Digital Finance - Call for Papers: Special Issue on Financial Forensics and Fraud Investigation in the Era of Industry 4.0
Overview
The next-generation Internet and Industry 4.0 applications are set to change the rules of the game in finance. In particular, disruptive technologies and applications like artificial intelligence, cloud technology, distributed ledger technologies, cryptocurrencies, and IoT offer new opportunities like Peer-to-peer Lending, Crowdfunding and Decentralized services. However, financial crime continues to represent a billion-dollar business nowadays. Fraudulent transactions/operations, money laundering, identity theft, misappropriation of funds, bribery and corruption and Ponzi schemes are just a few among various types of financial crime. The objective of this special session is to collect and report on recent high-quality research that addresses different topics related to the adoption of Industry 4.0 applications as well as novel decentralized services through the use of artificial intelligence, cloud technology, distributed ledger technology, cryptocurrencies, and IoT in financial ecosystems with a particular focus on forensics, fraud investigation and auditability.
High-quality contributions addressing related theoretical and practical aspects are expected to cover (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- Supervised and unsupervised machine learning for financial fraud detection
- Automated fraud detection based on data mining and big data
- Financial fraud detection under IoT environments
- Financial business process privacy and integrity management based on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies
- Blockchain tokens for financial cyber-physical systems auditability and relevant applications
- Blockchain-enabled financial auditability, provenance and tracing mechanisms
- Financial forensics based on blockchain and smart contracts
- Cryptocurrency trends, analytics, and suitability assessment
- Cybercrime markets and their relationship with cryptocurrencies
Editors of the Special Issue
Dr. Thomas K. Dasaklis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Prof. Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece
Instructions for Submission
Potential authors are reminded that all papers that are finally accepted for this special issue will be subject to format restrictions complying with the publisher standards. To speed up publication, and to ensure a unified layout throughout the special issue, authors are kindly advised to use LaTeX. The Springer's LaTeX template (this opens in a new tab) can be used to prepare source files (please choose the formatting option "smallextended"). The authors are highly recommended not to modify the class file by introducing personal settings and/or definitions.
Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission: 31 October 2021
About Digital Finance
The journal is a top tier peer-reviewed academic and practitioner journal that publishes high-quality articles with a focus on digital finance and innovation as well as on the analysis of digital and internet innovations on financial services and the economy. The journal publishes theoretical or empirical, qualitative or quantitative papers of interest to academics, practitioners, and regulators with the emphasis on empirical, financial market, and investment innovation, financial policy research and recommendations related to improving the welfare in the digital economy. Further details on this journal are available on the Springer website (this opens in a new tab)