Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks

TL;DR: The approach supports providers in deciding if and how changes to a private, internal process propagate to its public process view such that the process view and the internal process remain consistent.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present an experimental study that analyzes the current state of Ethereum layer-2 projects and infer that without efficient mechanisms that allow users to transfer funds in a secure and fast manner directly from one layer-to-another, current layer2 systems will not be able to scale Ethereum effectively, regardless of their technical solutions.

TL;DR: An architectural design of a blockchain-enabled pension network represents a flexible and scalable knowledge construct that can act as a foundation for further investigations by pension regulators or pension industry participants interested in achieving technology-driven pension operations reforms.

TL;DR: This paper shows that consensus is not needed to implement of a decentralized asset transfer system by introducing AT2 (Asynchronous Trustworthy Transfers), a class of consensusless algorithms offering deterministic and probabilistic properties.

Abstract: Three years ago, I read Michael Polanyi's contribution—as a philosopher—to a symposium entitled Scientific Outlook: Its Sickness and Cure . In a brilliant, penetrating, and delightfully humorous criticism of R. W. Gerard's 1 biological contribution, he unerringly diagnosed the sickness of medicine: The fact that a so learned, ingenious and imaginative survey of living beings should deal so perfunctorily with some of the most important questions concerning them shows a fundamental deficiency of human thinking.... If a rat laps up a solution of saccharine, the rational explanation of this lies in the act that the solution tastes sweet and that the rat likes that. The tasting and liking are facts that physics and chemistry as known today cannot explain. Nothing is relevant to biology, even at the lowest level of life, unless it bears on the achievements of living beings... and distinctions unknown to physics and chemistry... The current idea of

TL;DR: The objective of this paper is to give a comprehensive introduction to applied cryptography with an engineer or computer scientist in mind on the knowledge needed to create practical systems which supports integrity, confidentiality, or authenticity.

TL;DR: The Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) as the first step of the internal re-engineering of business processes to electronic commerce is discussed in this article, where a cost-justification model and an extensive list of business documents that are today's biggest EDI hitters are presented.