TY - GEN
T1 - The Blockchain Muddle
T2 - 20th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services, iiWAS 2018
AU - Schönböck, Johannes
AU - Kapsamer, Elisabeth
AU - Pröll, Birgit
AU - Retschitzegger, Werner
AU - Weißenbek, Markus
AU - Schwinger, Wieland
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/11/19
Y1 - 2018/11/19
N2 - Since the emergence of Bitcoin, blockchains (BCs) have been applied not only in the finance sector, but also in various other domains like health care, education or Industry 4.0 resulting in numerous different BC platforms and substantial research work. This plenty of efforts yielded to several valuable scientific surveys classifying and evaluating existing BC platforms. Although each of them puts forward a somewhat consolidated view on the field, it is still challenging to get rid of the “blockchain muddle” preventing even a common perception of the core functionality of BCs. Instead of providing yet another BC overview we conduct a meta survey of existing BC studies and report on lessons learned in this paper, being the basis for our vision towards a UML-based reference model considering both, structural and behavioral aspects of BCs and thereby identifying the nucleus of BCs.
AB - Since the emergence of Bitcoin, blockchains (BCs) have been applied not only in the finance sector, but also in various other domains like health care, education or Industry 4.0 resulting in numerous different BC platforms and substantial research work. This plenty of efforts yielded to several valuable scientific surveys classifying and evaluating existing BC platforms. Although each of them puts forward a somewhat consolidated view on the field, it is still challenging to get rid of the “blockchain muddle” preventing even a common perception of the core functionality of BCs. Instead of providing yet another BC overview we conduct a meta survey of existing BC studies and report on lessons learned in this paper, being the basis for our vision towards a UML-based reference model considering both, structural and behavioral aspects of BCs and thereby identifying the nucleus of BCs.
KW - Blockchains
KW - Meta-Survey
KW - UML Reference Model
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061122538&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3282373.3282396
DO - 10.1145/3282373.3282396
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 370
EP - 374
BT - 20th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services, iiWAS 2018 - Proceedings
A2 - Anderst-Kotsis, Gabriele
A2 - Pardede, Eric
A2 - Steinbauer, Matthias
A2 - Indrawan-Santiago, Maria
A2 - Salvadori, Ivan Luiz
A2 - Salvadori, Ivan Luiz
A2 - Khalil, Ismail
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 19 November 2018 through 21 November 2018
ER -