Samuel Fosso Wamba, Fred Riggins
This mini-track focuses on how smart contracts and artificial intelligence (AI) in blockchains are used to automate decision analytics to provide new services.Smart contracts can track changes and automate decision-making in supply chain systems, ledgers recording ownership transfers, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) governance.The rapid development of blockchain technology and smart contracts in the last ten years has fueled a dramatic increase in commerce in the crypto space.Decentralized financial services (DeFi), supply chain systems, healthcare delivery, manufacturing systems, and agriculture are all being impacted by the emergence of distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) enabled by smart contracts.Smart contracts are executable codes that run on blockchains like Ethereum to facilitate, monitor, and execute transactions and agreements between parties without using traditional trusted third parties.These smart contracts automate the decision analytics required for commerce between two or more parties.Artificial intelligence is essential in detecting fraud and misuse, allowing these systems and organizations to run without human intervention.If blockchain commerce is to become widespread, it is vital to understand the characteristics and best practices needed for effective and efficient smart contracts and how AI enables these systems to operate autonomously.This mini-track encourages authors to share new and interesting theoretical and methodological perspectives on topics relevant to academic researchers and practitioners.It welcomes work-in-progress that examines existing and extended theories using smart contracts and AI in blockchain autonomous systems and organizations.It gives special consideration to research submissions when the author(s) commit to including an industry partner in their presentation.It welcomes research that reflects a range of current research methods, including case studies, analytical models, conceptual studies, econometrics, and frameworks.A range of research areas were suggested, including: