Blockchain Technology and Applications
暫譯: 區塊鏈技術與應用

討論區塊鏈技術的基礎、密碼學的元素、分散式帳本技術、博弈論以及加密術，本參考書將成為電子與通信工程、電機工程、計算機科學及資訊科技等跨學科領域學生的有用教材。

Dr. Manoj Kumar M V is currently an Associate Professor, in the department of Information Science and Engineering, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru. He obtained Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal (through MHRD fellowship). He holds Bachelor and Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from VTU Belgaum. He has 11 years of teaching and research experience. He is a senior member of IEEE, Life Member of IEI, Life Member of ISTE, also he is an active member of IEEE task force on Process Mining. He has authored 40+ research articles in various reputed international journals/conferences/book chapters. He has been granted 2 Indian copyrights for the noteworthy works. He is an associate editor and handling editor for Frontiers special issue journals. He has successfully executed 03 international consultancy projects worth ₹12 Lakhs and one is under the development phase. He is currently executing the funded project worth ₹5 Lakh for, TEQIP VTU and VGST- Karnataka Govt.He has edited 2 books on topics related to computer science. He has received best paper awards at reputed conferences for noteworthy research findings. His teaching interests include courses like Machine Learning, Statistics, Programming in R, Data Mining, Exploratory Data Analysis, Computer Organization etc. His primary areas of research include Process Mining and Data Science. He has delivered 40+ national/international talks/ hands-on workshops of varying duration (from 1 days to 15 days) on topics such as Data Science, Statistics for data analysis, Mobile application development, and Hybrid application development. He has visited more than 6 countries for research interaction, research lab visit, and paper presentation.

Prof. Annappa B is currently serving as a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangalore, INDIA. He has more than 30 years of experience in teaching and research. He holds Ph.D. and M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal and B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Govt. B.D.T. College of Engineering, Davangere affiliated Mysore University, Karnataka. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (INDIA) and Senior member of IEEE and ACM. He is a Life member of Computer Society of India, Indian Society of Technical Education, Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India and Advanced Computing and Communications Society. His research interests include Cloud computing, Big Data Analytics, Distributed Computing, Software Engineering and Process Mining. He has published more than 150 research papers in international conferences and Journals. He volunteered as the organizing chair of international conference ADCONS-2013 and DISCOVER-2020, general chair of DISCOVER-2019, TPC chair of DISCOVER'18, finance chair of DISCOVER'16 and he is on the Advisory or Technical program committee of many international conferences and reviewer of Journals. He was the Chair of IEEE Computer Society Chapter India Council (2017- 2018), and IEEE Mangalore subsection (2018). Six research scholars completed their Ph.D. under his supervision and eight scholars are currently pursuing their research work in Computer Science and Engineering.

Likewin Thomas is currently heading the department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, PESITM Shivamogga. He received his Ph.D. and Master from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India. He graduated from Vishweshwaraiah Technology University, Belgaum in the year 2004. His research interest is in the field of machine learning and its application in the clinical area, and process mining.His research experience is in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and has received a grant from VGST, DST, AICTE, and VTU. He holds more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. He has been a resource person and a keynote speaker at many workshops and conferences. He organized a workshop on machine learning and its application at an IEEE international conference, EmergiTech, held in Mauritius. He is actively involved in starting an IEEE student branch at PESITM, Incubation Centre in collaboration with ResoluteAI.in an AI-based company, starting a skill lab, organizing National Conference, many students Development Activities, and IEEE MSS flagship event I2Connect.He is an IEEE Senior Member and has served as secretary of the IEEE Mangalore Sub-Section (MSS) for the year 2020-21

Sourav Kanti Addya working as an Assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India. He received his Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, India. He was a PostDoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He was a visiting scholar at San Diego State University, CA, USA. He obtained his M.Tech. degree with a national level GATE scholarship, from NIT Rourkela, India, and B. Tech from the West Bengal University of Technology. The primary research interests of Dr. Addya are on various aspects of Cloud systems development, Serverless, Fog-Edge applications for societal well-being, and the design of distributed, pervasive, and ubiquitous technologies over Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, Blockchain.

