Applied Mathematics in Blockchain and Intelligent Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Blockchain is a shared and immutable ledger. Throughout the process of blockchain, from transaction initiation and confirmation to reaching a consensus across the entire network, mathematical algorithms serve as rules and communication tools, achieving coordinated actions among nodes. It can be said that mathematics has built the cornerstone of trust in blockchain.

At present, blockchain has extended from original cryptocurrencies to various fields such as finance, healthcare, energy management, and supply chain, which facilitate new ways of collaboration and value exchange among multi-entities. Especially with the development of the intelligent systems, the need for data is becoming increasingly urgent. Blockchain’s digital record offers the provenance of the data, which helps allocate appropriate gain to data providers and enhance people's trust in decision making. Moreover, smart contracts have been making advanced progress, supporting several industries, and causing business processes to eliminate friction and improve efficiency. Along with these developments and advantages, the research demands of applied mathematics in blockchain and intelligent systems are evolving in terms of scalability, security, privacy, efficiency, availability and flexibility, which brings a host of challenges and opportunities for research communities.

This Special Issue aims to gather novel, original research articles and reviews that present up-to-date mathematical applications in blockchain and intelligent systems which are able to respond to the challenges of security, privacy and trust, etc.

We are looking forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Xiaofeng Ma
Prof. Dr. Yan Zhu
Guest Editors

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• theories of blockchain-based intelligent systems
• distributed consensus mechanisms
• distributed identities (DID)
• smart contract
• smart contract-embedded intelligent systems
• security and privacy of blockchain systems
• cross-chain algorithm and technologies
• scalabilities of blockchain
• vulnerabilities of blockchain
• protocols and algorithms based on blockchain
• simulation methods of blockchain-based intelligent systems
• blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI)
• blockchain and internet of things (IoT)
• blockchain and web3.0 technologies
• blockchain-based intelligent system innovative applications