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Call for papers
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DISTRIBUTED LEDGER TECHNOLOGY, THE BLOCKCHAIN MINITRACK
- Part of the Internet and the Digital Economy Track
- 52nd annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
HICSS-52: January 8-11, 2019| Maui, Hawaii
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IMPORTANT DATES
- April 15: Paper submission begins
- June 15: Paper submissions deadline
- August 17: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
- September 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript
for publication
- October 1: Deadline for at least one author to register for
HICSS-52
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MINI-TRACK DESCRIPTION
Among other promising technologies, Distributed Ledger
Technologies (DLTs), often referred to as Blockchain, promise to
be one of the most disruptive technologies since the invention of
the internet’s TCP/IP protocol, yet this technology so far lacks
scholarly attention and coverage in peer-reviewed literature. The
combination of some DLT characteristics, e.g. accountability,
pseudonymity or distributed network topology, as well as the first
cryptocurrency Bitcoin, drew enormous attention given the
ubiquitous amount of possibilities for which this technology can
be used since its invention in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto. Whereas
TCP/IP lowered the cost of transferring data between two parties
dramatically, DLTs have the potential to reduce the cost of
transactions (i.e. transfer of assets and value) dramatically.
DLTs can enable the secure transfer of any asset worldwide with
nearly instant accountability by specifically cutting out
intermediary trust holders due to the capabilities of the
network’s proof-of-X trust-building-processes, e.g. the Bitcoin
proof-of-work mining concept. More recent developments that build
on top of DLTs, like smart contracts and Decentralized Autonomous
Organizations (DAOs) take the possibilities of programmable secure
transactions even further.
In this context, companies, governments, and whole industries are
facing dramatic organizational change and transformation processes
with regard to their value chains while adopting DLTs. This
minitrack welcomes fundamental research regarding methods and
techniques, issues, and key challenges, as well as organizational
approaches for understanding the potential of DLTs for business
models, value chains, emerging competitive landscapes and new
start-ups employing this technology. Research may cover any
industry or organizational form and may focus on the technology
layer or strategic organizational challenges, opening this track
both to the IT and economic/management science community to
reflect their increasing dependency on each other. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Current state of the art of blockchain technologies and smart
contracts
2. Applications of blockchain technology and their potential in
different areas (finance, insurance, healthcare and
pharmaceuticals, energy sector, manufacturing, transportation,
automotive industry, provenance, government sector etc.)
3. Blockchain and Internet of Things (machine-to-machine
interaction, automated devices, blockchain for metered appliances,
etc.)
4. Impact on business models (change of existing business models,
emergence of new business models, disruptive business models,
etc.)
5. Organizational transformation through blockchain technology
(distributed autonomous organizations, etc.)
6. Impact on the value chain (disintermediation, change of actors,
advantages and disadvantages, etc.), the internet and the digital
economy.
7. Regulatory aspects of blockchain technology and implications
for risk management
8. Technical issues of blockchain technology (emergent protocols,
consensus mechanisms, scalability, reliability, security,
challenges of implementation, etc.)
9. Philosophical issues on use of blockchain technology
(governance of blockchain society, decentralization of society,
building of community and collaboration)
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Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Isabell Welpe (Primary Contact)
Technical University of Munich
welpe@tum.de <mailto:welpe@tum.de>
Liudmila Zavolokina
University of Zurich
zavolokina@ifi.uzh.ch <mailto:zavolokina@ifi.uzh.ch>
Helmut Krcmar
Technical University of Munich
krcmar@in.tum.de <mailto:krcmar@in.tum.de>
Pascal Mehrwald
Technical University of Munich
pascal.mehrwald@tum.de <mailto:pascal.mehrwald@tum.de>
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Information Management Research Group
Department of Informatics
University of Zurich
Binzmuehlestrasse 14
CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland
E-Mail:
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Phone: +41 44 635 75 83
Room: 2.D.11
Web:
http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/imrg <http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/imrg>
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