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Blockchain is a type of decentralized distributed database. Unlike traditional relational database management systems, it does not require management or maintenance by a third party. All data management and update processes are open and…

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Weather forecasting plays a vital role in disaster preparedness, agriculture, and resource management, yet current centralized forecasting systems are increasingly strained by security vulnerabilities, limited scalability, and…

Limited access to computing resources and training data poses significant challenges for individuals and groups aiming to train and utilize predictive machine learning models. Although numerous publicly available machine learning models…

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Blockchain is a decentralized transaction and data management solution, the technological leap behind the success of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. As the variety of existing blockchains and distributed ledgers continues to increase,…

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Blockchain has been widely deployed in various sectors, such as finance, education, and public services. Since blockchain runs as an immutable distributed ledger, it has decentralized mechanisms with persistency, anonymity, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Qian Wei , Bingzhe Li , Wanli Chang , Zhiping Jia , Zhaoyan Shen , Zili Shao

Collaborative blockchain ecosystems allow diverse groups to cooperate on tasks while providing properties such as decentralization and transaction security. We provide a model that uses a repository blockchain to manage hard forks within a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Razwan Ahmed Tanvir , Greg Speegle

Ride-hailing and ride-sharing applications have recently gained in popularity as a convenient alternative to traditional modes of travel. Current research into autonomous vehicles is accelerating rapidly and will soon become a critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Ryan Shivers , Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman , Hossain Shahriar

Blockchain provides decentralization and trustlessness features for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which expands the application scenarios of IIoT. To address the problem that the blockchain cannot actively obtain off-chain data,…

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This paper proposes a blockchain-secured deep reinforcement learning (BC-DRL) optimization framework for {data management and} resource allocation in decentralized {wireless mobile edge computing (MEC)} networks. In our framework, {we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Xin Hao , Phee Lep Yeoh , Changyang She , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

With the rapid development of cloud computing, vast amounts of duplicated data are being uploaded to the cloud, wasting storage resources. Deduplication (dedup) is an efficient solution to save storage costs of cloud storage providers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Mallikarjun Reddy Dorsala , V. N. Sastry , Sudhakar Chapram

The recurrent neural network has been greatly developed for effectively solving time-varying problems corresponding to complex environments. However, limited by the way of centralized processing, the model performance is greatly affected by…

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Medical data involves a large amount of personal information and is highly privacy sensitive. In the age of big data, the increasing informatization of healthcare makes it vital that medical information is stored securely and accurately.…

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Blockchain applications may offer better fault-tolerance, integrity, traceability and transparency compared to centralized solutions. Despite these benefits, few businesses switch to blockchain-based applications. Industries worry that the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Sadok Ben Toumia , Christian Berger , Hans P. Reiser

The paper suggests a new approach based on blockchain technologies and smart contracts to creation of a distributed system for managing provenance metadata, as well as access rights to data in distributed storages, which is fault-tolerant,…

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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

Blockchain technology has been integrated into diverse software applications by enabling a decentralised architecture design. However, the defects of on-chain algorithmic mechanisms, and tedious disputes and debates in off-chain communities…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Yue Liu , Qinghua Lu , Guangsheng Yu , Hye-Young Paik , Liming Zhu

Centralized version control systems (VCS) are vital for software development but pose risks of data loss and ownership disputes. While blockchain offers a decentralized alternative, existing solutions are often hindered by high latency,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Md. Rafid Haque , Sakibul Islam Munna , Sabbir Ahmed , Md. Tahmid Islam , Md Mehedi Hassan Onik , A. B. M. Ashikur Rahman

Load balancing is critical for distributed storage to meet strict service-level objectives (SLOs). It has been shown that a fast cache can guarantee load balancing for a clustered storage system. However, when the system scales out to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Zaoxing Liu , Zhihao Bai , Zhenming Liu , Xiaozhou Li , Changhoon Kim , Vladimir Braverman , Xin Jin , Ion Stoica

Decentralized storage networks (DSNs) are storage systems powered by permissionless nodes. Data placement in DSNs must tolerate not only storage-device failures but also adversarial behavior that targets data availability. Byzantine nodes…

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