When Trust Meets Intelligence: The Intersection Between Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things

Dear Colleagues,

In the last decade, the use of AI and IoT technologies has increased at a very rapid pace and has become an integral part of our daily life. This substantial increase raises many questions with regards to how generated data can be stored, managed, analyzed and secured in such a heterogeneous and massively distributed environment.

Combining blockchain with IoT and AI paradigms can be an effective solution for resolving such problems and reaping the benefits brought about by the spread of IoT devices and AI. In fact, blockchain as a peer-to-peer, secure and dependable paradigm can bring many advantages to today’s infrastructures, enabling the effective exploitation of IoT-generated data to provide trustworthy AI-based innovations.

This Special Issue stresses the potential and challenges of integrating blockchain with IoT and AI. It aims to attract contributions from both academic and industrial organizations focusing on the application of such emerging technologies and addressing the problems induced by the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with blockchain technology for IoT-based infrastructures. We seek research that explores combining AI and blockchain to resolve existing limitations and challenges of latency, scalability, security and data management, and also contributes to the theoretical understanding of AI-enabled blockchain systems.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

• AI, IoT and blockchain in Industry 5.0;
• AI, IoT and blockchain in healthcare;
• AI, IoT and blockchain in logistics and transportation;
• AI, IoT and blockchain in enabling open collaboration and modern business infrastructure;
• The security of modern infrastructures based on AI, IoT and blockchain;
• Privacy preservation AI, IoT and blockchain-based platforms;
• AI, IoT and blockchain applications in the metaverse;
• Regulatory frameworks and standards of AI, IoT and blockchain;
• AI, IoT and blockchain smart grids and energy systems;
• AI, IoT and blockchain in disaster management and emergency response systems;
• AI, IoT and blockchain in smart cities and urban planning.

Dr. Layth Sliman
Dr. Amine Dhraief
Dr. Hachemi Nabil Dellys
Guest Editors

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• blockchain
• IoT
• AI
• soft computing
• neural networks
• IOTA
• distributed ledger
• secure infrastructures
• ethical AI