Workshop Presentation
Blockchain technology supports decentralized, transparent, and immutable transaction execution and storage. The advent of smart contracts has provided the opportunity to manage digital assets and to implement business logic running on blockchain platforms. Thanks to its characteristics, blockchain enables mutually distrusting parties to share data in a trusted way, without requiring third-party authorities. The evolution of blockchain has generated a strong and continuously growing interest from industry and academia in its adoption for creating novel Information Systems (IS). Blockchain's execution environment offers additional trust guarantees, enhancing auditing and verification activities.
The distinctive nature of blockchain technology and its application in novel IS raise new challenges from different perspectives. From a conceptual perspective, important challenges revolve around requirements engineering, modeling, integration, governance, and the evolution of these systems. From a technical perspective, the development of blockchain-based IS raises challenges related to data sharing, data management, system optimization, and the adoption of novel on- and off-chain solutions.
Addressing these challenges requires innovative research and solutions to strengthen the adoption of blockchain-based IS and their engineering. The B4ISE workshop welcomes conceptual, technical, application-oriented, and case-study contributions around these challenges.
The workshop focuses on different aspects of Blockchain-based Information Systems engineering. While these aspects are also challenging for IS, the focus on blockchain-related solutions for data represents a significant difference from the main conference and the other CAiSE events.
Topics of Interest
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Conceptual-oriented
Models, methods, and tools for the design of Blockchain-based Information Systems
Meta-models and ontologies
Challenges related to the design of Blockchain-based Information Systems
Sustainability
Empirical material providing and assessing approaches to the design of Blockchain-based Information Systems
Field experience providing details, benefits, or challenges in the design of Blockchain-based Information Systems
Modeling of Blockchain-based Information Systems
Innovation and re-engineering using Blockchain Technology
Blockchain-enabled business processes for specific industries (e.g. Banking and Finance, Supply Chain, Retail, Government)
Governance of blockchain-based networks
Blockchain to support organizational governance
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
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Technical-oriented
Blockchain data management including sharing and provenance
Data privacy and confidentiality on the blockchain (e.g., encryption, zero-knowledge)
Blockchain-based authentication and access control
Layer-two solutions for Blockchain-based Information Systems
Off-chain solutions for Blockchain-based Information Systems
Oracles for trusted data
Optimization in smart contracts (e.g., data structures)
Blockchain hybrid architectures
Cross-chain, interoperable and bridge solutions for Blockchain-based Information Systems
Analysis techniques of blockchain data and Blockchain-based Information Systems (e.g., data visualization, process mining)
Query languages on blockchain
Data auditing and monitoring on blockchain
Submission
The papers have to be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024), choosing the present workshop as the track to which you submit the paper.
Full papers must conform to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP format and should not exceed 12 pages. Please refer to the Springer's authors' guidelines.
The proceedings of the conference workshops will be published as one volume in the Springer LNBIP series. Short papers will be placed in a designated section.
Important Dates
Dates are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
Paper
Submission
- March 7th, 2025
Acceptance
Notification
- April 7th, 2025
Camera-Ready
Submission
- April 14th, 2025
Workshop Organization
Organizing Commitee
- Alessandro Marcelletti - University of Camerino, Italy
- Sarah Bouraga - EM Normandie Business School, France
- Felix Härer - FHNW University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Program Commitee
- Marco Comuzzi - Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
- Claudio Di Ciccio - University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Julius Köpke - Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Institute for Informatics Systems, Austria
- Edoardo Marangone - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Giovanni Meroni - Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Andrea Morichetta University of Camerino, Italy
- Georgios Palaiokrassas - Yale University, USA
- Johannes Sedlmeir - FINATRAX Research Group, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Francesco Tiezzi - University of Florence, Italy