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Blockchains are modern distributed systems that provide decentralized financial capabilities with trustable guarantees. Smart contracts are programs written in specialized programming languages running on a blockchain and govern how tokens…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Margarita Capretto , Martin Ceresa , Cesar Sanchez

Can we create binding agreements between nations? Recently, scholars have argued that blockchain technology enables us to do so. Given that this could greatly affect the anarchical world order implied by state sovereignty, this remarkable…

General Economics · Economics 2025-11-24 Niklas Valentin Lehmann

Blockchain has been proposed to facilitate the enactment of interorganisational business processes. For such processes, blockchain can guarantee the enforcement of rules and the integrity of execution traces - without the need for a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Fabian Stiehle , Ingo Weber

The Bitcoin white paper introduced blockchain technology, enabling trustful transactions without intermediaries. Smart contracts emerged with Ethereum and blockchains expanded beyond cryptocurrency, applying to auctions, crowdfunding and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Aldenio Burgos , Eduardo Alchieri

Blockchain technology provides a private, secure, transparent decentralized exchange of data. Also, blockchain is not limited to a particular area, but it has a wide range of applications and can be integrated into a variety of Internet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-17 M. Sipek , M. Zagar , B. Mihaljevic

Blockchain is an emerging technology that enables new forms of decentralized software architectures, where distributed components can reach agreements on shared system states without trusting a central integration point. Blockchain provides…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xiwei Xu , Cesare Pautasso , Sin Kuang Lo , Liming Zhu , Qinghua Lu , Ingo Weber

The application of renewable energy sources in the power grid increases the necessity of tracking the system's state, especially in smart grids, where there is a bidirectional transfer of data and power. The complexity of coupling between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Sajjad Asefi , Yash Madhwal , Yury Yanovich , Elena Gryazina

Although blockchain-based smart contracts promise a ``trustless'' way of enforcing agreements even with monetary consequences, they suffer from multiple security issues. Many of these issues could be mitigated via an effective access…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Bowen Liu , Siwei Sun , Pawel Szalachowski

This paper presents a blockchain-based approach for securing spectrum sharing in multi-beam satellite systems. Satellite spectrum is a scarce resource that requires highly efficient management schemes for optimized sharing by network users.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Feng Li , Kwok-Yan Lam , Min Jia , Jun Zhao , Xiuhua Li , Li Wang

As the use of DevOps practices continues to grow, organizations are seeking ways to improve collaboration, speed up development cycles, and increase security, transparency, and traceability. Blockchain technology has the potential to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Muhammad Shoaib Farooq , Usman Ali

Blockchain technology has gained increasing popularity in the research of Internet of Things (IoT) systems in the past decade. As a distributed and immutable ledger secured by strong cryptography algorithms, the blockchain brings a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Ruipeng Zhang , Chen Xu , Mengjun Xie

Blockchain is a popular method to ensure security for trusted systems. The benefits include an auditable method to provide decentralized security without a trusted third party, but the drawback is the large computational resources needed to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Erik Blasch , Ronghua Xu , Yu Chen , Genshe Chen , Dan Shen

Smart manufacturing systems involve a large number of interconnected devices resulting in massive data generation. Cloud computing technology has recently gained increasing attention in smart manufacturing systems for facilitating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Aditya Pribadi Kalapaaking , Ibrahim Khalil , Mohammad Saidur Rahman , Abdelaziz Bouras

We propose a new way to share licensed spectrum bandwidth capacity in mobile networks between operators, service providers and consumers using blockchain-based smart contracts. We discuss the foundational building blocks in the contract as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Thomas Sandholm , Sayandev Mukherjee

With the rapid evolution of technological, economic, and regulatory landscapes, contemporary blockchain platforms are all but certain to undergo major changes. Therefore, the applications that rely on them will eventually need to migrate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-27 HMN Dilum Bandara , Xiwei Xu , Ingo Weber

With the booming of smart grid, The ubiquitously deployed smart meters constitutes an energy internet of things. This paper develops a novel blockchain-based transactive energy management system for IoT-aided smart homes. We consider a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Qing Yang , Hao Wang

Smart contracts are computer programs that can be consistently executed by a network of mutually distrusting nodes, without the arbitration of a trusted authority. Because of their resilience to tampering, smart contracts are appealing in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Massimo Bartoletti , Livio Pompianu

The advancement in the healthcare sector is entering into a new era in the form of Health 4.0. The integration of innovative technologies like Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Big Data, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, and Blockchain with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Mayank Pandey , Rachit Agarwal , Sandeep K. Shukla , Nishchal K. Verma

Blockchain, as the basis for cryptocurrencies, has received extensive attentions recently. Blockchain serves as an immutable distributed ledger technology which allows transactions to be carried out credibly in a decentralized environment.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Min An , Qiyuan Fan , Hao Yu , Haiyang Zhao

Voting is a very important issue which can be beneficial in term of choosing the right leader in an election. A good leader can bring prosperity to a country and also can lead the country in the right direction every time. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Kazi Sadia , Md. Masuduzzaman , Rajib Kumar Paul , Anik Islam