Dr. Addya is leading the Cloud & Smart System Services Research Lab at NIT Karnataka, focusing on various aspects of Distributed and Cloud systems along with the design and development of Smart services. He is leading multiple high-valued projects, sponsored by various industries like TCS, TataCom, and Robosoft. He has a strong research collaboration with various industries. Apart from the top journals, Dr. Addya has publications in several top reputed conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE/IFIF IM, IEEE CLOUD, IEEE SCC, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM etc..Dr. Addya has been actively involved in organizing various conferences including IEEE/ACM COMSNETS, 24th ICDCN, 7th IEEE ICRAIE, IEEE DISCOVER etc., to name a few. Dr. Addya is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM. Further details about his works and publications can be obtained from https: //souravkaddya.in/.

Niranjanamurthy M is currently working as an Assistant Professor, the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, BMS Institute of Technology and Management, Bangalore, India. He has more than 13 years of teaching experience and 2 years of industry experience as a Software Engineer. He has published 90* Research articles in national/international conferences/international journals. Published a total of 20 Books including Authored and edited.Published national and international patents. Series editor at Taylor and Francis USA. He is working as a reviewer in 22 International Journals. He is a member of IEEE, a Life Member of "The International Association of Engineers" (IAENG), Member of "The Computer Science Teachers Association" (CSTA). His areas of interest are Data Science, ML, E-Commerce, and M-Commerce related to Industry Internal tool enhancement, Software Testing, Software Engineering, Web Services, Web-Technologies, Cloud Computing, Big data analytics, and Networking.

Dr. Manoj Kumar M V 目前是班加羅爾 Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology 資訊科學與工程系的副教授。他在卡納塔克國立技術學院 (NITK) 的計算機科學與工程領域獲得博士學位（透過 MHRD 獎學金）。他擁有 VTU Belgaum 的計算機科學與工程學士及碩士學位。他擁有 11 年的教學和研究經驗。他是 IEEE 的高級會員，IEI 的終身會員，ISTE 的終身會員，同時也是 IEEE 流程挖掘工作小組的活躍成員。他在各種知名國際期刊/會議/書籍章節上發表了 40 多篇研究文章。他因其重要作品獲得了 2 項印度版權。他是 Frontiers 特刊期刊的副編輯和負責編輯。他成功執行了 3 個價值 ₹12 萬的國際顧問項目，其中一個正在開發階段。他目前正在執行一個價值 ₹5 萬的資助項目，為 TEQIP VTU 和 VGST-卡納塔克政府。他編輯了 2 本與計算機科學相關的書籍。他因其重要的研究成果在知名會議上獲得最佳論文獎。他的教學興趣包括機器學習、統計學、R 語言編程、資料挖掘、探索性資料分析、計算機組織等課程。他的主要研究領域包括流程挖掘和資料科學。他在資料科學、數據分析的統計學、移動應用開發和混合應用開發等主題上發表了 40 多場國內/國際演講/實作工作坊，持續時間從 1 天到 15 天不等。他曾訪問超過 6 個國家進行研究互動、研究實驗室訪問和論文發表。

Prof. Annappa B 目前擔任印度卡納塔克國立技術學院 (NITK) 計算機科學與工程系的教授。他擁有超過 30 年的教學和研究經驗。他在卡納塔克國立技術學院獲得計算機科學與工程的博士和碩士學位，並在卡納塔克大學的政府 B.D.T. 工程學院獲得計算機科學與工程的學士學位。他是印度工程師學會的院士，IEEE 和 ACM 的高級會員。他是印度計算機學會、印度技術教育學會、印度雲計算創新委員會和先進計算與通信學會的終身會員。他的研究興趣包括雲計算、大數據分析、分散式計算、軟體工程和流程挖掘。他在國際會議和期刊上發表了超過 150 篇研究論文。他曾擔任國際會議 ADCONS-2013 和 DISCOVER-2020 的組織主席，DISCOVER-2019 的總主席，DISCOVER'18 的 TPC 主席，DISCOVER'16 的財務主席，並且是多個國際會議的顧問或技術程序委員會成員及期刊審稿人。他曾擔任 IEEE 計算機學會印度分會 (2017-2018) 和 IEEE 曼加羅爾分會 (2018) 的主席。六位研究學者在他的指導下完成了博士學位，八位學者目前正在進行計算機科學與工程的研究工作。

