International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems Engineering
Blockchain enables decentralized, transparent, and immutable execution and storage of transactions. With smart contracts, business logic can run directly on blockchain platforms, allowing distrusting parties to share data without third parties. Its adoption for information systems raises conceptual challenges in requirements, modeling and more, while technical challenges are in data management, optimization, and on/off-chain solutions. The workshop invites contributions addressing these issues.
in Workshops by Alessandro Marcelletti on January 29, 2026

********** BC4ISE 2026 (Associated with CAiSE 2026 ) **********
2nd International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems Engineering
8 – 12 June 2026, Verona, Italy
https://bc4ise.github.io/
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IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop paper submission: March 8 2026
Workshop paper decision: March 31 2026
Camera-ready deadline: April 7 2026
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
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
  • 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)

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

SUBMITTING GUIDELINES: 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. 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.
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Alessandro Marcelletti University of Camerino, Italy
Sarah Bouraga EM Normandie Business School, France
Felix Härer FHNW University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland