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CFP: Journal of Management Analytics special issue on Blockchain Analytics

  • 1.  CFP: Journal of Management Analytics special issue on Blockchain Analytics

    Posted 01-20-2018 09:47

    CFP: Journal of Management Analytics special issue on Blockchain Analytics

    You are cordially invited to submit a paper to the Journal of Management Analytics special issue on Blockchain Analytics. This call for paper can be accessed via http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/jma/si1?utm_source=CPB&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JMO03782.

    Blockchain is transforming industries by enabling innovative business practices. Its revolutionary power has permeated areas such as remittance, payment, banking, financing, trading, manufacturing, supply chain management, legal service, education, healthcare, government, and so on. Blockchain enables trustless transactions, smart contracts, decentralized economics, and disintermediated society. It has fundamentally altered how business value is being discovered, created, transferred, distributed, and realized in economics. This poses new challenges for both business practitioners and academic researchers. In particular, there is a gazing gap between the need for analytics expertise and the existing skills to comprehend the transformative power of Blockchain.  This special issue hence calls for innovative and advanced research on Blockchain analytics. 

    Topics of interest for the special issue include, but are not limited to:

    • Advancement of core techniques (e.g., distributed ledgers, consensus mechanism, cryptography) behind Blockchain
    • Minting, mining, and trading of cryptocurrencies
    • Blockchain enabled trustless computing
    • Incentive mechanism, reputation system and value attribution in Blockchain
    • Smart contracts
    • New applications and business models enabled by Blockchains (e.g. supply chain finance, prediction market, sharing economy, etc.)
    • Emerging Decentralized Application (DAPP) and Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
    • Monitoring, verification and regulation (e.g. Sandbox) in Blockchain
    • Blockchain + Artificial Intelligence
    • Blockchain + Data Analytics
    • Blockchain + Internet of Things (IoT)

    Important Dates

    • Paper submission: May 15, 2018
    • First round notification: June 15, 2018
    • Workshop on Blockchain Analytics: July 2018 at Helsinki, Finland (tentatively)
    • Acceptance notification: November 1, 2018
    • Final papers: December 1, 2018

    Financial Support

    We will organize a workshop on Blockchain, tentatively scheduled to be at Helsinki, Finland in July 2018.  Partial funding for the presenting author to attend the workshop will be provided for papers selected after the first round review.

    Submission Format and Guideline

    All submitted papers must be clearly written in English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal. A detailed submission guideline is available at "Instructions for Authors" at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=tjma20&page=instructions and all papers should be submitted through  http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tjma


    Guest Editors

    Bin Gu                                   Arizona State University

    Ling Li                                   Old Dominion University, USA

    Chee-Wee Tan                      Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

    Eric Zheng                            University of Texas at Dallas

     

    Special Issue Editorial Board

    Zhao Cai                               University of Science and Technology of China

    Alain Chong                         University of Nottingham Ningbo China

    Lian Duan                             Hofstra University

    Shaokun Fan                        Oregon State University

    Irfan Kanat                            Ohio University

    Eric Lim                                University of New South Wales

    Yong Liu                               Aalto University

    Reza Mousavi                      University of North Carolina, Charlotte

    Jiaqi Yan                              Nanjing University (China)

    Leon Zhao                            City University of Hong Kong

    Rong Zheng                         Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    Xianrong Zheng                  Old Dominion University 



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    Bin Gu
    Earl and Gladys Davis Distinguished Professor
    Associate Dean, China Programs
    Arizona State University
    Tempe AZ
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