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Blockchain Technologies for Multi-Agent Systems

This special issue belongs to the section “Information Applications“.

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Dear Colleagues,

The overall objective of BCT4MAS is to provide a common ground to researchers and engineers coming from several areas to discuss and share knowledge, experiences, and scientific/technical contributions, in the scenarios of employing BlockChain Technologies (BCT) in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS).

On the one hand, adopting BCT can help to overcome trust and reliability limitations, broadly known in MAS literature, enabling secure, autonomous, flexible and even profitable solutions. On the other hand, MAS would contribute with its features to address limitations of BCT.

This Special Issue is meant (but not limited) to gather and enhance the visibility of the contributions of
- BCT4MAS 2018 held in Santiago, Chile, 3-4 December 2018;
- BCT4MAS 2019 held in Avila, Spain, 26-28 June 2019;
 
Therefore, the authors of the accepted papers are invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to the Special Issue “Blockchain Technologies for Multi-Agent Systems” of the journal Information, an open access information science journal.
 
Finally, authors interested in extending their conference papers must be aware that the final submitted manuscript must provide a minimum of 50% new content and not exceed 30% copy/paste from the proceedings paper. Each manuscript will be blind reviewed by I-OAISJ academic editors.
 
Dr. Davide Calvaresi
Dr. Alevtina Dubovitskaya
Prof. Dr. Michael Schumacher
Prof. Dr. Kuldar Taveter
Guest Editors
 

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