The 3rd International Congress on Blockchain and Applications 2021 will be held
in Salamanca from 6 to 8 of October. This annual congress will reunite blockchain
and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, who will share ideas, projects, lectures,
and advances associated with those technologies and their application domains.
Among the scientific community, blockchain and AI are seen as a promising
combination that will transform the production and manufacturing industry, media,
finance, insurance, e-government, etc. Nevertheless, there is no consensus with
schemes or best practices that would specify how blockchain and AI should be used
together. Combining blockchain mechanisms and artificial intelligence is still a
particularly challenging task.
The BLOCKCHAIN’21 congress is devoted to promoting the investigation of
cutting-edge blockchain technology, to exploring the latest ideas, innovations,
guidelines, theories, models, technologies, applications and tools of blockchain and
AI for the industry, and to identifying critical issues and challenges those
researchers and practitioner must deal with in the future research. We want to offer
researchers and practitioners the opportunity to work on promising lines of research
and to publish their developments in this area.
The technical program has been diverse and of high quality, and it focused on
contributions to both, well-established and evolving areas of research. More than 44
papers have been submitted to 38 from over 20 different countries (Canada, France,
Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Morocco,
Netherlands, Oman, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, and
USA).
We would like to thank all the contributing authors, the members of the Program
Committee, the sponsors (IBM, Indra, EurAI, AEPIA, AFIA, APPIA, and AIR
Institute), and the Organizing Committee for their hard and highly valuable work.
We are especially grateful for the funding supporting by project “XAI - XAI -
Sistemas Inteligentes Auto Explicativos creados con Módulos de Mezcla de
Expertos,” ID SA082P20, financed by Junta Castilla y León, Consejería de
Educación, and FEDER funds. Their work contributed to the success of the
BLOCKCHAIN’21 event and, finally, the Local Organization Members and the Program Committee Members for their hard work, which was essential for the
success of BLOCKCHAIN’21.
