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

1. In conjunction with MEDI2021 (https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/)
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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 9^th, 2021

• Workshop: June 21^st,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

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr Alex Norta: alexander.norta@taltech.ee