5th Workshop on Blockchains for Inter-Organizational Collaboration (BIOC’22)
5th Workshop on Blockchains for Inter-Organizational Collaboration (BIOC’22)
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
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
1st Keynote: Dr. Chibuzor Udokwu
Demo about NFT-minting implementation for counterfeit prevention of luxury-product logistics and sales
Abstract: The combination of data analytics and blockchain technologies can be used in designing and implementing transparent authentication systems for luxury products, thereby, improving the circular economy and logistics processes of such products. The circular economy is an important aspect of economic and environmental sustainability as it involves the reuse of products, reduction of wastage and optimization of processes. Currently, there are several issues with the authentication of luxury products such as complexity, high cost of verifications and lack of accurate verification results which have adversely affected the reuse and resale of such products. Hence, the problem of counterfeited luxury products persists. The focus of this paper is to design a platform that provides a transparent verification of high-value product authenticity and enables the re-use of such products through a transparent transfer of new and pre-owned luxury products. To achieve this, data analytics is applied to identify useful features for the digital authentication of high-value products such as luxury accessories. Blockchain requirement engineering is then applied in modelling to explore the use of technologies such as digital signatures, decentralized storage and time-stamping mechanism to realize the features that will guarantee transparency in the ownership and re-use of high-value products. Furthermore, this paper explores the existing blockchain technologies for realizing and implementing the developed requirements of the platform. The selected blockchain technology stack is applied in prototyping authentication systems for luxury products. The implemented platform is simulated to demonstrate the operations carried out on the platform, the user tasks involved and the estimated time requirements for their completion.
2nd Keynote: Prof. Hella Kaffel Ben Ayed
Self-Sovereign Identities: basics and challenges for IoT: The digital identity has always been considered as the keystone for all online services and the foundation for building security mechanisms such as authentication and authorization. With the proliferation of digital services, digital identity in the center. The cost of identity and access management is increasing each year, Online users: more aware of value of their data & adequate privacy measures around them. Self-sovereign identity model (SSI) comes as the next step of evolution for the classical identity and access managements models. In this talk, we firstly remind the requirements of building identity management systems for IoT, which comprises scalability, interoperability, mobility, security and privacy. Then, we trace the identity problem back to the origin in philosophy and present the blockchain-based sovereign identity standard. Finally, we point out the promising future research trends in building IoT identity management.
Prof. Hella
Kaffel Ben Ayed received Engineering, PhD, and University
Accreditation Degrees (HDR) in computer science from the Faculty of
Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar (UTM). She is an
Associate Professor in computer science at the Faculty of Science of
Tunis, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in networking and
IT security, cyber security, IoT and Blockchain. She has been a
senior researcher at CRISTAL Lab., University of Manouba since its
creation. She is a member and serves as Director of the LIPAH Lab.
UTM, since 2022. She participated in the setting up of various
national and international collaboration projects. She served as
guest editor for many scientific journals. She is a founding member
of the IEEE Tunisia Blockchain Chapter. Her main research interests
include security, privacy and identity management in IoT. She focuses
on the use of Blockchain for cybersecurity, blockchain
based marketplaces and Self-Sovereign identities.
FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP
BIOC’22 is intended to be a full-day virtual and online workshop divided into three sessions, in which around 6-8 full and 2 short scientific papers will be presented. Full papers will have a time slot reserved of 30 minutes (20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for questions and discussions), and short papers will have a time slot of 15 minutes (10 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussions). In addition, we plan to have a keynote speech held by an acknowledged expert in the field of blockchain technology in inter-organizational collaboration.
