Blockchains for business process management - Challenges and opportunities

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Mendling, Jan ^a   Weber, Ingo ^b   Van Der Aalst, Wil ^c   Brocke, Jan Vom ^d   Cabanillas, Cristina ^a   Daniel, Florian ^e   Debois, Søren ^f   Di Ciccio, Claudio ^a   Dumas, Marlon ^g   Dustdar, Schahram ^h   Gal, Avigdor ⁱ   García Bañuelos, Luciano ^g   Governatori, Guido ^b   Hull, Richard ^j   La Rosa, Marcello ^k   Leopold, Henrik ^l   Leymann, Frank ^m   Recker, Jan ^k   Reichert, Manfred ⁿ   Reijers, Hajo A ^l   Rinderlema, Stefanie ^o   Solti, Andreas ^a   Rosemann, Michael ^k   Schulte, Stefan ^h   Singh, Munindar P ^p   Slaats, Tijs ^q   Staples, Mark ^b   Weber, Barbara ^r   Weidlich, Matthias ^s   Weske, Mathias ^t   Xu, Xiwei ^a   Zhu, Liming ^b   more..

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

^e POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^f IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^h VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

ⁱ TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^j IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^k QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^l VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^m UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^p NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^r TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^s HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^t UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Blockchain; Business process management; Research challenges

Indexed keywords

BLOCKCHAIN; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

BPM LIFECYCLE; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; INTERORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS PROCESS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; SINGLE POINT;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 85042875606     PISSN: 2158656X     EISSN: 21586578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/3183367     Document Type: Article

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