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Designing Smart Contracts for Cross-Organizational Collaboration in Blockchain tech

Exploring eSML applications for automating business collaboration models using smart contracts in the blockchain technology landscape, addressing gaps, suitability, and expressiveness. Future work includes cloud-based studies and transactional safeguarding.

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Designing Smart Contracts for Cross-Organizational Collaboration in Blockchain tech

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  1. Designing Smart Contractsfor Automating Cross-Organizational Collaboration For Blockchain-Tech Alex Norta, PhD., Department of Informatics, TTÜ@IEEE CoinBase'15, Tallinn, Estonia

  2. Agenda • Introduction • Current state in blockchain-tech/crypto-currency • Gap and research question • Business-collaboration model • Master/client- vs. P2P-collaboration • Detailed collaboration model • Suitability exploration • eContract-based exploration • Pattern-based exploration • Expressiveness exploration • eSourcing Markup Language (eSML) • eSML application • Conclusion and future work

  3. Introduction • Many smart-contracting solutions emerge: • Digital anarchy is coming • UltraCoinsto eliminate mainstream financial system • ProofOfExistencewith legal importance • Blockchain ID • Blockchain changes business • Blockchain changes contract law • Bithaloas lighweight smart contracting option • whitepaper • Ethereum as a heavy-weight smart cotracting choice • whitepaper • Vitali Buterin won a price for that • Escrows are the business-model of the future • Smart Contracting HUBsin Clouds • BitNation as a Governance 2.0 alternative to dinosaur stateist government.

  4. Introduction • New enabling concepts and technologies • service-oriented cloud computing (SOCC) • Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) • Cross-organizational eSourcing framework • Big data, mobile devices

  5. Introduction BPaaS Contracting- HUB

  6. Introduction • Gap: Existing SOCC languages do not take into account sociotechnical suitability and expressiveness. • Lack of interaction-recognition between acting humans in organizations with technology in workplaces • Suitability: concepts/properties to formulate real-world business-collaborations • Expressiveness: semantic language-construct clarity for uniform enactment • Research question: How to systematically develop a language for cross-sociotechnical and contract-based system collaboration specifications? • What is the collaboration context and model the specification language must cater for? • What are the main suitability- and expressiveness concepts and -properties?

  7. Business-Collaboration Model

  8. P2P-Collaboration Model

  9. Suitability Exploration • eContract-based collaboration • Who-concept

  10. Suitability Exploration • eContract-based collaboration • Where-concept

  11. Suitability Exploration • eContract-based collaboration • What-concept

  12. Suitability Exploration • Pattern-based http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0218843007001664

  13. Expressiveness Exploration • eXchangable Routing Language (XRL) • Instance-based workflow language • Petri-net semantics and XML syntax • Control-flow patterns give strong expressiveness • Every routing element has WF-net (Petri-net variant) semantics • Allows for soundness verification with tool support • Syntax is a tree • root element with exactly one routing element • Simple routing: no children routing elements • Complex routing: child-routing elements of specific order

  14. eSourcing Markup Language • Econtracting Markup Language ECML is foundation • ECML delta towards eSouring • Incomplete suitability/expressiveness • Bold eSML definitions are extensions • Resource definition • Data definition • Who-extensions • resource/data-definition • What-extensions • Control-flow-patterns • Lifecycle definitions • Tasks/processes of collaborating parties • Mapped ontologically

  15. eSML Application • Semantics of some Declare templates

  16. Conclusion • Summary: eSML evolves out of systematic • Sociotechnical suitability/expressiveness exploration • Real-life contracting foundation for eSML • Process-views are subsets of larger in-house processes • ECML extension with eSourcing patterns • Conjoinments, monitorability, process views • WF-net based control-flow semantics • Verifyable with tool-support • XRL/flower as a proof-of-concept protoype • Pattern-set extension eSML by WF-net mapping library extension • Future work • Cloud-based mobile business collaboration case studies • Safeguarding e-business transactionalities • Subsequent eSML extensions

  17. Thank you for listening! Q&A

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