6TH WORKSHOP ON BLOCKCHAINS FOR INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION (BIOC’23)
held in conjunction with MEDES-2023 (https://conferences.sigappfr.org/medes2023/)

Deadline for paper submission: March 5th 2023 (at midnight UTC)

https://conferences.sigappfr.org/medes2023/cfp-for-bioc-workshop/

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PC chairs

Dr Alex Norta: alex.norta.phd@ieee.org
Tallinn University, 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

THEME AND GOALS
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

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission:

March 5th 2023 (at midnight UTC)

Acceptance notification:

April 5th, 2023

Camera-ready:

April 15th, 2023

Workshop:

May 5th, 2023

SUBMISSION AND 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

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers.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

Three types of submissions are accepted:

Regular Research papers: contributions should describe original work (up to 9 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 9 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 EasyChair.

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.



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/