Workshop Presentation
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 BC4ISE workshop welcomes conceptual, technical, application-oriented, and case-study contributions around these challenges.
The workshop focuses on different aspects of Blockchain-based Information Systems engineering. While these aspects are also challenging for IS, the focus on blockchain-related solutions for data represents a significant difference from the main conference and the other CAiSE events.
Topics of Interest
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Conceptual-oriented
- Models, methods, and tools for the design of Blockchain-based Information Systems
- Meta-models and ontologies
- 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
- 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)
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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)
- 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
The papers have to be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=caise2026), choosing the present workshop as the track to which you submit the paper.
Submissions must follow the Springer LNCS/LNBIP formatting guidelines and should not exceed the following page limits: 12 pages for full papers, 6 pages for short papers (including references). Please refer to the Springer's authors' guidelines.
The proceedings of the conference workshops will be published as one volume in the Springer LNBIP series. Short papers will be placed in a designated section.
Important Dates
Dates are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
Paper
Submission
- March 8th, 2026
Acceptance
Notification
- March 31st, 2026
Camera-Ready
Submission
- April 7th, 2026
Workshop Program
Workshop Organization
Organizing Commitee
- Alessandro Marcelletti - University of Camerino, Italy
- Sarah Bouraga - EM Normandie Business School, France
- Felix Härer - FHNW University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Program Commitee
- Marco Comuzzi - Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
- Claudio Di Ciccio - University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Nicolas Herbaut - University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
- Julius Köpke - Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt Institute for Informatics Systems, Austria
- Wim Laurier - University of Saint-Louis - Brussels, Belgium
- Edoardo Marangone - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Giovanni Meroni - Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Andrea Morichetta University of Camerino, Italy
- Georgios Palaiokrassas - Yale University, USA
- Johannes Sedlmeir - SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Francesco Tiezzi - University of Florence, Italy