An Enterprise Architecture Approach to Semantic Blockchain Interoperability

Sebastião Sotto-Mayor, Rafael Belchior, Rafael Belchior, Miguel Correia, André Vasconcelos

2024

Abstract

Blockchain technology has revolutionized the way data is stored and accessed in a decentralized manner. However, the lack of interoperability between such systems is an ongoing challenge hindering their wider adoption. This document proposes a two-part solution composed of activities that aim to enhance semantic interoperability between homogeneous and heterogeneous blockchain systems. The first part are the design-time activities that consist of constructing an Archimate model, extracting its Resource Description Framework (RDF) ontology, and assessing its correctness utilizing a semantic reasoner. The second part are the runtime activities that involve leveraging the resulting ontology in a supply chain management application to validate transactions among participants in a network of systems. The evaluation results are promising, demonstrating that a shared ontology can support a transparent and accurate transaction validation approach. Thus, this work is a significant step in proving that distributed ledger technologies can benefit from enterprise architecture techniques to improve their interoperability.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sotto-Mayor S., Belchior R., Correia M. and Vasconcelos A. (2024). An Enterprise Architecture Approach to Semantic Blockchain Interoperability. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-758-692-7, SciTePress, pages 614-621. DOI: 10.5220/0012418500003690

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis24,
author={Sebastião Sotto-Mayor and Rafael Belchior and Miguel Correia and André Vasconcelos},
title={An Enterprise Architecture Approach to Semantic Blockchain Interoperability},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS},
year={2024},
pages={614-621},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012418500003690},
isbn={978-989-758-692-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS
TI - An Enterprise Architecture Approach to Semantic Blockchain Interoperability
SN - 978-989-758-692-7
AU - Sotto-Mayor S.
AU - Belchior R.
AU - Correia M.
AU - Vasconcelos A.
PY - 2024
SP - 614
EP - 621
DO - 10.5220/0012418500003690
PB - SciTePress