A smart contract is the algorithmic description of a contractual transaction protocol that is automatically executed together with the information provided by its parties. It is written in a simplified programming language that is specific to a parti...
Smart contracts are central to blockchain ecosystems, yet their development remains technically demanding, error-prone, and tied to platform-specific programming languages. This paper introduces SCEditor-Web, a web-based modeling environment that com...
A significant number of digital marketers use unethical marketing methods that violate Search Engine Optimization guidelines, with the objective of deceiving engines into displaying a specific website as the top result. The practice of fake comments...
Ensuring trust, security, and privacy among all participating parties in the process of sharing supervision data is crucial for engineering quality and safety. However, the current centralized architecture platforms that are commonly used for enginee...
The use of blockchain technology is expanding in various industries, including finance, supply chain management, food, energy, IoT, and healthcare. The article aims to address the challenges of complex medical procedures, large-scale medical data man...
The novel, yet disruptive blockchain technology has witnessed growing attention, due to its intrinsic potential. Besides the conventional domains that benefit from such potential, such as finance, supply chain and healthcare, blockchain use cases in...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in transforming software testing by automating tasks such as test case generation. In this work, we explore the integration of LLMs within a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) approach...
The provision of electric vehicles (EVs) is increasing due to the need for ecological green energy. The increment in EVs leads to an intelligent electric vehicle transportation system’s need instead of cloud-based systems to manage privacy and...
Current blockchain-based cloud (BBC) systems have several security vulnerabilities regarding smart contracts (SC), and several attacks have been reported recently. The SC development lacks standard design processes that follow software lifecycle prin...
Despite their promising potential, the level of implementation of smart contracts is not at the desired level. To expedite the acceptance and deployment of smart contracts, the barriers to the implementation of smart contracts should be revealed. Pas...
Smart contracts are vulnerable to critical, design-level Business Logic Flaws (BLFs) that conventional analysis tools often fail to detect. To address this semantic gap, this study introduces a novel ontological framework that formally models the lin...
E-voting is one of the valid use cases of blockchain technology with many blockchain e-voting systems already proposed. But efforts that focus on critical analysis of blockchain e-voting architectures for national elections from stakeholders’ p...
The advent of blockchain technology has revolutionized various sectors by providing transparency, immutability, and automation. Central to this revolution are smart contracts, which facilitate trustless and automated transactions across diverse domai...
Many empirical software engineering studies show that there is a need for repositories where source codes are acquired, filtered and classified. During the last few years, Ethereum block explorer services have emerged as a popular project to explore...
Sustainable development can be attained at a microlevel and having smart campuses around the world presents an opportunity to achieve city-wide smartness. In the process of attaining smartness on campuses, the elements requiring attention must be inv...
The post-deployment challenges in developing and upgrading blockchain smart contracts necessitate a high level of accuracy in their development and business logic. However, current methodologies for verifying the business logic of smart contracts fre...
Blockchain, smart contracts, and related concepts have emerged in recent years as a promising technology for cryptocurrency, NFTs, and other areas. However, there are still many security issues that must be addressed as these technologies evolve. Thi...
We present a solution based on blockchain technology and smart contracts for agile project management in light of the continuing transition in the software development industry. Due to the fact that these technologies are self-executing, customized,...
Blockchain ecosystems are rapidly maturing and meeting the needs of business environments (e.g., industry, manufacturing, and robotics). The decentralized approaches in industries enable novel business concepts, such as machine autonomy and servitiza...
Blockchain technology, with special features of decentralization, immutability, consensus mechanisms, and smart contracts, has been integrated into different areas of digital applications recently. However, its abstract concepts present a steep learn...
The civil engineering sector operates within a complex ecosystem of stakeholders, requiring efficient management and maintenance of structural and infrastructural assets. In this context, there is an increasing need for robust tools to track critical...
An ICO (Initial Coin Offering) is an innovative way to fund projects based on blockchain. The funding is based on the selling of tokens by means of decentralized applications called smart contracts written in Solidity, a programming language specific...
In the past two decades, technological advancements in smart devices, IoT, and smart sensors have paved the way towards numerous implementations of indoor location systems. Indoor location has many important applications in numerous fields, including...
Blockchain technology has recently inspired remarkable attention due to its unique features, such as privacy, accountability, immutability, and anonymity, to name of the few. In contrast, core functionalities of most Internet of Things (IoT) resource...
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are transforming the commercialisation of digital art by establishing unique blockchain identifiers that ensure authenticity and certify subsequent transactions. However, the transfer of control over an NFT does not automat...
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...
