This book explores recent advances in blockchain technology and its impact on Industry 4.0 via advanced technologies. It provides an in-depth analysis of the step by step evolution of Industry 4.0 and blockchain technologies for creating the next-generation, secure, decentralized, distributed and trusted industry environment and enhancing the productivity of industries. The book describes how blockchain technology makes the industrial internet (Industry 4.0) a transparent, reliable and secure environment for people, processes, systems, and services, presenting a strong, technological and conceptual framework and roadmap for decision-makers involved in the transformation of any area of industry.

This book explores recent advances in blockchain technology and its impact on Industry 4.0 via advanced technologies. It provides an in-depth analysis of the step by step evolution of Industry 4.0 and blockchain technologies for creating the next-generation, secure, decentralized, distributed and trusted industry environment and enhancing the productivity of industries. The book describes how blockchain technology makes the industrial internet (Industry 4.0) a transparent, reliable and secure environment for people, processes, systems, and services, presenting a strong, technological and conceptual framework and roadmap for decision-makers involved in the transformation of any area of industry.

This book covers the problem of process migration on grid computing environments. The rescheduling technique is useful for providing dynamic load rebalancing among the available resources. Good migration politics must be used for both improving resource utilization and minimizing the application execution time. Besides discussions about load balancing and scheduling, this book presents a rescheduling model called MigBSP which controls the process migration on Bulk-Synchronous Parallel (BSP) applications. The BSP model was adopted because round-based computations represent a common style for written successfully parallel programs. MigBSP answers the following questions regarding process migration: a) When to launch the rescheduling; b) Which are the candidates for migration; c) Where to put the elected processes for migration. These questions are solved by determining the Potential of Migration (PM) of each process. PM represents the differential idea of MigBSP and combines data from Computation, Communication and Memory metrics. The results show performance improvements in the application time and affirm the migration mechanism as a key technique for platforms like grids.