Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for Smart Intelligence Networks

These days, artificial intelligence (AI) plays an essential role in all fields of research, and it is helping to solve the critical issues involved in sustainable manufacturing (e.g., logistics, optimisation of energy resources and supply chain management). In this context, there is a trend in smart production to incorporate AI into green production processes for stricter environmental policies. AI technologies can also help with decision-making, recognising consumer segments, producing a diagnosis, detecting causes and effects, and avoiding unexpected circumstances.

Blockchain has emerged as a rugged and rapidly-growing research area due to its immutability, security and privacy benefits. As a revolutionary technology, blockchain combines distributed data storage, consensus mechanisms, point-to-point transmission and encryption algorithms to record data and transactions efficiently.

The combination of these two systems can further enhance the performance of smart intelligence networks, enabling secure network orchestration, intelligent resource management and adaptable networking.

Topics Covered:

• AI and blockchain for smart health care applications
• Securing a deep neural network using blockchain
• Blockchain and AI amalgamation for energy cloud management
• Blockchain-enabled intelligent IoT architecture with artificial intelligence
• Next-generation networking with artificial intelligence and blockchain
• AI and blockchain for smart cities
• Decentralised transfer learning using blockchain
• Privacy and data protection in a communication network using AI and blockchain
• AI and blockchain for a smart banking fraud detection system
• AI and blockchain for an intelligent transport system
• Blockchain and AI-enabled incentive design mechanisms
• Artificial intelligence and deep learning for network management and communication
• AI-enabled blockchain smart contracts
• Artificial intelligence and blockchain for autonomous networks
• AI in blockchain – current applications and trends

Important Deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 30 March 2021
• Publication date: 20 June 2021

Submission Instructions:

Please read the Guide for Authors before submitting. All articles should be submitted online, please select VSI: AI and Blockchain on submission.

Submissions must not be currently under review or published elsewhere. Conference papers may be submitted only if the paper is completely re-written or substantially (70%) extended. For additional questions, please contact the guest editors. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed using the normal standards of IJIN.

Guest Editors:

• Managing Guest Editor: Dr. P. Karthikeyan, Presidency University, India. Email: karthikeyanp@presidencyuniversity.in
• Dr. Joy Iong-Zong Chen, Dayeh University, Taiwan, China. Email: jchen@mail.dyu.edu.tw
• Dr. Danilo Pelusi, University of Teramo, Italy. Email: dpelusi@unite.it
• Dr. S. Velliangiri, CMR Institute of Technology, India. Email: velliangiris@cmritonline.ac.in