Flexible Integration of Blockchain with Business Process Automation: A Federated Architecture

Michael Adams; Suriadi Suriadi; Akhil Kumar; Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58135-0_1

Flexible Integration of Blockchain with Business Process Automation: A Federated Architecture

Michael Adams, Suriadi Suriadi, Akhil Kumar, Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

16 Scopus citations

Abstract

Blockchain technology enables various business transactions to be performed in an immutable and transparent manner. Within the business process management community, blockchain technology has been positioned as a way to better support the execution of inter-organisational business processes, where the entities involved may not completely trust each other. However, the architectures proposed thus far in the literature for blockchain-enabled business process management can be described as “heavy-weight”, since they promote the blockchain platform as the monolithic focal point of all business logic and process operations. We propose an alternative: a federated and flexible architecture that leverages the capabilities of blockchain, but without overloading the functionalities of the blockchain platform with those already extant in Business Process Management Systems (BPMSs). We illustrate its benefits, and demonstrate its feasibility, through the implementation of a prototype.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Advanced Information Systems Engineering - CAiSE Forum 2020, Proceedings
Editors	Nicolas Herbaut, Marcello La Rosa
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	1-13
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9783030581343
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58135-0_1
State	Published - 2020
Event	CAiSE Forum 2020, held as part of the 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2020 - Grenoble, France Duration: Jun 8 2020 → Jun 12 2020

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume	386 LNBIP
ISSN (Print)	1865-1348
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-1356

Conference

Conference	CAiSE Forum 2020, held as part of the 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2020
Country/Territory	France
City	Grenoble
Period	6/8/20 → 6/12/20

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Management Information Systems
Control and Systems Engineering
Business and International Management
Information Systems
Modeling and Simulation
Information Systems and Management

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-030-58135-0_1

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Adams, M., Suriadi, S., Kumar, A., & ter Hofstede, A. H. M. (2020). Flexible Integration of Blockchain with Business Process Automation: A Federated Architecture. In N. Herbaut, & M. La Rosa (Eds.), Advanced Information Systems Engineering - CAiSE Forum 2020, Proceedings (pp. 1-13). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 386 LNBIP). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58135-0_1

Adams, Michael ; Suriadi, Suriadi ; Kumar, Akhil et al. / Flexible Integration of Blockchain with Business Process Automation : A Federated Architecture. Advanced Information Systems Engineering - CAiSE Forum 2020, Proceedings. editor / Nicolas Herbaut ; Marcello La Rosa. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020. pp. 1-13 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing).

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Adams, M, Suriadi, S, Kumar, A & ter Hofstede, AHM 2020, Flexible Integration of Blockchain with Business Process Automation: A Federated Architecture. in N Herbaut & M La Rosa (eds), Advanced Information Systems Engineering - CAiSE Forum 2020, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 386 LNBIP, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 1-13, CAiSE Forum 2020, held as part of the 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2020, Grenoble, France, 6/8/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58135-0_1

Flexible Integration of Blockchain with Business Process Automation: A Federated Architecture. / Adams, Michael; Suriadi, Suriadi; Kumar, Akhil et al.
Advanced Information Systems Engineering - CAiSE Forum 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Nicolas Herbaut; Marcello La Rosa. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020. p. 1-13 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 386 LNBIP).

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