Information systems execute increasingly complex business processes, often across organizations. Blockchain technology has emerged as a potential facilitator of (semi)-autonomous cross-organizational business process execution; in particular, so-call...
The widespread deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in smart-home energy systems has increased the demand for secure, context-aware, and energy-efficient access control (AC) mechanisms. Although blockchain-based AC provides immutabilit...
Blockchain sharding is a promising approach to improving system scalability. However, traditional designs rely on lock-based cross-shard commit protocols, which introduce significant performance bottlenecks due to repeated on-chain communication and...
The management of assembly manufacturing supply chains in a cloud computing environment poses various challenges, including extensive regional management, a lack of transparency in the supply chain, an absence of a secure and effective traceability m...
Decentralized applications (DApps) built on blockchain technology offer a promising solution to issues caused by centralization. However, traditional DApps leveraging off-chain storage face performance challenges due to factors such as storage locati...
As mobile internet and Internet of Things technologies rapidly advance, the amount of spatio-temporal big data have surged, and efficient and secure management solutions are urgently needed. Although cloud storage provides convenience, it also brings...
The rapid advancement of blockchain technology has introduced a new paradigm for constructing trusted digital economic infrastructure. However, its large-scale adoption remains constrained by dual challenges: on-chain and off-chain communication effi...
The decentralized and tamper-proof features of blockchain technology can solve the problems of low compatibility, poor flexibility, and single point of failure in the traditional Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). However, the transparency of the...
Many blockchain-based crowdsourcing frameworks currently struggle to address the high costs associated with on-chain storage and computation effectively, and they lack a quality-driven incentive mechanism tailored to bounding box annotation scenarios...
Nowadays, it has been recognized that blockchain can provide the technological infrastructure for developing decentralized, secure, and reliable smart energy grid management systems. However, an open issue that slows the adoption of blockchain techno...
Carbon trading is an effective way to achieve carbon neutrality. It is a market mechanism aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and carbon dioxide emissions. Blockchain technology can be applied to the carbon-trading scenario using charac...
The Internet of Things includes all connected objects from small embedded systems with low computational power and storage capacities to efficient ones, as well as moving objects like drones and autonomous vehicles. The concept of Internet of Everyth...
The digital transformation of higher education has heightened the need for reliable mechanisms to verify the authenticity, integrity, and independence of academic documents. This study presents the design and practical implementation of a blockchain-...
We present a suitable approach to address the electric vehicle charging roaming problem (e-roaming). Blockchain technologies are applied to support the identity management process of users charging their vehicles and to record energy transactions sec...
The widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence has increased the volume of images and videos shared online, while making it difficult to verify origin and integrity after routine post-processing such as re-encoding, resizing, and t...
Faculty governance in higher education depends on transparent participation, reliable quorum enforcement, accountable record keeping, and strict alignment with institutional regulations. Conventional departmental council processes provide formal auth...
Blockchain has received great attention in academia and industry due to its decentralization and immutability. From the perspective of transaction processing, blockchain is a distributed shared ledger and database with the characteristics of decentra...
In the last four years, the evolution and adoption of blockchain and, more generally, distributed ledger systems have shown the affirmation of many concepts and models with significant differences in system governance and suitable applications. This...
Blockchain-enabled healthcare information systems are increasingly proposed to improve trust, auditability, integrity, and decentralised access control in health-data sharing, but privacy concerns remain. This study aimed to identify where privacy ch...
To tackle the problems of questioning the authenticity of products faced in e-commerce live streaming and the low data integrity in the process of product transactions, the concept of traceability and a product authentication scheme that integrates b...
The knowledge of the exact position and orientation of a sensor with respect to a source (distribution) is essential for the correct solution of inverse problems. Especially when measuring with magnetic field sensors, the positions and orientations o...
To bridge the current gap between the Blockchain expectancies and their intensive computation constraints, the present paper advances a lightweight processing solution, based on a load-balancing architecture, compatible with the lightweight/embedding...
Layer 2 solutions have emerged in recent years as a valuable alternative to increase the throughput and scalability of blockchain-based architectures. The three primary types of Layer 2 solutions are state channels, sidechains, and rollups. The rollu...
Many Blockchain-based approaches have been published in the field of health data management applications (HDMAs). However, no comprehensive guideline exists to guide the multiple and interdependent design decisions to develop such systems. This paper...
This research paper reviews the potential of smart contracts for responsible AI with a focus on frameworks, hardware, energy efficiency, and cyberattacks. Smart contracts are digital agreements that are executed by a blockchain, and they have the pot...
