[AISWorld] Call for Book Chapters "Essentials of Blockchain Technology", CRC Press/Taylor&Francis

[Kuan-Ching Li]

Apologies if multiple copies of this call are received

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Call for Book Chapters
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** Essentials of Blockchain Technology **
(Chapman & Hall/ CRC Big Data Series)
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA

Web: https://sites.google.com/site/1819blockchain

Important Dates
*** Proposal Submission: August 10, 2018***
- Proposal (Acceptance/Rejection): September 10, 2018
- Sample Chapter (Acceptance/Rejection): November 10, 2018
- Complete Chapter Submission (to editors):  Jan 10, 2019
- Submission of Chapters (to publisher): Jan 20, 2019
- Publication Time: Q3/2019 (estimated)


All types of transactions such as purchase orders, payments, account
tracking and delivery tracking may take place every single second. The
business goal is to ensure the smooth completion of end-to-end transactions
and reduce vulnerabilities. More and more people are looking at a new
technology - Blockchain. A blockchain – originally block chain – is a
continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked and
secured using cryptography. Each block contains typically a hash pointer as
a link to a previous block, a timestamp and transaction data. By design,
blockchains are inherently resistant to modification of the data.

A blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions
between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way. As a
promising technique to achieve decentralized consensus, Blockchain helps
achieve benefits critical to enterprises and create extraordinary
opportunities for businesses to come together in new ways. Particularly in
finance, it has been successfully applied to digital cryptocurrencies and
Blockchain-based systems have received significant attention in both
academia and industry.
Book co-editors intend to invite experts and successful case participating
members to contribute discussions on topics related to performance,
benchmarking, durability, robustness, as well data gathering and
management, algorithms, analytics techniques for transactions processing
and implementation of applications.

* Topics
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Theories of blockchain and its evolution
- Applications with blockchain technique
- Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain
- Smart contract and distributed ledger
- Blockchain and Bitcoin security
- Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
- Blockchain schemes for decentralization
- Security, privacy and trust management, and performance optimization of
blockchain and decentralized schemes
- Attacks on blockchain based systems
- Blockchain based lightweight data structures for IoT data
- Blockchain based IoT security solutions
- Blockchain in CPS, social networking, crowdsourcing, crowdsensing, 5G,
edge and cloud computing
- Lightweight clients and simple payment verification in Bitcoin


* Proposal submission
A proposal for book chapter is needed from prospective authors before the
proposal *submission due date*, describing the objective, scope and
structure of the proposed chapter (no more than 5 pages). With the chapter
proposal, please also submit a brief biography of each author. Acceptance
of chapter proposals will be communicated to lead chapter authors after a
formal double-blind review process, to ensure relevance, quality and
originality. The submission of chapter proposals should be sent directly
via email to editors.


* Book Editors
Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan, kuancli at gm.pu.edu.tw
Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China, xfchen at xidian.edu.cn
Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA, hjiang at astate.edu
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA, bertino at purdue.edu


* Additional Information
Inquiries and chapter proposal submissions can be forwarded electronically
by email, to: Kuan-Ching Li (email: kuancli at gm.pu.edu.tw), Xiaofeng Chen
(email: xfchen at xidian.edu.cn), and Hai Jiang (email: hjiang at astate.edu) .
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