Blockchain Technology and Applications
A special issue of Technologies (ISSN 2227-7080). This special issue belongs to the section "Information and Communication Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2019) | Viewed by 11623
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mining software repositories; empirical software engineering; agile methodologies; software metrics and patterns; blockchain and cryptocurrencies
Interests: complex software systems; software engineering; blockchain and smart contracts
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Blockchain is no longer just about bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general, and it can be seen as a disruptive and revolutionary technology, which will have major impacts on multiple aspects of our lives. The revolutionary power of such technology can be compared with the revolution sparked by the world wide web and the Internet in general. As the Internet can be seen as a mean for sharing information, so blockchain technologies can be seen as a way to introduce the next level: Blockchain allows the possibility of sharing value.
Motivations for this Special Issue are the outstanding increased interest in software communities, in the academy, in the industry, in the finance and in the media of the new emerging software technology of the blockchain. This Special Issue aims at bringing the interest of researchers, practitioners, and people from industry to the current new directions and challenges for blockchain-oriented software engineering, and at investigating the need for novel specialized software engineering practices for the blockchain software sector.
This Special Issue is intended to report the recent advances that this new technology raises with respect to software engineering.
Articles in this Special Issue will address topics that include:
- Blockchain-Oriented Software Engineering
- Blockchain software analysis and reengineering
- Formal specification of Blockchain behaviour
- Agile and Lean processes for Blockchain software development
- Tools for Blockchain software distributed development and community management
- Smart Contracts reengineering
- Security and reliability in Blockchain and Smart Contracts
- Smart Contract Testing (SCT)
- Blockchain Transaction Testing (BTT) to ensure status integrity
- Blockchain Software architecture, design notation and metamodels
- Applications in Economy and Finance
- Internet of Things
- Notarization Supply chain management Web 3.0 e-commerce, e-health, e-democracy social networks.
Dr. Giuseppe Destefanis
Dr. Roberto Tonelli
Guest Editors
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