BIOC'19: 2nd Workshop on Blockchains for Inter-Organizational Collaboration Rome, Italy, June 3-7, 2019 |
Conference website | https://www.ttu.ee/projects/blockchain/events-10/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bioc19 |
Submission deadline | March 11, 2019 |
Theme and Goals
This paper-oriented workshop scientifically addresses recent research efforts in the field of blockchain technology use for cross-organizational collaboration. The workshop focuses on the application of information and communication technology in order to enable organizational and governmental service provisions. The resulting technology-mediated processes are changing the delivery of private and public services as well as the broader interactions between citizens, governments, and organizations. More and more countries are considering e-governance solutions as a tool to improve the efficiency and transparency of their services. However, there exists a gap of understanding the support of trust and reputation via blockchain solutions that allow for immutable event traceability. The workshop aims for exploring systematic approaches for developing and interrelating blockchain-technology supported services, as well as increasing issues concerning blockchain-tech, enabled security and privacy of personal data use. In addition, technological advances in the field of big data analysis, blockchains for distributed application deployment, smart contracts, the Internet-of-Things, agent technologies, etc., offer new research directions in the blockchain-technology space for further improvements of existing solutions.
The goal of this workshop is to promote, establish and speed up blockchain-technology related research, and identify future research questions. Contributions should focus on clearly stated research questions covering the topics mentioned below.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers describing ...
- Posters describing ...
List of Topics
The topics of interest for blockchain-technology research papers include, but are not limited to:
● Security and Privacy Management of e-Governance Systems
● (Smart) Government
● E-Voting
● Governmental Decision-making
● E-Business
● E-Tax
● E-Health
● Identity and Identification Systems
● Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
● Self-Aware Contracts as well as AI and Smart Contracts
● Interoperability
● Self-organizing and Evolutionary e-governance
● Collaboration Models
● Legal Aspects of blockchain technology
● Benchmarks and Evaluation Strategies for blockchain e-governance Systems
● Economics of blockchain e-governance
● Case Studies for blockchain-based distributed applications deployment
● Open and Big Data with blockchain technology
Committees
Program Committee
- Assoc.Prof. Dr. Alex Norta: alex.norta.phd@ieee.org
Department for Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Department of Informatics.
Akadeemia Tee 15, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia. - Professor Dr. Dirk Draheim: dirk.drageim@ttu.ee
Department for Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Department of Informatics.
Akadeemia Tee 15, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia. - DI Benjamin Leiding: benjamin.leiding@cs.uni-goettingen.de
- Institute of Computer Science, University of Göttingen, Germany
Organizing committee
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• Stefan Schulte s.schulte@infosys.tuwien.ac.at, Distributed Systems Group, TU Wien, Austria
• Matthias Weidlich matthias.weidlich@hu-berlin.de Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
• Tijs Slaats slaats@di.ku.dk , University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Cristina Cabanillas, cristina.cabanillas@wu.ac.at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
• Xiwei Xu xiwei.xu@data61.csiro.au CSIRO, Australia
• Jan Mendling jan.mendling@wu.ac.at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
• Florian Daniel florian.daniel@polimi.it Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Luciano Garcia Banuelos luciano.garcia@ut.ee University of Tartu, Estonia
• Mark Staples mark.staples@data61.csiro.au CSIRO, Australia
• Søren Debois debois@itu.dk, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Mathias Weske mathias.weske@hpi.de HPI, University of Potsdam, Germany
• Claudio Di Ciccio claudio.di.ciccio@wu.ac.at , Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
• Marcello La Rosa marcellolarosa@unimelb.edu.au The University of Melbourne, Australia
• Abhishek Dixit abhishek.dixit@taltech.ee Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Vipin Deval vipin.deval@taltech.ee Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Vimal Kumar Dwivedi vimal.dwivedi@taltech.ee Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Invited Speakers
Prof. Marlon Dumas
Professor of Information Systems
Software Engineering & Information Systems Group
Institute of Computer Science
University of Tartu, Estonia
Title: Collaborative Business Process Execution on Blockchain
Abstract
Blockchain platforms allow a set of actors to maintain a ledger of transactions withoutrelying on a central authority and to deploy scripts, called smart contracts, that are executedwhenever certain transactions occur. These features can be used as building blocks tosupport the execution of collaborative business processes between mutually untrustingparties. However, implementing business processes using the low-level primitives provided by blockchain platforms is cumbersome and error-prone. In contrast, established business process management systems, such as those based on the Business Process Model andNotation (BPMN), provide convenient abstractions for rapid development of process-oriented applications. In this talk, I will discuss how to combine the advantages of a business process management system with those of a blockchain platform. As a concrete example, I will present a BPMN execution engine, namely Caterpillar, designed to support collaborative business processeson top of a blockchain platform. Like any BPMN execution engine, Caterpillar supports the creation of instances of a process model and allows users to monitor these process instances and to execute tasks thereof. The specificity of Caterpillar is that the state of each process instance is maintained on the (Ethereum) blockchain and the workflow routing is performed by smart contracts generated by a BPMN-to-Solidity compiler. I will discuss the challenges associated with maintaining the state of process instances in a cost-efficient manner on Ethereum and how to handle the binding between roles to actors in a flexible manner, in order to support dynamic binding, delegation, and revocation.
Publication
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. Papers must be written in English and strictly following Springer LNBIP style. For formatting instructions and templates, please see the Springer Web page:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0
Four types of submissions are accepted:
• Full research papers and experience papers with a maximum length of 12 pages, including references and appendices.
• Short papers and position papers with a maximum length of 6 pages, including references and appendices.
Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the electronic submission system that is available at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bioc19
Submitted papers will be evaluated according to their rigor, significance, originality, technical quality and exposition, by at least three distinct members of an international program committee.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedures of the main CAiSE'19 conference to be found at its website: https://www.caise19.it/
All the accepted and presented papers will be published in Springer LNBIP proceedings.
Venue
The conference will be held in Rome, Italy being co-located with the CAISE'19 conference (https://www.caise19.it/).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to alex.norta.phd@ieee.org