Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes

A Systematic Study of Blockchain Evolution, Architecture, and Application with Use Cases.- Using Block chain in Intermittently Connected network environments.- Decentralized Governance for Smart-Contract Platform Enabling Mobile Lite Wallets Using a Proof-of-Stake Consensus Algorithm.- Personal Data Protection in Blockchain with Zero-Knowledge Proof.- Design and Verification of Privacy Patterns for Business Process Models.- Blockchain Technology for Energy Transition.- The Feasibility and Significance of Employing Blockchain-Based Identity Solutions in Healthcare.- Towards eHealth with Blockchain: Success factors for crowdfunding with ICOs.- Blockchain Track and Trace System (BTTS) for Pharmaceutical Supply Chain.

Prof. (Dr.) Srikanta Patnaik is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph.D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India, in 1999 and supervised 25 Ph.D. theses and more than 50 Master theses in the area of Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published around 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is the author of 2 textbooks and 35 edited volumes and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag and Kluwer Academic. Dr. Patnaik was Principal Investigator of AICTE sponsored TAPTEC project "Building Cognition for Intelligent Robot" and UGC sponsored Major Research Project "Machine Learning and Perception using Cognition Methods." He is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Informationand Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics and also Associate Editor of International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems (IJGCRSIS) and International Journal of Telemedicine and Clinical Practices (IJTMCP), published from Inderscience Publishing House, England. Dr. Patnaik is also Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering, published from Korean Institute of Information and Communication Engineering. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Book Series on "Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology" published from Springer, Germany.

Prof. Tao-Sheng Wang is Doctor, Professor of Applied Economics (International Trade Direction), Specialist of General Office of the State Council, Director of Chinese Society of World Economy, Vice Chairman of the Expert Committee of China Association of Trade in Service and Master Tutor. He is Dean of the School of Business of