Blockchain and BPM - Reflections on Four Years of Research and Applications (Abstract of Keynote Talk)

摘要

With the introduction of smart contracts, blockchain technology has become a general-purpose execution framework that offers highly interesting properties, like immutability and censorship resistance. This has sparked investigations across almost all industry sectors on possible uses of the technology, and resulted in a number of productive deployments to date. In many of these cases, cross-organizational business processes are moved onto the blockchain to enable better collaboration. In this keynote, I will summarize and reflect on research on BPM and blockchain over the last four years, including model-driven engineering, process execution, and analysis and process mining. I will also cover selected use cases and applications, as well as recent insights on adoption. The keynote will close with a discussion of open research questions.