Trust and Dependability in Blockchain & AI Based MedIoT Applications: Research Challenges and Future Directions

This paper critically reviews the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and blockchain technologies in the context of Medical Internet of Things (MedIoT) applications, where they collectively promise to revolutionize healthcare delivery. By examining current research, we underscore AI's potential in advancing diagnostics and patient care, alongside blockchain's capacity to bolster data security and patient privacy. We focus particularly on the imperative to cultivate trust and ensure reliability within these systems. Our review highlights innovative solutions for managing healthcare data and challenges such as ensuring scalability, maintaining privacy, and promoting ethical practices within the MedIoT domain. We present a vision for integrating AI-driven insights with blockchain security in healthcare, offering a comprehensive review of current research and future directions. We conclude with a set of identified research gaps and propose that addressing these is crucial for achieving the dependable, secure, and patient -centric MedIoT applications of tomorrow.

A Model-Based Machine Learning Approach for Assessing the Performance of Blockchain Applications

The recent advancement of Blockchain technology consolidates its status as a viable alternative for various domains. However, evaluating the performance of blockchain applications can be challenging due to the underlying infrastructure's complexity and distributed nature. Therefore, a reliable modelling approach is needed to boost Blockchain-based applications' development and evaluation. While simulation-based solutions have been researched, machine learning (ML) model-based techniques are rarely discussed in conjunction with evaluating blockchain application performance. Our novel research makes use of two ML model-based methods. Firstly, we train a $k$ nearest neighbour ($k$NN) and support vector machine (SVM) to predict blockchain performance using predetermined configuration parameters. Secondly, we employ the salp swarm optimization (SO) ML model which enables the investigation of optimal blockchain configurations for achieving the required performance level. We use rough set theory to enhance SO, hereafter called ISO, which we demonstrate to prove achieving an accurate recommendation of optimal parameter configurations; despite uncertainty. Finally, statistical comparisons indicate that our models have a competitive edge. The $k$NN model outperforms SVM by 5\% and the ISO also demonstrates a reduction of 4\% inaccuracy deviation compared to regular SO.

A Unified Knowledge Representation and Context-aware Recommender System in Internet of Things

Within the rapidly developing Internet of Things (IoT), numerous and diverse physical devices, Edge devices, Cloud infrastructure, and their quality of service requirements (QoS), need to be represented within a unified specification in order to enable rapid IoT application development, monitoring, and dynamic reconfiguration. But heterogeneities among different configuration knowledge representation models pose limitations for acquisition, discovery and curation of configuration knowledge for coordinated IoT applications. This paper proposes a unified data model to represent IoT resource configuration knowledge artifacts. It also proposes IoT-CANE (Context-Aware recommendatioN systEm) to facilitate incremental knowledge acquisition and declarative context driven knowledge recommendation.