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*Pre-ICIS SIGBPS 2018 Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract*
*(
http://2018.sigbps.org <http://2018.sigbps.org/>)*
** Submission Deadline: Oct 10th, 2018 (extended)**
*Highlights.*
- Selected workshop papers will be invited for fast-track review
in ISeB
(SSCI) special issue on Blockchain Technology and Applications.
- Besides the special theme, we welcome papers on traditional
topics in
business process and services.
- Academic/Industry keynote, panel, and tutorial will be announced
soon.
- You can register for only this workshop (with a $25 additional
charge)
without having to register for ICIS and AIS membership.
- If you need an invitation letter for the visa application
purpose before
the acceptance notification date, please contact the program
chairs. We can
assist you.
*CFP.*
Research Frontier Theme: Building Digital Society with Blockchain
and Smart
Contract
SIGBPS workshop aims to extend the boundaries of research in
business
process management and services science by integrating new
elements that
have not been sufficiently emphasized in the past. The recent
rapid
advances in information systems have created both challenges and
opportunities to develop new business services via innovative
business
processes. Another important area of interest of this workshop is
to
promote theoretical research in business process management and
service
science. Driven by the need to solve practical problems, the
business
process modeling and automation research has been largely
prescriptive.
There has been a lack of strong theories in this area and we
believe that
it is essential to develop new theories about business process and
service
automation.
On the other hand, recently blockchain is poised to become the
most
exciting invention after the Internet; while the latter connects
the world
to enable new business models based on online business processes,
the
former will help resolve the trust issue more efficiently via
distributed
computing. While the recent advancement made blockchain a
practical
technology, smart contract is now getting more attention, which is
essentially a transaction protocol that executes the terms of a
computerized contract. The potential business impacts of
blockchain and
smart contracts are challenging existing business models, leading
to
fascinating research opportunities in business process and service
applications. The purpose of the SIGBPS workshop this year is to
provide an
interdisciplinary forum to discuss new research directions in the
areas of
building trustworthy business processes and services with
blockchain and
smart contract technologies. We have seen testimonial studies on
how to
examine, design, implement, and deploy solutions based on
blockchain and
smart contracts to resolve research and practical issues in BPS
applications. Such applications may benefit many research frontier
domains,
for example, finance, supply chain, education and healthcare.
Given the nature and purpose of this workshop, we invite research
papers of
no more than five pages that are well articulated and formatted in
single
line spacing, Times New Roman, 12 pt, 1-inch margins. Please
indicate your
target track (listed on the next page) below your paper title. We
particularly seek position papers but also welcome conceptual
papers with
either theoretical or application flavors, as well as completed
research
papers or research-in-progress papers. Case, empirical, and
behavioral
studies relevant to the focused topics are also welcome. Best
paper awards
and best student paper awards (students are first authors) will be
selected
based on novelty and significance. Authors of selected workshop
papers will
be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to IseB
(Information Systems and e-Business Management journal, SSCI,
http://www.springer.com/10257) Special Issue on Blockchain
Technology and
Applications for fast-track review.
Suggested research topics include, but not limited to, the
following ones:
○ Design science research in BPS applications of blockchain-driven
smart contracts
○ Technical and application solutions for smart contracts and BPS
applications
○ Empirical studies on blockchain, smart contracts and BPS
applications
○ Trust, privacy, and behavioral issues in smart contracts under
blockchains
○ Regulation, governance, and standardization of smart contracts
in
BPS applications
○ BPS applications of contract theory in smart contract management
○ Mechanism design for BPS applications of smart contracts under
blockchain
○ Blockchain-driven protocols for BPS smart contracts
○ BPS applications with blockchain and smart contracts
○ BPS case studies of blockchain and smart contract adoption
○ Tokenomics
○ Big data, cloud computing and process management
○ Robotic Process Automation
○ Coordination and cooperation mechanisms for process management
○ Process mining and intelligence
○ Frameworks and methodologies for collaboration processes
○ Business process management and smart contract based
applications
in healthcare, supply chain, finance, education
○ Metrics, evaluation and measurements in business processes and
services
○ Organization and culture issues in process automation
○ Process competencies in information intensive businesses
The workshop will be organized with special tracks of interests.
Researchers with expertise in the above topics are welcome to
direct the
paper solicitation and reviewing within one track (Please indicate
your
track in your submission):
● Integration of smart contracts in workflow systems
● Service science and engineering in blockchain ecosystems
● Blockchain enabled supply chain processes
● Innovative Blockchain Applications in industry
● Business Process Intelligence
● Business Process Innovation and Transformation
● E-Business Service Management
● Intelligent Service Systems and Technologies
*Important Dates:*
Submission Deadline: Oct 10th, 2018 (extended)
Notification of Acceptance: Oct 31st, 2018
Final Version Due: Nov 7th, 2018
Note: If you need an invitation letter for the visa application
purpose
before the acceptance notification date, please contact the
program chairs.
We can assist you.
*Honorary Chairs:*
Edward Stohr, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Akhil Kumar, Pennsylvania State University, USA
*Conference Chairs:*
J. Leon Zhao, City University of Hong Kong, China
Karl Lang, Baruch College, USA
*Program Chairs:*
Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia
Zhe (Jay) Shan, Miami University, USA
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