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.

Submission Guidelines

BIOC’23 is intended to be a half-day virtual and online workshop divided into three sessions, in which around 4 full and 2 short scientific papers will be presented. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers will have a time slot reserved of 30 minutes (20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for questions and discussions),
• Short Papers will have a time slot of 15 minutes (10 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussions).

List of Topics

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

Committees

Program Committee

• Clemens Cap, University of Rostock, Germany
• Arnaud Castelltort, University of Montpellier, France
• Søren Debois, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA
• Jaap Gordijn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Guido Governatori, CSIRO, Australia
• Hanen Idoudi, ENSI, Tunisia
• Benjamin Leiding, TU Clausthal, Germany
• Sabra Mabrouk, Carthage University, Tunisia
• Giovanni Meroni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Luise Pufahl, TU Berlin, Germany
• Stefan Schulte, TU Wien, Austria
• Volker Skwarek, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Tijs Slaats, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Layth Sliman, Efrei Paris, France
• Mark Staples, CSIRO, Australia
• Ingo Weber, TU Berlin, Germany
• SLIM Amri, University of Carthage, Tunisia 
• Bassem Sallemi, University of  Tunis EL MANAR, Tunisia 
• Khouloud Boukadi, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Safx, Tunisia 
• Basem Ben Hamed, University of Safx, Tunisia

Organizing committee

• Akram Hakiri, LAAS-CNRS, France
• Anne Laurent, LIRMM - UM, France
• Alexander Norta, Tallinn University, Estonia
• Arnaud Castelltort, University of Montpellier, France

Invited Speakers

Prof. Walid Gaaloul (Tentative)

is a professor at Télécom SudParis engineering school (grande école d'ingénieurs) in the field of Information and Communication Technology. Télécom SudParis is part of Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) and Institut Mines Télécom. Walid Gaaloul is member of the DIEGO group part of the Computer Science Department of Télécom SudParis and the CNRS research laboratory SAMOVAR.

Before joining Télécom SudParis, he was a researcher at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) and an adjunct lecturer in the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). He holds an M.S. (2002) and a Ph.D. (2006) in computer science from the University of Lorraine, France, and a habilitation (2014) from Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France. He was a junior researcher in the Lorraine Laboratory of IT Research and its Applications (LORIA-INRIA) and a teaching assistant in the University of Lorraine, France.

His research interests are on Business Process Management, Process Mining, Cloud Computing, Service Oriented Computing. Walid Gaaloul has published over 100 research papers in these domains. He serves as program committee member and reviewer at many international journals and conferences, and has participated in several national and European research projects.

Publication

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. Papers must be written in English and strictly following ACM style. Standard ACM conference templates for Microsoft Word and LaTeX formats can be found here:

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-primary-article-template/wbvnghjbzwpc

Three types of submissions are accepted:

• Regular Research papers: contributions should describe original work (up to 6 pages including all text, figures, references, and appendices).
• Industrial case studies and lessons learned papers: works with experiences and notable industrial advances using model-driven engineering technology for verification and testing purposes (up to 6 pages including all text, figures, references, and appendices).
• Short Papers and position papers: ​Research in progress, tools presentations, and new ideas ​(up to 4 pages including all text, figures, references, and appendices).

Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the electronic submission system.

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 Forum: https://conferences.sigappfr.org/medes2023/

Venue

We are glad to announce that BIOC'23 will be back to an in-person conference! We look forward to welcoming the participants to Crete. However, we will keep monitoring the situation of the pandemic to decide later if remote participation would be possible for those having travel restrictions.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr Alex Norta: alex.norta.phd@ieee.org.