In conjunction with CAISE’18 (https://caise2018.ut.ee/)
Accepted paper will be published in Springer LNBIP (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing)

This 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 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 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
Identity and Identification Systems
Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
Self-Aware Contracts as well as AI and Smart Contracts
Interoperability
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
Open and Big Data with blockchain technology

Important Dates:

Paper submission: February 10, 2018

Acceptance notification: March 20, 2018

Camera ready: April 10, 2018

Workshop: June 11,2018

Submission and Publication:

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. Papers must be written in English and strictly following Springer LNBIP style. For formatting instructions and templates, please see the Springer Web page:

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0

Four types of submissions are accepted:


Full research papers and experience papers with a maximum length of 12 pages, including references and appendices.
Short papers and position papers with a maximum length of 6 pages, including references and appendices.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the electronic submission system that is available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bioc18

Submitted papers will be evaluated according to their rigor, significance, originality, technical quality and exposition, by at least three distinct members of an international program committee.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedures of the main BPM’16 conference to be found at its website: https://caise2018.ut.ee/

Workshop Chairs

Alex Norta, Tallinn University of Technology, Large-Scale-Systems Group
Dirk Draheim, Tallinn University of Technology, Large-Scale-Systems Group
Benjamin Leiding, University of Göttingen, Institute of Computer Science

PCs

Benjamin Leiding, University of Göttingen, Germany
Dirk Draheim, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Alex Norta, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Han van der Aa, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mark Staples, CSIRO, Australia
Stefan Schulte, TU-Vienna, Austria
Claudio Di Ciccio, Business University Vienna, Austria
Schahram Dustdar, TU-Vienna, Austria
Tijs Slaats, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Xiwei Xu, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Cristina Cabanillas, Business University Vienna, Austria
Jan Mendling, Business University Vienna, Austria
Barbara Weber, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Søren Debois, IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Matthias Weidlich, Humboldt-University zu Berlin, Germany
Guido Governatori, CSIRO, Australia
Mathias Weske, Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany
Manfred Reichert, University Ulm, Germany
Florian Daniel, Politechnico Milano, Italy
Marcello La Rosa, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria