Blockchain for Industry 4.0: Blockchain for Industry 4.0: Emergence, Challenges, and Opportunities
暫譯: 工業4.0的區塊鏈：出現、挑戰與機會

這本參考書以易於理解的方式提供了區塊鏈的理論基礎、出現背景及應用領域，對於研究人員、學術界及業界專業人士理解區塊鏈的顛覆潛力將非常有幫助。它解釋了與工業4.0、智慧醫療及物聯網（IoT）相關的區塊鏈概念，並探討了智慧合約和共識演算法。本書將成為電機工程、電子與通信工程、計算機工程及資訊科技研究生和學術研究者的理想參考書。

本書：
- 討論區塊鏈技術在工業4.0、教育、金融及供應鏈等多個領域的應用。
- 提供區塊鏈領域的理論概念、應用及研究進展。
- 全面涵蓋工業4.0數位化平台及工業4.0中的數據管理區塊鏈。
- 強調共識演算法的分析與設計、容錯性及選擇正確共識演算法的策略。
- 介紹工業物聯網、物聯網、區塊鏈整合及基於區塊鏈的應用中的安全問題。

本書深入探討了區塊鏈技術領域的理論概念、應用及進展。這本書將成為電機、電子與通信、計算機及資訊科技等多個工程領域研究生和學術研究者的理想參考資料。

Anoop V. S. is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Smith School of Business, Queen's

University, Ontario, Canada. Previously, he worked as a Senior Scientist

(Research and Training) at Kerala Blockchain Academy, Kerala University

of Digital Sciences, Innovation, and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram,

India. He received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Master of

Philosophy (MPhil) from Cochin University of Science and Technology

(CUSAT), Kerala. He has also worked as a Senior AI Data Scientist with

Dubai Future Accelerator for implementing AI solutions for Etisalat

and Etihad Airways. He is an experienced software engineer with more

than 5 years of experience working with US-based multi-national companies

in Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram. He has completed several

industry internships in data science and AI that helped him implement

intelligent algorithms for many organizations to solve their complex

business problems. He has over 10 years of overall experience in teaching,

research, and industry. His research interests are in text mining,

natural language processing, computational social sciences, and blockchain.

He has published papers in journals of national and international

repute, book chapters, and conference proceedings in major venues of AI

and knowledge management.

Asharaf S. is a computer engineer/scientist with extensive exposure in

algorithms for machine learning. In addition to his current role as a

Dean (R&D) and Professor at Kerala University of Digital Sciences,

Innovation, and Technology, he also serves as a visiting faculty for MDP

programs at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode and as a

Mentor in Kerala Startup Mission. He received his PhD and Master of

Engineering degrees in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of

Science, Bangalore. He graduated in Computer Engineering from Cochin

University of Science and Technology. After B.Tech, he has worked as a

lecturer at T.K.M. College of Engineering, Kollam, and after PhD, he

has worked as a Research Scientist at America Online (AOL) R&D Labs

and as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management

Kozhikode. He is a recipient of IBM outstanding PhD student award

2006, IBM Shared University Research Grant 2015, IBM Open Science

Collaboration Program Grant 2017, and DBT/BIRAC/Bill & Melinda

Gates Foundation Research Grant under the Grand Challenges India

program in 2019. He has published three books and more than 50

research papers in international journals and conferences. He served as

the founding professor-in-charge of Maker Village Cochin (https: //makervillage.

in/people.php) and currently serves as the Professor-in-Charge

of Kerala Blockchain Academy (https: //kba.ai/team/). His areas of interest

include technologies and business models related to data engineering,

machine learning, information retrieval, and blockchains.

Justin Goldston is a Professor of Project and Supply Chain Management

at Penn State University, where his research is focused on blending the

practices of supply chain management, emerging technologies, and sustainability

to create positive global change. Dr. Goldston is a research

faculty affiliate for the Center for the Business of Sustainability at the

Smeal College of Business at Penn State as well as an active contributing

faculty member of The Sustainability Institute at Penn State. Outside

of the institution, Goldston is an Executive on the International Supply

Chain Education Alliance's (ISCEA's) International Standards Board

(IISB) and is the author of the forthcoming book AI for Good: Achieving

Sustainability Through Citizen Science and Organizational Citizenship.

Dr. Goldston has over 20 years of experience working with organizations

around the world such as Intel, Siemens, and Blue Buffalo on business

performance improvement, organizational change, and enterprise-wide

digital transformation initiatives. Goldston has also led and assisted in the

development of Supply Chain Management, Sustainability, and Business

Analytics programs and courses at Georgetown University, Texas A&M

University, Rasmussen University, Davenport University, and North

Carolina Wesleyan College and has evaluated doctoral programs for the

Department of Higher Education. Goldston serves on the Management

Advisory Board at various higher education institutions; is the author

of multiple peer-reviewed journal articles on supply chain management,

sustainability, and innovative technologies of Critical Success Factors in

ERP Implementations; and is a five-time TEDx speaker where he discussed

emerging technologies such as blockchain and AI.

Samson Williams is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in NYC

and the University of New Hampshire School of Law, where he teaches

on the blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and the space economy. He is also

a serial entrepreneur and accidental investor and the President of the

Crowdfunding Professional Association and investor into two investment

crowdfunding platforms Brite.us - CrowdInvesting Done B_rite

and GoingPublic.com. Samson is a senior emergency and finance strategist

specializing in operations and technology, healthcare, and financia

service crisis management. As a globally recognized expert on technology

and crisis communications, Samsons strive to develop compelling

content and deliver a message through distinct, actionable, and measurable

campaigns. Previously, he worked with Fannie Mae as part of the

emergency management team assembled to help pull the nation out of

the housing crisis. Ultimately, he spent the last 2 years leading internal

communications, workforce development, and organizational resiliency

for Fannie Mae's Operations and Technology Division. Prior to investing

in Brite.us and creating The Space Economy show, Samson served

as the Principal Consultant for Axes and Eggs, a global technology

advisory building relationship beyond tech in Dubai and Riyadh and

throughout the Middle East North Africa region. There, Mr. Samson

oversaw education, messaging, communication strategy, and media

planning for finance, fintech, and government agencies throughout the

Middle East, executing events and relationships with government agencies

from the United Arab Emirates, Kingdoms of Bahrain and Saudi

Arabia, Mauritius, and India. Samson has authored several books such

as Raising Money -Understanding Cryptocurrencies, Crowdfunding,

Startup Capital, Blockchain and The Space Economy, The Space

Economy -Book Zero of The Space Economies Series, Lifestyle Money:

Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Crowdfunding, and The Future of Money

and Wealth, Stop Sucking Up to VCs, and Race and Space -Racial

Equity and Justice in the Space Economy.

Anoop V. S. 是加拿大安大略省女王大學史密斯商學院的博士後研究員。之前，他曾擔任印度喀拉拉邦數位科學、創新與技術大學喀拉拉區塊鏈學院的高級科學家（研究與培訓）。他在喀拉拉科技大學（Cochin University of Science and Technology, CUSAT）獲得哲學博士（PhD）和哲學碩士（MPhil）學位。他還曾擔任迪拜未來加速器的高級人工智慧數據科學家，為Etisalat和阿聯酋航空實施人工智慧解決方案。他是一位經驗豐富的軟體工程師，擁有超過5年的經驗，曾在位於喀拉拉邦的Technopark與美國跨國公司合作。他完成了多個數據科學和人工智慧的行業實習，幫助多個組織實施智能算法以解決其複雜的商業問題。他在教學、研究和行業方面擁有超過10年的整體經驗。他的研究興趣包括文本挖掘、自然語言處理、計算社會科學和區塊鏈。他在國內外知名期刊、書籍章節和主要人工智慧及知識管理會議的論文中發表了多篇文章。

