The fifth international workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies (BSCT), co-located with the 25th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2025), will be held in Poznań, Poland. This workshop continues the tradition of fostering collaboration between practitioners and researchers in exploring the latest developments, challenges, and innovations in blockchain technologies.
BSCT 2025 provides a platform for sharing knowledge, exchanging ideas, and presenting original research on distributed ledger technologies, smart contracts, and their diverse applications. We welcome contributions that advance the theoretical understanding, propose innovative solutions, or showcase applications in real-world scenarios.
We invite submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Blockchain technologies
- Advances in consensus protocols
- Scalability and efficiency of distributed ledgers
- Interoperability between blockchain platforms
- New paradigms for blockchain architectures
- Cryptocurrencies
- Economic and societal impact of cryptocurrencies
- New financial models and frameworks for cryptocurrencies
- Tokenomics and decentralized finance (DeFi) innovations
- Security and governance in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
- Smart contracts
- Innovations in smart contract programming and frameworks
- Automated testing, verification, and validation of smart contracts
- Smart contract lifecycle management
- AI-driven optimization and automation in smart contracts
- Performance and scalability
- Performance benchmarks and metrics for blockchain systems
- Optimizing consensus algorithms
- Integration of blockchain with Big Data and AI systems
- Energy-efficient blockchain solutions
- Security, privacy, and AI
- Decentralized identity management and self-sovereign identities
- AI-enhanced threat detection and attack mitigation for blockchain ecosystems
- Zero-knowledge proofs and privacy-preserving mechanisms
- Ethical AI integration with blockchain for decision-making and anomaly detection
- Legal and regulatory issues
- Blockchain governance and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
- International legal frameworks and compliance
- Ethical considerations in blockchain technology
- Privacy and data protection (e.g., GDPR compliance)
- Industry applications
- Use cases in fintech, healthcare, supply chain, and logistics
- Blockchain-enabled IoT and AI integration for smart solutions
- Asset digitization and tokenization in various industries
- Fraud detection, audit, and regulatory compliance
- Emerging trends
- Blockchain and AI synergy for advanced applications
- Decentralized AI models (e.g., Federated Learning with blockchain)
- Blockchain for green transformation and sustainability
- Blockchain’s role in digital transformation and meta-knowledge management
- Novel approaches to decentralized science (DeSci)
Submission Guidelines
- Long papers: max. 12 pages
- Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages
- Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template
Papers approved for presentation at BSCT 2025 will be published in BIS 2025 workshop post-conference proceedings, as a volume in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. BIS 2025 Workshops proceedings will be distributed to workshop participants by regular mail.
Workshop papers will be made available in electronic form by the BIS organizers to all workshop participants (and only to them) directly before the conference.
Important Dates
- May 17, 2025 – submission deadline for papers
- May 30, 2025 – notification of acceptance/rejection
- June 9, 2025 – submission of final papers (for presentation)
- June 25, 2025 – the workshop
Organizers and Chairs
- Saulius Masteika, Vilnius University, Lithuania
- Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
- Piotr Stolarski, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Program Committee
[TBA]