Blockchain technology, with its characteristics of decentralization, immutability, auditability, and traceability, has gradually become a core infrastructure in the digital economy era, demonstrating great potential in fields such as finance, governm...
Using agglutination techniques, 118 Listeria monocytogenes isolates from red meat and poultry were serotyped. Strains were ascribed to the serotypes 4b/4e (44.1% of the strains), 1/2 (a, b or c; 28.0%), 4c (6.8%), 4d/4e (5.9%) and 3 (a, b or c; 2.5%)...
Compared with traditional physical commodities, data are intangible and easy to leak, and the related trading process has problems, such as complex participating roles, lengthy information flow, poor supervisory coverage and difficult information tra...
With the arrival of the 5G era, the Internet of Things (IoT) has entered a new stage, and the amount of IoT data is growing rapidly. The traditional blockchain cannot handle massive amounts of data, which presents scalability challenges for blockchai...
Blockchain technologies, despite their profound transformative potential across multiple industries, continue to face significant scalability challenges. These limitations are primarily observed in restricted transaction throughput and elevated laten...
Current Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy market models raise serious concerns regarding the confidentiality and integrity of energy consumption, trading and billing data. While Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) systems (e.g., blockchain) have been propose...
Currently, “connected cars” are being actively designed over smart cars and autonomous cars, to establish a two-way communication network between the vehicle and all infrastructure. Additionally, because vehicle black boxes are becoming m...
The promising power-to-gas (P2G) technology makes it possible for wind farms to absorb carbon and trade in multiple energy markets. Considering the remoteness of wind farms equipped with P2G systems and the isolation of different energy markets, the...
The digital sharing of healthcare data necessitates a careful balance between the need for verifiability and the protection of patient privacy. In many real-world scenarios, particularly in employer and third-party verification processes, excessive c...
The advent of Internet of Things (IoT) brought innovation along with unprecedented benefits of convenience and efficacy in many operations that were otherwise very cumbersome. This innovation explosion has surfaced a new dimension of vulnerability an...
This work presents a Self Sovereign Identity based system proposal to show how Blockchain, Building Information Modeling, Internet of Thing devices, and Self Sovereign Identity concepts can support the process of building digitalization, guaranteeing...
Data assets trading can encourage owners to distribute data and achieve large-scale data aggregation to promote the development of the supply chain system. Blockchain is a promising platform for constructing a decentralized data marketplace. The data...
Forty years ago, Near InfraRed (NIR) was considered a sleeping technique among the spectroscopic ones [...]
Acoustic emission (AE) technology has emerged as a highly sensitive and non-destructive method for the real-time monitoring of defect formation and microstructural changes during the manufacturing and early service life of polymeric materials and com...
This study aims to create a performance evaluation model for the food processing machinery industry. The goal is to help food processing plants improve both process quality and competitiveness. Additionally, component failures may disrupt the continu...
Nuclear receptor PPARγ affects lipid metabolism in several tissues, but its role in intestinal lipid metabolism has not been explored. As alterations have been observed in the plasma lipid profile of ad libitum fed intestinal epithelium-specific PPAR...
In the future, climate change will induce even more severe hurricanes. Not only should these be better understood, but there is also a necessity to improve the assessment of their impacts. Flooding is one of the most common powerful impacts of these...
Mineable platinum group metal (PGM) deposits are rare and found in relatively few areas of the world. At the same time, the use of PGM is predicted to expand in green technology and energy applications, and PGMs are consequently currently listed as E...
One of the most popular platforms in token-based banking is the flexible Stellar platform. The wide range of Stellar’s features allows companies to use it in modern cryptocurrency and token-based banking. This network charges a fee for each tra...
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) suffer from critical governance challenges, such as low voter participation, large token holders’ dominance, and inefficient proposal analysis by manual processes. We propose APOLLO (Autonomous Pred...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the novel paradigm of connectivity and the driving force behind state-of-the-art applications and services. However, the exponential growth of the number of IoT devices and services, their distributed nature, and scarc...
The convergence of blockchain with the internet of things (IoT) attracted widespread attention. Blockchain mainly solved the problem of secure storage and trusted transactions. The convergence of these two emerging technologies enhanced the security...
The fusion of spatial data with blockchain technologies presents an innovative approach towards a decentralized, secure, and trustworthy framework for spatial information management. This integration brings spatial representation to the forefront of...
A blockchain-oriented continuous micropayment system forms an integral element of the digital economy, enabling seamless transactions and encouraging minor purchases. However, due to the inherent throughput constraints of blockchain, payment channels...
During the last decade, the blockchain landscape has rapidly evolved, fostering the development of decentralized applications (DApps) that utilize cross-chain interactions. Although existing technologies have enhanced transaction processing and intro...
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