Prof. Cai has accepted the invitation to serve as the Editor of Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications. Following is the information regarding the journal.
The emergence and popularity of blockchain techniques will significantly change the way of digital and networking systems’ operation and management. In the meantime, the application of blockchain will exhibit a variety of complicated problems and new requirements, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications is an open-access peer-reviewed journal that allows the author to retain the copyright in their articles. The goal of this journal is to promote community-wide discussion identifying the advanced applications, technologies and theories for blockchain. We seek submissions of papers that invent novel techniques, investigate new applications, introduce advanced methodologies, propose promising research directions and discuss approaches for unsolved issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Theories of blockchain and distributed ledger technology
- Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
- Security, privacy and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technology
- Decentralization, scalability, and security tradeoff
- Performance analysis and optimization
- Simulation and performance evaluation techniques
- Smart contract and chain code
- Applications and services with blockchain and distributed ledger technology
- Protocols and algorithms based on blockchain
- Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)
- Blockchain in cyber physical systems
- Blockchain in social networking
- Blockchain in supply chain management
- Blockchain in agriculture
- Blockchain in connected and autonomous vehicles
- Blockchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing
- Blockchain in mobile cellular networks
- Blockchain in edge and cloud computing
- Blockchain in other areas
Copyright and License Information: Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications is an open-access peer-reviewed journal that allows the author to retain the copyright in their articles. We require sufficient rights to allow us to distribute submitted articles in perpetuity. In order to submit an article to this journal, the submitter must grant us a non-exclusive and irrevocable license to distribute the article, and certify that he/she has the right to grant this license. Note that this license agreement is the same as that used by arXiv.org.
For more details regarding the transaction, please visit: http://www.csit.carleton.ca/~fyu/TB_Index.html
