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Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has an enormous potential but also downsides. One downside of many DLT systems, such as blockchain, is their limited transaction throughput that hinders their adoption in many use cases (e.g., real-time…

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The rise of big data analytics has automated the decision-making of companies and increased supply chain agility. In this paper, we study the supply chain contract design problem faced by a data-driven supplier who needs to respond to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Xuejun Zhao , Ruihao Zhu , William B. Haskell

Many studies have been done to improve the performance of centrally controlled business processes and enhance the integration between different parties of these collaborations. However, the most serious issues of collaborative business…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Vahid Pourheidari , Sara Rouhani , Ralph deters

Performance contracts used for servitized business models enable consideration of overall life-cycle costs rather than just production costs. However, practical implementation of performance contracts has been limited due to challenges with…

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Vaccinating the global population against Covid-19 is one of the biggest supply chain management challenges humanity has ever faced. Rapid supply of Covid-19 vaccines is essential for successful global immunization, but its effectiveness…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Soroush Goodarzi , Vahid Kayvanfar , Alireza Haji , Alireza Shirzad

We propose a smart contract that allows two mutually distrusting parties to transact any non-digital good or service by deploying a smart contract on a blockchain to act as escrow. The contract settles disputes by letting parties wager that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Nikolaj Ignatieff Schwartzbach

Smart Contract Templates support legally-enforceable smart contracts, using operational parameters to connect legal agreements to standardised code. In this paper, we explore the design landscape of potential formats for storage and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Christopher D. Clack , Vikram A. Bakshi , Lee Braine

This work presents the design and implementation of a blockchain system that enables the trustable transactive energy management for distributed energy resources (DERs). We model the interactions among DERs, including energy trading and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Qing Yang , Hao Wang , Xiaoxiao Wu , Taotao Wang , Shengli Zhang

This paper introduces a unified framework for battery energy arbitrage under uncertain market prices that integrates chance-constrained terminal state-of-charge requirements with online threshold policies. We first cast the multi-interval…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Tomás Tapia , Yury Dvorkin

Demand response provides utilities with a mechanism to share with end users the stochasticity resulting from the use of renewable sources. Pricing is accordingly used to reflect energy availability, to allocate such a limited resource to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Andrea Monacchi , Wilfried Elmenreich

Ethereum Smart contracts use blockchain to transfer values among peers on networks without central agency. These programs are deployed on decentralized applications running on top of the blockchain consensus protocol to enable people to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Noama Fatima Samreen , Manar H. Alalfi

The rapid growth of 5G video streaming is intensifying energy consumption across access, core, and data-center networks, underscoring the critical need for energy and carbon-efficient solutions. While reducing streaming bitrates improves…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Konstantinos Varsos , Adamantia Stamou , George D. Stamoulis , Vasillios A. Siris

Society is in constant transition to keep up with technological advancement, we are seeing traditional paradigms being increasingly challenged. The fundamentals of governance are one such paradigm. As society's values have shifted, so have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Freya Sheer Hardwick , Raja Naeem Akram , Konstantinos Markantonakis

In today's programmable blockchains, smart contracts are limited to being deterministic and non-probabilistic. This lack of randomness is a consequential limitation, given that a wide variety of real-world financial contracts, such as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Amir Kafshdar Goharshady , Arash Pourdamghani

To alleviate difficulties in writing smart contracts for distributed blockchain applications, as other research, we propose transformation of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) models into blockchain smart contracts. Unlike other…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Christian Gang Liu

Blockchain and Cloud Computing are two of the main topics related to the distributed computing paradigm, and in the last decade, they have seen exponential growth in their adoption. Cloud computing has long been established as the main…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Carlos Melo , Jamilson Dantas , Paulo Pereira , Paulo Maciel

The emergence of blockchain technology has revolutionized contract execution through the introduction of smart contracts. Ethereum, the leading blockchain platform, leverages smart contracts to power decentralized applications (DApps),…

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As 6G networks evolve, inter-provider agreements become crucial for dynamic resource sharing and network slicing across multiple domains, requiring on-demand capacity provisioning while enabling trustworthy interaction among diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Farhana Javed , Josep Mangues-Bafalluy

Demand response (DR), as one of the important energy resources in the future's grid, provides the services of peak shaving, enhancing the efficiency of renewable energy utilization with a short response period, and low cost. Various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Kuan-Cheng Lee , Hong-Tzer Yang , Wenjun Tang

The recent approval of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes new data protection requirements on data controllers and processors with respect to the processing of European Union (EU) residents' data. These requirements…

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