Analyzing a Blockchain-Based Educational Application from the Software Ecosystems View
Resumo
Many educational institutions face the challenge of dealing with different data types, available in different systems. These systems have data related to the issuance of student certificates. A Software Ecosystem (SECO) could be a set of software products with some degree of symbiotic relationship, consisting of a set of actors acting as a unit that interacts with a distributed market between software and services, along with the relationships between these entities. Blockchain technology promotes transparency, immutability, and trust, being an attractive solution for educational systems. This research presents an educational domain application named Educ-Dapp, from the viewpoint of SECO that uses blockchain resources to treat the students’ certificates from higher education institutions. The results of this work were a SECO model of an educational application that uses blockchain, and a set of research opportunities related to SECO, blockchain and collaborative systems for the educational domain.Referências
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Gerosa, M. A. and Steinmacher, I. (2012). Componentes de software para sistemas colaborativos. In Pimentel, M. and Fuks, H., editors, Sistemas Colaborativos, chapter 22. Elsevier, Rio de Janeiro.
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Hanssen, G. K. (2012). A longitudinal case study of an emerging software ecosystem: Implications for practice and theory. Journal of Systems and Software, 85(7):1455 – 1466. Software Ecosystems.
Jansen, S., Brinkkemper, S., and Finkelstein, A. (2009). Business network management as a survival strategy: A tale of two software ecosystems. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Software Ecosystems, 11th International Conference on Software Reuse, volume 505.
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MEC (2019). Brazilian ministry of education - higher education census. [link]. Online; accessed Apr-2020.
Messerschmitt, D. and Szyperski, C. (2003). Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry. The MIT Press, The MIT Press, 1 edition.
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Publicado
02/06/2025
Como Citar
ABREU, Welligton; GOMES, Alan; PINHEIRO, Francisco; BEZERRA, Carla; COUTINHO, Emanuel.
Analyzing a Blockchain-Based Educational Application from the Software Ecosystems View. In: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE SISTEMAS COLABORATIVOS (SBSC), 20. , 2025, Manaus/AM.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2025
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p. 1-14.
ISSN 2326-2842.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbsc.2025.6374.
