Workshop on Blockchains for Inter-Organizational Collaboration (BIOC’21)

In conjunction with MEDI2021 (https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/)

This paper-oriented workshop scientifically addresses recent research efforts in the field of blockchain technology use for cross-organizational collaboration. The workshop focuses on the application of information and communication technology in order to enable organizational and governmental service provisions. The resulting technology-mediated processes are changing the delivery of private- and public services as well as the broader interactions between citizens, governments and organizations. More and more countries are considering e-governance solutions as a tool to improve the efficiency and transparency of their services. However, there exists a gap of understanding the support of trust and reputation via blockchain solutions that allow for immutable event traceability. The workshop aims for exploring systematic approaches for developing and interrelating blockchain-technology supported services, as well as increasing issues concerning blockchain-tech, enabled security and privacy of personal data use. In addition, technological advances in the field of big data analysis, blockchains for distributed application deployment, smart contracts, the Internet-of-Things, agent technologies, etc., offer new research directions in the blockchain-technology space for further improvements of existing solutions.

The goal of this workshop is to promote, establish and speed up blockchain-technology related research, and identify future research questions. Contributions should focus on clearly stated research questions covering the topics mentioned below.

The topics of interest for blockchain-technology research papers include, but are not limited to:

Security and Privacy Management of e-Governance Systems
(Smart) Government
E-Voting
Governmental Decision-making
E-Business
E-Tax
E-Health
Autonomous e-commerce
Identity and Identification Systems
Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
Self-Aware Contracts as well as AI and Smart Contracts
Open and Big Data with blockchain technology
Interoperability
Medical supply chain
Crowdfunding
Self-organizing and Evolutionary e-governance
Collaboration Models
Legal Aspects of blockchain technology
Benchmarks and Evaluation Strategies for blockchain e-governance Systems
Economics of blockchain e-governance
Case Studies for blockchain-based distributed applications deployment
Blockchain business models for Data aggregation
Consortium Blockchain Data Aggregation
Federated and Consortium blockchains
Blockchain Model and Data Engineering
Blockchain Support for Collaborative Business Processes
Collaborative Internet-of-Things Services for Business
Collaborative Smart Contracts for Enterprises Digital Identities
Data Management in Consortium blockchains
Integrated Engineering Blockchain Consortium
Modeling Tools and Techniques for Co-Operated Consortium Blockchain
blockchain-as-a-service (baas) for business


Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

Paper submission: 31st March 2021

Acceptance notification: 15th of May, 2021

Camera-ready: June 9th, 2021

Workshop: June 21st,2021

Committees

Organizing committee
Assoc. Prof. Dr Alex Norta: alexander.norta@taltech.ee

Department for Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia Tee 15, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia.

Prof. Anne Laurent: anne.laurent@lirmm.fr

LIRMM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France

Assoc. Prof. Dr Arnaud Castelltort: castelltort@lirmm.fr

LIRMM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France

Assoc. Prof. Dr Akram Hakiri: akram.hakiri@enit.utm.tn

University of Carthage, SYSCOM ENIT, ISSAT Mateur, Tunisia