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, 2026March 13th, 2026 (AoE)
Acceptance
Notification
- March 31st, 2026 (AoE)
Camera-Ready
Submission
- April 7th, 2026 (AoE)
Workshop Program
Workshop Introduction
Blockchain for Information Systems Engineering (BC4ISE)
Keynote - Marco Comuzzi (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Title: Blockchains That Lived and Those That Died: A Design and Governance Perspective
The blockchain hype has faded, but real-world blockchain applications have left a rich empirical footprint: some projects thrived, others quietly disappeared. Today, blockchain has reached a level of maturity where it often operates “under the hood” in enterprise systems, financial infrastructures, and public-service platforms, less visible than in the early hype cycles, yet increasingly embedded in critical processes.
This talk revisits a selection of real-world blockchain initiatives, both successful deployments and notable failures, through the lens of a decision model that assesses the fit between blockchain variants (public, private, consortium) and specific business scenarios.
We analyze what went wrong in the projects that failed and what design and governance choices allowed the survivors to scale and persist.
The key takeaway is that, for blockchain as for many system-level technologies, long-term success depends less on the raw technical features and more on network governance, incentive alignment, and adaptability to evolving operational requirements.
Paper Presentation - Marcel Bühlmann, Hans-Georg Fill and Florian Johannsen
Strategic Decision-Making in the Blockchain Era: The Blockchain Business Intelligence Framework
Break
Paper Presentation - Silvio Langer and Fabiano Hessel
Self-Sovereign Identity Blockchain-based Architecture for Personal Data Exchange
Paper Presentation - Asif Saeed, Marco Cipriani and Massimiliano Nibid
A Decentralized Architecture Integrating Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Based Digital Assets and DAO Governance for Real-World Information Systems
Paper Presentation - Piotr Stolarski, Szczepan Górtowski and Elżbieta Lewańska
Performance and Cost Trade-offs in Layer-2 Payment Channel Networks Using Real Raiden Nodes on Private Ethereum
Workshop wrap up
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
- Tiphaine Henry - Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, France
- 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
- Barbara Re - University of Camerino, Italy
- Johannes Sedlmeir - SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Francesco Tiezzi - University of Florence, Italy