Permissioned blockchain technologies for academic publishing

Transparent Voting Platform Based on Permissioned Blockchain

Since 2004, different research was handling the challenges in the centralized voting systems, e-voting protocols and recently the decentralized voting. So electronic voting puts forward some difficulties regarding the voter anonymity, the secure casting of the votes and to prevent the voting process from frauding. The Decentralized property of the technology called"blockchain"could have the sol...

Academic publishing is electronic publishing

Derk Haank began by saying that he wanted to keep his presentation simple and would make only a few statements. The first of these was to say that, although it might be stating the obvious, academic publishing is electronic publishing. It has been remarkable how quickly things have progressed since the invention of the Web, and an EC study recently recognised that the revolution in electronic p...

What academic publishing can do for science?

Survey on Blockchain Technologies and Related Services

1 Background and Objective of the Survey Compared with conventional centralized systems, blockchain technologies used for transactions of value records, such as bitcoins, structurally have the characteristics that (i) enable the creation of a system that substantially ensures no downtime (ii) make falsification extremely hard, and (iii) realize inexpensive system. Blockchain technologies are ex...

PBFT vs Proof-of-Authority: Applying the CAP Theorem to Permissioned Blockchain

Permissioned blockchains are arising as a solution to federate companies prompting accountable interactions. A variety of consensus algorithms for such blockchains have been proposed, each of which has different benefits and drawbacks. Proof-of-Authority (PoA) is a new family of Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus algorithms largely used in practice to ensure better performance than tradit...