The First Blockchain Software Engineering Workshop

15th April 2020

Trondheim, Norway

Purpose

Along with the development of blockchain technologies, more and more critical software applications, such as FinTech applications and supply chain technologies, apply blockchain technologies or integrate blockchain-based components. To assure reliability, security, privacy, maintainability, etc. of blockchain-based applications, existing software engineering theories and approaches need to be evaluated, customized, and improved. The primary motivation for this workshop is to gather together empirical software engineering practitioners, researchers, and people from industry to evaluate, assess, and advance the research and the practical usage of software engineering theories, approaches, and tools for effectively developing high-quality blockchain-based applications.

Call for papers

Themes 

We welcome submissions of original and unpublished research that uses and empirically evaluates software engineering approaches and theories for developing blockchain-based applications. The related software engineering technologies include, but are not limited to:

  • Requirement engineering

  • Software architecture

  • Quality assurance of smart contract and blockchain applications

  • Software testing technologies and tools related to a blockchain-based application

  • Software engineering approaches to address security and data privacy issues of a blockchain-based application

  • Estimating effort of developing and testing blockchain-based applications

  • Software process, such as Agile, DevOps, and AIOps, for developing blockchain-based applications

  • Software project management and knowledge management

  • Software engineering issues related to operating blockchain-based applications

  • Experience and lessons learned from transferring blockchain-based applications to industry

Submissions

We will accept two types of submissions.

  • Full research paper: up to 8 pages. The submission should follow the ACM proceeding template

  • Short paper or industrial experience report: up to 4 pages.

Submitted papers must be written in English, contain original unpublished works, and conform to the ACM Proceedings Format  https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template.

Please submit manuscripts via EasyChair https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ease2020, and in pdf format.

Each submitted paper reviewed by no less than two members of the program committee. Accepted paper will be in the main proceeding of EASE 2020 https://www.ntnu.edu/ease2020 , which will be published by the ACM Digital Library.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register by the camera-ready deadline.

Important Dates

Paper Submission:

  • January 13,(Extended to January 20) 2020

Acceptance Notification:

  • February 2, 2020

Camera-ready copies:

  • February 15, 2020

Technical Program Committee

Peter Halland Haro, SINTEF Digital, Norway

Bixin Li, Southeast University, China

Juho Lindman, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Tosin Daniel Oyetoyan, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

Slobodan Petrovic, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Rene Pickhardt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Do Van Thanh, Telenor, Norway

Quanqing Xu, Ant Financial Services Group, China

Xiwei Xu, CSIRO, Australia

He Zhang, Najing University, China

Chairs

Jingyue Li, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Hai Thanh Nguyen, Adjunct Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Mariusz Nowostawski, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)