In recent years, blockchain has gained widespread attention as an emerging technology for
decentralization, transparency, and immutability in advancing online activities over public …

Recent years have witnessed remarkable developments and increasingly deepened
integrations between blockchain as a decentralized computing architecture and auction as …

Compared with traditional power systems, smart grid is designed to provide effective and
secure energy services. Data aggregation is one of the key technologies in wireless sensor …

Task offloading is a promising technology to exploit the available resources in edge cloud
efficiently. Many incentive mechanisms for offloading systems have been proposed …

Cooperation is fundamental for human prosperity. Blockchain, as a trust machine, is a
cooperative institution in cyberspace that supports cooperation through distributed trust with …

Cyber security (or cybersecurity) has become a fundamental issue which deeply affects
citizen's lives (including their privacy), the public's economic prosperity, and national …

Virtual investment community has become an important information source for investors.
This study contributes to the related literature by investigating the endogenous interplay …

Bitcoin operates in a Blockchain network under which a group of participants are
responsible for adding new blocks to the chain. The participants are called miners and the …

The stability of proof-of-work consensus underlying decentralized networks such as Bitcoin
relies on an incentive-compatible mining design. While theoretically well studied, the …

In traditional blockchain networks, transaction fees are only allocated to full nodes (ie,
miners) regardless of the contribution of forwarding behaviors of light nodes. However, the …