Quantum cryptography is arguably the fastest growing area in quantum information science.
Novel theoretical protocols are designed on a regular basis, security proofs are constantly …

Driven by the rapid progress in quantum hardware, recent years have witnessed a furious
race for quantum technologies in both academia and industry. Universal quantum …

Blockchains offer a decentralized, immutable and verifiable ledger that can record
transactions of digital assets, provoking a radical change in several innovative scenarios …

The recent advancement in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in terms of manufacturing
processes, and communication and networking technology has led to a rise in their usage in …

As an innovated and revolutionized technology, blockchain has been applied in many fields,
such as cryptocurrency, food traceability, identity management, or even market prediction …

Despite its undeniable success, classical machine learning remains a resource-intensive
process. Practical computational efforts for training state-of-the-art models can now only be …

Blockchain's evolution during the past decade is astonishing: from bitcoin to over 2.000
altcoins, and from decentralised electronic payments to transactions programmable by smart …

Nowadays, increasing urbanization has necessitated the social, environmental, and
economic development of cities to enhance the Quality of Life (QoL) significantly and …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly a reality today. Nevertheless, some key
challenges still need to be given particular attention so that IoT solutions further support the …

The underlying fundaments of blockchain are cryptography and cryptographic concepts that
provide reliable and secure decentralized solutions. Although many recent papers study the …