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BLOCKCHAIN AND THE SMART CITY

Published by Elsevier
Proposal Submission Deadline: June 30, 2020

TABLE OF CONTENTS THEME OF THE BOOK

1. Introduction to Blockchain and Blockchain technology is widely popular in today Internet of Things (IoT)
distributed systems - Fundamental based applications. It is needless to say that blockchain offers secure and
theories and concepts reliable way transacting the items across the multiple parties involved. Smart
cities heavily rely on IoT applications such as smart parking, waste treatment,
2. Applications of Blockchain in Smart
e-governance, water distribution, environment monitoring, surveillance
cities systems, traffic monitoring, payment systems, healthcare and many more. By
3. Crypto currency and payment 2020, every smart city around the world is expected to connect an average of
mechanisms for Smart cities 9.7 billion IoT devices. Also, each IoT application has been contracted to
4. 4. Architectures and use cases for smart IoT different vendor companies to oversee the operation & maintenance activities. It
implementation is cumbersome task for the city corporation to manage these smart city data in
5. 5. Consensus and smart contract algorithms highly secure way. Thus, blockchain is the premier solution for the smart city
application and infrastructure management. Smart cities delivers many utility
for smart city actors
based applications, in which blockchain can be used predominantly. In fact, it is
6. Blockchain tools, open source platforms hard to achieve sustainable city development without the adoption of
and techniques for smart city blockchain technology. Also, blockchain is cost-effective in the smart city
applications billion dollar infrastructure investments and deployment. Smart contracts help
7. Citizen e-governance using blockchain the city administrators in executing the agreement between the different
8. Blockchain for Green smart city vendors and achieve the secure supply chain management. Also, verification
9. Cloud/edge computing for smart cities and audit requirements are become simpler by adopting the blockchain in smart
city applications.
10. Standards and protocols for blockchain The purpose of this edited book is to present the detailed exploration of
11. Governance and regulation in blockchain adaption and implementation of block chain technologies in the smart city
adaption contracts and applications. Blockchain technology is widely used in most of the
12. Security, trust & privacy in smart city IoT applications as well all the sectors which deals with transacting data every
applications day. This edited book covers all the aspects of the blockchain in smart cities.
13. Future of sustainable smart cities This edited volume can be used by Computer Science Undergraduate &
Postgraduate Students, Researchers and Practitioners, city administrators,
14. Research issues & solutions and
policy makers and government regularities. It presents the smart contract and
opportunities in smart city supply chain model for smart cities applications by applying the blockchain
techniques. Novel architectural and business use case solutions in the smart city
blockchain deployment are the core aspects of this book. The wide variety in
topics it presents offers readers multiple perspectives on a variety of disciplines
including number of chapters in the edited book.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE SUBMISSION DEADLINES

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on

or before June 30, 2020, a chapter proposal of 600 to
1000 words clearly explaining the theme of the
Abstract Submission: 30 June 2020
proposed chapter through email to the corresponding
editor. Authors will be notified by July 15, 2020 about Abstract Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 15 July 2020
the status of their proposals and sent chapter Full Chapter Submission: 30 August 2020
guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted
by August 30, 2020. All submitted chapters will be
Revision Notification: 15 September 2020
reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Revised Chapter Submission: 31 October 2020
Any clarifications, please reach the corresponding Camera-Ready Chapter Submission: 15 November 2020
editor thru email.
saravanan.krishnann@gmail.com,
saravanan.krishnan@auttvl.ac.in
Book Publication: December 2020

Editors

1. Dr. Saravanan Krishnan, Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, Anna University Regional Campus,Tirunelveli, India.
saravanan.krishnann@gmail.com, saravanan.krishnan@auttvl.ac.in
2. Dr. Valentina E. Balas, Full Professor, Department of Automatics and Applied Software, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania.
balas@drbalas.ro
3. Dr. E. Golden Julie, Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, Anna University Regional Campus, Tirunelveli, India. juliegolden18@gmail.com
4. Dr. Y. Harold Robinson, School of Information Technology and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India.
yhrobinphd@gmail.com
5. Dr. Raghvendra Kumar, Associate Professor, CSE Department, GIET University, India. raghvendraagrawal7@gmail.com

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