Smart contract, a term which was originally coined to refer to the automation of legal
contracts in general, has recently seen much interest due to the advent of blockchain …

Blockchains are distributed systems, in which security is a critical factor for their success.
However, despite their increasing popularity and adoption, there is a lack of standardized …

Due to the limited battery and computing resource, offloading unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs)'computation tasks to ground infrastructure, eg, vehicles, is a fundamental framework …

This paper presents a novel blockchain-based energy trading architecture for electric
vehicles (EVs) within smart cities. By allowing local renewable energy providers to supply …

The blockchain-based smart contract lacks privacy since the contract state and instruction
code are exposed to the public. Combining smart-contract execution with Trusted Execution …

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

We introduce the first practical protocols for fully decentralized sealed-bid auctions using
timed commitments. Timed commitments ensure that the auction is finalized fairly even if all …

In this paper, a fully distributed auction-blockchain-based crowdsourcing framework is
proposed-ABCrowd. In a typical crowdsourcing framework, independent workers compete to …

Electronic auction (e-auction) has become one of the most popular approaches to allocate
resources or services in contemporary society because of removing physical limitations of …

Artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology have emerged as increasingly
prevalent and influential elements shaping global trends in Information and …