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In general, deep learning models use to make informed decisions immensely. Developed models are mainly based on centralized servers, which face several issues, including transparency, traceability, reliability, security, and privacy. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Asma Jodeiri Akbarfam , Sina Barazandeh , Hoda Maleki , Deepti Gupta

This research study focuses primarily on Block-Chain-based voting systems, which facilitate participation in and administration of voting for voters, candidates, and officials. Because we used Block-Chain in the backend, which enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jagbeer Singh , Utkarsh Rastogi , Yash Goel , Brijesh Gupta , Utkarsh

Blockchain has proven to be an emerging technology in the digital world, changing the way everyone thinks about data security and bringing efficiency to several industries. It has already been applied to a wide range of applications, from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Md. Mijanur Rahman , Md Tanzinul Kabir Tonmoy , Saifur Rahman Shihab , Riya Farhana

Modern software systems, like GNU/Linux distributions or Eclipse-based development environment, are often deployed by selecting components out of large component repositories. Maintaining such software systems by performing component…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-09-05 Roberto Di Cosmo , Olivier Lhomme , Claude Michel

This paper presents an in-depth exploration of Data Availability Sampling (DAS) and sharding mechanisms within decentralized systems through simulation-based analysis. DAS, a pivotal concept in blockchain technology and decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Arunima Chaudhuri , Sudipta Basak , Csaba Kiraly , Dmitriy Ryajov , Leonardo Bautista-Gomez

We analyze the convergence of decentralized consensus algorithm with delayed gradient information across the network. The nodes in the network privately hold parts of the objective function and collaboratively solve for the consensus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Benjamin Sirb , Xiaojing Ye

Recently, the blockchain technique was put in the spotlight as it introduced a systematic approach for multiple parties to reach consensus without needing trust. However, the application of this technique in practice is severely restricted…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Zhijie Ren , Kelong Cong , Johan Pouwelse , Zekeriya Erkin

The decentralized trading market approach, where both autonomous agents and people can consume and produce services expanding own opportunities to reach goals, looks very promising as a part of the Fourth Industrial revolution. The key…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Konstantin Danilov , Ruslan Rezin , Alexander Kolotov , Ilya Afanasyev

We study infinite-horizon discounted two-player zero-sum Markov games, and develop a decentralized algorithm that provably converges to the set of Nash equilibria under self-play. Our algorithm is based on running an Optimistic Gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Chen-Yu Wei , Chung-Wei Lee , Mengxiao Zhang , Haipeng Luo

Blockchain technology, while revolutionary in enabling decentralized transactions, faces scalability challenges as the ledger must be replicated across all nodes of the chain, limiting throughput and efficiency. Sharding, which divides the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Björn Assmann , Samuel J. Burri

Consensus protocols inherently rely on the notion of leader election, in which one or a subset of participants are temporarily elected to authorize and announce the network's latest state. While leader election is a well studied problem,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Sarah Azouvi , Patrick McCorry , Sarah Meiklejohn

A decentralised organisation (DO) is a multi-stakeholder institution where decision making is assigned to various levels of the organisation. Decentralised stakeholders play an important role in the governance of a decentralised…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Sarad Venugopalan , Heiko Aydt

Decentralized Ledger Technology, popularized by the Bitcoin network, aims to keep track of a ledger of valid transactions between agents of a virtual economy without a central institution for coordination. In order to keep track of a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Michael Zargham , Zixuan Zhang , Victor Preciado

Catalyzed by the popularity of blockchain technology, there has recently been a renewed interest in the design, implementation and evaluation of decentralized systems. Most of these systems are intended to be deployed at scale and in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Martijn de Vos , Georgy Ishmaev , Johan Pouwelse , Stefanie Roos

It is no exaggeration to say that since the introduction of Bitcoin, blockchains have become a disruptive technology that has shaken the world. However, the rising popularity of the paradigm has led to a flurry of proposals addressing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Christopher Natoli , Jiangshan Yu , Vincent Gramoli , Paulo Esteves-Verissimo

Blockchain technology shows significant results and huge potential for serving as an interweaving fabric that goes through every industry and market, allowing decentralized and secure value exchange, thus connecting our civilization like…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-10-17 Zvezdin Besarabov , Todor Kolev

A family of leaderless, decentralized consensus protocols, called Snow consensus was introduced in a recent whitepaper by Yin et al. These protocols address limitations of existing consensus methods, such as those using proof-of-work or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ignacio Amores-Sesar , Christian Cachin , Philipp Schneider

A trusted electronic election system requires that all the involved information must go public, that is, it focuses not only on transparency but also privacy issues. In other words, each ballot should be counted anonymously, correctly, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Wei-Jr Lai Ja-Ling Wu

Blockchains face a scalability challenge due to the intrinsic throughput limitations of consensus protocols and the limitation in block sizes due to decentralization. An alternative to improve the number of transactions per second is to use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Margarita Capretto , Martín Ceresa , Antonio Fernández Anta , Pedro Moreno-Sánchez , César Sánchez

Decentralized storage is one of the most natural applications built on blockchains and a central component of the Web3 ecosystem. Yet despite a decade of active development -- from IPFS and Filecoin to more recent entrants -- most of these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Michael Crystal , Guy Goren , Scott Duke Kominers