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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,066 Views
34 Pages

Who Tracks What, and How Deep? Granular Traceability in Multi-Firm Supply Chains via Blockchain-Based Tokenization

  • Vangelis Malamas,
  • Georgios Lagoumitzis,
  • Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou,
  • Theodore G. Voutsinas and
  • Thomas K. Dasaklis

Background: Traceability has gained significant importance in supply chain (SC) networks, especially driven by the growing need for transparency, regulatory compliance and consumer assurance. Although blockchain technology addresses several tradition...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent and Advanced Digital Technologies Enabling Sustainable and Viable Supply Chain and Logistics Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,319 Views
14 Pages

Finding Traceability Granularity Influencing Factors Using Rough Set Method: An Empirical Analysis of Vegetable Companies in Tianjin City, China

  • Jianping Qian,
  • Jiali Li,
  • Bojian Geng,
  • Cunkun Chen and ,
  • Jianjin Wu and
  • Haiyan Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 May 2023

The effectiveness evaluation of the traceability system (TS) is a tool for enterprises to achieve the required traceability level. It plays an important role not only for planning system implementation before development but also for analyzing system...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
101 Citations
31,881 Views
21 Pages

22 September 2021

Supply chain traceability is a dominant concern for many industries, regulators, and policymakers. In the textile and apparel industries, social, environmental, and sustainability issues are frequent causes for concern, highlighting the need for effe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,932 Views
16 Pages

26 April 2017

Food waste stemmed from food contamination and ineffective quality control is a significant challenge to food management. Supply chain traceability has become an essential task of the food industry for guaranteeing food quality and safety and reducin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Food Supply Chain and Food Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,949 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Credible Carbon Footprint Traceability System for Low Carbon Economy Using Blockchain Technology

  • Chunhua Ju,
  • Zhonghua Shen,
  • Fuguang Bao,
  • Pengtong Weng and ,
  • Yihang Xu and
  • Chonghuan Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

To achieve the goal of carbon neutrality, many countries have established regional carbon emission trading markets and tried to build a low-carbon economic system. At present, the implementation of carbon emission trading and low-carbon economic syst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Low Carbon Economy and Enterprise Carbon Emission Reduction Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Citations
16,340 Views
18 Pages

The halal industry is constantly developing into a broader concept of the Islamic economy, an economic activity that follows the Islamic-based principle. As a populous Muslim country, Indonesia follows the growth trend by aiming to dominate the globa...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,792 Views
19 Pages

16 August 2025

Hymenopellis raphanipes is a high-value edible fungus with a short shelf life and high perishability, which poses significant challenges for quality control and safety assurance throughout its supply chain. Ensuring effective traceability is essentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,156 Views
21 Pages

Information Traceability Model for the Grain and Oil Food Supply Chain Based on Trusted Identification and Trusted Blockchain

  • Xin Zhang,
  • Yue Li,
  • Xiangzhen Peng,
  • Zhiyao Zhao and ,
  • Jiaqi Han and
  • Jiping Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The grain and oil food supply chain has a complex structure, long turnover cycles, and many stakeholders, so it is challenging to maintain the security of this supply chain. A reliable traceability system for the whole grain and oil food supply chain...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,619 Views
22 Pages

Revolutionizing Green Electricity Certificates: A Real-Time Traceability Framework for Credible Renewable Energy Attribution in China

  • Jiayi He,
  • Lingxi Xie,
  • Hongtao Wang,
  • Lili Tian and ,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Shenzhang Li,
  • Yanjie Zhu,
  • Yudou Gao and
  • Zuyuan Huang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

23 December 2025

The global transition towards a clean energy system underscores the critical role of Green Electricity Certificates (GECs), yet their effectiveness is often hampered by an inability to credibly trace environmental attributes from generation to consum...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
459 Views
21 Pages

Knowledge-Organized and Retrieval-Augmented Intelligent Decision-Making Model for Remote Monitoring of Power System Secondary Equipment

  • Longxing Jin,
  • Luemou Ju,
  • Xu Zhang,
  • Zhengfei Lu and ,
  • Tinghuang Wang,
  • Jingyang Zhou and
  • Kangli Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

To address the challenges in remote monitoring of power system secondary equipment, including dispersed multi-source heterogeneous corpora, inconsistent terminology, non-standardized expressions, unstable knowledge granularity, and fragmented evidenc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,764 Views
31 Pages

A Review of Blockchained Product Quality Management Towards Smart Manufacturing

  • Lihua Wu,
  • Yuanwei Zhong,
  • Xiaofeng Zhu,
  • Xueliang Zhou and
  • Jiewu Leng

19 August 2025

Trustworthy product quality data forms the foundation of digital and distributed manufacturing, yet current centralized product quality management (PQM) systems remain vulnerable to data manipulation, traceability breaks, single points of failure, an...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
565 Views
19 Pages

21 August 2026

Reliable sustainability analysis requires more than the presence of ESG disclosure; it requires information that is specific, traceable and analytically usable. This exploratory study assesses a purposive corpus of 36 organisations in Bulgaria and Mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Economy and Sustainable Economic Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,359 Views
50 Pages

16 October 2025

The construction of nuclear power plants (NPPs) involves complex and long-duration projects where schedule delays critically affect project performance. To overcome this challenge, Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) has emerged as a promising alternative...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Construction and Infrastructure: Theory, Methods and Applications—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,404 Views
36 Pages

Graph-Enhanced Prompt Tuning for Evidence-Grounded HFACS Classification in Power-System Safety

  • Wenhua Zeng,
  • Wenhu Tang,
  • Diping Yuan,
  • Bo Zhang and ,
  • Na Xu and
  • Hui Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 October 2025

Power-system safety is fundamental to protecting lives and ensuring reliable grid operation. Yet, hierarchical text classification (HTC) methods struggle with domain-dense accident narratives that require cross-sentence reasoning, often yielding limi...

