Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks

TL;DR: This research has combined blockchain technology to ensure data security and user privacy with smart contracts to ensure that the protocol for the transaction is maintained and building and implementing the proposed system that provides the solution for transactional data privacy.

TL;DR: Experimental results show that the proposed service migration mechanism based on container can effectively reduce the waiting delay and migration delay in the service process, and optimize the service quality of edge nodes.

TL;DR: A survey of non‐fungible tokens (NFTs), including its history, technologies, standards, and challenges in their development is presented.

TL;DR: This text will show that blockchain can bring back promised features of digitalization of the first two waves, features that were lost with centralization tendencies created by business models that are independent of the underlying technology.

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.