[AISWorld] Blockchain Analytics Special Issue CFP

[Zheng, Zhiqiang]

You all 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



Eric Zheng

Professor of Information Systems

Jindal School of Management

University of Texas at Dallas

Richardson, TX 75080