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Decentralized Enforcement of Business Process Control Using Blockchain

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Advances in Enterprise Engineering XII (EEWC 2018)

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Lack of traceability and control is a problem nowadays identified by industries. There are many situations that prove the existence of this problem: lack of trust between actors, lack of information about defected products within business transactions, exception handling, actors performing workarounds and not conforming prescriptions, etc. To tackle this problem, we consider knowledge from (i) DEMO, an Enterprise Ontology that models business transactions and human interactions on organizations, and (ii) Blockchain, a technology that eliminates the need of intermediaries, provides trust among the actors and traceability over business transactions. Hyperledger Composer (HC) is a toolset example to develop Blockchain applications. This paper relates and integrates concepts between DEMO business transactions and HC, then applies the conceptualization to a context of business transactions supporting food supply and distribution. Moreover, an initial prototype implementation, supported on HC with two-clients using a user interface, shows traceability and control capabilities.

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This work was supported by national funds through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) with reference UID/CEC/50021/2013.

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  1. Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal

    Diogo Silva, Sérgio Guerreiro & Pedro Sousa

  2. INESC-ID, Rua Alves Redol 9, 1000-029, Lisbon, Portugal

    Sérgio Guerreiro & Pedro Sousa

  3. Link Consulting SA, Av. Duque de Ávila 23, 1000, Lisbon, Portugal

    Pedro Sousa

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Silva, D., Guerreiro, S., Sousa, P. (2019). Decentralized Enforcement of Business Process Control Using Blockchain. In: Aveiro, D., Guizzardi, G., Guerreiro, S., Guédria, W. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering XII. EEWC 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 334. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06097-8_5

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