Peer Review: Toward a Blockchain-enabled Market-based Ecosystem

Avital, Michel

doi:10.17705/1cais.04228

Cited by 40 publications

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“…To facilitate the exchange of this type of service, a monetary system of resource credits is created, based on the concept of resource assignment from collaborative cloud services [ 11 ]. This concept of resource trading also appears in other research works ranging from the exchange of energy [ 12 , 13 ] to the exchange of professional services, such as peer reviews [ 14 ], in the academic field. All these works define a brokerage trading system that values individual contributions and stores the merit accumulated by these users.…”

Section: State Of the Artmentioning

confidence: 85%

A Blockchain-Based Authorization System for Trustworthy Resource Monitoring and Trading in Smart Communities

Alcarria

Martín

Callejo

2018

Sensors

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Resource consumption in residential areas requires novel contributions in the field of consumer information management and collaborative mechanisms for the exchange of resources, in order to optimize the overall consumption of the community. We propose an authorization system to facilitate access to consumer information and resource trading, based on blockchain technology. Our proposal is oriented to the Smart communities, an evolution of Community Energy Management Systems, in which communities are involved in the monitoring and coordination of resource consumption. The proposed environment allows a more reliable management of monitoring and authorization functions, with secure data access and storage and delegation of controller functions among householders. We provide the definition of virtual assets for energy and water resource sharing as an auction, which encourages the optimization of global consumption and saves resources. The proposed solution is implemented and validated in application scenarios that demonstrate the suitability of the defined consensus mechanism, trustworthiness in the level of provided security for resource monitoring and delegation and reduction on resource consumption by the resource trading contribution.

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Section: State Of the Artmentioning

confidence: 85%

A Blockchain-Based Authorization System for Trustworthy Resource Monitoring and Trading in Smart Communities

Alcarria

Martín

Callejo

2018

Sensors

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“…Such lack of transparency can lead to a loss of trust. In that regard, several researchers see potential in the BT to improve and open up the peer-review process (Spearpoint, 2017;Tennant et al, 2017;Avital, 2018;Jan et al, 2018).…”

Section: Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…They conclude that the technology can enhance the quality and responsiveness of the review process. Both Avital (2018) and Spearpoint (2017), are independently underpinning these statements by proposing two different blockchain-based systems that use monetary incentives along with new metrics to address inefficiencies of the review process. Jan et al (2018) are also sharing the opinion and utilized BT and SCs to develop a peer-review prototype.…”

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A Review on Blockchain Technology and Blockchain Projects Fostering Open Science

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Many sectors, like finance, medicine, manufacturing, and education, use blockchain applications to profit from the unique bundle of characteristics of this technology. Blockchain technology (BT) promises benefits in trustability, collaboration, organization, identification, credibility, and transparency. In this paper, we conduct an analysis in which we show how open science can benefit from this technology and its properties. For this, we determined the requirements of an open science ecosystem and compared them with the characteristics of BT to prove that the technology suits as an infrastructure. We also review literature and promising blockchain-based projects for open science to describe the current research situation. To this end, we examine the projects in particular for their relevance and contribution to open science and categorize them afterwards according to their primary purpose. Several of them already provide functionalities that can have a positive impact on current research workflows. So, BT offers promising possibilities for its use in science, but why is it then not used on a large-scale in that area? To answer this question, we point out various shortcomings, challenges, unanswered questions, and research potentials that we found in the literature and identified during our analysis. These topics shall serve as starting points for future research to foster the BT for open science and beyond, especially in the long-term.

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“…A solution to a token-based peer-review payment system in Information System journals is proposed in [34]. It appears as an opportunity to address the archaic peer-review process currently installed and as a way to address the "tragedy of the commons" that reflects the limited capacity of academic peer-review, in an era of rising demand for reviewers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hence, while YABW is a common example of an application for Blockchain 1.0, the works described in [34][35][36] are evidence of Blockchain 2.0 and good entry points into Blockchain 3.0. As a matter of fact, adopting the usage of smart contracts as described by Diaz et al allows organizations to be autonomous based on the autoexecution of code.…”

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confidence: 99%

Blockchain: A Tale of Two Applications

et al. 2018

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Bitcoin continues to get more and more attention from the media, mainly because of the volatility of its value and insignificantly associated with the technological innovation. This cryptocurrency is supported by an immutable database and is distributed throughout a network of thousands of nodes, known as Blockchain. One way to ensure that all the concepts behind the Blockchain technology and infrastructure are seized is to conduct the development of one of the most popular context applications for it: a wallet for well-known cryptocurrencies. Yet Another Bitcoin Wallet (YABW) is a hybrid application available for both Android and iOS, which was developed with the Ionic and Angular frameworks. This application communicates with Bitcoin Blockchain to send, receive and store bitcoins; provides a set of features focused on security and user experience, and is available on the Play Store and Apple Store. A rather relevant issue that is becoming a major subject of current research is the application of the Blockchain infrastructure to other contexts that are neither directly connected to cryptocurrencies, nor are finance related. The implementation of a proof-of-concept application proposes the use of a blockchain for a specific case study: the exchange of meal vouchers of an institution amongst students. This is achieved using the decentralized platform Ethereum, which allows us to create a Smart Contract using the Solidity programming language to create a token that follows the Ethereum Request for Comment (ERC), the ERC-20 standard and represents the meal vouchers. This second application uses the architecture defined for YABW, reusing major components and custom developing specific modules to enhance the required features. There is still a lot of research to be done on the non-financial applicability of the Blockchain infrastructure and technology, but for the moment, we have left further evidence that it is possible and is a relative straight-forward process to accomplish from the technological perspective.

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Peer Review: Toward a Blockchain-enabled Market-based Ecosystem

Cited by 40 publications

References 6 publications

A Blockchain-Based Authorization System for Trustworthy Resource Monitoring and Trading in Smart Communities

A Blockchain-Based Authorization System for Trustworthy Resource Monitoring and Trading in Smart Communities

A Review on Blockchain Technology and Blockchain Projects Fostering Open Science

Blockchain: A Tale of Two Applications

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