Preface

Abstract

After successfully held for three times, the 2020 4th International Conference on Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Engineering (ICEMCE 2020), supported by AEIC Academic Exchange Information Centre, was held on June 19, 2020 via online platform. Due to the worldwide travel restriction and the prevention and control of COVID-19, ICEMCE 2020 adopted the format of virtual conference through network technology to provide a forum for experts and scholars to share real-time information and discuss the state-of-the-art research on Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Engineering. We learned that most participants still had enthusiasm to join this conference, that’s why we chose to adopted a novel way to hold this virtual conference instead of postponing it. We’ve recruited nearly forty scholars to join the committee of ICEMCE 2020 with Prof. Ting Yang from Tianjin University as the Conference Chairman. The conference model was divided into three parts, including oral presentations, keynote speeches and online discussion. In the first part, authors of excellent papers submitted to this conference were individually given 5-10 minutes to briefly present their research. Then in the second session, we invited Prof. David Siu-Yeung Cho, representing University of Nottingham Ningbo, to hold a 30-45 minutes keynote speech. He talked about Internet of Car with Blockchain and AI Technologies. This talk described his research and development work which is based on vehicle networking and blockchain technology, through distributed ledgering, consensus mechanism, smart contract and other underlying architectures, as well as using open and transparent value acquisition and an artificial intelligence-based allocation algorithm to achieve value realization of data on vehicle and driving behavior. All of the oral presentations and keynote speeches were conducted via Zoom, now the popular online collaboration tool. The last part was held through a communication group via WeChat, the instant communication application, for experts and scholars to discuss more about the talks and presentations. We are glad that the insightful talks triggered heated discussion on WeChat communication group. The WeChat discussion lasted for 30 minutes. We are pleased to have over 100 participants to join this special conference. In light of most participants are from different universities and institutes in different cities, who resides in their own city due to travel restriction, they participated in this conference from home via Zoom and WeChat.