(This article belongs to the Section F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
16,620 Views
20 Pages

Characterisation and Traceability of Calcium Carbonate from the Seaweed Lithothamnium calcareum

  • Rosana Pereira da Silva,
  • Giovanna Sayuri Domingues Kawai,
  • Fabio Ramos Dias de Andrade,
  • Vinicius Danilo Nonato Bezzon and
  • Humberto Gomes Ferraz

6 May 2021

Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) from the seaweed Lithothamnium calcareum is a suitable dietary supplement for the prevention of osteoporosis, due to its chemical composition. This study compared CaCO3 from L. calcareum to CaCO3 from oyster shell and inorga...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers of Solids 2021)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,172 Views
29 Pages

28 November 2025

Short videos have become a primary medium for news delivery, but their low cost, rapid diffusion, and multimodal nature make misinformation easier to generate and harder to verify. Existing methods often rely on single-modality cues or shallow cross-...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,652 Views
23 Pages

9 October 2025

Smaller data environments with expert systems are generally driven by the need for interpretable reasoning frameworks, such as fuzzy rule-based systems (FRBS), which cannot often quantify epistemic uncertainty during decision-making. This study propo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence-Based Digital Health Emerging Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
907 Views
28 Pages

Threat Analysis of Over-the-Air Updates in Distributed, Domain-Based, and Zonal E/E Architectures

  • Tiberius-George Sorescu,
  • Nadzeya Melnik,
  • Rodrigo Rocha del Castillo and
  • Rahamatullah Khondoker

Modern vehicles depend on over-the-air (OTA) updates to maintain security, safety, and functionality, but the attack surface of an update campaign depends on the underlying electrical/electronic architecture and on the controls assumed for update orc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Navigating the Digital Age: Security, Ethics and Trust in Emerging Technologies, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,181 Views
22 Pages

A FAIR Perspective on Data Quality Frameworks

  • Nicholas Nicholson,
  • Raquel Negrao Carvalho and
  • Iztok Štotl

23 August 2025

Despite considerable effort and analysis over the last two to three decades, no integrated scenario yet exists for data quality frameworks. Currently, the choice is between several frameworks dependent upon the type and use of data. While the framewo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,771 Views
31 Pages

25 June 2024

The industrial manufacturing model is undergoing a transformation from a product-centric model to a customer-centric one. Driven by customized requirements, the complexity of products and the requirements for quality have increased, which pose a chal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensing and Fault Diagnosis for Complex Manufacturing Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,338 Views
24 Pages

HG-RAG: Hierarchical Graph-Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Power Systems

  • Zhijun Shen,
  • Xinlei Cai,
  • Binye Ni,
  • Zijie Meng and ,
  • Zhanhong Huang and
  • Tao Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has shown strong potential for knowledge-intensive tasks, yet its performance degrades sharply when applied to structured long-context documents in power systems, where dense entity–relation dependencies, cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,488 Views
31 Pages

Evaluating Faithfulness in Agentic RAG Systems for e-Governance Applications Using LLM-Based Judging Frameworks

  • George Papageorgiou,
  • Vangelis Sarlis,
  • Manolis Maragoudakis,
  • Ioannis Magnisalis and
  • Christos Tjortjis

As Large Language Models (LLMs) are core components in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for knowledge-intensive tasks, concerns regarding hallucinations, redundancy, and unverifiable outputs have intensified, particularly in high-stakes d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative AI and Large Language Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
738 Views
22 Pages

13 May 2026

Encrypted transport increasingly limits the visibility required by intrusion detection systems (IDS), motivating payload-free learning from flow statistics and protocol metadata. We introduce GCP, a graph-contrastive pretraining framework that casts...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Graph Neural Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
130 Views
33 Pages

Assessing Observable Resolution in Open-Access sEMG Datasets for High-Resolution Hand-Gesture Research: A Quantization-Aware Methodological Study

  • Alexandra Gomez-Caraveo,
  • Miguel E. Bravo-Zanoguera,
  • José A. Amezquita-García,
  • Guillermo Galaviz and
  • Fabian N. Murrieta-Rico

30 October 2026

Open-access surface electromyography (sEMG) datasets are widely used for gesture-recognition research; however, limited documentation of acquisition and post-processing may prevent verification of whether the numerical structure imposed during acquis...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,290 Views
25 Pages

The construction (AEC) industry has consolidated Building Information Modelling (BIM) as the standard for producing and managing project information, yet its analytical exploitation in Business Intelligence (BI) environments remains manual, ad hoc an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies and Workflows for BIM and Digital Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,324 Views
32 Pages

17 October 2025

The Blockchain-Based Medical Insurance Transaction System (BMIT) developed in this study addresses key issues in traditional medical insurance—information silos, data tampering, and privacy breaches—through innovative blockchain architect...