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Book: Blockchain and Smart-Contract Technologies for Innovative Applications

Chapter Submission Deadline (Extended) : April 10, 2023    May 25, 2023

Editors:

- Nour El Madhoun, Associate Professor, ISEP, Paris, France

- Ioanna Dionysiou, Full Professor, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

- Emmanuel Bertin, Expert Community Leader, Orange Labs, Caen, France

Aims and Scope:

In recent years, blockchain technology has attracted increasing interest from research and industry. This technology allows to implement in its environment the technology of smart-contracts that is used to automate and execute agreements between users. The blockchain is a distributed and secure ledger that allows to store information in a transparent and immutable way. It allows users to perform transactions without the need for a trusted third party. Smart contracts are software programs that run automatically when certain conditions are met. They can be used to automate processes such as the sale of goods, the execution of contracts or the exchange of currency. Smart contracts are stored on the blockchain and are accessible to all users.

Blockchain and smart-contracts technologies are proposed today as new technical infrastructures to implement several types of applications. They can be used for digital identity management, product traceability, document certification, supply chain management, e-voting, intellectual property, asset transfers, online payments, medical data management, insurance management, and much more. Indeed, the advantages of blockchain are numerous. It offers complete transparency and increased security, as data are stored immutably on several nodes of the blockchain, which guarantees their integrity and traceability and makes the system difficult to hack or alter. Smart contracts also have many advantages. They reduce the costs and delays associated with manual processes by automating the execution of contracts. The smart contracts are immutable and they cannot be changed once they are deployed on the blockchain ensuring the security and reliability of the contract execution. In addition, smart-contracts are transparent and autonomous, which means that the conditions for execution are clearly defined and the smart-contract automatically executes when its conditions are met.

With this in mind, we are launching a call for chapters for the book ”Blockchain and Smart-Contract Technologies for Innovative Applications” to be published by Springer. The objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive presentation of several academic and industrial works that propose applications based on blockchain and/or smart-contracts in several sectors such as healthcare, finance, e-government and e-voting, Internet of Things, energy, identity, telecommunications, Metaverse/NFT, notary, etc. It also aims to present the fundamentals of blockchain and smart-contracts which include principles, theories, protocols, architectures, etc., but also to highlight a set of studies that focus on a particular topic on blockchains and/or smart-contracts. All of the chapters that make up this book will be carefully reviewed by academic and industry researchers as well as experts.

The book is going to be composed of several parts. Each part will be dedicated to a specific sector and chapters in that part will therefore present blockchain/smart-contract applications in that sector. The book is also going to have two other parts, one part on blockchain and smart-contracts fundamentals and another part on blockchain and smart-contracts surveys. Potential parts of this book, but they are not limited, are:

• Part I: Fundamentals of blockchain and smart-contracts

• Part II: Surveys on blockchain and smart contracts

• Part III: IoT Applications

• Part IV: Healthcare Applications

• Part V: Finance Applications

• Part VI: Government and E-voting Applications

• Part VII: Energy Applications

• Part VIII: Metaverse and NFT Applications

• Part IX: Telecommunications Applications

Submission Guidelines

We encourage perspective authors to submit their chapters through EasyChair at this link. The corresponding author of each chapter should insert an ”*” after his/her name. Corresponding authors will receive a free printed copy of the book from Springer.

Submitted chapters must represent original material that is not currently under review in another book, journal, or conference and has not been previously published. All submissions must be written in English with a minimum of seventeen (17) pages following the Springer Book Chapter format of one column:

• The Latex template is available via this link.

• The Word template is available via this link.

Important Dates

• Chapter submission deadline: May 25, 2023

• Chapter acceptance date: June 25, 2023

• Final chapters due: July 25, 2023

For any queries, please contact:

Nour El Madhoun, nour.el-madhoun@isep.fr

Ioanna Dionysiou, dionysiou.i@unic.ac.cy

Emmanuel Bertin, emmanuel.bertin@orange.com