Modern approach to artificial intelligence (AI) aims to design algorithms that learn directly
from data. This approach has achieved impressive results and has contributed significantly …

Sustainability is a pressing need, as well as an engineering challenge, in the modern world.
Develo** smart technologies is a critical way to ensure that future manufacturing systems …

Due to digitalization, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have significantly
enhanced their efficiency and productivity in the past few years. The process to automate …

Artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain are the two disruptive technologies emerging from
the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4. 0) that have introduced radical shifts in the industry …

Internet of Things (IoT) is resha** the incumbent industry to smart industry featured with
data-driven decision-making. However, intrinsic features of IoT result in a number of …

Blockchain, the underlying technology of digital currency, such as Bitcoin, has the
characteristics of decentralization, stability, security, anonymity, and nontampering …

Due to the rapid increase in environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources,
the focus of researchers is shifted from economic to socio-environmental problems …

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is widely used for assessing the environmental impacts of a
product or service. Collecting reliable data is a major challenge in LCA due to the …

A blockchain-based smart contract has the potential to allow the performance of credible
transactions without third parties. This paper presents a universal framework for a …

Abstract Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs) are complex manufacturing systems
which aim to integrate and synchronize machine world and manufacturing facility to the …