Tools for Design, Implementation and Verification of Emerging Information Technologies [electronic resource] : 18th EAI International Conference, TRIDENTCOM 2023, Nanjing, China, November 11-13, 2023, Proceedings /

Blockchain and its applications -- A Novel Cross-Chain Relay Method Based on Node Trust Evaluation -- Collateral-Efficient Instant Contingent Payments: The Promise of A Hardware-Driven Off-Chain Payment System -- Emerging Applications -- A Survey on Edge Intelligence for Music Composition: Principles, Applications, and Privacy Implications -- AI-Driven Sentiment Analysis for Music Composition -- Fault Diagnosis Method for Hydro-Power Plant with Bi-LSTM Knowledge Graph aided by Attention Scheme -- AI and its Security -- Zero-Knowledge with Robust Learning: Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning for Enhanced -- Security and Privacy -- PPAPAFL: A Novel Approach to Privacy Protection and Anti-Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning -- Towards Retentive Proactive Defense Against DeepFakes -- A Fast and Accurate Non-Interactive Privacy-Preserving Neural Network Inference Framework.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th EAI International Conference on Tools for Design, Implementation and Verification of Emerging Information Technologies, TridentCom 2023, which was held in Nanjing, China, during November 11-13, 2023. The 9 full papers were selected from 30 submissions and deal the emerging technologies of big data, cyber-physical systems and computer communications. The papers are grouped in thematical sessions on blockchain and its applications; emerging applications; AI and its security.