Data Mining and Blockchain
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2022) | Viewed by 10560
Special Issue Editors
Interests: advanced data technologies; blockchain technology; data mining; big data; decision support; knowledge-based systems
Interests: computational social science; data mining; sport science
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, Blockchain, together with other distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), has been gaining special attention from both academia and industry. Different industries, such as banking, e-commerce, insurance, supply chain, education, and healthcare, are discovering the great potential of Blockchain technology that can improve efficiency, process automation, sharing control over data, secure data sharing, etc. On the other hand, data mining is a process of discovering knowledge from a vast amount of data, while detecting patterns and finding anomalies and relationships in data. It is essential to investigate how data mining, analysis, and intelligence might be integrated into the underlying frameworks of current and future applications that benefit from the unique properties of Blockchain and DLTs.
This Special Issue focuses on data mining approaches in analyzing Blockchain data. The aim of this Special Issue is to compile the recent advances in this contemporary research area.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Association rule mining in Blockchain;
- Analyses of different ledgers;
- Data analytics on Blockchain;
- Cryptocurrency price prediction;
- Discovering anomalies in distributed ledgers;
- Network science and Blockchain;
- Practical applications of DLTs;
- Security and privacy aspects of Blockchain;
- Smart contracts;
- Machine learning and DLTs;
- Coins analytics;
- Social network analysis.
Dr. Aida Kamisalic
Dr. Iztok Fister Jr.
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Association rule mining
- Blockchain
- Data mining
- Machine learning
- Distributed ledger technologies
- Evolutionary computation
- Network science