Likewin Thomas 目前擔任 PESITM Shivamogga 人工智慧與機器學習系的負責人。他在印度卡納塔克國立技術學院獲得博士和碩士學位。他於 2004 年從 Vishweshwaraiah 技術大學畢業。他的研究興趣在於機器學習及其在臨床領域的應用，以及流程挖掘。他在人工智慧和機器學習領域擁有研究經驗，並獲得了 VGST、DST、AICTE 和 VTU 的資助。他擁有超過 15 年的教學和研究經驗。他曾在許多工作坊和會議上擔任資源人員和主題演講者。他在毛里求斯舉辦的 IEEE 國際會議 EmergiTech 上組織了一個有關機器學習及其應用的工作坊。他積極參與在 PESITM 開設 IEEE 學生分會、與 AI 基礎公司 ResoluteAI 合作的孵化中心、啟動技能實驗室、組織全國會議、許多學生發展活動以及 IEEE MSS 旗艦活動 I2Connect。他是 IEEE 的高級會員，並於 2020-21 年擔任 IEEE 曼加羅爾分會 (MSS) 的秘書。

Sourav Kanti Addya 目前在印度卡納塔克國立技術學院計算機科學與工程系擔任助理教授。他在印度 Rourkela 的國立技術學院 (NIT) 獲得計算機科學與工程的博士學位。他曾在印度卡哈拉格普爾的印度理工學院計算機科學與工程系擔任博士後研究員。他曾是美國加州聖地牙哥州立大學的訪問學者。他獲得了 NIT Rourkela 的國家級 GATE 獎學金的 M.Tech. 學位，並在西孟加拉技術大學獲得 B.Tech. 學位。Addya 博士的主要研究興趣包括雲系統開發的各個方面、無伺服器、霧邊緣應用以促進社會福祉，以及在物聯網 (IoT) 範式下的分散式、普遍和無處不在的技術設計。

Addya 博士領導著 NIT 卡納塔克的 雲與智慧系統服務 研究實驗室，專注於分散式和雲系統的各個方面，以及智慧服務的設計和開發。他正在領導多個由 TCS、TataCom 和 Robosoft 等各行各業贊助的高價值項目。他與多個行業有著強大的研究合作。除了在頂級期刊上發表文章外，Addya 博士還在多個知名會議上發表了論文，如 IEEE INFOCOM、IEEE/IFIF IM、IEEE CLOUD、IEEE SCC、IEEE ICC、IEEE GLOBECOM 等。Addya 博士積極參與組織各種會議，包括 IEEE/ACM COMSNETS、24th ICDCN、7th IEEE ICRAIE、IEEE DISCOVER 等。Addya 博士是 IEEE 的高級會員，也是 ACM 的成員。關於他的工作和出版物的更多詳細信息可以從 https://souravkaddya.in/ 獲得。

Niranjanamurthy M 目前在印度班加羅爾的 BMS 技術與管理學院人工智慧與機器學習系擔任助理教授。他擁有超過 13 年的教學經驗和 2 年的軟體工程行業經驗。他在國內/國際會議/國際期刊上發表了 90 篇研究文章。出版了包括著作和編輯在內的 20 本書籍。發表了國內和國際專利。擔任美國 Taylor and Francis 的系列編輯。他在 22 本國際期刊擔任審稿人。他是 IEEE 的成員，終身會員「國際工程師協會」(IAENG)，以及「計算機科學教師協會」(CSTA) 的成員。他的興趣領域包括資料科學、機器學習、與行業內部工具增強相關的電子商務和移動商務、軟體測試、軟體工程、網路服務、網路技術、雲計算、大數據分析和網路。