Blockchain introduces decentralized trust in peer-to-peer networks, advancing security and
democratizing systems. Yet, a unified definition for decentralization remains elusive. Our …

Blockchain (BC) has received high attention from many researchers recently because it has
decentralization, trusted auditability, and transparency as its main properties. BC has …

Blockchain technologies are drawing attention after the success of cryptocurrency. Due to
the inherent features, such as decentralization, transparency, security, immutability, and …

Industry 4.0 technological expansion and the multiple accesses to the diverse Smart Grid
domains (power networks, control systems, market, customer premises) entail the need to …

The current landscape of the core Internet technologies shows considerable centralisation
with the big tech companies controlling the vast majority of traffic and services. This situation …

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Case studies Expert Briefings Open Access Publish with us Advanced search Chinese fintech …

The disaster area is a dynamic environment. The bottleneck in distributing the supplies may
be from the damaged infrastructure or the unavailability of accurate information about the …

Hospitals provide diverse tasks essential for the delivery of patient care and are comprised
of many functional units. This makes healthcare projects in construction highly complex …

Invoice discounting is a market with a double-digit potential growth rate over the next years
in Europe and worldwide. The main benefit of invoice discounting is the acceleration of cash …

The federated learning (FL) approach in machine learning preserves user privacy during
data collection. However, traditional FL schemes still rely on a centralized server, making …