Blockchain and Metaverse technologies are revolutionising the digital landscape by offering transformative potential across industries. Because of its decentralised and transparent nature, Blockchain ensures secure and tamper-proof transactions and fosters trust in such areas as finance, supply chain, and healthcare. It enables the creation of digital assets, smart contracts, and decentralised applications to pave the way for a more equitable and efficient digital economy. The Metaverse is...

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Business ManagementThe focus of this book is to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies into the context of business management. The book gives insights into the implementation and impact of AI and ML to business leaders, managers, technology developers, and implementers.With the maturing use of AI or ML in the field of business intelligence, this book examines several proj...

In recent years, blockchain development has grown quickly from the original Bitcoin protocol to the second-generation Ethereum platform, and to today’s process of building third-generation blockchains. During this evolution, we can see how blockchain technology has evolved from its original form as a distributed database to becoming a fully fledged, globally distributed, cloud computing platform. This book traces the past, present, and future of blockchain technology.

Purple sweet potato (PSP) is a special type of sweet potato with high concentration of anthocyanin pigment in the root. It is rich in starch, sugar, minerals, vitamins and antioxidants like phenolics, β-carotene, and has a strong prospect as substrate for alcoholic fermentation. The low cost of sweet potato and its prospective usage in the production of alcoholic beverages make it viable for commercialization.The book reviews the use of the roots of PSP for the production ...

This book covers innovations in starter culture, production of health beneficial fermented food products, technological intervention in beer, wine and spirits production, marketing of alcoholic beverages, modernization of dairy plants for production of fermented dairy products, non-diary probiotics, development of automatic fermenters, and packaging technology. Furthermore, it includes genetic engineering for improved production and quality improvement of food and beverages, which allows f...

This book presents best-selected papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Smart Computing and Informatics (SCI 2024), held at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology & Sciences (ANITS), Visakhapatnam, India, during 19–20 April 2024. It presents advanced and multidisciplinary research towards the design of smart computing and informatics. The theme is on a broader front and focuses on various innovation paradigms in system k...

This book provides insights on blockchain technology and its applications in real-world business, supply chain, health care, education, HRM, retail, logistics and transport industries. This book grants a comprehensive understanding of how this technology is functioning within modern real-world applications and how it can influence the future of the real-world applications in industry. The chapters cover the case study, applications of blockchain, benefits and challenges, disruptive innovat...

This book discusses the various open issues of blockchain technology, such as the efficiency of blockchain in different domains of digital cryptocurrency, smart contracts, smart education system, smart cities, cloud identity and access, safeguard to cybersecurity and health care. For the first time in human history, people across the world can trust each other and transact over a large peer-to-peer networks without any central authority. This proves that, trust can be built not only by cen...