Blockchain Research Hub

This website compiles research resources on blockchain conducted by the SSE group at CISUC. We are physically hosted at DEI.

Resources

Selected publications

  • Sadaf Azimi, Ali Golzari, Naghmeh Ivaki, Nuno Laranjeiro, A Systematic Review on Smart Contracts Security Design Patterns. Empirical Software Engineering (accepted for publication) 2025. PDF
  • Fernando Vidal, Naghmeh Ivaki, Nuno Laranjeiro, OpenSCV: an open hierarchical taxonomy for smart contract vulnerabilities. Empirical Software Engineering Vol. 29, no. 101. DOI: 10.1007/s10664-024-10446-8, June 2024. PDF
  • Bruno Dias, Naghmeh Ivaki and Nuno Laranjeiro, "An Empirical Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Smart Contract Verification Tools," IEEE 26th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC) (on-line), pp. 17-26, doi: 10.1109/PRDC53464.2021.00013, 2021. PDF
  • Ákos Hajdu, Naghmeh Ivaki, Imre Kocsis, Attila Klenik, László Gönczy, Nuno Laranjeiro, Henrique Madeira, András Pataricza, "Using Fault Injection to Assess Blockchain Systems in Presence of Faulty Smart Contracts," in IEEE Access, Vol. 8, pp. 190760-190783, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3032239, 2020. PDF

About us

Faculty Members

Naghmeh Ivaki - naghmeh@dei.uc.pt
Nuno Laranjeiro - cnl@dei.uc.pt

PhD Students

Fernando Vidal
Sadaf Azimi
Ali Golzari

MSc Students

Michelangelo Formato
Alessandro Cavaliere

Former Students

Bruno Dias (MSc)
Maria Viegas (MSc)