BSCT 2018 - 1st Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies

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.
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