The growing frequency of cybersecurity incidents, coupled with the increasing significance of blockchain technology in today’s digital landscape, highlights the urgent need for enriched, hands-on educational programs within Computer Science and...
Smart-building structural health monitoring (SHM) requires a unified digital representation capable of integrating heterogeneous sensing devices, continuous structural states, and burst-oriented post-event assessment without embedding device-specific...
Open-source systems help to manage the rapid development of software, while governing open-source systems properly can effectively promote software and software engineering. However, some significant problems, such as code controls, incentives, inter...
Hydrogels are innovative materials characterized by a water-swollen, crosslinked polymeric network capable of retaining substantial amounts of water while maintaining structural integrity. Their unique ability to swell or contract in response to envi...
Many researchers challenge the possibility of using blockchain and smart contracts to disrupt the Internet of Things (IoT) architecture because of their security and decentralization guarantees. However, the state-of-the-art blockchain architecture i...
Prefabricated components suit reuse, but the information needed to verify and transfer them is fragmented and rarely held in project models. This paper develops and tests a digital asset passport framework that holds an instance-level passport inside...
Although existing models and theories have explained systemic behaviors such as demand amplification and disruption propagation, practical challenges in Modular Construction Supply Chains (MCSC) remain unresolved due to production heterogeneity, geog...
The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) has made software security and reliability a critical concern. With multi-language programs running on edge computing, embedded systems, and sensors, each connected device represents a potential att...
Cold vaccine delivery is often known as a high-cost logistic process, which forces many pharmaceutical manufacturers, particularly small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to subcontract logistics operations of vaccines to third-party logistics (3...
While integrating blockchain technology into Business Process Management (BPM) has gained attention, existing compilation-based approaches suffer from high redeployment costs and isolated network structures. This study proposes an FSM-based workflow...
As an intelligent polymer material, pH-sensitive hydrogels exhibit the capability to dynamically sense alterations in ambient pH levels and subsequently initiate corresponding physical or chemical responses, including swelling, contraction, degradati...
As noted in recent blockchain review articles, several blockchain studies have attracted attention to the architecture, engineering, construction, and operation (AECO) industry. The reason is that blockchain offers opportunities to revolutionize the...
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a critical biological resource for regenerative medicine, immunomodulation, and personalized cell therapy. Three structural problems persist: (1) the absence of standardized, quantitative quality indicators; (2) insu...
In the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry claims arise frequently, often resulting in disputes. Claim management should be efficient to prevent claims from escalating into disputes, and if disputes are still unavoidable, they s...
To support Industry 5.0 smart factories that require ultra-low latency and high reliability, this paper proposes a three-layer Intent-Based Zero-Touch Networking (IBZTN) pipeline. Existing Intent-Based Networking (IBN)/Zero-Touch Networking (ZTN) stu...
Autonomous driving systems (ADSs) increasingly rely on LiDAR sensors for perception. However, the resulting high-volume data places a strain on storage systems and network bandwidth and raises data-privacy concerns. We propose an IoT data engineering...
Accurate carbon footprint accounting is fundamental for urban environmental governance. However, multi-stakeholder transit networks struggle with data manipulation, privacy risks, and labor-intensive manual auditing. To resolve these trust and scalab...
Machine learning-based (ML) systems are becoming the primary means of achieving the highest levels of productivity and effectiveness. Incorporating other advanced technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), or e-Health systems, has made ML th...
Revolutionizing distributed agile software testing, we propose BCTestingPlus, a groundbreaking blockchain-based platform. In the traditional distributed agile software testing lifecycle, software testing has suffered from a lack of trust, traceabilit...
Electric car-sharing (ECS) is an increasingly popular service in many European cities. The management of an ECS fleet is more complex than its thermal engine counterpart due to the longer ”refueling“ time and the limited autonomy of the v...
Driven by the urgent need for industrial transformation and emerging technologies, the construction engineering market is rapidly evolving toward intelligent building systems. This study employs latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) methodology to analyz...
One-Time Passwords (OTPs) are a core component of multi-factor authentication in banking, e-commerce, and digital platforms. However, conventional delivery channels such as SMS and email are increasingly vulnerable to SIM-swap fraud, phishing, spoofi...
This paper investigates the evolving landscape of blockchain technology in renewable energy. The study, based on a Scopus database search on 21 February 2024, reveals a growing trend in scholarly output, predominantly in engineering, energy, and comp...
Starting a private blockchain testbed takes hours; starting a local Ethereum backend takes one second. Tools such as Anvil, Hardhat Network, Ganache, and the EthereumTesterProvider of web3.py each deliver a fully functional EVM, pre-funded accounts,...
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