[AISWorld] CFP: The 2019 Pre-ICIS SIGBPS Workshop

[Jennifer Xu]

*The 2019 Pre-ICIS SIGBPS Workshop on Blockchain Technologies and Smart
Contracts*
Workshop Theme: Security and Trust in the Blockchain Era
December 15, 2019
Munich, Germany
http://2019.sigbps.org/

*Submission Deadline: *September 30, 2019*

Dear Colleagues:

We cordially invite you to submit your latest research results to
SIGBPS2019.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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SIGBPS workshops aim to extend the boundaries of research in business
process management and services science by incorporating 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. This workshop promotes theoretical research in business process
management and service science.
On one hand, 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, more 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 and decentralized computing. While the recent advancements in
fintech made blockchain a practical technology, smart contracts are now
getting more attention. Smart contracts are 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 blockchains and smart contract technologies. We have seen
testimonial studies on how to examine, design, implement, and deploy
solutions based on blockchains and smart contracts to resolve research and
practical issues in BPS applications. Such applications may benefit many
research frontier domains, for example, information systems in Finance,
Supply chain, Education and Healthcare.

This year’s workshop will focus on the research and development of
blockchain technologies and applications with a workshop theme called
“Security and Trust in the Blockchain Era.” This theme is to signify the
unique capability of blockchain technologies and applications in the
enablement of secure and efficient information flows across organizational
boundaries, resulting in lower process costs, better business trust, and
more novel business collaborations.
Given the nature and purposes 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, 11-point font, and 1 inch margin all
around. We particularly seek position papers but also welcome conceptual
papers with either theoretical or application flavors, as well as
research-in-progress papers.  Case, empirical, and behavioral studies
relevant to the following topics are welcome.
Suggested research topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Security issues in blockchain-enabled systems and platforms
- Computational trust in blockchain-enabled systems and applications
- Open collaboration processes and services in blockchain-enabled systems
- 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
- Blockchain-driven protocols for BPS smart contracts
- BPS applications with blockchain and smart contracts in healthcare,
supply chain, finance, education
- BPS case studies of blockchain and smart contract adoption
- Economics and game theory of smart contracts

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, which might be, but not
limited to, one of the following:
- Security and Trust in Blockchain-enabled Systems
- Integration of smart contracts in workflow systems
- Process-centric consensus modeling for DAO
- Service science and engineering in blockchain ecosystems
- Blockchain enabled supply chain processes and finance
- Innovative Blockchain applications in industry

Please email hsubram at fiu.edu, jxu at bentley.edu, and/or rong.liu at stevens.edu
if you would like to get more information, or if you are considering to
direct the paper solicitation in one of the areas above.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: *September 30, 2019 *
Notification of paper acceptance: October 21, 2019

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SUBMISSION
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Please submit your paper online at https://app.conferency.com/sigbps2019.

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COMMITTEES
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*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:*
- Hemang Subramanian, Florida International University, USA
- Emily Liu, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
- Jennifer Xu, Bentley University, USA

*Liaison and Publicity Co-Chairs:*
- Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia
- Zhe (Jay) Shan, Miami University, USA

*Local Arrangement Co-Chairs:*
(TBD)