IIoT 2018 - International Workshop on Blockchain for Industrial Internet of Things

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is reshaping various industrial sectors, such as manufacturing, logistics, transportation, healthcare, energy and utilities. IIoT consists of various smart objects distributed throughout the whole industrial system to collect massive ambient data, which can be used to identify performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot faults and detect malicious behaviours consequently enforcing effective control to the physical world. However, there are several challenges posed on IIoT before the formal adoption of IIoT across various industries. Among them, security and privacy preservation on IIoT data are the most crucial concerns. On the other hand, the blockchain technology is transforming industries by enabling anonymous and trustful transactions in decentralized and trustless environment. As a result, blockchains help to reduce system risks, mitigate financial fraud and cut down operational cost.
The convergence of IIoT and blockchains can potentially overcome the deficiencies of IIoT consequently resulting in the realization of IIoT in industrial sectors. Both industry practitioners and academic researchers aim at realizing general, scalable and deployable blockchain-based IIoT platforms in various application domains while there are a number of challenges like distributed consensus algorithms and data analytics with privacy-preservation in IIoT systems.
Topics of interest:
To fill the gap, this workshop solicits high quality and unpublished work on recent advances in Blockchains for IIoT. We solicit papers covering the following topics of interest, but not limited to:
Advanced technologies for blockchain-enabled IIoT:
New distributed consensus algorithms for blockchain-enabled IIoT
New security mechanisms for blockchain-enabled IIoT
New location-based services for blockchain-enabled IIoT
New blockchain platforms for IIoT
Advances in big data analytics in blockchain-enabled IIoT
Advanced Contextual Computing for blockchain-enabled IIoT
Edge/cloud intelligence for blockchain-enabled IIoT
Applications for blockchain-enabled IIoT:
Design, development and application of blockchain technology in IIoT
Intelligent manufacturing based on blockchain-enabled IIoT
Energy/smart grids/utilities applications based on blockchain-enabled IIoT
Smart supply chain applications based on blockchain-enabled IIoT
Intelligent transportation applications based on blockchain-enabled IIoT
Applications of big data analytics in blockchain-enabled IIoT