[AISWorld] [CfP] CAiSE 2024 Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing

[HAERER Felix]

****************** BC4IS&B4TDS 2024 (Associated with CAiSE 2024 ) *******************

Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing


​03 – 07 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus

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IMPORTANT DATES



Workshop paper submission: 26th February 2024

Workshop paper decision: 27th March 2024

Camera-ready due: 5th April 2024

Author registration deadline: 5th April 2024



WORKSHOP SCOPE


Blockchain technology enables mutually distrusting parties to share data and business logic in a trusted way, without requiring trusted third parties. It provides a form of shared database and execution environment with additional trust guarantees compared to more traditional solutions. Among others, blockchain and smart contracts can help provide and decentrally manage trusted evidence of information stored and exchanged. This is a core element in processes involving mutually distrusting participants and is also valuable for auditing, verification and sharing purposes.


The relatively new nature of blockchain technology and its distinctive characteristics such as decentralization and immutability raise new challenges from an information systems perspective. Important challenges revolve around the requirements of engineering, development, integration, use, governance, and evolution for and of such systems. The Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) workshop invites theoretical, conceptual, technical and applied contributions around these challenges.


Specific challenges arise from the data perspective of blockchain-based information systems.


Among others, there is a need for innovative solutions and research around the storage, organization, retrieval, and sharing of data in a decentralized and trusted way. This would be a step towards strengthening the decentralized access to data for businesses, organizations, or participants in worldwide distributed networks. The Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS) workshop welcomes conceptual, technical, application-oriented and case-study contributions around these challenges.


TOPICS:


The main topics relevant to the BC4IS&B4TDS workshop include, but are not limited to:


Blockchain for Information Systems:


  *   Models, methods and tools for the design of blockchain-based solutions

  *   Meta-models and ontologies for blockchain-based solutions

  *   Challenges related to the design of blockchain-based solutions

  *   Sustainability of blockchain-based solutions

  *   Empirical material providing and assessing approaches to the design of blockchain-based solutions

  *   Field experience providing details, benefits or challenges in the design of blockchain-based solutions

  *   Modeling

  *   Implementation

  *   Execution

  *   Automation

  *   Monitoring

  *   Optimization

  *   Innovation and re-engineering using Blockchain Technology

  *   BEBPs for specific industries (e.g. Banking and Finance, Supply Chain, Retail, Government)n-based solutions

  *   Blockchain data management

  *   Blockchain data provenance

  *   Data security, privacy and trust in blockchain

  *   Governance of blockchain-based networks

  *   Blockchain to support audit

  *   Blockchain to support organizational governance

  *   Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)



Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing:


  *   Blockchain data management

  *   Blockchain data sharing

  *   Blockchain data provenance

  *   Trusted data for AI

  *   Data traceability for explainable/trustworthy AI

  *   Distributed learning through blockchain

  *   Data-intensive applications on blockchain

  *   Data privacy on the blockchain

  *   Blockchain-based authentication and access control

  *   Data protection frameworks

  *   Layer-two solutions for data management

  *   Off-chain data management solutions

  *   Oracles for trusted data sharing

  *   Data structure and optimization in smart contracts

  *   Blockchain hybrid architectures

  *   Cross-chain data integration

  *   Data analytics techniques on blockchain

  *   Query languages on blockchain

  *   Data auditing and monitoring on blockchain

  *   Data visualization on blockchain

  *   Case studies on blockchain



SUBMITTING GUIDELINES:


The papers have to be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024__;!!Dc8iu7o!x2AbGqafJvi9UN06gcfElvaIN2ZJfbXTp-gRJKFT-77c-Dl48uyxDSDJyhFUoG9s4PsFgD-fSu3jPDp9Ndawyfd76mBN$>), choosing the present workshop as the track to which you submit the paper.


The different types of papers that can be accepted as well as the standards to follow for the format are the same as the ones of the main track of the conference. All the details are available on the conference website. As a further precision, among the different categories of papers that can be accepted, we can accept full papers (strictly limited to 15 pages, everything included), along with some short papers (strictly limited to 6 pages, everything included). Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings template. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.


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.


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS



Alessandro Marcelletti

University of Camerino, Italy


​​Felix ​Härer

University of Fribourg, ​Switzerland


Sarah Bouraga

University of Namur, Belgium


Victor Amaral de Sousa

University of Namur, Belgium


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Dr. Felix Härer · Senior Researcher and Lecturer
Digitalization and Information Systems Group
University of Fribourg
Bd de Pérolles 90, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Tel.: +41 26 300 9357