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As a highly scalable permissioned blockchain platform, Hyperledger Fabric supports a wide range of industry use cases ranging from governance to finance. In this paper, we propose a model to analyze the performance of a Hyperledgerbased…
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Blockchain has emerged as a decentralized and distributed framework that enables tamper-resilience and, thus, practical immutability for stored data. This immutability property is important in scenarios where auditability is desired, such…
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous robotic agents for conducting online transactions poses significant cybersecurity challenges. This study aims to enforce robust cybersecurity constraints to mitigate the risks…
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