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Blockchain has been increasingly used as a software component to enable decentralisation in software architecture for a variety of applications. Blockchain governance has received considerable attention to ensure the safe and appropriate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yue Liu , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu , Hye-Young Paik , Mark Staples

Despite Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have reduced the information asymmetry and increased the degree of interorganizational collaboration, the companies participating a supply chain are less inclined to share data when…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Francesco Longo , Letizia Nicoletti , Antonio Padovano , Gianfranco d'Atri , Marco Forte

Blokchain is a promising technology to enable distributed and reliable data sharing at the network edge. The high security in blockchain is undoubtedly a critical factor for the network to handle important data item. On the other hand,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yixin Li , Liang Liang , Yunjian Jia , Wanli Wen , Chaowei Tang , Zhengchuan Chen

This study proposes a novel solution that provides secure interoperability for blockchains, which improves the overall scalability of the whole blockchain network. In our solution, a cross-chain task will build a one-time cross-blockchain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Keyang Liu , Yukio Ohsawa

We propose in this paper BlockHouse, a decentralized/P2P storage system fully based on private blockchains. Each participant can rent his unused storage in order to host data of other members. This system uses a dual Smart Contract and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Doriane Perard , Lucas Gicquel , Jérôme Lacan

Web3 systems expose a fundamentally different security landscape from centralized platforms, characterized by composability, pseudonymous identities, decentralized governance, and rapidly evolving attack strategies that span social,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Stefan Kambiz Behfar , Jon Crowcroft

Blockchain has attracted a broad range of interests from start-ups, enterprises and governments to build next generation applications in a decentralized manner. Similar to cloud platforms, a single blockchain-based system may need to serve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Ingo Weber , Qinghua Lu , An Binh Tran , Amit Deshmukh , Marek Gorski , Markus Strazds

A framework is introduced for actively and adaptively solving a sequence of machine learning problems, which are changing in bounded manner from one time step to the next. An algorithm is developed that actively queries the labels of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Yuheng Bu , Jiaxun Lu , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Cross-institutional healthcare predictive modeling can accelerate research and facilitate quality improvement initiatives, and thus is important for national healthcare delivery priorities. For example, a model that predicts risk of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Tsung-Ting Kuo , Lucila Ohno-Machado

Chainspace is a decentralized infrastructure, known as a distributed ledger, that supports user defined smart contracts and executes user-supplied transactions on their objects. The correct execution of smart contract transactions is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Mustafa Al-Bassam , Alberto Sonnino , Shehar Bano , Dave Hrycyszyn , George Danezis

Leveraging blockchain in Federated Learning (FL) emerges as a new paradigm for secure collaborative learning on Massive Edge Networks (MENs). As the scale of MENs increases, it becomes more difficult to implement and manage a blockchain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Handi Chen , Rui Zhou , Yun-Hin Chan , Zhihan Jiang , Xianhao Chen , Edith C. H. Ngai

Both blockchain technologies and cloud computing are contemporary emerging technologies. While the application of Blockchain technologies is being spread beyond cryptocurrency, cloud computing is also seeing a paradigm shift to meet the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Md Mehedi Hassan Onik , Mahdi H. Miraz

This paper presents Thinkey, an efficient, secure, infinitely scalable and decentralized blockchain architecture. It ensures system correctness and liveness by a multi-layer structure. In particular, the system is based on a double-chain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Shan Chen , Weiguo Dai , Yuanxi Dai , Hao Fu , Yang Gao , Jianqi Guo , Haoqing He , Yuhong Liu

Sharding has emerged as a key technique to address blockchain scalability by partitioning the ledger into multiple shards that process transactions in parallel. Although this approach improves throughput, static or heuristic shard…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-26 M. Zeeshan Haider , Tayyaba Noreen , M. D. Assuncao , Kaiwen Zhang

In the use of database systems, the design of the storage engine and data model directly affects the performance of the database when performing queries. Therefore, the users of the database need to select the storage engine and design data…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Hongzhi Wang , Yan Wei , Hao Yan

This paper introduces a robust zero-trust architecture (ZTA) tailored for the decentralized system that empowers efficient remote work and collaboration within IoT networks. Using blockchain-based federated learning principles, our proposed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Luxing Yang , Sutharshan Rajasegarar , Gang Li

Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) is one of the primary drivers behind increasing levels of autonomy, driving comfort in this age of connected mobility. However, the performance of such systems is a function of execution rate which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Anirban Ghose , Srijeeta Maity , Arijit Kar , Kaustubh Maloo , Soumyajit Dey

Academic credential fraud threatens educational integrity, especially in developing countries like Bangladesh, where verification methods are primarily manual and inefficient. To address this challenge, we present ShikkhaChain, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ahsan Farabi , Israt Khandaker , Jayed Ahsan , Ibrahim Khalil Shanto , Nusrat Jahan , Md Jarif Khan

The cybersecurity of modern systems has dramatically increased attention from both industrial and academia perspectives. In the recent era, the popularity of the blockchain-based system has traditionally been emergent among various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Abdul Khalique Shaikh A. K. Al-Alawi , L. R. , Al-Busaidi , R. , Shaikh

Distributed learning across a coalition of organizations allows the members of the coalition to train and share a model without sharing the data used to optimize this model. In this paper, we propose new secure architectures that guarantee…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Sebastien Lugan , Paul Desbordes , Luis Xavier Ramos Tormo , Axel Legay , Benoit Macq