Infrastructural Grind: Introducing Blockchain Technology in the Shipping Domain

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Infrastructural Grind : Introducing Blockchain Technology in the Shipping Domain. / Jabbar, Karim; Bjørn, Pernille.

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork: GROUP '18. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. s. 297-308.

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapportKonferencebidrag i proceedingsForskningfagfællebedømt

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Jabbar, K & Bjørn, P 2018, Infrastructural Grind: Introducing Blockchain Technology in the Shipping Domain. i Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork: GROUP '18. Association for Computing Machinery, s. 297-308, 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork, GROUP 2018, Sanibel Island, USA, 07/01/2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3148330.3148345

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Jabbar, K., & Bjørn, P. (2018). Infrastructural Grind: Introducing Blockchain Technology in the Shipping Domain. I Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork: GROUP '18 (s. 297-308). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3148330.3148345

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Jabbar K, Bjørn P. Infrastructural Grind: Introducing Blockchain Technology in the Shipping Domain. I Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork: GROUP '18. Association for Computing Machinery. 2018. s. 297-308 https://doi.org/10.1145/3148330.3148345

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Jabbar, Karim ; Bjørn, Pernille. / Infrastructural Grind : Introducing Blockchain Technology in the Shipping Domain. Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork: GROUP '18. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. s. 297-308

Bibtex

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