****************** B4ISE 2025 (Associated with CAiSE 2025) ******************
1st International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems Engineering
​16 – 20 June 2025, Vienna, Austria
https://b4ise.github.io/
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IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop paper submission: 14th March 2025 (extended from 7th March 2025)
Workshop paper decision: 7th April 2025
Camera-ready due: 14th April 2025
Author registration deadline: 14th April 2025

WORKSHOP SCOPE

Blockchain technology supports decentralized, transparent, and immutable transaction execution and storage. The advent of smart contracts has provided the opportunity to manage digital assets and to implement business logic running on blockchain platforms. Thanks to its characteristics, blockchain enables mutually distrusting parties to share data in a trusted way, without requiring third-party authorities. The evolution of blockchain has generated a strong and continuously growing interest from industry and academia in its adoption for creating novel Information Systems (IS). Blockchain's execution environment offers additional trust guarantees, enhancing auditing and verification activities.
The distinctive nature of blockchain technology and its application in novel IS raise new challenges from different perspectives. From a conceptual perspective, important challenges revolve around requirements engineering, modeling, integration, governance, and the evolution of these systems. From a technical perspective, the development of blockchain-based IS raises challenges related to data sharing, data management, system optimization, and the adoption of novel on- and off-chain solutions.
Addressing these challenges requires innovative research and solutions to strengthen the adoption of blockchain-based IS and their engineering. The B4ISE workshop welcomes conceptual, technical, application-oriented, and case-study contributions around these challenges.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The scope encompasses conceptually-oriented as well as technically-oriented topics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Conceptual-oriented​

Models, methods, and tools for the design of Blockchain-based Information Systems
Meta-models and ontologies
Challenges related to the design of Blockchain-based Information Systems
Sustainability
Empirical material providing and assessing approaches to the design of Blockchain-based Information Systems
Field experience providing details, benefits, or challenges in the design of Blockchain-based Information Systems
Modeling of Blockchain-based Information Systems
Innovation and re-engineering using Blockchain Technology
Blockchain-enabled business processes for specific industries (e.g. Banking and Finance, Supply Chain, Retail, Government)
Governance of blockchain-based networks
Blockchain to support organizational governance
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)

Technical-oriented

Blockchain data management including sharing and provenance
Data privacy and confidentiality on the blockchain (e.g., encryption, zero-knowledge)
Blockchain-based authentication and access control
Layer-two solutions for Blockchain-based Information Systems
Off-chain solutions for Blockchain-based Information Systems
Oracles for trusted data
Optimization in smart contracts (e.g., data structures)
Blockchain hybrid architectures
Cross-chain, interoperable and bridge solutions for Blockchain-based Information Systems
Analysis techniques of blockchain data and Blockchain-based Information Systems (e.g., data visualization, process mining)
Query languages on blockchain
Data auditing and monitoring on blockchain

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The papers have to be submitted via EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2025), choosing the present workshop as the track to which you submit the paper. The proceedings of these workshops are intended to be published in a joint volume in the Springer LNBIP series. Submissions must conform to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP format and should not exceed 12 pages.

***** There will also be a special issue in a renowned journal that will be open for contributions, also extended contributions from the workshop (details to be announced). *****

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Alessandro Marcelletti
University of Camerino, Italy

Sarah Bouraga
EM Normandie Business School, France

​​Felix ​Härer
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland