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This is the book that discusses the up-and-coming blockchain
technology in a structured way from the conceptual, technological
and business perspectives, thereby providing the integrated insight
that is essential for truly understanding blockchain applications
and their impact. While most people may know about blockchain from
Bitcoin and news about its price in the financial markets,
blockchain is a technology that increasingly permeates the way in
which modern businesses operate. However, its dynamics and
functioning remain obscure for most people. This book gives readers
the tools to understand the full extent to which blockchain
technology is or can be used in business. First, the book focuses
on the functioning of blockchain systems, introducing basic
concepts such as transactions, consensus mechanisms and smart
contracts, as well as giving a smooth introduction to the basic
features of cryptography that underpin blockchain technology, e.g.,
digital signatures and hashing. Then, the book focuses on specific
blockchain platforms (Bitcoin, Ethereum, private blockchain
platforms) currently used for the implementation of
cryptocurrencies and other blockchain systems. Finally, it
introduces a set of tools to understand and analyse the suitability
of blockchain technology in different business scenarios from the
software architecture, business model, and business operation
perspectives. Examples and case studies of blockchain applications
currently in production are discussed extensively across the book.
This book targets students and educators with an interest in
blockchain technology providing a one-stop shop to obtain a deep
and complete insight in blockchain technology and its applicability
in different business scenarios. The textbook is designed primarily
for 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students in industrial
engineering, business and management, and information systems.
However, it can be adopted also in the computer science majors,
since it does not strictly require any specific pre-requisite
knowledge. At the graduate level, this book can be used in courses
for industrial engineering, information systems and management
students. Finally, the book is also of interest to practitioners,
like business analysts, process analysts and information system
architects, to understand the enabling and transformative potential
of blockchain in a given business scenario.
This is the book that discusses the up-and-coming blockchain
technology in a structured way from the conceptual, technological
and business perspectives, thereby providing the integrated insight
that is essential for truly understanding blockchain applications
and their impact. While most people may know about blockchain from
Bitcoin and news about its price in the financial markets,
blockchain is a technology that increasingly permeates the way in
which modern businesses operate. However, its dynamics and
functioning remain obscure for most people. This book gives readers
the tools to understand the full extent to which blockchain
technology is or can be used in business. First, the book focuses
on the functioning of blockchain systems, introducing basic
concepts such as transactions, consensus mechanisms and smart
contracts, as well as giving a smooth introduction to the basic
features of cryptography that underpin blockchain technology, e.g.,
digital signatures and hashing. Then, the book focuses on specific
blockchain platforms (Bitcoin, Ethereum, private blockchain
platforms) currently used for the implementation of
cryptocurrencies and other blockchain systems. Finally, it
introduces a set of tools to understand and analyse the suitability
of blockchain technology in different business scenarios from the
software architecture, business model, and business operation
perspectives. Examples and case studies of blockchain applications
currently in production are discussed extensively across the book.
This book targets students and educators with an interest in
blockchain technology providing a one-stop shop to obtain a deep
and complete insight in blockchain technology and its applicability
in different business scenarios. The textbook is designed primarily
for 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students in industrial
engineering, business and management, and information systems.
However, it can be adopted also in the computer science majors,
since it does not strictly require any specific pre-requisite
knowledge. At the graduate level, this book can be used in courses
for industrial engineering, information systems and management
students. Finally, the book is also of interest to practitioners,
like business analysts, process analysts and information system
architects, to understand the enabling and transformative potential
of blockchain in a given business scenario.
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Business Process Management: Blockchain and Robotic Process Automation Forum - BPM 2020 Blockchain and RPA Forum, Seville, Spain, September 13-18, 2020, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Aleksandre Asatiani, Jose Maria Garcia, Nina Helander, Andres Jimenez Ramirez, Agnes Koschmider, …
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Blockchain and Robotic
Process Automation (RPA) Forum which was held as part of the 18th
International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2020.
The conference was planned to take place in Seville, Spain, in
September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference took
place virtually. The Blockchain Forum and the RPA Forum have in
common that they are centered around an emerging and exciting
technology. The blockchain is a sophisticated distributed ledger
technology, while RPA software allows for mimicking human,
repetitive actions. Each of these have the potential to
fundamentally change how business processes are being orchestrated
and executed in practice. The BPM community has embraced these
technologies as objects of analysis, design, development, and
evaluation. The 14 full plus one short paper presented in this
volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 28
submissions.
This book proposes a novel technique, named artifact-driven process
monitoring, by which multi-party processes, involving non-automated
activities, can be continuously and autonomously monitored. This
technique exploits the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm to make
the physical objects, participating in a process, smart. Being
equipped with sensors, a computing device, and a communication
interface, such smart objects can then become self-aware of their
own conditions and of the process they participate in, and exchange
this information with the other smart objects and the involved
organizations. To allow organizations to reuse preexisting process
models, a method to instruct smart objects given Business Process
Model and Notation (BPMN) collaboration diagrams is also presented.
The work constitutes a revised version of the PhD dissertation
written by the author at the PhD School of Information Engineering
of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. In 2019, the PhD dissertation won
the "CAiSE PhD award", granted to outstanding PhD theses in the
field of Information Systems Engineering.
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