Artifact-Centric Modeling and Implementation of Blockchain-Enabled Business Processes

【Author】 Amaral de Sousa, Victor; Burnay, Corentin; Snoeck, Monique

【Source】BUSINESS & INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

【影响因子】5.675

【Abstract】Smart contracts can be used to support the execution of cross-organizational business processes involving mutually distrusting participants. Model-driven engineering is often used to generate such contracts and requires an appropriate blockchain-enabled process modeling language. Although artifact-centric languages are recommended in this context to support the business objects, lifecycles and cross-organizational process dimensions, most approaches rely on activity-centric languages such as BPMN. The few artifact-centric ones lack integrated support for one or more of these dimensions. To address this issue, in this paper we apply the design science research methodology. The authors propose a set of requirements for artifact-centric and blockchain-enabled business process modeling languages. It is used to evaluate existing work and present the design and demonstration of the B-MERODE language as an improved solution. The models created with the language can be formally verified and used as input to automatically generate smart contracts supporting the required process dimensions.

【Keywords】Blockchain; Smart contract; Business process; Artifact-centric; Model-driven

【发表时间】2024 2024 AUG 1

【收录时间】2024-08-07

【文献类型】实验仿真

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区块链技术-核心技术-智能合约