Kuan-Ching Li is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at Providence University, TaiwanXiaofeng Chen is a professor in the School of Cyber Engineering at Xidian University, ChinaHai Jiang is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Arkansas State University, USAElisa Bertino is Samuel Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University

• 1. Distributed Consensus and Fault Tolerance Mechanisms 2. Validation Services for Permissioned Blockchains 3. From Byzantine Consensus to Blockchains 4. Smart Contracts: State of the Art Versus State of the Practice 5. Blockchain Variants: From Linked-lists to Dag 6. Towards Preserving Privacy and Security in Blockchain 7. Application of Blockchain and Smart Contract: Approaches and Challenges 8. Blockchain-based IoT and Blockchain-based Cybersecurity Management 9. IoT Security using Blockchains 10. Blockchain in Global Health: Current and Future Applications 11. Blockchain in Car Registration 12. Advancing Cybersecurity of Electronic Voting Machines using Blockchain Technology 13. Implementing the Blockchain Technology in the Financial Services Industry 14. Blockchain + Fintech 15. Legal Aspects of Blockchain Technology 16. Prediction of Cryptocurrency Market Price Using Deep Learning and Blockchain Information: Bitcoin and Ethereum