Blockchain for Information Systems: Information Management and Data Security

Dear Colleagues,

Blockchain is increasingly recognized as a key enabling technology for next-generation electronic and digital systems that require secure, distributed, and trustworthy data processing. As modern information systems evolve toward interconnected, data-intensive, and intelligent environments, challenges related to data integrity, privacy, authentication, traceability, interoperability, and cyber resilience have become central to the design and operation of electronic platforms and networked infrastructures. In this context, blockchain offers promising approaches for reinforcing secure information exchange, decentralized coordination, and trusted automation across a wide range of electronics-related applications.

This Special Issue aims to explore recent advances in the use of blockchain for information systems, with particular attention being paid to information management and data security in the broader context of electronics. The topic is especially relevant to the journal’s major scope, encompassing Computer Science and Engineering, Networks, Industrial Electronics, Artificial Intelligence, and Systems and Control Engineering, where secure and reliable data handling is essential for connected devices, cyber–physical systems, industrial platforms, and intelligent services. The Special Issue welcomes original contributions that investigate how blockchain and related distributed ledger technologies can support the design, implementation, and evaluation of secure electronic systems and digital infrastructures.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, secure data management in distributed systems, privacy-preserving architectures, digital identity and authentication mechanisms, access control, smart contracts, trusted data sharing, auditability, zero-knowledge techniques, and blockchain integration with enterprise platforms, IoT ecosystems, AI-enabled systems, industrial electronics, and emerging networked applications. Contributions that address performance, scalability, interoperability, governance, and energy-aware implementations are also encouraged, particularly when they provide insights into practical deployment in electronics-oriented environments.

This Special Issue welcomes conceptual studies, system architectures, algorithms, empirical investigations, case studies, and experimental research on blockchain-enabled solutions for sectors such as healthcare, finance, supply chains, public administration, education, smart manufacturing, and industrial monitoring. By connecting blockchain research with the journal’s broader focus on electronic systems and advanced computing technologies, this Special Issue seeks to provide a timely forum for interdisciplinary work that advances secure, transparent, and efficient digital infrastructures.

Dr. Sara Migliorini
Dr. Muhammad Bin Saif
Dr. Aysajan Abidin
Guest Editors

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