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In an interconnected society, organisations need innovative solutions to build trustworthy systems. Blockchain technology is a promising solution in the Information Systems and Business Process Management fields. It ensures data integrity and immutability without a central authority, enhancing trust among different organisations. Blockchain also aids in designing, executing, and monitoring inter-organizational business processes. However, blockchain poses challenges, such as privacy concerns, slower transaction processing times, and increased costs. Thus, careful planning is essential for its adoption. This special issue aims to explore techniques, methods, and use cases for integrating blockchain in Information Systems and Business Process Management.

Contributions to the special issue may include but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Blockchain migration strategies for processes, enterprise applications, and data
• Blockchain suitability assessment for enterprise applications
• Role of blockchain in non-functional application requirements
• Risk and vulnerability assessment in blockchain-based information systems.
• Security issues in smart contracts
• Data privacy and confidentiality on blockchain-based information system
• Sustainability aspects on blockchain-based information systems
• Domain Specific Languages and meta-models for blockchains and applications
• Trusted-by-design smart contracts and/or blockchain-based systems
• On-chain and off-chain data and processes integration
• Performance, scalability, and optimization for blockchain-based information systems
• Case studies and lessons learned for blockchain-based information systems
• Business processes auditing and monitoring on blockchain
• Data provenance in blockchain applications
• Data quality assessment for blockchain-based information systems
• Process mining techniques for blockchain-based systems
• Verification, validation and testing techniques for blockchain-based systems
• Software architecture for blockchain-based information systems
• Interoperable and collaborative solutions for blockchain-based applications
• Oracles for blockchain-based information systems
• Technological barriers and legal implications to blockchain adoption
• Modeling aspects for processes and data in blockchain-based systems
• Design, implementation, deployment and maintenance of blockchain-based systems
• Blockchain for Identity management in information systems
• Smart contracts quality assessment and optimization
• Quality Assurance in blockchain-based information systems
• Handling flexibility and exceptions in blockchain-based information systems
• AI and LLM to support blockchain-based information systems
• Empowering BPM and information systems with blockchain-based digital twins solutions
• Other challenges and open issues in blockchain-based information systems

Practical information

• Journal: Blockchain: Research and Applications (Elsevier, open access)
• Submission deadline: 31 January 2025
• Submission portal: https://www.editorialmanager.com/bcra/default.aspx. When submitting papers, please select "VSI: Blockchain for IS and BPM" as the article type.
• Submission guidelines: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/312388/novel-applications-of-blockchain-for-information-systems-and-business-process-management

Editors

• Giovanni Meroni
• Andrea Morichetta
• Mattia Salnitri