Link to the workshop website

The Fifth Workshop on Blockchain-Based Architecture (BlockArch’25) continues to explore architectural challenges in blockchain technology, focusing on decentralization, consensus, immutability, finality, and provenance. BlockArch'25 aims to advance discussions on blockchain architectures, addressing concerns like cross-chain interoperability, hybrid blockchain systems, security models, and specific demands in healthcare, finance, and supply chain domains. It builds on the success of the previous four editions and brings together leading researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to share innovations and strategies for designing robust blockchain systems.

Call for Papers

We invite researchers and practitioners to submit papers addressing innovative software architecture solutions and emerging topics. Papers should focus on original research, case studies, and best practices.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: January 20, 2025
• Camera-Ready Submission: January 27, 2025

Topics

• Design of blockchain-based architectures for software systems
• Architectural patterns/tactics to satisfy blockchain qualities: decentralization, consensus, immutability, finality, and provenance
• Emerging quality attributes when blockchain is applied to focused domains like healthcare, education, and retail
• Technical and social challenges, research problems, and industrial case studies for designing scalable, secure blockchain systems
• Cross-chain interoperability, blockchain security models, and governance frameworks

Submission

Position Papers (2-4 pages): Addressing specific architectural challenges, trends, or theoretical frameworks

Full-Length Papers (6-10 pages): Original research or empirical studies on blockchain architectures

Industry and Experience Papers (6-10 pages): Industrial case studies and lessons learned Papers will be peer-reviewed based on clarity, contribution, related work, methodology, and writing quality.

Submission should be made through EasyChair (BlockArch Workshop)

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in the ICSA 2025 proceedings and will be made available through IEEE Xplore.

Track Chairs

• Mohamad Kassab (Boston University, USA)
• Valdemar Vicente Graciano Neto (Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil)
• Giuseppe Destefanis (Brunel University, UK)

Program Committee

• Jeffrey Voas, NIST, USA
• Colin Neil, Penn State University, USA
• Cristiano Silva, UFSJ, Brazil
• Phillip Laplante, Penn State University, USA
• Eduardo Alchieri, UnB, Brazil
• Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA
• Alex Borges Vieira, UFJF, Brazil
• Joanna Defranco, Penn State University, USA
• Leobino Sampaio, UFBA, Brazil
• Makoto Takemiya, Soramitsu, Japan
• Raghvinder S. Sangwan, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Marco Ortu, University of Cagliari, Italy
• Roberto Tonelli, University of Cagliari, Italy
• Rumyana Neykova, Brunel University, UK