[AISWorld] Blockchain Forum at BPM 2019: Call for Papers

[Claudio Di Ciccio]

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   Call for Papers

   Blockchain Forum 2019
    Co-located with the 17th Int. Conference on Business Process 
Management (BPM)
    Vienna, Austria, 3-4 September 2019

   https://bpm2019.ai.wu.ac.at/call-for-blockchain-forum/

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Important Dates
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  - Paper submission: 24 May 2019
  - Notification: 28 June 2019
  - Camera-ready submission: 12 July 2019
  - Forum: 3-4 September 2019


Scope
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At their core, blockchains execute and register transactions in 
distributed ledgers, using communication and cryptographic frameworks 
that allow for the tamper-proof sharing and maintenance of signed 
information. Blockchain technology is natively multi-disciplinary as it 
builds upon knowledge stemming from cryptography, game theory, 
programming language theory, data structures and algorithms, and 
distributed computing, among others.

Blockchain technology has opened up opportunities to redesign 
cooperative business in a wide range of fields, including healthcare, 
supply chain, logistics, and finance. That is mainly due to its 
unprecedented capability to operate in a decentralised fashion, without 
central authorities governing the workflow. Blockchains and smart 
contracts thus enable processes to be run in a distributed manner 
without delegating trust to central authorities and reducing the need 
for some aspects of mutual trust between parties. Furthermore, they 
potentially allow for automated fine-grained run-time tracking and 
monitoring as well as ex-post auditing and forensics.

The opportunities brought about by blockchains are accompanied by 
challenges. For blockchain infrastructure, this includes crucial matters 
such as privacy, data provenance and management, compliance and control, 
security, governance, in addition to scalability and performance. For 
blockchain-based applications, there are as well new challenges in 
devising novel process and architectures supporting new kinds of 
decentralised collaborative business models. The multifaceted themes of 
the research questions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the 
blockchains.

This forum aims to provide a platform for the discussion and 
introduction of new ideas related to research directions pertaining to 
the adoption of blockchains for collaborative information systems. 
Conceptual, technical and application-oriented contributions are pursued 
within the scope of this theme.

The format will be structured to be highly interactive and 
discussion-oriented. The talks will be fostering fruitful conversation 
and aimed at exchanging experiences and ideas.


Topics of interest
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Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
  - Modelling paradigms for blockchain-based information systems
  - User-friendly specification and monitoring of smart contracts
  - Synthesis of smart contracts from high-level specifications of 
business collaborations
  - Verification and validation of blockchain-based collaborative 
information systems
  - Enforcing regulations and business rules with smart contracts
  - Collaborative business process optimisation on blockchains
  - Privacy models for blockchain-based collaborative information systems
  - Data provenance in blockchain-based cooperative processes
  - Security requirements engineering for blockchain-based collaborative 
information systems
  - Data management in blockchain-based information systems
  - Process auditing on blockchains
  - Integration of ubiquitous computing and blockchains for process 
monitoring
  - Novel paradigms for process design utilising the blockchain
  - Novel paradigms for information systems design utilising the 
blockchain
  - Linking blockchain platform properties with business and compliance 
goals
  - Novel business collaboration models enabled by blockchain
  - Blockchain and ethical business practices
  - Inter-organisational, cross-chain communications among parties in a 
collaborative process
  - Vertical applications of blockchain-based collaborative information 
systems (e.g. healthcare, supply chain, finance, logistics)


Submission instructions
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on any of the topics of 
the workshop. Papers must be written in English. The maximum length of 
the paper is 15 pages. Shorter papers are very welcome too.

Submissions must be prepared according to the format of Lecture Notes in 
Business Information Processing (LNBIP, 
http://www.springer.com/series/7911) specified by Springer
(https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
The title page must contain a short abstract and a list of keywords, 
preferably taking inspiration from the list of topics given above. 
Papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpm2019): enter the main 
conference installation (BPM 2019) and select “Blockchain Forum” as the 
submission track.

At least one author of each accepted manuscript must register for the 
workshop and present the paper. Registration is subject to the terms, 
conditions and procedure of the main BPM 2019 conference
(https://bpm2019.ai.wu.ac.at/?page_id=231).


Program committee
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Mayutan Arumaithurai, University of Göttingen, Germany
Clemens H. Cap, University of Rostock, Germany
Riccardo De Masellis, Stockholm University, Sweden
Alevtina Dubovitskaya, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 
Switzerland
Gilbert Fridgen, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Marko Hölbl, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Sabrina Kirrane, WU Vienna, Austria
Qingua Lu, Data61, CSIRO, Australia
Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia
Giovanni Meroni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Alexander Norta, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Petr Novotny, IBM, USA
Sooyong Park, Sogang University, South Korea
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria
Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Finland
Stefan Schulte, TU Wien, Austria
Volker Skwarek, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Stefan Tai, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Muhamed Turkanović, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Nils Urbach, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Shermin Voshmgir, WU Vienna, Austria
Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria
Kaiwen Zhang, École de technologie supérieure ÉTS, Canada


Chairs
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Claudio Di Ciccio, WU Vienna, Austria
Luciano García-Bañuelos, University of Tartu, Estonia
Rick Hull, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY USA
Mark Staples, Data61, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia