The third edition of BC4IS was held at CAiSE 2023, in Zaragoza. We are already planning the fourth edition. If you’re a researcher looking for a venue to submit your next paper, please consider BC4IS. Also, do not hesitate to share the information with anyone who might be interested in participating and/or attending the workshop in Limassol!
Blockchain technology offers a wide variety of opportunities to enable new kinds of collaborations and organizations, and to improve existing ones. However, engineering blockchain-based systems is a task that is particularly complex, and that requires specific considerations, along more traditional information systems engineering questions. In this context, research around the definition of requirements for, development, use and evolution of blockchain-based information systems are particularly relevant.
These opportunities and challenges have generated a strong and continuously growing interest from industry and academia in the engineering of blockchain-based information systems. To help further expand knowledge around this technology and to provide relevant answers to blockchain-specific engineering questions, we organized the second edition of the Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) workshop.
The workshop was held in conjunction with the 35th International Confer-
ence on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’23). It is a well-
established and highly visible conference series, addressing contemporary topics in information systems engineering.
We invited researchers working in fields including conceptual modeling, ontology engineering, business process modeling and analysis and information systems to submit their contributions to the workshop. Ultimately, we merged BC4IS with DGD. Four papers were submitted in total, and each received two single blind reviews. A meta-review of each paper was then prepared by the workshop chairs and sent to the authors. Taking into consideration the reviews and the maximum acceptance rate of Springer (set around 50% in this case), two full papers and one short paper have been accepted and presented during the combined workshop.
Additionally, we had the chance to have a PhD presentation, as well as a compelling keynote, given by Felix Härer on the topic of Blockchain interoperability, attracting both blockchain aficionados and non-experts.
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