Research on Blockchain Technology and Business Process Design

A special issue of Administrative Sciences (ISSN 2076-3387).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 495

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CIS Department, California State University, Los Angeles, CA 90032, USA
Interests: blockchain; business processes; IoT; industry 4.0

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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

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Keywords

  • blockchain
  • bpm
  • distribute business process
  • business process
  • workflow

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Blockchain-Based Strategy to Optimize Certified Notifications from Government Entities
by Sergio Zabala-Vargas, Yuli Álvarez-Pizarro, Iván Sánchez-Galvis and Karol Rubio-Vásquez
Adm. Sci. 2024, 14(9), 195; https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci14090195 - 28 Aug 2024
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Currently, 4.0 technologies have generated important changes in government entities, promoting digital government transformation (DGT). This article addresses the challenge of improving the security, reliability and traceability of communications and certified notifications of state entities, particularly in the case of the Colombian government [...] Read more.
Currently, 4.0 technologies have generated important changes in government entities, promoting digital government transformation (DGT). This article addresses the challenge of improving the security, reliability and traceability of communications and certified notifications of state entities, particularly in the case of the Colombian government entity called the Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones (CRC). Four important points are presented in this report: (a) Research interest in blockchain and smart contracts has been greatly increasing, evidenced in a literature review conducted in the SCOPUS index; (b) a global reference framework on the use of emerging technologies, as is the case of blockchain, has been developed, as well as the legal and juridical framework in Colombia as a baseline; (c) a multi-criteria decision making framework has been used, resulting in the choice of the Zilliqa platform; and (d) The Tecnotifica™ V1.0 software tool is developed to automate notifications with stakeholders using blockchain. Its effectiveness and acceptance is validated with a technology acceptance level test (TAM). It is concluded that the incorporation of emerging technologies such as blockchain is of a very high interest and relevance in the digital transformation of the state sector in the world. Full article
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