Blockchain Driven Supply Chains and Enterprise Information Systems

Foreword.- Preface.- Introduction.- Blockchain in the Supply Chain Sector: A Review.- The Blockchain Beyond Crypto Currencies.- Blockchain Architectures in Enterprise Information Sectors.- Blockchain in the Manufacturing Industry.- Blockchain Technology for BIM Process and Workflow.- Blockchain Concept in Supply Chain BIM Enabled.- Digital Twin Approach Based Blockchain.- Increasing Collaboration Efficiency of PLM Systems Using the Blockchain Technology.- Blockchain Technology in Enterprise Information Systems.- ERP and Blockchain Integration: Perspectives From an Industrial Case Study.- Performance Evaluation of Blockchain Implementation in Industrial Environments.- Securing Medical Records and Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Using Blockchain.

Abdelaziz Bouras is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the College of Engineering at Qatar University and the current Director of the Office of Research Support (acting). He obtained a PhD in 1993 in Computer Science from the University of Lyon, France, where he was Professor until 2013. His current research focuses on distributed software for data life cycle management and preservation. He is currently leading several projects, such as the Supply Ledger NPRP Project on Smart Ledger Technologies in Supply Chain Management. During his previous academic involvement with the University of Lyon, he managed several EU projects in the context of supply chains including an EU FP7 project on smart wearable's and meta-product lifecycle management. He has published many research papers in refereed journals/conferences and edited several books. He also founded the IJPD and IJPLM international journals in the ICT for engineering domains. He is the chair of the IFIP International Federation of Information Processing WG5.1, which holds a regular international conference on digital life cycle information systems and publishes a yearly edited book with Springer.

 

Ibrahim Khalil is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University in Melbourne. He obtained his PhD in 2003 from the University of Berne in Switzerland. He has several years of experience in Silicon Valley for networking companies as a software engineer, working on secure network protocols and smart network service provisioning. He worked for EPFL and at University of Berne in Switzerland and Osaka University in Japan before joining RMIT University in 2004. Dr. Khalil leads a fairly large research group and supervised more than 28 PhD students towards completions. His research interests are in security and scalable computing in distributed systems in different domains, ranging from