Call for Papers: Special issue on Blockchain Technology and Applications
Aims and scope
In recent years, the blockchain technology is having an ever growing
popularity, in particular for what concerns its application cryptocurrencies.
As a matter of fact, Bitcoin is currently the most known application of the
blockchain technology, and a number of alternative cryptocurrencies have been
defined and are currently used, e.g., Litecoin or Monero. However, the
application of blockchain is not limited to cryptocurrencies. The immutability
of the transactions and the absence of trusted intermediaries make the
blockchain technology suitable to be applied in many research and business
scenarios, and a number of blockchains are currently available on the market.
For instance, permissioned blockchains are meant to address those business
scenarios where transactions needs to be private, and their processing must be
executed within a predefined group of known participants. Moreover, some
blockchains (such as Ethereum or Quorum) allow the execution of Smart
Contracts, thus paving the way to a very large plethora of new interesting
applications of the technology in several fields, such as: Internet of Things,
Cyber Physical Systems, Edge Computing, Supply Chain Management, Social
Networks, and many others.
The aim of this special issue is to gather latest research results concerning
blockchain technology and its application on relevant scenarios, such as the
ones previously listed. Researchers, experts, and scholars from both industry
and academia are encouraged to present their recent achievements and research
directions in this area.
Topics of interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Blockchain Technologies
* Blockchain foundations
* Consensus algorithms
* Smart Contracts
* Blockchain security
* Attacks on blockchain based systems
* Blockchain Operation and Governance
* Scalability of blockchain based systems
* Governance Models and Experiences
* Performance of blockchain based systems
* Interoperability of Blockchains
* Blockchain Standardisation
* Blockchain Analysis
* Transactions analysis
* Smart Contracts analysis
* Identity Management
* Privacy and anonymity on blockchain
* Lightweight protocols based on blockchain
* Energy consumption issues
* Blockchain Applications
* Cryptocurrencies
* Internet of Things
* Smart Property
* Cyber Physical Systems
* Cloud and Edge Computing
* Supply Chain Management
* Social Networking
* e-Health
* Industrie 4.0
* Media Production
* Education
* Government
* others
Guest Editors
Paolo Mori, Institute of Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council
of Italy, Pisa, Italy
Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Germany
Laura Ricci, Computer Science Department, University of Pisa, Italy
Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Wien, Austria
Important Dates
Manuscript Due: 15 November, 2018
Acceptance notification: 15 May, 2019
Expected Publication of the Special Issue: 15 July, 2019
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