Blockchain and Distributed Systems
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 3427
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Interests: artificial intelligence; data mining; big data; expert systems; computational cognitive science; psychometrics; decision making
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Interests: blockchain; smart contracts; ICT security; cryptography privacy distributed ledger technology; scalability; tokenization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Blockchain technology has emerged as a disruptive technology and economic growth opportunity, offering novel solutions to decentralized data management, secure transactions, and consensus mechanisms suitable for trustless environments of communicating agents. Concurrently, distributed systems continue to evolve, providing scalable and fault-tolerant architectures for various applications. This Special Issue aims to explore recent advancements, challenges, and future directions in the intersection of blockchain and distributed systems.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Blockchain consensus mechanisms;
- Distributed ledger technologies;
- Smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps);
- Scalability and performance improvements in blockchain systems;
- Interoperability and compatibility among different blockchain platforms;
- Privacy, security, and anonymity in blockchain systems;
- Applications of blockchain in IoT, healthcare, supply chains, etc.;
- Distributed consensus algorithms;
- Peer-to-peer network protocols;
- Fault tolerance and resilience in distributed systems.
We welcome contributions from researchers, academics, and practitioners in the field of blockchain and distributed systems. Join us in exploring the latest developments and innovations shaping the future of decentralized technologies.
Dr. Constantinos Halkiopoulos
Prof. Dr. Yannis C. Stamatiou
Prof. Dr. Hera Antonopoulou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- blockchain
- distributed ledger technology (DLT)
- decentralized systems
- distributed consensus mechanisms
- smart contracts
- distributed systems
- peer-to-peer communication
- scalability
- security
- privacy
- cryptography
- decentralized applications (DApps)
- permissioned vs. permissionless blockchains
- crypto economics
- tokenization
- distributed database systems
- trust models
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