Blockchain and its Applications in Industry 4.0 (Studies in Big Data, 119)

This book discusses fundamentals of Blockchain technology and Industry 4.0. It discusses many applications of Blockchain technology in Industry 4.0, including integration of AI, IoT, and big data with Blockchain for Industry 4.0. It provides cutting-edge research content from researchers, academicians, and other professionals from different background areas to show their state-of-the-art knowledge to use Blockchain in Industry 4.0. The book discusses advantages of Industry 4.0, such as improved productivity, improved efficiency, flexibility, agility, better user experience, and many more, and also entails some challenges too, such as trust, traceability, security, reliability, transparency, etc., for creating an application of Industry 4.0. The book helps graduate, postgraduate, doctoral students, and industrial professionals to implement Blockchain in Industry 4.0.

Dr. Suyel Namasudra is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Agartala, Tripura, India. Before joining the National Institute of Technology Agartala, Dr. Namasudra was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India, and a post-doctorate fellow at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR), Spain. He has received Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India. His research interests include blockchain technology, cloud computing, IoT, and DNA computing. Dr. Namasudra has edited 4 books, 5 patents, and 60 publications in conference proceedings, book chapters, and refereed journals like IEEE TII, IEEE T-ITS, IEEE TSC, IEEE TCSS, ACM TOMM, ACM TALLIP, FGCS, CAEE, and many more. He has served as a Lead Guest Editor/Guest Editor in many reputed journalslike ACM TOMM (ACM, IF: 3.144), CAEE (Elsevier, IF: 3.818), CAIS (Springer, IF: 4.927), CMC (Tech Science Press, IF: 3.772), Sensors (MDPI, IF: 3.576), and many more. Dr. Namasudra has participated in many international conferences as an Organizer and Session Chair. He is a member of IEEE and ACM. Dr. Namasudra has been featured in the list of top 2% scientists in the world in 2021 and 2022, and his h-index is 25.

Dr. Kemal Akkaya is a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a joint courtesy appoint in the School of Computer and Information Sciences at Florida International University (FIU). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2005 and joined the Department of Computer Science at Southern Illinois University (SIU) as an assistant professor. Dr. Akkaya was an associate professor at SIU from 2011 to 2014. He was also a visiting professor at the George Washington University in Fall 2013, a faculty fellow at Airforce Research Lab in Summer 2020 and visiting faculty at University of Florida Nelms Institute of Connected World in 2021. Dr. Akkaya leads the Advanced Wireless and Security Lab (ADWISE) in the ECE Dept. and serves as the program director for the newly developed Bachelor’s degree in IoT. He is also acting as the research director for the FIU’s Emerging Preeminent Program in Cybersecurity, which is a university wide interdisciplinary program. His current research interests include security and privacy, Blockchain, Internet of things, and cyber-physical systems. Dr. Akkaya is a senior member of IEEE. He is the area editor of Elsevier Ad Hoc Network Journal and serves on the editorial board of IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials. Dr. Akkaya was the general chair of IEEE LCN 2018 and TPC Chair for IEEE ICC Smart Grid Communications. He has served as the guest editor for many journals and in the OC/TPC of many leading network/security conferences including IEEE ICC, Globecom, INFOCOM, LCN and WCNC and ACM WiSec. He has published over 220 papers in peer-reviewed journal and conferences with more than 14,000 citations and Google h-index of 46. Dr. Akkaya received FIU Faculty Senate Excellence in Research Award in 2020. He has also received ``Top Cited'' article award from Elsevier in 2010.