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.
Conceptual-oriented:
- Models, methods, and tools for the design of BISs
- Meta-models and ontologies
- Challenges related to the design of BISs
- Sustainability
- Empirical material providing and assessing approaches to the design of BISs
- Field experience providing details, benefits, or challenges in the design of BISs
- Modeling of BISs
- 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 BISs
- Off-chain solutions for BISs
- Oracles for trusted data
- Optimization in smart contracts (e.g., data structures)
- Blockchain hybrid architectures
- Cross-chain, interoperable and bridge solutions for BISs
- Analysis techniques of blockchain data and BISs (e.g., data visualization, process mining)
- Query languages on blockchain
- Data auditing and monitoring on blockchain
Important Dates
March 13, 2026 (AoE): Paper Submission [extended]
March 31, 2026 (AoE): Acceptance Notification
April 7, 2026 (AoE): Camera-ready Submission
June 8 or 9, 2026: Workshop Date
Submissions
Papers must conform to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP format and should not exceed 12 pages for full papers and 6 pages for short papers (including references).
The proceedings of the conference workshops will be published as one volume in the Springer LNBIP series.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Please visit the main conference website for more information (https://caise26.polimi.it/).
Organizers
Alessandro Marcelletti University of Camerino, Italy
Sarah Bouraga EM Normandie Business School, France
Felix Härer FHNW University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
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