Helsinki Time San Diego
(GMT+2) (PST) WEDNESDAY (11/9/22)
6:30 PM 8:30 AM Opening of BIOC'22
6:40 PM 8:40 AM 1st Keynote: Dr. Chibuzor Udokwu
7:20 PM 9:20 AM Paper 1: A Blockchain-Based Verification Process for Smart Cities
7:40 PM 9:40 AM Invited Paper 2: Digitization of Legal Documents Using Blockchain Technology in the Agriculture Sector
8:00 PM. 10:00 AM Coffee break
8:30 PM 10:30 AM 2nd Keynote: Prof. Hella Kaffel
9:10 PM 11:10 AM. Invited Paper 3: Decentralized Governance: Decision-Making Based on Voting
9:30 PM. 11:30 AM Invited Paper 4: Preventing Data-Security Breaches and Patient-Safety Risks in Cross-Blockchain e-Healthcare Systems'
9:50 PM. 11:50 AM Closing session
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: NEW DEADLINE September 15th 2022 (at midnight UTC)
Acceptance notification: September 20th, 2022
Camera-ready: October 15th, 2022
Workshop: November 9th, 2022
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
All paper will be indexed an published in the IEEE Explore repository.
Please use the EDAS link for paper submissions: https://edas.info/N30082
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. Papers must be written in English and strictly following IEEE style. Standard IEEE conference templates for Microsoft Word and LaTeX formats can be found here:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
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://get.blockchain.ieee.org/2022-november-7-11-get-blockchain-forum/
ORGANIZERS’ SHORT BIOS
Alex Norta is currently a research entrepreneur and affiliated with the Tallinn University of Estonia. He was before a research member in the Next Gen Digital State Research Group at the Department of Software Science of Tallinn University of Technology and was earlier a researcher at the Oulu University Secure-Programming Group (OUSPG) after having been a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He received his M.Sc. degree (2001) from the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, and his PhD degree (2007) from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. His PhD thesis was partly financed by the IST project CrossWork, in which he focused on developing the eSourcing concept for dynamic inter-organizational business process collaboration. His research interests include business-process collaboration, workflow management, e-business transactions, service-oriented computing, software architectures and software engineering, ontologies, mashups, social web. For the blockchain-tech startups Qtum.org, Agrello.org and Everex.io, Alex has worked on their respective white papers. Alex also serves as an advisor for several other blockchain-tech startups, such as Cashaa and RecordGram.
Akram Hakiri is an associate professor of Computer Sciences and Engineering at the University of Carthage, and a research scientist at SYSCOM Labs’ ENIT, both in Tunisia. He was a senior scientist and researcher at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, and a visiting research scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. Dr. Hakiri was also visiting research scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, and the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania, and Santa Clara University, California, USA. Dr. Hakiri is an IEEE Senior Member, ACM Professional Member, and the Vice-Chair of the IEEE COM NetSoft SDN MCM P1930.1 standardization project. His current research focuses on developing novel solutions to emerging challenges in distributed systems, Blockchain and distributed consensus, distributed ledgers, network virtualization, software defined networking.
Anne Laurent is Full Professor at the LIRMM lab. She received his M.Sc. degree (1999) from the University of Paris 5, France, and her PhD degree (2002) from University of Paris 6 Pierre et Marie Curie, now Sorbonne University. As a member of the FADO Research group, Anne Laurent works on semantic web, data mining, gradual pattern mining, both for trends and exceptions detections and is particularly interested in the study of the use of fuzzy logic to provide more valuable results, while remaining scalable. She is currently Vice-President of the University of Montpellier, Delegated to Open Science and Research Data. Her interest for blockchain is focused on the links with big data, imprecision, and parsimonious data storage.
Arnaud Castelltort is an associate professor at University of Montpellier, France since Sept. 2017. He is a Head of WEB3 team at LIRMM. His research lies in the fields of property graphs and how to exploit them in the context of databases, web semantics, ontologies, AI and Big Data. His interest in blockchain is focused on emerging challenges and blockchain techniques and systems in the field of data exploration and analysis, data storage and modeling and behavior detection.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
CHAIRS
Akram Hakiri, LAAS-CNRS, France
Anne Laurent, LIRMM - UM, France
Alexander Norta, Tallinn University, Estonia
Arnaud Castelltort, University of Montpellier, France
PC MEMBERS
Giovanni Meroni, DTU, Denmark
Hanen Idoudi, ENSI, University of Manouba, Tunisia
Vimal Kumar, University of Tartu, Estonia
Clemens Cap, University Rostock, Germany
Benjamin Leiding, TU Clausthal, Germany
Rik Eshuis, TU-Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Luise Pufahl, TU-Berlin, Germany
Mark Staples , CSIRO, Australia
