BIOC 2018 - 1st Workshop on Blockchains for Inter-Organizational Collaboration

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