[AISWorld] (Submission Deadline Extended) Pre-ICIS SIGBPS 2018 Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract

[Jay Shan]

*Pre-ICIS SIGBPS 2018 Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract*

*(http://2018.sigbps.org <http://2018.sigbps.org>)*



** Submission Deadline: Oct 10th, 2018 (extended)**


*Highlights.*

-          Selected workshop papers will be invited for fast-track review
in ISeB (SSCI) special issue on Blockchain Technology and Applications.

-          Academic/Industry keynote, panel, and tutorial will be announced
soon.

-          You can register for only this workshop (with a $25 additional
charge) without having to register for ICIS and AIS membership.



*CFP.*


Research Frontier Theme: Building Digital Society with Blockchain and Smart
Contract


SIGBPS workshop aims to extend the boundaries of research in business
process management and services science by integrating new elements that
have not been sufficiently emphasized in the past. The recent rapid
advances in information systems have created both challenges and
opportunities to develop new business services via innovative business
processes. Another important area of interest of this workshop is to
promote theoretical research in business process management and service
science. Driven by the need to solve practical problems, the business
process modeling and automation research has been largely prescriptive.
There has been a lack of strong theories in this area and we believe that
it is essential to develop new theories about business process and service
automation.



On the other hand, recently blockchain is poised to become the most
exciting invention after the Internet; while the latter connects the world
to enable new business models based on online business processes, the
former will help resolve the trust issue more efficiently via distributed
computing. While the recent advancement made blockchain a practical
technology, smart contract is now getting more attention, which is
essentially a transaction protocol that executes the terms of a
computerized contract. The potential business impacts of blockchain and
smart contracts are challenging existing business models, leading to
fascinating research opportunities in business process and service
applications. The purpose of the SIGBPS workshop this year is to provide an
interdisciplinary forum to discuss new research directions in the areas of
building trustworthy business processes and services with blockchain and
smart contract technologies. We have seen testimonial studies on how to
examine, design, implement, and deploy solutions based on blockchain and
smart contracts to resolve research and practical issues in BPS
applications. Such applications may benefit many research frontier domains,
for example, finance, supply chain, education and healthcare.



Given the nature and purpose of this workshop, we invite research papers of
no more than five pages that are well articulated and formatted in single
line spacing, Times New Roman, 12 pt, 1-inch margins. Please indicate your
target track (listed on the next page) below your paper title. We
particularly seek position papers but also welcome conceptual papers with
either theoretical or application flavors, as well as completed research
papers or research-in-progress papers. Case, empirical, and behavioral
studies relevant to the focused topics are also welcome. Best paper awards
and best student paper awards (students are first authors) will be selected
based on novelty and significance. Authors of selected workshop papers will
be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to IseB
(Information Systems and e-Business Management journal, SSCI,
http://www.springer.com/10257) Special Issue on Blockchain Technology and
Applications for fast-track review.



Suggested research topics include, but not limited to, the following ones:

○        Design science research in BPS applications of blockchain-driven
smart contracts

○        Technical and application solutions for smart contracts and BPS
applications

○        Empirical studies on blockchain, smart contracts and BPS
applications

○        Trust, privacy, and behavioral issues in smart contracts under
blockchains

○        Regulation, governance, and standardization of smart contracts in
BPS applications

○        BPS applications of contract theory in smart contract management

○        Mechanism design for BPS applications of smart contracts under
blockchain

○        Blockchain-driven protocols for BPS smart contracts

○        BPS applications with blockchain and smart contracts

○        BPS case studies of blockchain and smart contract adoption

○        Tokenomics

○        Big data, cloud computing and process management

○        Robotic Process Automation

○        Coordination and cooperation mechanisms for process management

○        Process mining and intelligence

○        Frameworks and methodologies for collaboration processes

○        Business process management and smart contract based applications
in healthcare, supply chain, finance, education

○        Metrics, evaluation and measurements in business processes and
services

○        Organization and culture issues in process automation

○        Process competencies in information intensive businesses



The workshop will be organized with special tracks of interests.
Researchers with expertise in the above topics are welcome to direct the
paper solicitation and reviewing within one track (Please indicate your
track in your submission):

●        Integration of smart contracts in workflow systems

●        Service science and engineering in blockchain ecosystems

●        Blockchain enabled supply chain processes

●        Innovative Blockchain Applications in industry

●        Business Process Intelligence

●        Business Process Innovation and Transformation

●        E-Business Service Management

●        Intelligent Service Systems and Technologies



*Important Dates:*

Submission Deadline: Oct 10th, 2018 (extended)

Notification of Acceptance: Oct 31st, 2018

Final Version Due: Nov 7th, 2018

Note: If you need an invitation letter for the visa application purpose
before the acceptance notification date, please contact the program chairs.
We can assist you.




*Honorary Chairs:*

Edward Stohr, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Akhil Kumar, Pennsylvania State University, USA


*Conference Chairs:*

J. Leon Zhao, City University of Hong Kong, China

Karl Lang, Baruch College, USA


*Program Chairs:*

Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia

Zhe (Jay) Shan, Miami University, USA