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Smart Contract Locator (SCL) and Smart Contract Description Language (SCDL)

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Andrea Lamparelli,

Ghareeb Falazi,

Uwe Breitenbücher,

Florian Daniel,

Frank LeymannAuthors Info & Claims

Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2019 Workshops: WESOACS, ASOCA, ISYCC, TBCE, and STRAPS, Toulouse, France, October 28–31, 2019, Revised Selected Papers

Pages 195 - 210

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45989-5_16

Published: 28 October 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Today’s blockchain technologies focus mostly on isolated, proprietary technologies, yet there are application scenarios that ask for interoperability, e.g., among blockchains themselves or with external applications. This paper proposes the Smart Contract Locator (SCL) for the unambiguous identification of smart contracts over the Internet and across blockchains, and the Smart Contract Description Language (SCDL) for the abstract description of the external interface of smart contracts. The paper derives a unified metamodel for blockchain smart contract description and equips it with a concrete, JSON-based description language for smart contract search and discovery. The goal of the proposal is to foster smart contract reuse both inside blockchains and through the integration of smart contracts inside enterprise applications. The idea is inspired by the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and aims to provide a high-level, cross-blockchain interoperability layer.

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Falazi GBreitenbücher UDaniel FLamparelli ALeymann FYussupov V(2020)Smart Contract Invocation Protocol (SCIP): A Protocol for the Uniform Integration of Heterogeneous Blockchain Smart ContractsAdvanced Information Systems Engineering10.1007/978-3-030-49435-3_9(134-149)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-030-49435-3_9

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Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2019 Workshops: WESOACS, ASOCA, ISYCC, TBCE, and STRAPS, Toulouse, France, October 28–31, 2019, Revised Selected Papers

Oct 2019

320 pages

ISBN:978-3-030-45988-8

DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-45989-5

Editors:
Sami Yangui
LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
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Athman Bouguettaya
University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
,
Xiao Xue
Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
,
Noura Faci
University of Lyon, Villeurbanne, France
,
Walid Gaaloul
Télécom SudParis, Évry, France
,
Qi Yu
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
,
Zhangbing Zhou
University of Geosciences in Beijing, Beijing, China
,
Nathalie Hernandez
University of Toulouse 2, Toulouse, France
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Elisa Y. Nakagawa
University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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Falazi GBreitenbücher UDaniel FLamparelli ALeymann FYussupov V(2020)Smart Contract Invocation Protocol (SCIP): A Protocol for the Uniform Integration of Heterogeneous Blockchain Smart ContractsAdvanced Information Systems Engineering10.1007/978-3-030-49435-3_9(134-149)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-030-49435-3_9

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