This book discusses the trust models for next-generation Blockchain ecosystems. The book provides a comprehensive discussion on various trust factors involving security, anonymization, reputation, governance, economic models, and other relevant determinants. The book covers various topics in breadth and depth. In addition, it sets the foundation to involve the readers in understanding the core theories supplemented with technical and experimental discussion. The book starts by laying out the foundations of trust models in Blockchain ecosystems. The authors then provide a study of existing...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Southwest Data Science Conference, on The Recent Advances in Transdisciplinary Data Science, SDSC 2022, held in Waco, TX, USA, during March 25–26, 2022.The 14 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Business and social data science; Health and biological data science; Applied data science, artificial intelligence, and data engineering.