1st International Workshop on Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering (IWBOSE)

http://www.agilegroup.eu/iwbose2018/

Colocated with SANER 2018, March 19-23
Universita' del Molise, Campobasso, Italy
Workshop date 19 March


*** Aims and Scope ***

The Workshop’s goal is to gather together practitioners and researchers to discuss on progresses on the research and on the practical usage of blockchain technologies and smart contracts, focusing on the application and definition of software engineering principles and practices specific for such software technology, and for the technologies relying on it.

The workshop calls researches on specific tools, paradigms, principles, approaches to deal with the new challages
posed by Blockchain technology to software engineers and for a specific Blockchain Oriented Software Engineering.


*** Topics ***

Blockchain-Oriented Software Engineering
Blockchain software analysis and reengineering
Formal specification of Blockchain behavior
Agile and Lean processes for Blockchain software development
Tools for Blockchain software distributed development and community management
Smart Contracts reengineering
Security and reliability in Blockchain and Smart Contracts
Smart Contract Testing (SCT)
Blockchain Transaction Testing (BTT) to ensure status integrity
Blockchain Software architecture, design notation and metamodels.
Smart Contracts Software architecture, design notation and metamodels.
Software Engineering for Blockchain
Applications in Economy and Finance, Internet of Things, Notarization, Supply chain management
Web 3.0 – e-commerce, e-health, e-democracy, social networks, etc .


*** Important Dates ***

Abstract submission deadline January 5, 2018 AoE
Paper submission deadline January 12, 2018 AoE
Notifications February 9, 2018
Camera Ready February 22, 2018
Workshop date March 19, 2018


*** Submission Instructions ***

Important note: IWBOSE at SANER 2018 follows a full double-blind review process.
In order to be compliant with the double-blind policy, submitted papers must adhere to the rules from ASE 2017 double-blind instructions.

The easychair link for submissions is:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwbose2018

All submissions must come in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt font, LaTEX users must use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option. Also, papers must comply with the IEEE Policy on Authorship.

All submissions must be in English. Submissions should not exceed 12 pages (the last 2 pages for references only), and should be uploaded electronically in PDF format via EasyChair.

All workshop papers will be published in the SANER 2018 proceedings.


*** Organizing Committee ***

Roberto Tonelli, University of Cagliari, Italy
Stephane Ducasse, INRIA-LILLE, France


*** Program Chairs ***

Gianni Fenu, University of Cagliari, Italy
Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK


*** Program Committee (under construction) ***

Vasco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Francesca Arcelli Fontana, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Massimo Bartoletti, University of Cagliari Italy
Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy
Steve Counsell, Brunel University, UK
Giuseppe Destefanis, Hertfordshire University UK
Boris Duedder, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Shayan Eskandari, Concordia University / Bitaccess
Yossi Gil, Technion, Israel
Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK
Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia
Cristina Monni, USI - Universita' della Svizzera Italiana
Sandro Morasca, University of Insubria, Italy
Matteo Orrù, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
Paramvir Singh, National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab
Stephen Swift, Brunel University, UK
Andrea Vitaletti, Sapienza University Rome, Italy
Bartosz Walter, Poznan University of Technology
Hongyu Zhang, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Roberto Zunino, University of Trento, Italy