Digitization blurs the lines between technology and management, facilitating new business
models built upon the concepts, methods and tools of the digital environment. The purpose …

Background Modern food supply chains are complex and contain numerous stakeholders,
with each performing specific roles pertaining to food production. As food supply chains …

Medical care has become one of the most indispensable parts of human lives, leading to a
dramatic increase in medical big data. To streamline the diagnosis and treatment process …

Our society is becoming “smarter” and more interconnected, as evidenced by technological
trends such as smart farming, smart healthcare, supply chain and logistics, and smart city …

Blockchain has received global concern as a research focus in recent years. It is a
decentralized and unreliably distributed database technology. Numerous countries and …

IoT devices have some special characteristics, such as mobility, limited performance, and
distributed deployment, which makes it difficult for traditional centralized access control …

Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) and blockchain systems have received enormous
academic, government, and commercial interest in recent years. This article surveys the …

Background Blockchain has the potential to disrupt the current modes of patient data access,
accumulation, contribution, exchange, and control. Using interoperability standards, smart …

Local energy generation and peer to peer (P2P) energy trading in the local market can
reduce the energy consumption cost, emission of harmful gases (as renewable energy …

Blockchain as emerging technology is revolutionizing several industries, and its abundant
privileges have opened up a bunch of research directions in various industries; thereby, it …