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Blockchain and Services – Exploring the Links

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Service Research and Innovation (ASSRI 2018, ASSRI 2018)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 367))

Abstract

Blockchain is a novel distributed ledger technology which has attracted a wide range of interests for building the next generation of applications. The broad range of blockchain applications is made possible by so-called smart contracts, which transform a blockchain system into a general compute platform. As a new paradigm and technology platform in the integration space, this bears the question to which degree there is a connection to services, and in how far lessons learned on services can be applied to Blockchain.

In the talk, I explored four different facets of this topic, as follows. First, application-level service interfaces for interaction with blockchain-based applications enable easy integration with existing infrastructure. Second, service composition can be achieved through smart contracts, and enable different approaches to orchestrations and choreographies. Third, Blockchain-aaS offerings cover infrastructure operation, but the idea presents further possibilities. And finally, some principles for designing SOA services and microservices can be applied to smart contract design.

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    Slides of the talk are available at https://www.slideshare.net/IngoWeber2/blockchain-and-services-exploring-the-links.

    Note that a small subset of this paper has been included in an extended abstract.

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My thanks for feedback and insightful discussions go to the audience at the symposium, as well as my colleagues Mark Staples, Hugo O’Connor, Hye-young Paik, Dilum Bandara, and Liming Zhu.

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Weber, I. (2019). Blockchain and Services – Exploring the Links. In: Lam, HP., Mistry, S. (eds) Service Research and Innovation. ASSRI ASSRI 2018 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 367. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32242-7_2

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