Blockchain Support for Collaborative Business Processes

Ciccio, Claudio Di; Cecconi, Alessio; Dumas, Marlon; García‐Bañuelos, Luciano; López‐Pintado, Orlenys; Qing-hua, Liu; Mendling, Jan; Пономарев, А. И.; Tran, An Binh; Weber, Ingo

doi:10.1007/s00287-019-01178-x

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“…Collaborative businesses follow an overall business model that is generalized enough to fit broad categories of businesses. Di Ciccio et al [10] draw attention to how modeldriven engineering can facilitate designing business processes using blockchain. Platforms that assist implementing Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) process diagrams into operational blockchain smart contracts are analysed.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The ideas presented in the studies aforementioned [5,10] are designed to aid companies which already operate on a collaborative basis, such as supply chain and interoperating businesses. This article's efforts are to stress the positive outcomes of forming businesses alliances with companies that are not directly doing business together, but could well profit from doing so.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Blockchain for Collaborative Businesses

2020

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Blockchain applications have continuously improved ever since its first debut on cryptocurrency. From then on, its uses have branched out from the financial realm, finding their way into numerous industries such as health, environmental, and governmental. Businesses are starting to take advantage of the intrinsic traits that made blockchain so notorious into their operations, such as security, integrity, and transparency. Blockchain’s versatility allows companies to cooperate on a shielded environment with business partners safely. This paper details how permissioned blockchain networks can accommodate collaborative business models securely to provide thriving business alliances. Examples of cooperative business models and business relationship orientation are described here, as well as how they generate value when paired with permissioned blockchain networks - a more business-oriented variety of blockchain. To support this study’s endeavors, business use cases are presented to highlight how simple it is to put in place a permissioned blockchain to businesses to achieve tighter bonds with business partners. The use cases contain particular goals that enterprises seek to accomplish by partnering up with other companies, as well as how, with the employment of blockchain, they can attain them.

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confidence: 99%

Blockchain for Collaborative Businesses

2020

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“…Approaches range from process verification with the Bitcoin Blockchain [15] to monitoring and execution of processes based on Ethereum. Latest efforts either use standard BPMN notation [3], extend the BPMN standard [5,16,17], use other declarative workflow models [18], or rely on new modeling languages [19,20]. The most widespread concept is based on Ethereum and works with (some form of) BPMN.…”

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“…The business logic of a process is thereby modeled through Smart Contracts stored on the Blockchain [2]. The conversion from a process model in BPMN to Smart Contracts should be abstracted from the user [3]. The basic idea is to run a translation algorithm during design time that parses and transforms BPMN into Smart Contract code [4].…”

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A Subscription Service for Automated Communication and Fair Cost Distribution in Collaborative Blockchainbased Business Processes

Schindelmann¹,

Klinger²,

Bodendorf³

2020

WI2020 Zentrale Tracks

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Blockchain capabilities like Ethereum Smart Contracts offer great opportunities to manage cross-organizational business processes due to their trustless and tamperproof nature. However, communication in such processes poses a major issue since there is no direct option for one participating organization to inform other collaborators about their individual progress in their impersonation as a Smart Contract. As that knowledge is vital to execute a cross-organizational process, we design a Smart Contract architecture in which participants express their progress through Blockchain events. Furthermore, we implement a prototype that subscribes to the relevant events of one or more participants and reacts to their occurrence by triggering the subsequent step(s) of the process. Evaluation of the prototype and architecture shows that this does not only avoid unnecessary latency in process communication but also results in a fair cost distribution as each participant is only charged for the expenses of its individual actions.

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“…Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is one of the major technological innovations within the last decade [4,37]. DLT enables the operation of a highly available and almost immutable shared, collaborative infrastructure for individuals and organizations [8]. Data is organized in an append-only ledger that is replicated across multiple storage devices, so-called nodes, that are synchronized by using a consensus mechanism.…”

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Bridges Between Islands: Cross-Chain Technology for Distributed Ledger Technology

Kannengießer¹,

Pfister²,

Greulich³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Since the emergence of blockchain in 2008, we see a kaleidoscopic variety of applications built on distributed ledger technology (DLT), including applications for financial services, healthcare, or the Internet of Things. Each application comes with specific requirements for DLT characteristics (e.g., high throughput, scalability). However, trade-offs between DLT characteristics restrict the development of a DLT design (e.g., Ethereum, IOTA) that fits all use cases' requirements. Separated DLT designs emerged, each specialized to suite dedicated application requirements. To enable the development of more powerful applications on DLT, such DLT islands must be bridged. However, knowledge of cross-chain technology (CCT) is scattered across scientific and practical sources. Therefore, we examine this diverse body of knowledge and provide comprehensive insights into CCT by synthesizing its underlying characteristics, evolving patterns, and use cases. Our findings resolve contradictions in the literature and provide avenues for future research in an emerging scientific field.

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Blockchain Support for Collaborative Business Processes

Cited by 75 publications

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Blockchain for Collaborative Businesses

Blockchain for Collaborative Businesses

A Subscription Service for Automated Communication and Fair Cost Distribution in Collaborative Blockchainbased Business Processes

Bridges Between Islands: Cross-Chain Technology for Distributed Ledger Technology

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