This contributed volume discusses diverse topics to demystify the rapidly emerging and evolving blockchain technology, the emergence of integrated platforms and hosted third-party tools, and the development of decentralized applications for various business domains. It presents various applications that are helpful for research scholars and scientists who are working toward identifying and pinpointing the potential of as well as the hindrances to this technology.

About the Author

Shiho Kim is Professor at the College of Engineering, Yonsei University. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. at the Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST and he has more than 15 years of teaching experience. His research interests include intelligent vehicles, virtual reality, reinforcement learning, sensors for wireless environmental monitoring, thermoelectric sensors, thermoelectric power generators, and energy harvesting techniques. He has received the Korean Prime Minister and Presidential award in the International Robot Contest in 2008 and 2010 respectively. He was founder and Head Director of the Research Center for Advanced Hybrid Electric Vehicle Energy Recovery Systems (RAVERS) from 2009 to 2010. He was Chair of Vehicle Electronics Research Group from 2013 to 2014 and IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society Seoul Chapter from 2013 to 2015. Currently, he is Vice-chair of the Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing and has been an IEEE VR standard Advisory Board member since 2018. He has filed numerous patents in his area of research.

Ganesh Chandra Deka Ganesh Chandra Deka is currently Deputy Director (Training) at Regional Directorate of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, North Eastern Region, Assam under Directorate General of Training, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India, New Delhi, India.

His research interests include e-Governance, Big Data Analytics, NoSQL Databases and Vocational Education and Training. He has 2 books on Cloud Computing published by LAP Lambert, Germany. He is the Co-author for 4 text books on Fundamentals of Computer Science (3 books published by Moni Manik Prakashan, Guwahati, Assam, India and 1 IGI Global, USA). As of now he has edited 14 books (5 IGI Global, USA, 6 CRC Press, USA, 2 Elsevier & Springer 1) on Bigdata, NoSQL, Blockchain Technology and Cloud Computing in general and authored 10 Book Chapters.

He has published around 47 research papersin various IEEE conferences. He has organized 08 IEEE International Conferences as Technical Chair in India. He is the Member of the editorial board and reviewer for various Journals and International conferences, IEEE, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India and Associate Member, the Institution of Engineers, India.

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