Model-driven engineering for multi-party business processes on multiple blockchains

Corradini, Flavio; Marcelletti, Alessandro; Morichetta, Andrea; Polini, Andrea; Re, Barbara; Scala, Emanuele; Tiezzi, Francesco

doi:10.1016/j.bcra.2021.100018

Cited by 23 publications

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“…Four present a custom blockchain implementation and only two studies consider Bitcoin. Finally, Corradini et al [34] and Falazi et al [26] present artefacts for multiple blockchains.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For ten studies, cost is the sole focus of the evaluation. Indeed, this concern is understandable when considering the cost of public blockchain compared to more traditional computing [52] [5,30,34] Table 4. Employed Methods.…”

Section: Dimensions and Classification Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Cross-chain compatibility. Only [26,34] present artefacts for multiple blockchains. However, the choice of the blockchain platform is application-specific [7,Chapter 6.3].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Blockchain for Business Process Enactment: A Taxonomy and Systematic Literature Review

Stiehle¹,

Weber²

2022

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Blockchain has been proposed to facilitate the enactment of interorganisational business processes. For such processes, blockchain can guarantee the enforcement of rules and the integrity of execution traceswithout the need for a centralised trusted party. However, the enactment of interorganisational processes pose manifold challenges. In this work, we ask what answers the research field offers in response to those challenges. To do so, we conduct a systematic literature review (SLR). As our guiding question, we investigate the guarantees and capabilities of blockchain-based enactment approaches. Based on resulting empirical evidence, we develop a taxonomy for blockchain-based enactment. We find that a wide range of approaches support traceability and correctness; however, research focusing on flexibility and scalability remains nascent. For all challenges, we point towards future research opportunities.

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“…Four present a custom blockchain implementation and only two studies consider Bitcoin. Finally, Corradini et al [34] and Falazi et al [26] present artefacts for multiple blockchains.…”

Section: Dimensions and Classification Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Dimensions and Classification Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Blockchain for Business Process Enactment: A Taxonomy and Systematic Literature Review

Stiehle¹,

Weber²

2022

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“…DLT Frameworks for application development The adaptation of DLT to general-purpose applications has led to the advent of software frameworks supporting the integration of DLT functions in business applications. Hyperledger Fabric 4 is an open-source enterprise-grade permissioned DLT platform with features such as participant identifiability, high transaction throughput, low transaction confirmation latency, and transaction privacy and confidentiality control. The architecture separates the transaction processing workflow into three different stages.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In [16,7] Business Process Models and data registry models are used as input for a code generator that creates smart contracts executable in the blockchain network. Corradini et al [4] implement a similar approach for multi-party business processes interacting with multiple blockchain networks, by including a choreography model in which the target of each task is defined. Similar approaches for the generation of smart contracts can be found in [6] where enhanced state diagrams are used to represent the entities life-cycle as a set of states and transitions and a code generator takes the diagram as input and creates a smart contract for each transition.…”

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Model-Driven Development of Distributed Ledger Applications

Fraternali

Gonzalez

Frigerio

et al. 2022

Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2022 International Workshops

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The Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is one of the most durable results of virtual currencies, which goes beyond the financial sector and impacts business applications in general. Developers can empower their solutions with DLT capabilities to attain such benefits as decentralization, transparency, non-repudiability of actions and security and immutability of data assets, to the price of integrating a distributed ledger framework into their software architecture. Model-Driven Development (MDD) is the discipline that advocates the use of abstract models and of code generation to reduce the application development and integration effort by delegating repetitive coding to an automated model-tocode transformation engine. In this paper, we explore the suitability of MDD to support the development of hybrid applications that integrate centralized database and distributed ledger architectures and describe a prototypical tool capable of generating the implementation artefacts starting from a high level model of the application and of its architecture.

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