Asharaf S. 是一位計算機工程師/科學家，對機器學習算法有廣泛的接觸。除了目前在喀拉拉數位科學、創新與技術大學擔任研發院院長和教授的角色外，他還擔任印度管理學院科齊科德的MDP項目的客座教授，以及喀拉拉創業任務的導師。他在印度科學院班加羅爾獲得計算機科學的博士和工程碩士學位，並在喀拉拉科技大學獲得計算機工程學位。完成B.Tech後，他曾在科倫的T.K.M.工程學院擔任講師，並在獲得博士學位後，曾在美國在線（AOL）研發實驗室擔任研究科學家，並在印度管理學院科齊科德擔任助理教授。他是2006年IBM傑出博士生獎、2015年IBM共享大學研究獎、2017年IBM開放科學合作計劃獎以及2019年在Grand Challenges India計劃下獲得的DBT/BIRAC/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation研究獎的獲得者。他已出版三本書和超過50篇國際期刊和會議的研究論文。他曾擔任Maker Village Cochin的創始負責教授（https://makervillage.in/people.php），目前擔任喀拉拉區塊鏈學院的負責教授（https://kba.ai/team/）。他的興趣領域包括與數據工程、機器學習、信息檢索和區塊鏈相關的技術和商業模式。

Justin Goldston 是賓州州立大學的項目與供應鏈管理教授，他的研究專注於將供應鏈管理的實踐、新興技術和可持續性結合起來，以創造積極的全球變化。Goldston博士是賓州州立大學Smeal商學院可持續商業中心的研究教職員聯盟成員，也是賓州州立大學可持續性研究所的活躍貢獻教職員。Goldston在國際供應鏈教育聯盟（ISCEA）的國際標準委員會（IISB）擔任高級職位，並是即將出版的書籍《AI for Good: Achieving Sustainability Through Citizen Science and Organizational Citizenship》的作者。Goldston博士擁有超過20年的經驗，曾與全球各地的組織（如Intel、Siemens和Blue Buffalo）合作，進行業務績效改進、組織變革和企業範圍的數位轉型計劃。Goldston還主導並協助開發喬治城大學、德克薩斯A&M大學、拉斯穆森大學、達文波特大學和北卡羅來納衛斯理學院的供應鏈管理、可持續性和商業分析計劃及課程，並為高等教育部門評估博士課程。Goldston在多所高等教育機構的管理諮詢委員會任職；是多篇同行評審期刊文章的作者，內容涉及供應鏈管理、可持續性和ERP實施中的關鍵成功因素的創新技術；並且是五次TEDx演講者，討論了區塊鏈和人工智慧等新興技術。

Samson Williams 是紐約哥倫比亞大學和新罕布什爾大學法學院的兼任教授，教授區塊鏈、加密貨幣和太空經濟。他也是一位連續創業者和意外投資者，擔任眾籌專業協會的會長，並投資於兩個眾籌平台Brite.us - CrowdInvesting Done B_rite和GoingPublic.com。Samson是一位高級緊急和財務策略師，專注於運營和技術、醫療保健和金融服務危機管理。作為全球公認的技術和危機傳播專家，Samson努力開發引人入勝的內容，並通過獨特、可行和可衡量的活動傳遞信息。之前，他曾在房利美（Fannie Mae）擔任緊急管理團隊的一員，幫助國家擺脫住房危機。最終，他在過去的兩年中負責房利美的運營和技術部門的內部溝通、勞動力發展和組織韌性。在投資Brite.us和創建《太空經濟》節目之前，Samson擔任Axes and Eggs的首席顧問，這是一家全球技術顧問公司，專注於在迪拜和利雅得以及整個中東北非地區建立超越技術的關係。在那裡，Samson負責中東地區金融、金融科技和政府機構的教育、信息傳遞、溝通策略和媒體規劃，執行與阿聯酋、巴林王國、沙烏地阿拉伯、毛里求斯和印度的政府機構的活動和關係。Samson已出版多本書籍，如《籌集資金 - 理解加密貨幣、眾籌、創業資本、區塊鏈和太空經濟》、《太空經濟 - 太空經濟系列的零號書》、《生活方式資金：區塊鏈、加密貨幣、眾籌以及未來的資金和財富》、《停止迎合風險投資者》和《種族與太空 - 太空經濟中的種族平等與正義》。