Title
Executing Collaborative Decisions Confidentially on Blockchains.
Abstract
Decisions are an important aspect of enterprise operations. Decisions cross the boundary of a single enterprise, if multiple business partners collaborate in the decision making. To ascertain that all the participants behave as expected, blockchains can support collaborative decision making by storing relevant data and executing crucial decision logic in a tamper-proof and transparent manner. However, current blockchain technologies require the participants to publish the decision logic and are, therefore, not suited for sensitive data. This paper addresses this issue by proposing an approach that does not need to reveal sensitive data for supporting decision making. However, in case of a conflict, any participant can call for a blockchain-based conflict resolution at the cost of revealing the decision. To counter false claims that purposely reveal the decision, we provide a blockchain-enforced mechanism that discourages malicious behavior. We implement the approach using the Ethereum blockchain and evaluate the costs of resolving conflicts on a large set of decision models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-30429-4_9
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Blockchain,Decision models,Collaboration,Privacy
Publication,False accusation,Decision table,Computer science,Conflict resolution,Blockchain,Decision model,Group decision-making,Process management
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
361
1865-1348
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stephan Haarmann1103.76
Kimon Batoulis2779.62
Adriatik Nikaj3153.31
Mathias Weske43641279.13