners to monetise their assets while preserving their privacy and governance rights.
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Sean T. Manion (ConsenSys Health), Jonathan
Passerat-Palmbach
(Consensys Health and Imperial College London, UK)
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Open Discussion (30 minutes)
Discuss something from the workshop or other topics relevant to
the space of AI + Blockchain that you would like to bring up.
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Closing Remarks (10 minutes)
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Workshop Chairs
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Objectives and Scope
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain are widely hailed to be leading the
way to the fourth industrial revolution. The two technologies on their own have
been revolutionary in the last decade. However, the potential of combining these
two technologies poses exciting opportunities and challenges, which is at a
nascent stage.
This workshop aims to explore the synergistic combination of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain and to identify the disruptors, especially in
terms of the application potential of the combination of these two technologies
as they are widely hailed to be leading the way to the fourth industrial
revolution.
We intend to discuss how leveraging blockchain technology can benefit AI
and how applying AI can enhance the capabilities of blockchain technology. We
believe this workshop would elucidate the scope of augmenting blockchain
technology, including consensus mechanisms and smart contracts with advances in
AI. Moreover, constructing decentralized applications powered by blockchain
technology, that function as autonomous agents, is a new area of research that
we expect to highlight at this workshop. Providing cross-fertilization between
different domains that are either already using or planning to use AI in
blockchain technologies is another important goal of this workshop. We will have
a stronger focus on AI theory and practices related to blockchain technologies
in this edition of the workshop. Specifically, we will invite papers and short
abstracts on novel approaches, applications, and work in progress research in
the context of applying AI to blockchain technology as well as leveraging
blockchain to advance AI. Selected regular papers will be presented as podium
talks, and shorter poster papers will be showcased as poster presentations.
Topics
The topics include but were not limited to:
- AI-based consensus mechanisms for blockchain
- AI for decentralized applications
- AI and semantic representations for off-chaining data
- AI for the analysis of smart contracts and data stored on the blockchain
- AI-assisted smart oracles
- AI-assisted smart contract generation for blockchain
- Anomaly detection in smart contracts using AI
- Federated and distributed learning using blockchain frameworks
- Blockchain for data privacy and AI model integrity
- Differential privacy
- Challenges of adopting blockchain technology to assist AI
- Secure multiparty computation
- Homomorphic encryption
Submission Guidelines
Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE Computer
Society Proceedings Format (or up to 10 pages with the pages over length
charge), including tables, figures, references, and appendices.
Submissions presenting early stages of research and development in the solicited
topics are encouraged.
All papers need to be submitted electronically in PDF through the Easychair
Submission Link.
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with articles that
have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to another workshop or
a conference with proceedings or a journal.
Papers will be selected based on their originality,
significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three
reviewers. All submitted papers will be judged through double-blind reviews,
where the authors' identities are withheld from the reviewers. As an author, you
are required to preserve the anonymity of your submission, while at the same
time allowing the reader to fully grasp the context of related past work,
including your own. Papers that do not conform to our double-blind submission
policies will be rejected without review.
Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper
be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference
to present the work.
Submission Link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aichain2021
Workshop Co-Chairs
Contact: aichain2021@easychair.org
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