Peter Bodorik Professor · Faculty of Computer Science · Dalhousie University

About

Dr. Peter Bodorik is a Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. His research spans distributed systems, blockchain technology, and automated smart contract generation from business process models.

Academic Administration

Past and Current Roles: Associate Dean, Academic; Associate Dean, Research (Acting); Director of the Master of Electronic Commerce program; Chair and/or member of numerous University, Faculty, and departmental committees.

Graduate Supervision

Over 80 graduate students (co-)supervised in master's and doctoral programs across computer science, electronic commerce, and related fields.

Research Interests

Blockchain technology with concentration on:

  • Automated creation of blockchain smart contracts from BPMN models of distributed applications
  • Support for trade transactions involving collaborations of many actors over extended time periods

Recent Publications

Ordered by year, most recent first. For the complete list see Full Bibliography.

2026
Journal Article

Payment Rails in Smart Contract as a Service (SCaaS) Solutions from BPMN Models

Liu, C. G., Bodorik, P., & Jutla, D.

Future Internet, 18(2), 110, 2026.

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2025
Journal Article

Automated Mechanism to Support Trade Transactions in Smart Contracts with Upgrade and Repair

Liu, C. G., Bodorik, P., & Jutla, D.

Elsevier Journal of Blockchain: Research and Applications, 2025.

★ Impact Factor: 6.9  |  CiteScore: 11.3

DOI
Conference Paper

BPMN Model to Smart Contract by Business Analyst

Liu, C. G., Bodorik, P., & Jutla, D.

5th Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC 2025), IEEE, 2025. (8 pages)

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2024
Journal Article

Transforming Automatically BPMN Models to Smart Contracts with Nested Collaborative Transactions (TABS+)

Liu, C. G., Bodorik, P., & Jutla, D.

ACM Journal on Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice, Volume 3, Issue 3, Article 21, pages 1–37, 2024.

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Conference Paper

Smart Contracts for SMEs and Large Companies

Liu, C. G., Bodorik, P., & Jutla, D.

2024 IEEE Virtual Conference on Communications (IEEE VCC), 2024.

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Conference Paper

Long-Term Blockchain Transactions Spanning Multiplicity of Smart Contract Methods

Liu, C. G., Bodorik, P., & Jutla, D.

Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer BlockSys: Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems), pages 141–155, 2024. ISBN: 978-981-99-8103-8.

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PhD Dissertation

Supporting Long-term Transactions in Smart Contracts Generated from Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) Models

Liu, C. G.

PhD Dissertation, Dalhousie University, 2024.

Repository
2023
Journal Article

TABS: Transforming Automatically BPMN Models into Blockchain Smart Contracts

Bodorik, P., Liu, C. G., & Jutla, D.

Elsevier Journal of Blockchain: Research and Applications, Volume 4, Article 100115, pages 1–26, 2023. ISSN: 2096-7209.

★ Impact Factor: 6.9  |  CiteScore: 11.3

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2022
Conference Paper

Supporting Long-term Transactions in Smart Contracts

Liu, C. G., Bodorik, P., & Jutla, D.

2022 ACM Fourth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA), pages 11–19, 2022.

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Journal Article

Automating Smart Contract Generation on Blockchains Using Multi-modal Modeling

Liu, C. G., Bodorik, P., & Jutla, D.

Journal of Advances in Information Technology (JAIT), 13(3), pages 213–223, 2022.

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2021
Conference Paper

From BPMN to Smart Contracts on Blockchains: Transforming BPMN to DE-HSM Multi-modal Model

Liu, C., Bodorik, P., & Jutla, D.

2021 IEEE International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET), pages 1–7, 2021. ISSN: 2409-2983.

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Conference Paper

A Tool for Moving Blockchain Computations Off-Chain

Liu, C., Bodorik, P., & Jutla, D.

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI '21), pages 103–109, New York, NY, USA, 2021.

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Conference Paper

Using FSMs to Find Patterns for Off-Chain Computing: Finding Patterns for Off-Chain Computing with FSMs

Bodorik, P., G. Liu, C., & Jutla, D.

2021 The 3rd ACM International Conference on Blockchain Technology (ICBCT '21), pages 28–34, New York, NY, USA, 2021.

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Master's Thesis

FSM Modeling of Off-Blockchain Computation

Liu, C. G.

Master's Thesis, Dalhousie University, 2021.

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Patents

Patent Applications

USPTO – Pending

System and Methods for Automated Generation of Smart Contracts from BPMN Models Using DE-HSM Multi-modal Models Executed by Smart Contracts with Sidechain Processing

Bodorik, P., Liu, C., & Jutla, D.

USPTO Utility Patent Application No. 17968047. Submitted: October 18, 2022.

USPTO Patents Granted

USPTO – Granted

System and Method for Tracking of Provenance and Flows of Goods, Services, and Payments in Responsible Supply Chains

Bodorik, P. & Jutla, D.

US Patent No. 11,461,775 B2. Granted: October 4, 2022. Published: November 24, 2022.

USPTO – Granted

Apparatus, System, and Methods for a Blockchain Identity Translator

Bodorik, P. & Jutla, D.

US Patent. Granted: August 4, 2020.

CIPO Patents Granted

CIPO – Granted

Apparatus, System, and Methods for a Blockchain Identity Translator – Useful for Know Your Counterparty Across Interoperable Blockchains

Bodorik, P. & Jutla, D.

Canada Patent No. 2,975,843. Granted: 2023.

CIPO – Granted

System and Methods for Tracking of Provenance and Flows of Goods in Responsible Supply Chains

Bodorik, P. & Jutla, D.

Canada Patent No. 3,073,459. Granted: 2023.

Full Bibliography

Complete list of over 100 publications via BibBase.