Research on Blockchain Technology and Business Process Design

Dear Colleagues,

The development of blockchain started with the introduction of Bitcoin in 2009. Since then, blockchain technology has been applied in many areas and has brought revolutionary changes to fields including healthcare, cybersecurity, supply chain and logistics, banking, accounting, etc. For business, blockchain technology offers fundamental building blocks to facilitate the implementation of cooperative business processes in a decentralized environment. Considering the emerging business prospects and inherent complexity of blockchain technology, we seek submissions of manuscripts with significant research contribution to “Blockchain Technology and Business Process Design” that investigate new applications, invent novel techniques, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions, and discuss approaches for unsolved issues.

The Special Issue welcomes topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Blockchain for business process monitoring;
• Blockchain and IoT;
• Design and implementation of blockchain-based Business Process  Management Systems;
• Modeling of blockchain-based business process;
• Model-driven engineering of smart contracts;
• Legal considerations on blockchain;
• Data management issues on the blockchain;
• Simulation of blockchain-based business process;
• Security and privacy issues on blockchain;
• BPM lifecycle support for blockchain-based process;
• Implementation challenges of blockchain-based system;
• Blockchain and public governance. 

Dr. Luna Fu
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Administrative Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.