1st Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies (BSCT 2018)

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Topics of interest | Submission guidelines | Important dates | Organizers and Chairs | Program Committee

Accepted Papers

The introduction of bitcoin protocol in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto has been a disruptive event that marked the beginning of the new era of decentralization in information systems worldwide. After a ten years period of incubation the more comprehensive version of technology is mature enough to become the fully-fledged architecture being the basis for numerous applications from broad range of industries. One of Its traits of being third-party independent make the blockchain platforms a first choice for innovative business models and startups. So far the focus on technologies around blockchain was mainly the domain of innovators, enthusiast and early-adopters. Although the developments in the field is closely observed by the academia there is relatively little research forums concerned purely with distributed ledger phenomenon.

The first International workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies (BSCT), co-located with 21st International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2018) being held in Berlin, Germany is planned to be such a forum. It will be the platform bringing together practitioners and researchers to create an open space for introducing insights and exchanging new ideas. The workshop aims at investigating challenges and opportunities in the field of blockchain technologies and its future developments. Additionally, it will pay a special attention to issues related to blockchain architectures and applications as well as innovative business models and use-cases based on distributed ledger environments.

The workshop is open to any research or position papers describing current work relating to blockchain and smart contracts technologies with respect to applications, analysis, simulation results, proof-of-concept or innovative solution approaches.

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Topics of interest

Anomaly detection on blockchain
Assessment of consensus protocols
Asset digitization
Blockchain and Big Data
Blockchain economic implications
Blockchain performance
Blockchain vulnerabilities and attacks schemes
Consensus protocols
Cryptocurrencies
DAO & Governance
Data protection issues and blockchain
Development and runtime environments
Distributed ledger & IoT solutions
Distributed ledger analytics
Distributed ledger impact on economy and society
Financial aspects of ICO
General use of blockchain technologies
ICO
Identity management in anonymous environments
Industry applications (fintech, healthcare, insurances, fraud detection, supply chain etc)
Innovative approaches and paradigms
Ledger legal regulations
Legal and organizational issues of blockchain
Macro and microeconomic models for cryptocurrencies
Performance measures of blockchain
Programming techniques for smart contracts
Security and privacy concerns
Smart contracts
Smart contracts deployment and maintenance
Smart contracts testing
System consistency

Submission guidelines

Long papers: max. 12 pages
Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages
Demo papers: max. 4 pages

Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template

Submission system is available at EasyChair.

Papers approved for presentation at BSCT 2018 will be published in BIS 2018 workshop post-conference proceedings, as a volume in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. BIS 2018 Workshops proceedings will be distributed to workshop participants by regular mail.
Workshop papers will be made available in electronic form by the BIS organizers to all workshop participants (and only to them) directly before the conference.

Important dates

June 3, 2018 (extended) – submission deadline
June 22, 2018 (changed) – notification of acceptance/rejection
June 29, 2018 (changed) – submission of final papers (for presentation)
July 18-20, 2018 – the workshop

Organizers and Chairs

Organizers

Chairs

Saulius Masteika, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
Piotr Stolarski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland

Program Committee

Rainer Alt, Leipzig University, Germany
Emmanuelle Anceaume, IRISA, France
Adrian Florea, ‘Lucian Blaga’ University of Sibiu, Romania
François Charoy, Université de Lorraine – LORIA – Inria, France
Nicolas T. Courtois, University College London, United Kingdom
Sergi Delgado-Segura, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Ernestas Filatovas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Vladislav V. Fomin, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Jaap Gordijn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Aquinas Hobor, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Constantin Houy, Institute for Information Systems at DFKI (IWi), Germany
Raja Jurdak, Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organization, Australia
Monika Kaczmarek, University Duisburg Essen, Germany
Kalinka Kaloyanova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Salil S. Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Gary Klein, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Eva Kühn, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Romaric Ludinard, IMT Atlantique, France
Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia
Bill Maurer, University of California, USA
Massimo Mecella, Sapienza University of Rome
Remigijus Paulavičius, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Cristina Pérez-Solà, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Sushmita Ruj, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Sherif Sakr, The University of New South Wales
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
Davor Svetinovic, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates
Herve Verjus, Universite de Savoie – LISTIC – Polytech’Savoie, France
Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Anna Wingkvist, Linnaeus University, Lithuania

Last update: June 16, 2018