Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

The 2nd International Workshop on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies (BSCT 2019) will be held in June 2019 in Seville in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Business Information Systems. The goal of the workshop is to bring together participants both from academia and business practice working on innovative ideas and the application of blockchain and smart contracts. The workshop calls for sharing research experiences and knowledge related to the adoption of distributed ledgers as well as associated technologies. We invite papers that provide methodologies, techniques, or empirical evidence of vital theoretical and practical aspects of blockchain-based architectures and share views on challenges that limit the broader use and implementation of such decentralized systems including various legal, organizational, or socio-economic factors.

This Special Issue of Information intends to attract submissions on such exemplary topics as consensus protocols, information security, (pseudo) anonymity, distributed applications, initial coin offering or token economy, etc. There is no Article Processing Charge for extended versions of the accepted papers at the BSCT 2019 workshop.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Saulius Masteika
Prof. Erich Schweighofer
Dr. Piotr Stolarski
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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